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Listen to Moonshine Collective's mixtape, SMS LOCATION Vol.1
The Montreal-based collective Moonshine celebrates the dancefloor's inventive potential with their first-ever mixtape, SMS LOCATION Vol. 1.
For three years in the making, the Moonshine crew has been celebrating diversity in dance culture with its lunar-based monthly event hosted at unpredictable locations across Montreal. Focusing on the sweaty fringes of electronic music and the African sounds that inform them, the crew has hosted a wide swath of artists in the past: Branko, Win Butler, Kaytranada and Dam-Funk among them. This past fall, the collective threw a milestone party with special guests Le1f and Bambii (to name a few) as part of the Red Bull Music Academy Montreal Weekender.
Check out photo highlights of the Moonshine Live showcase at Red Bull Music Festival Montreal in the link below:
Bambii at the Moonshine x RBMA Montreal Weekender event
© Karel Chladek
We don’t really like calling Moonshine a label. We’re just trying to have a platform that will give a voice and a place to some type of diversity that we don’t have a space in the music business for either in Montréal or Quebec in general, or in Canada. That’s what we’re trying to do with Moonshine, have a place where anybody can come without discriminating on race or gender.
Weaving through elements of afrobeat, R&B, house and reggaeton, this seven track anthemic collection is equally sweat-inducing as genre-defying. The tape ties together a seamless series of reconstructed dancehall melodies, featuring contributions from experimental hip-hop outfit Shabazz Palaces' Tendai Maraire, Ghanaian-born Canadian singer-songwriter Kae Sun, dreamy R&B vocalist Odile Myrtil and Moonshine co-founder, Pierre Kwenders. Dig into the full mix below.