SIM^CA/QC

Montréal-based producer and researcher SIM is a singular voice in contemporary club culture, known for sculpting bold collisions between techno and dancehall. Originator of the term Slow Tech, SIM approaches sound as a gravitational field where genres orbit, stretch, and intertwine—merging foundational Caribbean rhythms with the tensile minimalism of electronic music’s vanguard.

Emerging from the late-2000s dubstep wave, SIM cut his teeth in the hybrid terrains of Brooklyn’s Flex Dance Music and the UK club continuum, forging ties with artists like Epic B, TSVI, and Mina. His early work culminated in Neural Gain, a debut EP marked by introspective bass textures and sharpened rhythmic intent. From there, his discography expanded to include Pu$$ycat, a breakthrough 2018 collaboration with Crimen Pasional, and a string of genre-dismantling releases including Oil Drum with Doctor Jeep, the Sulum EP on Berlin’s SPE:C, and Terminate on London’s influential Nervous Horizon.

SIM’s musical language is informed as much by Montréal’s richly hybrid scenes as by global exchanges across Europe, the US, and the Caribbean. His SLOWTECHERS mix series and live project act as both sonic manifesto and experimental space, bending dub, jungle, cumbiatón, and techno into forms that resist categorization. Whether in studio collaborations with artists like Sinjin Hawke, Brodinski, and Toumba, or through his academic research into sound system culture, SIM is constantly challenging how we define electronic music and where it can go next.