WORDS FROM THE WIZARD HEY OTTAWA!! WE’VE GOT A HUGE MONTH OF ENTERTAINMENT AND FUN PLANNED FOR YOU - WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF TARG, OTTAWA’S ONLY TRUE CLASSIC ARCADE!! – Check out our awesome lineup of classic games and try a plate of our world famous handmade perogies - we’ve got a sweet new mystery plate debuting this month and we couldn’t be more excited - help us tweak/dial in the fl avours and join us in naming this delicious creation - we love your input and ideas!!! Things are always a little bananas at TARG but this month really takes the cake - we are very proud to be presenting 2 nights of shows (one of which is ALL AGES!!) with hometown heroes and DINE ALONE RECS heavyweights NEW SWEARS in celebration of the release of their new record ...AND THE MAGIC OF HORSES - this is even more personal for me as I have been lucky enough to spend some time with these cats recording/producing their latest musical offering - hands down some of the best dudes I have ever met/worked with and I couldn’t be more stoked on their growing success as musicians/artists/weirdos - congratulations fellas, well deserved and well received!! Huge thanks to everyone who brings life and energy to our humble ARCADE - your support is priceless and we will always endeavour to serve you to our full potential - let’s have some fun and #nevergiveup - YOGI NEW RELEASE LOVEHAUS - DANNY July 1st: A special Voice of the REBEL & THE KGB People SKA NITE SKANADA DAY STOMP RECS 2017 edition featuring DJs Longshot and Snappy + Live music from Danny Montreal’s Danny Rebel Rebel & The KGB (MTL Ska/Soul and the KGB are the kind of CD RELEASE) + The Sentries (local band that pulls a little bit of Ska heroes) + FoOlish (MTL everything out for their fans. Reggae trio). From instant classic reggae hits like “Take Me Away” The VOICE OF THE PEOPLE DJs to soul scorchers like “200 playing nothing but the best in Ska, Proof”, there’s going to be Rocksteady and Reggae all spun something for everyone. The live on vintage 45s. Expect classics whole album feels like the such as Toots and the Maytals, “Party after the Party”, which Derrick Morgan, Prince Buster, and if you’ve ever been lucky much much more! enough to be in Montreal at 3AM, you know it’s just as hot as ever. -Lou Le Blanc THE PERFECT SUMMER PINT: BLUEBERRY WHEAT Ashton Brewing Company Unlike some fruit brews, the berry notes from this summer super star are very subtle, buried deep under a soft and velvety wheat beer body. Level Up with this refreshing, no hop bitterness wheat ale. Look for it on our rotating Bonus Tap this month. the chance to play was the Korg JESS FORREST - MS20 in a band when I was 18 years CASTLE IF old. FIRST SYNTH: My fi rst synth was my Moog Little Phatty. I’ve had it for ALBUM THAT SWITCHED YOU ON about ten years now, and I still play it TO SYNTHS: Switched On Bach basically every day. by Wendy Carlos (1968 Columbia Masterworks) ALBUM THAT SWITCHED YOU is no ‘right’ way to do it. If you ON TO SYNTHS: Wendy Carlos’s ADVICE FOR WOMEN WHO WANT want to play complicated stuff on “Switched On Bach” (1968 Columbia TO START MAKING ELECTRONIC 3 keyboards, go for it. If you like Masterworks) is the fi rst synth record MUSIC: The most important is to building electronics, rig up whatever I listened to that made me think develop your intimate relationship with crazy stuff you want to try, take it “Damn, this is DOPE!”. I originally sound. up there and have at ‘er! Or go the wanted to be a screenwriter, not a other way and use Makey Makey to composer, so my musical tastes were SEE XARAH DION FRI JUNE 16 at make a fruit or jelly synth (I still very infl uenced by fi lms. Maybe that’s S.O.S.fest totally want to do this!) and play with that. If you mostly want to wear why my work is so soundtrack-y now. great outfi ts, or fool with fl ashing lights and video and robots and play ADVICE FOR WOMEN WHO WANT mostly preprogrammed, or sit in a TO START MAKING ELECTRONIC cardboard box so no one can see MUSIC: Stay stupid. Trust your GAENOR HOWE - RATIONAL you when you play everything live, instincts. The idea you’re most drawn go for it. If you can’t fi nd anyone to — even if it’s your dumbest idea, YOUTH to be in a band with, go solo. Don’t especially if it’s your dumbest idea FIRST SYNTH: My fi rst synth was be tentative, don’t be shy, and don’t — is probably your best idea. Don’t actually a software synth called think you have to be like anyone worry if it seems too hard, too easy, E-volution Music Creator. My fi rst else. Just really fi nd out who you are too dark, too boring, too stupid: don’t hardware synth was actually my right now, fi t it together with what concern yourself with what other MicroKorg. you want to do and do it. And let people think. If you feel compelled by who you are and what you do change it, go for it! ALBUM THAT SWITCHED YOU ON and adapt as you go on. Or not. Just TO SYNTHS: Landscape – From go and do and be. SEE CASTLE IF THURS JUNE 15 at DOUCE ANGOISSE the Tearooms of Mars…to the Hell- S.O.S.fest FIRST SYNTH: My fi srt one was a holes of Uranus - (1981 Cherry Red SEE RATIONAL YOUTH FRI JUNE 16 MicroKorg Vocoder. Got it when I was Records). at S.O.S.fest 17 years old ADVICE FOR WOMEN WHO WANT ALBUM THAT SWITCHED YOU ON TO TO START MAKING ELECTRONIC SYNTHS: Depeche Mode - Music For MUSIC: Be brave. I’m a total the Masses (1987 Sire Recs) Grandma Moses, because I was too shy and thought I wasn’t a good ADVICE FOR WOMEN WHO WANT enough instrumentalist. I also TO START MAKING ELECTRONIC thought my voice was too weird, so MUSIC: DON’T GIVE UP EVER I ended up wasting all those years watching other people perform when I was young and could have been SEE DOUCE ANGOISSE SAT JUNE having fun on stage. So just get up 17 at S.O.S.fest there and follow your own star. The joy of synth music is that there XARAH DION FIRST SYNTH:The fi rst synth I had WELCOME TO THE SECRET UNIVERSES OF MY TOY COLLECTION. our video arcade cabinets/games will of Horses” on DINE ALONE RECORDS!! be switched over to FREEPLAY mode - *HORSE of TARG!!! game on!! SUN JUNE 25 - House of TARG presents: SUN JUNE 18 - Switched on Synths WIZARD WORKS SUMMER CRAFT presents: TOUGHEN UP! S.O.S.FEST SHOW - ZERO DOLLARS/ALL AGES!! A GUIDE TO ALL THE CONCERTS TAKING PLACE AT WRAP PARTY: w/DJ KJMaxx & B-RAD This Craft show is so bright ya gotta wear spinning 100% all wax synth jams. shades! New season, new vendors, new HOUSE OF TARG THIS JUNE. PLUS unlimited arcade action for just 5 treasures! Check out some of Ottawa’s bucks. craftiest vendors selling unique and inspired items all in the comfort of our SAT JUNE 3 - House of TARG, Crucial ambient emo grunge indie shoegaze! MON JUNE 19 - House of TARG and humble Arcade. Records & Ashton Brewing present: Swirly indie pop with ethereal vocals. PandaMonium productions present: VOICE OF A GENERATION VOL. 4 w/ Celebrate the release of their new album PLAGUEBRINGER (Calgary Blackened WED JUNE 28 - House of TARG, Bleak HARD CHARGER + SATANARCHIST “Pillow Talk” now available on No Sleep Deathcore) w/sg MARTYRS (Ottawa Life and PBR present: EXTREME NOISE + ASILE - a seriously heavy nite of recs. Deathcore) and LIFE ON TRIAL (Ottawa TERROR w/sg NAPALM RAID + ASILE + devastating d-beat action in Canada’s hardcore/thrash crossover) - Stop in, FRAGMENT Pioneering English CRUST capital!! Super pumped for the return of WED JUNE 14 - Switched on Synths get heavy, play some games, and down PUNK band formed in 1985, considered our pals HARD CHARGER, can’t wait to presents: S.O.S.FEST: SYNTH MEET- some perogies! *EARLY SHOW - Doors one of the earliest and most infl uential see yu what you got cookin’ - big thanks UP + $1 OFF PEROGIES!! Zero dollars at 7pm European grindcore bands, particularly in to SKA JEFF for being so damn crucial!! all nite/all ages - meet peeps from the the crustgrind fusion genre. Noted for one Ottawa synth community. checkout their WED JUNE 21 - House of TARG of the earliest uses of dual vocalists in WED JUNE 7 - House of TARG and synths. learn stuff & twiddle knobs. The and PBR presents: MY SON THE hardcore, and for recording a number of Ottawa Punk Pinball present: FREE offi cial kick-off to Ottawa’s Synthesizer HURRICANE w/sg THE BRISTOL sessions for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, PINBALL TOURNAMENT (JUNE EDITION) Festival - 5 days of synth fueled concerts HUM - Major funk action going down Extreme Noise Terror started as a crust Tournament Format - ‘Strikes’ Knockout & events ahead featuring Drone/ Synth- at the House of TARG!! - MY SON THE punk band and helped characterise the Style. Players will be randomly assigned Pop / Darkwave artists from all over the HURRICANE is a 14-piece brasshop early, archetypal grindcore sound with an opponent and a pinball machine to globe.