Night Vision 1.25

(Co-Written with Bruce Benson)

The "slow period" of clubland is slowly coming to an end, and the official opening of Autumn celebrations, during labor day week-end, will also mean that school starts. As we wake up in a stupor after a week-end in hell, a gigantic headache pulsating along with the spiders living in our brain, we will not only have to learn to conciliate work and school, but also how we will manage to get good grades while still going out 3-4 nights a week.

There should be a night, out there, where you can bring your books and read, write your term papers on the little laptop that daddy brought you, with loud music blaring out and celebrating the joys of knowledge.

While this is undoubtedly in the works, we'll stick to our guns and ask the bartender for one more gin tonic...

Week-End Review

Saturday, at Aria, Maus played a wicked tech-house set and Creator concluded with yet another solid selection of prog-house. Good times.

One half of the Balls team, Clifford, was in Québec City, and is glad to report that even though he doesn't feel he missed something, nothing worthy of mention was going on in the Vieille Capitale and it was rather unsurprising.

Tuesday, Mossa's set at Academy was nothing short of spectacular!


News en Vrac

The man, the legend: Carl Cox will be at Stereo on September 28th . Let him welcome you to the club with open arms and sing over his songs like the crazy cat he is.

Tickets are now on sale for the Neon Nights events. And on top of that, the I Love Neon team announced yet another event : a DFA label party on Oct. 1st, with James Murphy, Tim Sweeney and Shit Robot DJ'ing the night away ! Nice news from another star for the lightning lovers out there !

TV on the Radio are coming to town on Oct. 13th at Le National - good news indeed. And if your tastes are darker and much more BPM-inclined, and you're the kind of individual who always wears black, open your heart : our dear friends from Covenant - the melodic industrial dudes, as opposed to the black metal ones - will be at Les Saints on Oct. 1st. It was funny as shit the first time they came to town, at Foufounes, at the end of the 90's : people had came from as far as fuckin' Rimouski with their white faces, thinking that their black metal heroes were performing. They found out it was a faggy industrial show only AFTER paying to get in.

Again, we're taking this opportunity to formally welcome another new arrival to the Balls & Shades family. So, La Gazelle, consider your club hoppin' self welcomed !


Thursday 17/08

X-Cube opens for Mini for Parking's Overdose night.


Friday 18/08

Jordan Dare isn't taking time off - when he's not blowin' smoke on a dark dancefloor, he's working on his tracks and kickin' the shit out of his hardware. Catch him at Tokyo Bar 2 - the good news is that you don't even have to go to Japan !



Late at night, X-Cube & Axel Klein will electrify unsuspecting Aria customers with some massive electro wattage. Feel like falling victim to this onslaught of terror-beats ? Just head over and have fun, folks !


Saturday 19/08

Head over to Café Campus for the first volume of "Warn a Brother", where things will go down in a "multicultural" fashion and the glitches will compete with the warm grooves of the Glad Professorz, DJ'ing, and funkmasters aRTIST oF tHE yEAR performing ! It's 10$ and you get a half price entry if you're part of a visible minority - reverse discrimination ?

Go get wasted, then get your drunk ass over to Aria where it will be going down this Saturday night, with none other than Mr. Kenny Hawkes at the helm in Montréal's big room. Maus warms the place up for him, and you better believe this pot is gonna be boiling when the Londoner takes over. PS: No, we ain't go more tickets to give away, so stop harassing us already!


Sunday 20/08

Mathew Jonson, Tractile, Frivolous, Hrdvision will get the stuff moving and the birds strutting as part of a special Bande à Part Piknic, at Parc Jean-Drapeau. The whole event will be documented on film and broadcasted on their web site, so dress to impress and avoid unimpressive behavior on the dancefloor for once !



No Excuse is coming back with a vengeance this week, and it's coming straight from Boston in the form of mad electro kingpin Jeff Grosse. Come and catch The Man Who Knows No Fear Of Getting Wasted™'s Montréal début, alongside guest redheaded audioterrorist Marinelli & resident beat cruncher DJ Bender.

Both Bender & Jeff Grosse will be opening for John Dahlbäck at DiskHo's Clinik night on September 15th , making this edition of No Excuse the perfect preview of what you might be in for at Fonderie Darling next month.


Tuesday 22/08

Dizzy, land of good vibes, sexy dancers and cheap Boris. Swing by if you haven't already. At Academy, 4445 St-Laurent.


Wednesday 23/08

Coconutz at Lola Lounge is the place to shake it on Wednesday night. Drop by, get trashed, get trashed some more and party on or something. Mat de Rome, a crazy ass photographer, is on the premises every week to immortalize this wasted madness and put it on display on their MySpace page to trash your rep'. Thomas Von Party runs this growing madness.


Next Week

Herbert swings by, and leaves start falling from the schoolbooks. Hormones attack : this is the ultimate last summer moment to get trashed and collect fuck buddies for the cold winter to come.


Until then: keep them bodies jackin' !