Mutante

DJ Mutante was born François Robichaud, in Shefferville, a small mining town in Canada's cold grand north.
Like most musicians, his interest in music was peaked at a very young age and after playing in many bands(drums, bass, guitar, synthesizers…) throughout his youth, he started spinning records in about 1995. Not so long after, he started experimenting with electronic gear, leading to his rather primitive first tracks.

In 1999, he came to form a digital hardcore band, Khan Gourou.
Their second track, La mort au choix et Le Renaud, appears on an homage by Bûcherons Kébecois to the legendary French band Berurier Noir. Shortly thereafter, the group self produced Il est venu le temps des claques sa yeule, a parody of Temps des Cathedrales, of the famed musical comedy Notre-Dame de Paris.

Khan Gourou successfully made it to the top of the local student radio stations at the time.
François then started the band Kungfuckers, producing the CD with the most explicite CD cover in Quebec to date.
He participated in a number of events, one of which being the prestigious international music festival of Victoriaville, featuring the likes of John Zorn, Mike Patton and many other world famous musicians; in which he collaborated with scratch DJ, DJ Pocket, and experimental turntabelist, Martin Tetrault.

The combination of the three styles created a clearly unique and an enthusiastically received performance.
Next came DJ Mutante and Normal Bates' fusion of hip-hop, electro, hardcore, funk, lo-fi etc... forming the band International Al Congnen, which is still active today and presently in the process of finishing their most recent album.

Following the 3 years he spent recording and touring Canada and Europe as the bassist for hardcore punk band Dr Placebo, he bought his first computer and began to explore his fascination with new software technology. Mutante sent his first hardcore techno demo to France, in 2004, produced several tracks for Audiogenic, Kryzalide production and Le Diable au Corps, and later for Canadian Speedcore resistance (DJ Plague), GGM Raw (DJ Smurf), Masters of Speedcore and This is Terror, to name a few. DJ Mutante is presently a member of Neurotik Soundsystem, organizer of Montreal's hardcore underground night at Club Saphir, tours throughout Europe and expects the release of various tracks this year on Alcaloide, Psychik Genocide and other labels.