Toronto-based Alicia Hush draws in audiences with her fresh, minimal, tech-house treats. Co-founder of Hushlamb Productions, she contributes to the vitality of her hometown by signing a steady stream of emerging local artists to her growing talent roster. On stage, she catches the ears and hearts of patrons with her emotionally charged, bass-driven grooves.

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Grenoble-born Caroline Hervé, aka Miss Kittin, is best known as the deadpan vocals behind some of classic early-2000’s electroclash hits “Frank Sinatra” and “1982”, recorded with fellow French producer the Hacker. She has also collaborated over the years with everyone from Felix Da Housecat to Sven Väth. Apart from lending her distinct voice to other producers, Miss Kittin also maintains a busy solo career as a producer – she will release her third album in 2013 – and DJ.

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Hailing from Berlin, Ellen Allien is the powerhouse producer/DJ/entrepreneur behind the BPitch Control label, 5 solo albums and numerous other collaborative efforts, and the wide-ranging Ellen Allien fashion line. She has been responsible for launching the careers of Modeselektor, Paul Kalkbrenner, Sascha Funke and others. Her own albums display a restless electronic spirit, eager to move forward in leaps and bounds with every new record, whether it’s exploring abstraction with AGF or melodics with Apparat.

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Bobby Digital, fresh on the scene, got his start alongside Belinda Ocean and the Baillat Cardell & fils crew. He loves black and white, psychedelics, and geometric patterns that subtly weave and shift.

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Ma" Carassou-Maillan, better known as vj Ma", is a Montreal visual artist, videographer and VJ. Active for ten years, she’s held numerous residencies, workshops and events to promote electronic music and digital arts, drawing inspiration from painting, photography and generative art. When creating visual experiences, she plays with spaces, shapes, material, transparencies and overlays to achieve a recomposition beyond reality. Her work follows the rhythm of the music, like an ephemeral painting.

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Following numerous lawsuits by women suffering from blisters, resulting in the need for foot amputations, this duo has decided to stipulate a clear warning to women wishing to participate in their evenings: High Heels Prohibited. Put an end to legal battles and lawyers’ fees!

Friends since the age of 14, this duo has been performing together for 9 years and count themselves among Salon Daomé's extended family, where their High Heels Prohibited event is a huge success. They have performed at electronic-music festivals internationally and have played at Stereo, Stereobar, Club UN, Belmont, Passeport, Circus Afterhours, Piknic Electronik as well as at the Festival BPM of Playa del Carmen in Mexico. You will fall under the charm of their deep tech-house sound with a great base line that will get you grooving like only girls can do.

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Resolve and evolution are at the basis of all of DJ Pierre de Lux’s (a.k.a Pierre-Luc Bareil) projects. Well-rooted in the music scene since the early 2000’s he has touched upon everything from event promotion to remixing and electronic music producing. Versatile as he is, Pierre gets his audience going every time whether it be at a rave, a club, an afterhours, a lounge or even just a happy hour. Early in his career, his sound was more techno/trance but has evolved to more of a house/deep house sound over the years. Circus Afterhours, the Dagobert in Québec city, Parking Nightclub and the prestigious Pub St-Germain in Paris are just a few of the dots on his usual circuit.

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Nina Kraviz is currently the name on everyone's lips in the house and techno community. She began producing music in 2008, and before long had her first release 'Voices' on the Underground Quality imprint in 2009. After “Pain In The Ass”, her 'breakthrough hit on Rekids, gigs started to come thick and fast, and by the end of 2010, Nina could claim to have played the major clubs across the globe, mixing her unique raw blend of House, Techno, Acid and rare goodies. 2012 has seen the release of Nina’s eponymously titled album on Rekids, along with a world tour and the launch of a new live show.

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Pan-Pot are highlights of Anja Schneider’s Mobilee roster, a duo who cast functionality aside as they plumb the deep, uncharted depths of pitch-black techno. Tagging themselves as “the dark side of the force”, Pan-Pot have melted minds, warped perceptions and reinvigorated the dancefloor with their heady, unorthodox sound. Their DJ sets reveal a keen understanding of the dancefloor’s needs, and they are unconstrained by boundaries, traversing techno, house and everything in between.

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Audiovisual artist Hugues Clément’s approach stems from experimentation and a hybridization of art forms. Since 2009 he’s been exploring the relationship between media and movement alongside contemporary dancer/choreographer, Corinne Crane. He recently participated in Hub Session, a collective interdisciplinary residence that took place in Belgium and China. His film, Réfraction, was a contender in the 13^th Festival of Different and Experimental Cinema in Paris. Clément is also a student of electro-acoustic composition at Université de Montréal.

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Since 2001, Gridspace has cultivated a cutting-edge approach to live-video performance by sculpting his projection beams with motion graphics. His collaboration with DJ/producer Poison Arrow and Headscan has brought him to numerous festivals. VJ Gridspace has gained notoriety performing alongside established musicians and DJs such as Dubfire, Richie Hawtin, Adam Beyer, Sven Väth and Victor Calderone, to only name a few. Gridspace is resident VJ at Stereo nightclub.

Inspirations: Blade Runner, John Maeda, Designers Republic, The Galaxy.

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Paskal Daze began his career as half of Paskal&Vesselinov. Working solo these days, his releases have seen the light of day on Bad Pony Records. A resident at Circus Afterhours with time behind the decks at Club U.N. and Salon Daomé, he’s been invited down to Mexico to perform at the 2012 BPM and Primavera festivals.

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Over a decade after blowing minds with his 2000 debut on Paul Oakenfold’s Another World compilation, Bad Pony label head Tone Depth’s sound has come full circle finding itself in the dirty world of chunky heavy techno. With releases in the last year on Definitive, Great Stuff, Bedrock, Platform B and of course his own label, Tone Depth’s sound is more relevant now than ever before.

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Tron is as Tron does. And what Tron does, Tron does well. Tron spins. Tron digs. Tron regulates (Tron definitely regulates). Since being put on at Skratch Bastid’s legendary Blizzarts “Stay Fly” parties, Tronald Trump has been holding down his native Montreal with regular appearances at Lola Lounge, CODA, and a 3-year run with the Usual Suspects Saturday crew at Blue Dog. More recently, Tron’s been working with friends at Lookout and Clark Street to book and play alongside dance music luminaries like Jesse Rose, Kingdom, and Roska.

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A new producer on the Montreal scene, Kaytranada draws inspiration from disco, funk, and the borderless dance music produced during the late-70s/early-80s era, while bringing in accents of hip-hop, electro-house and techno. He’s part of the Piu Piu movement. 2012 has been big for the young producer. He’s been nominated for a GAMIQ in the best hip-hop album of the year category, while his second album will see release in the US come 2013 on Los Angeles’ HW&W Recordings.

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TNGHT is the critically acclaimed collaboration between Hudson Mohawke and Lunice, two of the hottest young producers out there right now. Those that are familiar with the genre-blending, ground-quaking beats of Glasgow’s Hudson Mohawke and Montreal’s Lunice will think they know what is in store from a collaboration between the two, but nothing could prepare for the future minimal, bass-heavy hip-hop production featured on TNGHT.
*** For their performance at Igloofest, TNGHT will be represented only by LUNICE.

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Ever since their debut album in 2009, Munich’s Schlachthofbronx has been producing a highly danceable bass music for labels like Mad Decent, Mixpak and Man Recordings, finding support from a wide range of talents such as MIA, Toddla T, Rob Da Bank, Diplo, and Mr. Oizo. Whether drawing influences from ghetto-tech, UK bass, cumbia, dancehall or hip-hop, they always deliver a fastpaced, eclectic mix of styles, genres and tempos, leaving crowd after crowd with happy sweaty smiles after powerpaced dance sessions.

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CHOCOBEETS is the project in which Caroline Blais shares her colourful, organic and playful universe through handcrafted video loops. She's been inviting people to experience her work in many artist run centres, festivals and parties in Quebec, Canada and Europe, since 2008. She is also one half of the visual-art collective VERY AWESOME.

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BRILLE² (pronounced Brille Brille) is the result of a meeting by three artistic directors during their studies in Gobelins, France. Since 2008, they’ve projected images for Mr Oizo, Eric Prydz, Simian Mobile Disco and Gesaffelstein. Their visual landscape is composed of regular polyhedra, cats, funny slogans from the Internet, and kinetic images.

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Blokc & Groj is collaboration project dedicated to sensual dance music with an aggressive yet understated tone. Both Groj and Blokc normally explore more mellow or experimental melodic techno. This project is the best of both worlds with a more dance-floor oriented edge. Their music project is featured on Manual Music and Box Records and has gathered much support on the international scene by reputed music producers such as Gabriel Ananda and Max Cooper.

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Milton Clark has been DJing since 1998. Rooted in breaks, acid house, techno and trance, he first became known for his surreal underground morning trance sets. Influenced by German and East coast techno, classic house & big room sounds, his current “Machine” sound is a mash-up of techno/house/electro/minimal music. Milton has played the Lime Light, Foufounes Électriques, Blue Dog, Blizzarts, Club Saphir, S.A.T, Circus and Club Stereo. With slated releases and a packed DJ schedule, 2012 promises to be a big year for Milton Clark.

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