It’s The Return Of The Sud-West

Oh Montreal. Despite your mafia kick-backs, crumbling infrastructure, media fed language politics, and orange cones we still love the shit out of you. And it’s with that, that it’s the time of the year again when man called Poirier & man called Ghostbeard set up their completely recession and corruption proof sound-system in St. Henri.

Now on year 5, the Sud-West name travels arounds but our spiritual home is always on the St. Ambroise Terrace. Get ready for another summer of Tuesday’s spent canal side. We understand that your tax dollars went to stuff a safe at city hall, so that’s why ourselves and the good folks at St. Ambroise continue to keep this going for free.

Beats, BBQ, Beer.

*note the new time of 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM.

Where : St. Ambroise Terrace (5080 St. Ambroise)
When : Last Tuesday of each month from May – August.
Cost : Free!
Time : 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Hold fire massive! It’s a Live At Budokan redux featuring Yellow Mouse (aka Kiki Hitomi from King Midas Sound) on a dub-plate tip. Download again for a new take and while you’re at it check her out in the blazing new King Midas Sound track “Aroo”.

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Tracklisting :

Ken2-D Special : Sleng Teng In The U-G

Ken2-D Special : Sunday Afternoon In The Presidents Room

Ken2-D Special : Sleng Teng In The UmegaoKa

Fly-T : Dub

Fly-T : Song

Dry and Heavy : Private Plan Dub

Jiny A (Echo Soundsystem)

Dry and Heavy : Radical Dubber

Dry and Heavy : Run Away Dub

Dry and Heavy : Somebody Has Come

Sly Mongoose : El Bamba

Dry and Heavy : Strictly Baby

Dry and Heavy : Treat-Me-NT Dubbed

Dry and Heavy : Tiger Claw Skank

Karamushi & Green Massive : 2012

Dry and Heavy : Rumble Dub

Soul Dimension : Step Forward Dub

Soul Dimension feat Ja-ge & Mal : Step Forward

Mighty Massa : Version

Mighty Massa feat Ras Dasher : LOVEwise & DUBwise

Soul Dimension : Spiritual Version

Freedom Ensemble : Patagonia

Kyo Sakurai feat. Ja-ge : Biribiriba

Soul Dimension : Age Of Fame

Sure Shine & Sister Mami : Jammin Jamaica

Rub-A-Dub Market : Bubblin – Vampire Pt 1

Rub-A-Dub Market : Bubblin – Vampire Pt 2

Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers : Double Barrel Dub

Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers : Double Barrel

Back in December of 2012 I found myself in Toyko with the Amon Tobin “ISAM Live” tour. Taking 4000 pounds worth of stage design to the other side of the world seemed like a perfectly good excuse to spend an extra 7 days tooling around Tokyo. And of course my first mission was to find the good reggae shops. You know when you’re in a record store and the reggae bin consists of like two good records and a bunch of UB40 and you wonder “where are all the good used reggae records”… well they’re all in Japan. So after spending a ludicrous amount of money on a large stack of Jamaican classics, I turned my attention to the local bins. I admit to knowing absolutely nothing about the Japanese reggae scene. Except to say I found some amazing records and that it sounds like they all grew up on On U Sound classics. I don’t know if these are the freshest tunes out of Japan or like 10 years old or whatever. This is just some awesome stuff I finally found the time to mix together (Ghostdad has slowed down the output…).

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Tracklisting :

Ken2-D Special : Sleng Teng In The U-G

Ken2-D Special : Sunday Afternoon In The Presidents Room

Ken2-D Special : Sleng Teng In The UmegaoKa

Fly-T : Dub

Fly-T : Song

Dry and Heavy : Private Plan Dub

Jiny A (Echo Soundsystem)

Dry and Heavy : Radical Dubber

Dry and Heavy : Run Away Dub

Dry and Heavy : Somebody Has Come

Sly Mongoose : El Bamba

Dry and Heavy : Strictly Baby

Dry and Heavy : Treat-Me-NT Dubbed

Dry and Heavy : Tiger Claw Skank

Karamushi & Green Massive : 2012

Dry and Heavy : Rumble Dub

Soul Dimension : Step Forward Dub

Soul Dimension feat Ja-ge & Mal : Step Forward

Mighty Massa : Version

Mighty Massa feat Ras Dasher : LOVEwise & DUBwise

Soul Dimension : Spiritual Version

Freedom Ensemble : Patagonia

Kyo Sakurai feat. Ja-ge : Biribiriba

Soul Dimension : Age Of Fame

Sure Shine & Sister Mami : Jammin Jamaica

Rub-A-Dub Market : Bubblin – Vampire Pt 1

Rub-A-Dub Market : Bubblin – Vampire Pt 2

Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers : Double Barrel Dub

Tsuyoshi Kawakami & His Moodmakers : Double Barrel

And where’s the Ghostbeard at? Joining his Ninja Tune crew for a new years blow out. Kid Koala, Lorn, Poirier, Nosaj Thing, Ghostbeard, and other local support. This is going to be where it’s at for bringing in the new year. Come down.

After successful international travels for a four night stint at this year Jazz Fest, and a previous visit to warm up the Igloofest, it’s that time again for us to leave our St Ambroise terrace St Henri home and go international. What lies east of Atwater? I guess we’ll find out as we head for a rare non summer Sud-West up on the Plateau. But we’ve heard rumours that people in other neighbourhoods know how to get down. Our Turcot weighs a ton…son.

Friday, Nov 9th

Le Belmont

4483 St. Laurent

10:00 PM – 3:00 AM

$5

Swing by Belmont on Saturday Nov 17th. I’ll be joining my Ninja Tune homey & Aesop Rock producer Blockhead for an evening of beats. Should also note that the mighty Death Grips are playing an earlier show at Corona that night. Which I will not be playing at but wholeheartedly also endorse. We can share a taxi up the Belmont after…

Get off the couch for this one this Saturday (it’s not like there’s any hockey on anyway…). I’ll be joining one of the newer signings to the Ninja Tune roster, Slugabed. Dude sampled Yes… now that’s a guy I can hang with.

Little did I know when I was buying recordings of black masses back in the 80’s that I’d ever actually be able to use them to rock a party. Well… there’s a first time for everything. Things are going to get real sacrificial on the 12th. Bring your ceremonial daggers but remember unless you can fully form a cross, that little bastard spawn of satan isn’t going to die…

Super excited to be part of this years 24 Hours Of Vinyl show/broadcast. Stop by Vinyl Bar to see it go down in all its insomniac glory or listen in on line. I’ll be bringing it home for hour 21 through 22.5 (7:00 PM – 8:30 on Sunday night). Details in the flyer. Back to pulling those last bits of wax…

You know summer is over when it’s unfortunately that time where we announce our last Sud-West of the season. Come join us canal side for that final dance.