* Introducing Coup Digital *
The Technofunk Collective of artists is proud to announce our latest project, our live electronica band, Coup Digital. Since 2005, the collective has been bringing you banging beats, amazing innovations in all aspects of sound, and the best experience of techno and Intelligent Dance Music. Now collective members Amir Ebrahimnia, DJ Shine, and Simon Rojas have created a new concept in music culture, called Coup Digital. We are a band dedicated to bringing a live electronica experience to you, using the razor edge of technology created and developed in our own lab. Coup Digital is truly revolutionary. The Coup Digital is a new frontier in electronica and Intelligent Dance Music. Formerly called Technofunk Collective, music producers and visual artists Amir Ebrahimnia, DJ Shine and Simón Rojas are intrepid explorers of new digital experiences while seamlessly blending nu funk basslines, intelligent beats, and stunning chord stabs into a sound and visual production without parallel. Their unique live act and distinctive sound has brought them a constantly growing following from around the globe. Three innovators with diverse histories in music merged creative forces in 2005, forming a brand new concept in electronic music, Toronto's Coup Digital. Constantly driven to new expressions of the digital imagination, the Coup's pulse of possibility is truly progressive. The collective builds, invents, or creates technology to continually expand their creative freedom.
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All three members had been heavily involved in multidisciplinary facets of music production and visual arts before coming together. Amir has been deejaying since the early '80s, collecting Rare Groove or Northern Soul records before the first waves of house rose from the underground. Way ahead of the trends, he was spinning soul, jazz, funk, and more into his mixes right from the start, a driving force behind the soulful, groovy beats during the first waves of house. Amir launched the Babylon Martini and Musique Boutique, and brought in DJs like Montreal's legendary Star 80, whose decks were sold to Simón Rojas and kick started his deejaying career.
In the early '80s Simón immigrated to Canada from Chile bringing a wealth of influence and the poetic passion from his revolutionary motherland. Years of studying classical music and various visual arts lead him into Toronto's theatre and dance scene where he came to love house music through its fusion of new world beats with old school rhythms. For the past decade, he has focused on the visual realm as an art director and graphic artist throughout Toronto, Chile, and Spain, while deejaying and doing music production for film and television.
DJ Shine has spent 15 years in all aspects of music production, blurring the lines between production and performance as a DJ and performance artist. He's been playing raves and clubs all over North America, Germany, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. He has released multiple albums, toured with the Nelly Furtado band, and worked on mixes and other projects with top international DJs and producers.
Coup Digital recently unveiled its prototype interactive control surface. The group was inspired by technology advances of the Music Technology Group in Barcelona, and by an interface used in Bjork's recent live shows. They began to explore alternate uses of the concept along with new ways of interacting with and controlling the way they make and perform music and visuals. With some reverse engineering and endless tinkering, the collective has adapted the basic software from the Reactable, and created their own audio-visual interface.
This new technology means the act is taking their live shows to the next level. By placing blocks on glass surfaces, the producers can manipulate interaction and control of their music and visual programs. The results pump out through a sound system, LCD projectors, and LED or Plasma screens.
The Coup Digital is among very few bands in the world performing with these technologies. With the fiercest pumping beats, fearless technology innovation, and captivating visuals, their act is an essential and unique experience, bridging today's sound with the future.
They are consistently first in line for a long line of firsts! This includes the first electronica concert ever in Iran in October of 2008, with Red Bull Energy Drink opening its doors to a completely new market.
We invite you to discover Coup Digital. If you're already on MySpace or Facebook , we invite you to continue with us on our journey.
Coup Digital: http://www.coupdigital.com
on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/coupdigital
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Coup Digital .2. Tigran Fest - Harbourfront Centre Toronto 08by coupdigital291 views
Nice !
lukabunic 6 months ago
ILL...
Hollywoodconnected 2 years ago
taking it to the next level.
robotsluvt3chno 3 years ago
wow. beats CDJ's any day. thats pretty dope
robotsluvt3chno 3 years ago
What are those tables controlling?? The visuals?
FLefty18 3 years ago