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Thursday September 9, 2010

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  • RESCHEDULED! Sonic 102.9 presents

  • Champion & His G-Strings

  • With: Guests
  • Date: Wednesday November 11, 2009
  • Door Time: 8:00 PM
  • Show Time: 9:00 PM
  • Venue: The Starlite Room
  • City: Edmonton, AB
  • Tickets (presale): $17.50
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ON SALE NOW! DATE RESCHEDULED – ALL TICKETS PURCHASED FOR ORIGINAL DATE WILL BE HONOURED!

Tickets also at Blackbyrd Myoozik

Montreal live dance music sensation Champion and His G-Strings are back for another bouncing night at the Starlite Room on November 10, 2009, supporting the highly anticipated new album Resistance (in stores September 15th on Saboteur Musique).


Eager to expand his musical horizons beyond his highly acclaimed success Chill Em All, DJ Champion deliberately deleted an entire studio recording following his last tour in the winter of 2008 after realizing similarities with his previous record were too close for comfort. In order to break the cycle and create a zone of artistic instability, DJ Champion retired entirely from the public scene and engaged in a secluded lifestyle. This solitude pushed Morin in a profound musical direction and Resistance began to take form.


Aware of the challenges of re-creating the energy of his live performances, DJ Champion chose to incor-porate elements of rock to Resistance, thus allowing him to deliver the same energy he captures on the live stage. Strongly inspired by turn of the century slavery songs, the turntable master dropped his needles for a moment and for the first time, wrote all the lyrics on the record. To help relay his prose, DJ Champion recruited Pilou, a young prodige from the Montreal music scene who makes his debut ap-pearance singing with fire and fierceness alongside DJ Champions signature electric guitar and electronic drum wizardry.


This album seems darker in its sonority but shines through the traditional construct of the composition. Resistance is the artist’s inner struggle to avoid venturing down the same path creatively. I could have gone back to where I am from, says DJ Champion, I could have made obscure electro, even more experimental, but for me there was no challenge in doing so!” Musical exploration has always been more important then the image projected for DJ Champion and this is made clear with Resistances eleven burning dance tracks that are just as contagious as any of his previous work.

www.djchampion.net – www.myspace.com/djchampion