Displacer_bio (june 2005)
Edited by: Pietro Da Sacco, Igloo Magazine

Michael Morton, the prolific Toronto, Ontario-based musician had his start on Mute Records’ Pre-Set New Electronic Music (2003). Selected from the best demos received during that year, the experimental track “Deep” showcased emerging talent and garnished the attention of Paris, France-based M-Tronic Records.

Given a chance to remix the innovative Wighnomy Brothers side-project, Beefcake, also led to the release of his debut CD, Moon_phase (M-Tronic, 2003) –a journey into vintage electronics, broken beats and futuristic ambience.

Displacer has since gone on to remix the likes of Monstrum Sepsis, Converter and Architect amongst many others from labels including Hymen, Ant-Zen, n5MD, Wax Trax, & Metropolis Records. Not only did these remixes prove Displacer’s ability to write his own music and give new vision and unique perspectives to each remix, it also led way to his second album Arroyo (M-Tronic, 2004) –a moody, dark personal journey with past influences of Richard H. Kirk, Boards of Canada and San Francisco’s Gridlock.

Amongst the remixes, collaborations and new material, Displacer struck a relentless live performance path playing several concerts around the world. M-Tronic also invited Displacer to perform his very first gig in front of 350+ people at the famous French event Industrial Impact --playing alongside artists such as Implant, the Legendary Pink Dots, and Haujobb. This was quite an experience for Displacer –inspiring him to further establish a presence in his hometown of Toronto, Ontario.

Returning home with a new musical outlook, Displacer brought back fresh ideas into the Toronto industrial scene, again gaining attention from the Toronto Industrial Kollective to headline concerts and collaborate on local events around the city. From Toronto with Converter, to Copenhagen with Fixmer/McCarthy, Displacer is always a crowd inspiring show filled with vivid sculptures of sound, radiating waves of ambience and fluid fragments of percussive rhythms.

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "
bruce lee
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Displacer_bio (june 2005)
Edited by: Pietro Da Sacco, Igloo Magazine

Michael Morton, the prolific Toronto, Ontario-based musician had his start on Mute Records’ Pre-Set New Electronic Music (2003). Selected from the best demos received during that year, the experimental track “Deep” showcased emerging talent and garnished the attention of Paris, France-based M-Tronic Records.

Given a chance to remix the innovative Wighnomy Brothers side-project, Beefcake, also led to the release of his debut... (read more)