MIMS Team's Latest Articles
The MIMS Guide to Igloofest 2017
The 11th edition of the now world-famous Igloofest is upon us and will be opening the festivities in time for the 375th anniversary of the city of Montreal. It’s the perfect fit seeing as this is truly one of the most “Montreal” events that takes place all year. Partying outside …
MIMS’ Shine On Playlist – Tribute to Music Legends Lost in 2016
In addition to all of the depressing news in the world, 2016 will go down as an extremely bittersweet one in the music world. Yes, a ton of great music was released this year but it was a painful year that took so many musical legends from us. Here is …
The Winter Snow Jazz Playlist
Here is a lovely playlist of hand-picked selection perfect for a quiet winter snowy night. Lots of beautiful jazz from different eras and different corners of the world. Most of these tracks were taken from Lexis’ Snow Jazz mix and Spacewalker‘s The Silence of Snow mixes. Enjoy! For the direct …
MIMS’ Top 100 Tracks of 2016
After hours of deliberation, our team finally came to an agreement on a Top 100 Tracks From 2016 available on Spotify. There is still a load of other tracks we loved and wanted to have on the list that are simply not yet available on the platform. Therefore, we still highly …
HAUNTOLOGY Vol.2 – MIMS Playlist (by Doc’trin & Loum)
When it comes to selecting Halloween music, literally anyone can type up a slew of keywords (ei: “evil”, “creepy”, “demon”) into their music player’s search bar, or worse – sift through a plethora of uninspiring online playlists (often littered with the most obvious and usual suspects). Instead, Doc’trin & Loum …
90’s GARAGE – The US & UK Connection
By: The Rawsoul, Dr.Love & Lexis A few years ago we wrote a feature on the history of UK Garage, from its foundation to the family tree of sub-genres. (Link) Since Lexis & Dr.Love have been doing UK Garage Forever nights in Montreal these past few years we thought an …
Music Worth Your Time – July 2016 Recap
July brought an amazing amount of releases, and as usual, we tried to listen to as much of them as we could. These are our picks, the “cream of the crop” you might say. ORGANIC RELEASES IV by BADBADNOTGOOD DIGITAL ZANDOLI by ANTILLES SERIES Patience by The Invisible Big Mean …
The MIMS Guide to Osheaga 2016
Montreal’s Osheaga festival celebrates their 11th anniversary this week-end at Parc Jean-Drapeau. Here is our quick guide to navigating the 6 stages on the 3 days of the festival. As always the festival’s programming is pretty diverse and tries to please different types of crowds. Here are the shows we …
Mixes Worth Your Time – June 2016
The amount of DJ Mixes, podcasts and compilations that comes out every single day is absolutely enormous. Even to the most insatiable diggers like us it can be a bit dizzying sometimes. Since you probably have better things to do with your time than digging through 20 hours of music …
Music Worth Your Time – May 2016 Recap
The amount of releases, reissues, unofficial remixes, edits, compilations that comes out every single week is absolutely enormous. Even to the most insatiable diggers like us it can be a bit dizzying sometimes. Since you probably have better things to do with your time than digging through 20 hours of …
Who to Watch in 2016 – Picked by the MIMS Family
We can finally put to rest all of our Best of 2015 lists along with the beautiful music and great discoveries that were made last year. Looking forward, we joined all of our collective heads and asked the MIMS collaborators to contribute one act that was their choice for breakthrough …
