Gene Tellem CA

Montréal-based producer and DJ Jeanne Gariépy

Whether taking centre stage as a DJ, party co-creator or producer, Gene Tellem communicates her own style of tweaked soul music through house and techno scripts, dedicating her productions to grooves for both nodding heads and wiggling bodies. Montréal-bred, Gariépy plays piano, studied jazz guitar at CEGEP and leapt into electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal before breaking out as Gene Tellem. Her productions are largely self-taught and inspired by the reverie and energy of electronic dance events, infused with the rhythms, melodies, movements and collective emotions of the live underground club experience. A participant in Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp Montréal 2017, she debuted with Who Says No, on Project Pablo and Sebastian Cowan’s Sounds of Beaubien Ouest label. Inspired by the collaborative nature of the electronic artists around her, despite the rapid disappearance of the urban spaces they gathered and made music in, Gene Tellem crafted freeform structures and subtle transformations in her music, reflective of a state of ambiguity and a push into what comes next. Her follow-up album merges rolling drum machines with live percussion, sweeping and squelching synths and melodic piano, bending between atmospheric soundscapes and a determined bass beat.