Parties - Concerts - Events
MonoMachina as a collective is always growing. We are always interested in meeting like minded artists to join us in our push to create something that is truly unique and special for the Toronto music scene. We are also currently filming a documentary of our story that we plan to share with the world upon its completion.
If you are a fellow Artist like us, please contact us! We are always looking for new talent for our shows.
Chris Lee
Fiction
Producer / Live PA Artist
Chris Lee is a Producer, Live PA artist and founder of the Toronto based Electronic Music movement MonoMachina.
Fiction (www.myspace.com/fiction1), is an electronica-breakbeat hybrid project, originally started in 2004 while Chris was studying at The Harris Institue for the Arts. He has released two albums: Come back down (2005) and the sophomore effort SexDrumsAndBrokenSouls (2009), along with a series of series of singles and remixes.
Rooted in electronic music creation for nearly 14 years, Chris began creating electronic music in the mid 90’s while influenced by the immergence of industrial music. His first sequencer, a Roland MC-303, was a birthday present he received in 1998, which is still part of his live rig to this day. Chris currently uses his organization MonoMachina to promote and showcase
Toronto's underground electronic music talent at clubs and venues throughout the city and provides artists with an opportunity to network and make music with like-minded individuals.
Kelvin Gumbs
Live PA Artist / Producer
Mysterious, elusive, yet always profound when sighted, LOC.NES is the alter ego of beat-maker and LivePA artist Kelvin Gumbs. Hailing from Toronto, Canada LOC.NES deconstructs and transforms yesterday's dusty grooves into dance floor bangers for the new millennium. He carefully combines elements from old vinyl records, House, Hip Hop and Electro into his own brand of body-moving future-beats.
LOC.NES has been producing music under a myriad of aliases since 1996. He began with Hip Hop but gradually expanded his sound to include more elements of electronic music. Not bound by the conventions of any one genre, LOC.NES continually pushes the boundaries of electronic music production and performance by utilizing a combination of old-school hardware and cutting-edge software.
A visionary member of the MonoMachina collective of LivePA artists, LOC.NES will debut a solo project, his album entitled ‚Adventures In Fantastic Land,in the summer of 2011.
Cole Docherty (DJ cDoc)
DJ / Live Visuals
cDoc and Videothesis. These are the alter egos of DJ, VJ and producer Cole Docherty. His work in live visuals began in 2007, drawing from influences such as Pixel Addicts and Daft Punk. In 2009, he began DJing, dropping mixes rife with pounding beats, melodic synths and grimey bass in an effort to give a fresh spin on old tracks and above all, to make people dance. His current influences include Swedish and Dutch house, citing artists such as Tim Berg, Afrojack and Steve Angello.
Justin S. Jackson is a writer and video director from Toronto, Canada and works as the Film & Media director of the MonoMachina Artist Collective. Originally studying film and screenwriting, his interests and influences are broad and sweeping and draw from almost every genre of film and music. Teasing inspiration from various aesthetic approaches ranging anywhere from Truffaut to Spike Jonze, Linklater to Banksy or The Smiths to A Trak. Constructive collaboration and an honest approach to tasteful aesthetics are what define the feel and tone of his work in both film and music.
