On the Spring of 2003, DAME will market a compilation featuring only young (under 35) Canadian musicians involved in new music (musique actuelle), who are not yet contractually engaged with a record label. Attention please: you have until ,January 20, 2003, to send your music to us!

DAME have a generous holiday rebate for you. When you buy one CD on the actuellecd.com website, you get a 10% rebate. Buy two and get 20%. Buy three and get 30%. But it’s not finished yet! Buy four CDs or more and you get a free CD — and you still have 30% off! Don’t hesitate anymore! You can now give great and compelling CDs of your favorite new music to all your loved ones! [Ended on January 15, 2003.]

Nominated for “Album of the year — actuelle, contemporary and electroacoustic music,” Parr(A)cousmatique by guitarist and composer Arturo Parra and Parasites by Diane Labrosse and Martin Tétreault.

The DAME musicians come back in full force with all new releases and multiple live appearances. Moreover, actuellecd.com offers you a 10 to 15% rebate on new Ambiances Magnétiques and Monsieur Fauteux albums so you can enjoy these at a very sympathetic price! (This offer ended on November 30, 2002).

John Oswald is the feature story of the 2002 April issue (#219) UK magazine The Wire: “The prince of plunderphonia recalls his battles with the majors for his artistic right to reclaim his sound environment from the noise pollution of pop by recycling it through his plunderphonics system.”

Pianist Pierre St-Jak launches his 6th album, Réponse d’Amérique, the first release for Monsieur Fauteux, m’entendez-vous?’s new sub-label “Récréation.”