No Ground Under is part of the long list for the Polaris Prize 2008.

“The Long List consists of the top 40 full-length Canadian records released from June 1, 2007 to May 31, 2008, selected by the 185 members of the Polaris Music Prize jury.

The Polaris Jury will now vote from the Long list to determine the 10 album Short List, which will be revealed July 7 at the Drake Hotel in Toronto.

The Polaris Prize is judged solely on artistic merit, without any regard for record sales; the idea is to reward outstanding Canadian artists who may or may not be enjoying proportionally outstanding sales. The winner of the prize will receive $20,000 and some pretty hefty press.”

Source : www.polarismusicprize.ca

Check the brand new video for the track “Hit & Red“. It’s the second video from my album No Ground Under (Ninja Tune). Directed by Thibaut Duverneix.

Lundi le 9 juin à 20h sur ARTV vous pourrez regarder le concert qu’on a donné (Chris Olsen, Face-T, Abdominal) au National.
Pour avoir vu le montage, ça vaut vraiment la peine !

La tournée européenne s’amorce jeudi à Paris au Nouveau Casino avec Ego6.

My brand new mix “BRING THE FIRE” is now available in download for free here.

Tracklist :

Z-Trip - About Faces
Heatwave - Tambouriddim
The 45 King - 900 Numbers
Raggasonic - À l’Ancienne
Blacksheep - Have U.N.E. Pull
Dizzee Rascal - Pussy’Ole (Instrumental)
Demon - Riddim In The Park feat. Mr. Vegas & Italee
K-os - The Man I Used To Be
The Streets - Don’t Mug Yourself (Big$hot Remix - Ghis slow edit)
Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Hip-Hop Dancer’s Theme
Pole - Winkelstreben (Ghislain Poirier Remix)
Krys - Hey selecta
Supa Dups - Kopa Riddim
Kardinal Offishall & Akon – Kill The Dance
Thunderheist - Bubblegum (Ghislain Poirier Remix)
Freestylers - Ruffneck feat. Navigator
Kid Unknown - Nightmare
Razor X - Problem Version
Ghislain Poirier - Blazin (Modeselektor Remix)
Alison Hinds - Soca Nation (Ghislain Poirier Remix)
KMC - Take Over (Ghislain Poirier Remix)
Dawg E. Slaughter - Bounce
Bonjay - Gimme Gimme
60Hz - A.Montana Riddim
Mr. Oizo - $tunt$ (Flying Lotus Remix)
Hudson Mohawke - (untitled)
Lady Sovereign - Fiddle With The Volume (Ghislain Poirier rmx)
Hudson Mohawke - Spotted
Dabrye - The Stand
Bassnectar - Bomb The Blocks feat. Persia (Ghislain Poirier rmx)

Carl Craig is giving me mad props ! Ha ! Ha !
The article is seven pages long and the segment with my track is at page 7.

THE WIRE
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/948/?pageno=1

Unedited Carl Craig Jukebox
by Philip Sherburne

Ghislain Poirier
“Blazin’ feat. Face-T (Modeselektor Remix)”

These are Germans remixing a guy from Montreal.

Who is it?

Modeselektor remixing Ghislain Poirier.

Ok.

This seems to be a new mode of post-Techno, sort of what Diplo is doing: an omnivorous free-for-all, everyone putting their beats up online and remixing everybody else.

[Virtual silence from Craig]

Let’s see what else I have here, it’d be nice to play some kind of closing cut.

Play some Santana or something.

I don’t have any Santana.

What?!

Review dans Les Inrockuptibles (France) :

The second single from the No Ground Under album is now released ! It’s an only digital format release (mp3 / wav) available on :
- Beatport
- Juno
- iTunes

It also feature an unreleased track with rapper Jhonel from Niamey, Niger. First track that he ever released outside of West Africa.

1. NO MORE BLOOD feat. FACE-T (ORIGINAL)
2. NO MORE BLOOD feat. FACE-T (DEADBEAT REMIX)
3. IGNADJOSSI feat. JHONEL
4. NO MORE BLOOD feat. FACE-T (HUDSON MOHAWKE REMIX)

Blazin feat. Face-T is now on youtube.
Watch it !

Label : Ninja Tune
Producteur : Frédéric Guindon
Réalisateur : Baz
Direction photo : J-P Bernier
Direction Artistique : Gabrielle Verville
Montage : Maxime Dumont