Les
Architekts
Stratège & Ray Ray
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NEWS
about Les
Architekts Montreal's
best known and respected MC/producer duo Stratège and
Ray Ray and the Militant Muzik family
Also
check out Ray Ray's website:
www.ray-ray.ca
NEWS ! NEWS ! NEWS !
-Album
release party "Haute Surveillance" by
Frenchi Blanco (with a feat by Inspectah Deck- Wu Tang
Clan) September 19, 2006 at Lodge Tavern on St-Lawrence St and
artist of the month on www.hhqc.com
www.myspace.com/frenchiblanco
Gala
MU (Montreal-Undergound)
-March 2006: Congrats Ray Ray, OL1KU and
Bless
nominated
at the Gala MU held March 18 .
Ray Ray for "best producer" and "best
collabo" with Ol1ku for "Fais P.T.".
Bless received 6 nominations, and won 3 prizes (best artist,
best album) including the collaboration "Jealousy"
with Rah Digga. Congrats to DJ Manifest for best DJ !
International
Songwriting Competition
-Feb 2006: Big up Ray Ray and Vaï
finalists (honorable mention) at the 2005 ISC (R&B/hip
hop category ) for
the song C'est pas de notre faute from Ray Ray's album
La Cité. Placed fourth overall in the People's Voice
Award Category.
Bless
releases "The Book of Bless" in November 2005
Ray
Ray produces seven tracks on the album which he also mixed,
including the hit "Prison" feat. JR Writer
(Dipset)
and "Rising to the Top" feat. Cappadonna
(Wu Tang). Other feats on the album include Rah Digga, Tony
Touch and Planet Asia. Video "Jealousy"
with Rah Digga on rotation at M+ .
Check out the tracklisting and
two videos (Jealousy/Prison) at
www.hiphopcanada.com/_site/media/listeningparty/bookofbless.php
Musique
Plus
The
video "Fais PT" by Ray Ray feat. OL1KU on
rotation at M+ starting June 27, 2005.
Gala
Unistar
Big
Up to Ray Ray (winner: best producer) and DJ Blast (nominated:
best DJ) at
the Unistar Gala held June 4 2005 at the Salle Pierre Mercure
in Montréal
Solo
album,"La
Cité" produced, recorded and mixed
by Ray Ray in stores
May 10!
feat. Busta Flex, SAT ( FF), Case Nègre,
Bless, OL1KU, Stratège, Cobna, Vaï,
Frenchi Blanco (FP Crew) Dexter-D and Sekou Toure
International
Songwriting Competition
Congrats
to Ray Ray and OL1KU for
winning the People's Voice Award and Honorable Mention
at ISC for their song Fais P.T.
Gala
MU (www.galamu.com)
Props to Ray Ray
who won hip hop producer of the year at the Montreal
Underground Hip Hop Gala (13 mars, 2005).
Nominated also: music/video/song Les
rues de Montréal
feat. Frenchi Blanco (FP Crew)/ Kritik and Ray
Ray, produced by DJ Blast
Ray
Ray and OL1KU
Congrats to our two songwriters,
finalists in the R&B/hip hop category at the International
Songwriting Competition (Nashville USA) with "FAIS
PT " Ray Ray's first
single form his debut solo album to come. Winners will be announced
in March 2005 and judges will be P.Diddy, Macy Gray, Taj Mahal
and others. 11 000 songs from 70 countries and FAIS PT
is the only finalist from Quebec !
Stratège
et Cobna Big
up for being nominated in the francophone category at the Canadian
Urban Music Awards www.umac.ca
(Toronto) with
the song "Loin" on a Ray
Ray beat.
Ray Ray produced the song
"Derrière mon sourire" (Sans Pression)
also nominated.
Bless
Big Up for being chosen by Def Jam to play a caracter,
with two of his own tracks, in the new hot X-Box hip hop game
Fight for New York ! (See Game of the month below)
Read
about Montreal's one and only
GodMother of hip hop with her roster of artists being
interviewed in the September issue of the new Quebec mag Urbania
Big
up for the videos!!!
The first FP
Crew album"Exposé" with
Ray Ray-produced tracks "Poum Poum" and "Bona
Fide Vibes" with PhD. Hook-man Ray Ray can
also be heard on their first music video "Les rues de Montréal"
(Périphéria) with Frenchi Blanco (this track
also appears on DJ Blast solo album, recorded and mixed by
Ray Ray
DJ Blast 's next music video will
featureVaï in "Un homme à part",
from his solo album Blas-t-phème
DJ
X-Cape, Execos, OL1KU and
Ray Ray in "Écoute, je rap !"
(Videofact) X-Cape's second single
Album/video
releases 2003-04
•2004:
Les
Architekts
are presenting the rap duo Case
Nègre
from Paris whose first album Prologues... drops
this fall 2004 (France). They were recently in Montreal doing
promo.They recorded at R&R Studio a track to be featured on
Malik Shaheed's Franglais compilation.
•2004:January
27, the first album by Butta
Babees
"Urban Elo" (Dusty
Tracks), with track #6 "Science" produced by
Ray
Ray.
Their first video "You Don't Want it" and the
new video on the remix of this song, featuring Sekou
Toure, Imposs, TFS, among others, on a DJ Raid beat.
•October
22, new album by Stratège
and Cobna "Goûte
à ma sauce" with production work by Stratège,
DJ Blast, Ray
Ray,
DJ Manifest, Saï&Cast and Zenn (Freeman
and IAM). Stratège
& Cobna
(with
Ray
Ray)
on the October cover of Night Life (Montreal) and
artist of the month(October) at 33-mtl.com
•September
30, debut album by
DJ
X-Cape "Urban
Lab Vol.1" featuring
MCs Ray
Ray
and OL1KU on "Écoute, je rap !"
with Execos
•Summer
2003 Les
Architekts and
13e Étage freestyling on the latest mixtape by France's
reknown DJ Poska
"What's the Flavor, Vol. 50 ? "
including collaborations by all- French hip hop artists
•May
27, Sans Pression highly
anticipated second album "Répliques aux offusqués"
with five tracks produced by Ray
Ray.
•June
10, Bless/Platinumberg "The
Movement" (Both albums above include production work
by Ray
Ray).
•Also
in June, reggae/dancehall album "Plus haut"
by 2003 Juno-nominated Kulcha Connection
with Ray
Ray
producing the hip hop track "J'arrive à pic"
. Also by Atach Ta Tuq crew "La guerre des
tuqs"with "Gratè (by L'Intrus),
produced by Ray
Ray.
Other
News: Les Architekts and crew members
2004:
When
reknown French rapper Busta Flex
came to Montreal/Quebec in April, he teamed up with Cobna
to record a track produced by Ray
Ray.
2004:
One of the songs ("À tous ceux..."
produced by Stratège)
by Les
Architekts
chosen this spring by culture.ca
(Heritage Canada) for its theme on Canadian hip hop, francophone
section
2004:
Bless/Platinumberg
with
a new video featuring
Mr Wiggles (Rock
Steady crew) "What
Ya Gon Do ? (music by Ray
Ray)"
on rotation since January 2004 at Much Music, Much Vibe and MTV
Canada, following successful
"Against the Grain"
(music by Ray
Ray)
produced by Salvador Valdez on rotation at Much Music and
Much Vibe, october 2003
Stratège,
with Cobna, DJ
Ray Ray
and champion b-boy Trackmaster, were invited on October
for the show "Le garage"
www.legarage.tv (shot in Hull) and their special
hip hop program, hosted by Véronic Dicaire, to be
seen on Radio Canada at 11 PM, Sunday Feb.
1, 2004
The
first single "Mont Shit"
by Dj
Blast
with Stratège
and Cobna on rotation at Musique Plus (beat by Dj
Blast )
starting November 19. This is the first single on the new album
by Stratège
and Cobna and the remix (Ray-n-Blast) is on the
debut album by Dj
Blast
2004.
Stratège,
Cobna in concert, with Sans Pression,
artiste du mois for November 2003 at Musique Plus
The
Ray
Ray-produced
hit single "My Time"
by Bless/Platinumberg licensed
by Walt Disney Productions for the first ever and popular
dramatic fictional football series "Playmakers"
on ESPN,
October 2003
"Derrière mon sourire"
by Sans
Pression,
(music production by Ray
Ray)
reached #1 at the TOP 20,
Musique Plus, week of July 18-24 , 2003
v
The California satellite tv network World
Link TV came to Montreal in July 2003 to shoot
a documentary "Freestyle" featuring Les
Architekts
and the Quebec hip hop scene for its series on international
hip hop.
Les Architekts at the
NXNE Music
Conference (2003) in Toronto June 7, Flow 93 Urban
showcase.
They were chosen as one of five"buzz bands"of
the event and interviewed by the National Post .
Urban network BPM:TV host Dalton Higgins interviewed them
at their show. It can be seen online on their site.
:
Les Architekts at Foufounes Électriques,
only French group chosen, with other Quebec winners, for the first
Canadian HIP HOP compilation released by Dig
Your Roots, Wednesday March 26, 2003 in a live
broadcast across Canada on 20 radio stations affiliated to
NCRA
(National Campus and Community Radio association)
Les
Architekts at Club Soda with other top hip
hop groups for an anti-war benefit show Résistance
25 Feb 2003, proceeds for the collective "Échec
à la guerre".The show music is now available on
CD since September, profits to go to Alternatives.
Les Architekts are nominated for hip hop album
of the year at the Gala de l'ADISQ 2002 ! (Félix)
Les Architekts with
DJ Majestic (IAM) at CREAM opening
up for Nelly and St. Lunatics
and their guests Slum Village
at Molson Centre on August 31, 2002
Les Architekts with
DJ Blast at FrancoFolies
August 1 at the Zone Hip Bleu Dry at 8 PM. This show was
filmed "live" by Bande à Part (Radio Canada)
and is now available on their website.Click here
to see the live concert !
bandeapart.fm
Les Architekts
teamed
up with Muzion for
the French remix of "Heaven Only Knows",
hit single by Juno- nominated T.dot poet rapper K-OS
from his acclaimed debut album "Exit"
(EMI Canada). This track is known as "Seul
le ciel le sait" on the special Exit
version (Virgin) released for the French market in Europe.
Les Architekts opened
up for Grammy winner Nelly Furtado
show and her guests Swollen Members at Métropolis
on April 10, 2002
Les Architekts
won the "best hip
hop /urban artist " category at the MIMIs
2002. Thanks to all who voted for us !
Ray
Ray and Stratège
also received a nomination in the "best
réalisateur/producer"
category at the MIMIs 2002
Les
Architekts received a nomination at the Canadian
Independent Music Awards 2002 held in Toronto for the "best
francophone album".
Website
of the month
www.frenchiblanco.com
Book
of the Month
Making
Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip Hop
by Joseph G. Schloss, ethnomusicologist,
2004
(Tufts
University lecturer and free-lance journalist)
An academic look on the aesthetics of sampling as a musical process
Book
Prize 2005
International Association for the Study of
Popular Music
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