Taxi Nouveau is part of Montréal's new electronic music scene and is known throughout the international 8bit/chiptune music scene. Recent performances include: Toy Company, Pulse Wave (N-Y), Mix Sessions at the Société des arts technologiques (SAT), sets at the Arcadia, Fantasia festivals and also numerous participations at electronic art events in Canada, USA, Belgium, France and Netherlands.
Taxi Nouveau perform his songs for Game Boy, laptop and modified Christmas cards. The electro-dancehall-8bit driver promises you a non-stop thrill ride. His musical performance combine songs from his album with new pieces specially created for funky clubs. He is also a founding member of the 8bit Montreal collective Toy Company.
His first album released in 2008 is a selection of songs composed between 2004 and 2007. Created with intricately woven sounds and borrowing from various electronic styles, it invites the listener to discover a world that hovers with intense joy and mysterious excitement.
The man behind is Manuel Chantre, a freelance composer/sound designer/artist performer and DJ . He is also a part of the mysterious collective Pop Core (manuelchantre.wordpress.com). He has been making music with computer since 1996.
video games from the eighties, speedbike races, freedom, running, coffee, japanese animation, weird artificial moods, creatine, the smell of burnt microchips, the streets, punks, crystals, rushing, bleue sadness, pop culture, strange toys, dark german music, nowhereland, love, the future, weird dancers, fast ninjas, popcore friends, the nightlife and strange chats.
First EP 2008. Out Now! 1. Blue Shadow 2. Breath Run Breath 3. Fast & Free 4. Exciting 5. Yelling 6. Créatine Comptine 7. Ice
Taxi Nouveau is on this international dump box of 23 tracks made by international artists from the japanese rap, nerd crunk, pinball music, funky disco and more crazy music scene!
LIVE
Piknic Electronik & Toy Company, Mtl [2009]
Haire we Go!, Montréal,Le Gymnase [2009]
Play, Québec, Boudoir [2009]
Festival Off de Québec, Agitée, Québec [2009]
Dock18, Rote Fabrick / tv.dock18.ch, Zurich [2009]
Toy Company 3, Montreal [2009]
WORM, Rotterdam (Netherland) [2008]
VERSH, Sugar Factory, Amsterdam (Netherland) [2008]
Transnumériques, Le Frigo, Mons (Belgium) [2008]
Razor Hell, 3 Minots, Montréal [2008]
Harakuju, Ninkasis, Québec [2008]
Transnumériques, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris(France)[2008]
Destination Départ, 3 Minots, Montréal [2008]
Le phoque de Montréal, Montréal [2008]
Drum Machine Down the Stairs, Zoo Bizzare, Montréal [2008]
Festival Off de Québec, Le Loft, Québec [2008]
Pulse Wave, The Tank, New-York [2008]
Toy Company, Zoo Bizzare, Montréal [2008]
Lancement de l’album Taxi Nouveau, Usine 106U, Montréal [2008]
Le documentaire 8bit (N-Y),SAT, Montréal [2007]
Thuersday Mix, Saphir, Montréal [2007]
Mix Session U and I, SAT, Montréal [2006]
Festival Arcadia, SAT, Montréal [2006]
Gamma, SAT, Montréal [2006]
Darkbot, Centre artistique Fractal, Montréal [2006]
Café Toc-Toc, Montréal [2006]
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