Take a look into the mind of Reality. A bass music fanatic based  in Montreal. Gaetan, whose electronic roots began on Vancouver Island made his way to the eastern scene and has since helped start the club night “Invasion.”

Read on to find out more about Reality!

Tell us about Final Recordings and how it came into motion.

Final Recordings is still coming into motion, the first release isn’t quite ready yet but it’s one of the next things on my agenda.

I had the desire to do this for many reasons. Firstly, I wanted a platform to release my own music on, where I am in full control over the process.

Releasing music on other labels has been great because they have their own established niche of listeners and content. I will continue to do so, always, but I hope to make Final Recordings a signficant source of unique content and to earn it a following.

Secondly, I know talent when I hear it. I easily recognize potential in so many artists early on and constantly come across music that is greatly under appreciated, and just hasn’t found it’s place yet.

I want to be able to take those opportunities and help these producers gain a starting step onto the radar. Owning a label from the perspective of a producer, a DJ, a promoter and every aspect of the scene that I’ve been a part of puts me in a versatile position to fully understand and meet the artist’s needs, vision and support. At Final Recordings, the artist comes first. That’s what it’s all about. Lastly, it’s no secret that today electronic music in general, especially dubstep, is absolutely saturated with new producers trying to get a bite into the industry.

This is a postive thing because creating music is so much more accessible with easy to obtain software, more and more people are discovering that music is something they want to be a part of.

The more new artists that pop up, the more and more pressure there is to be recognized. Music, like most things has bussiness and politics attached to it, so as soon as an artist becomes popular with a certain style, it becomes tempting for other artists to imitate that style in hopes of achieving the same popularity.

This is where everything goes wrong, and you end up with loads of “typical” sounding garbage driven by the wrong reasons. Obviously none of this is new or surprising, it’s just more prominent in electronic music than it used to be because of the gaps in genres closing and popularity gained.

When I was really young and first listening to Drum & Bass as a Canadian, I didn’t know anybody who knew what it was, let alone listened to it. It was a personal thing. Now if I look at where it is now or how Dubstep has changed everything, it’s completely unreal.

My goal with Final Recordings is to filter out all the typical, and bring forth the creative. It’s been slow and on standby because I’ve also been putting a lot of energy into getting the club night off the ground. The artists I’ve signed already have been really patient with it, (don’t worry guys it’s coming!)

What projects are you currently working on?

After my EP (www.junodownload.com/products/reality-ep/1763278-02/) was released on Monkey Dub, I decided to invest and transition into some new equipment and software, in order to expand my creativity.

It’s surprising how fussy and difficult your mind can be when you’re trying to show it a new way to do things it’s used to, but it’s for the greater good.

I’ve spent a lot of time learning and have started getting comfortable with some new music happening. Drum & Bass has always been my heart and soul but when I really got a grip on producing I started doing dubstep.

The rhythms in dubstep are honestly a lot simpler, and the “groove” is much easier to obtain and less advanced. Not to say dubstep is simple, it’s not, just the rythms from a producing point of view are a lot more friendly to approach.

I love dubstep and will always produce the odd track but right now I’m switching my main focus to the sound of my roots. Expect Drum & Bass in my next coming projects and releases.

Other than that I’ve been very busy running my own club night (Invasion Fridays at Mica Lounge) with my mates Strangelove and Dr. Phibes here in Montreal. It’s so great to have a garunteed show every single Friday night, and to test

drive so many tunes on some serious subs. The club has been positive and supportive and it’s interesting being part of a collaboration between both of our perspectives.

What are some of your favorite plugins for producing at the moment?

I used to be all about Propellerhead’s Reason and it’s inbuilt instruments, I produced everything primarily in Reason.

Now that I’ve switched to Cubase and Ableton it’s opened up a world of VSTi’s which is so exciting.

My top general synth that I’ve been using a lot at the moment is Massive by Native Instruments.

You can modulate and envelope pretty much any parameter on the instrument and it allows you to sculpt the sound so easily.

My number one plugin that I can go on and on about forever though, is Pianoteq! This thing is a synth, not a sampler, and allows you to literally design your own piano to taste.

This “synth” has the best sounding and most natural piano feeling I’ve ever come across, there is no way you could ever tell or believe by listening to it that it is synthesized sound.

Being able to tweak anything about the sound from scratch, exactly as you would on a regular synth, means you’re constantly creating a unique sound every time and it just has limitless possibilities for a very wide spectrum of sound.

I’m really impressed by this and I highly reccomend it.

How did you come to be known as “Reality”

It’s simple… I strive to create real music, real vibes. Raw, unique, truthful and touching.

Tell everyone about your club night “Invasion”

It’s happening every Friday night at Mica Lounge, downtown Montreal. It’s interesting because Crescent street is sort of the main strip for your overpriced top 40 and house, and there we are blasting the block with drum & bass and dubstep.

People that have come to check us out are absolutely impressed with the club atmosphere, the sound, the DJs, everything. It’s just always a fantastic time and we really have a lot of fun doing it,

and we look forward to playing for our niche we’ve created down there. We have some incredible talent coming in, special guests each night, most notably the one and only Krafty Kuts in November! (FB EVENT)

Tell us about one of your more inspiring moments in the rave scene

There are a lot of moments, but my absolute heaven on earth is Shambhala music festival in BC. The whole thing is a moment. The real synergy of people, just head over heals in love with the music and the natural beauty of the river and the forest is incredible.

It’s a tangible, contagious feeling that’s thick in the air as soon as you arrive there. Everybody who attends it has this kind of response to it, it’s indescribable. Going back to regular society just completely sucks afterwards, it just feels wrong.

Anything else you would like to add?

Thank you so much Elena for the interview, hopefully I get the chance to see you face to face sometime when I’m around.

Your blog is really wicked, I especially enjoyed one of your last interviews with Camo & Krooked. Keep it up, and thanks to everybody’s continued support!

LINKS:

www.GaetanTremblay.com

www.FinalRecordings.com

www.facebook.com/Realityyyy

www.soundcloud.com/Realityyyy

www.twitter.com/Reeeality

www.facebook.com/InvasionFridays