Chris Lee
Founder / Live PA Artist / Producer
Chris Lee is a Producer, Live PA artist and founder of the Toronto based Electronic Music movement MonoMachina. He performs under two alias': Fiction, and his current Live PA project titled Spankbox.
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.
Spankbox attacks performances with hard-hitting, 4-on-the-floor, minimal-electro beats, Spankbox's pure Live PA sound is shaped and improvised on the fly using a hardware-only approach without the aid of computers or software. Tracks are born and arranged on the fly. The premiere single “Spare Parts” will be released this month from Spankbox’s debut album “The Boy With the Drum Machine Heart ”.
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 synthesizer, 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.
LOC.NES
Co-Founder / Live PA Artist / Producer
Mysterious, elusive, yet always profound when sighted, LOC.NES is the alter ego of beat-maker and LivePA artist LOC.NES. 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
