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Already gathering support from some of the industry’s most respected DJ’s such as Green Velvet, David Guetta, Benny Benassi, Steve Aoki, Meduza and many others, Montreal native The Holy, born Olivier Lamontagne, is quickly ascending to be the city’s next biggest DJ export.

His unique avant-garde sound filled with 90’s industrial rave nostalgic undertones scored him gigs alongside acts such as Mall Grab, Franky Rizardo and Sofi Tukker early on in his time as a club DJ. Quickly turning heads in the local scene, The Holy got called upon to play festivals such as Igloofest and Piknic Electronik leading up to his first EP release, V1510N, in January 2022. The single "Never Seen Before," which features fellow Montrealer Pony’s distinctive vocal was dubbed by Defected Records' own Sam Divine as one of her favourite tracks of the year.

Last year, he established a partnership with internationally celebrated digital artist FVCKRENDER, in which he acts as sole music composer and director on their numerous artistic projects. They collaborated with staple brands such as Christies NYC, Times Magazine, Highsnobiety, Hypebeast and many more.

The Holy celebrated the release of his new song "One Time" with a concert in New York City. He followed it up by an electrifying performance at the Mural festival alongside legendary DJ A-Trak in the heart of Montreal's cultural district, setting the stage for the release of his second EP Vortex in 2022.

Constantly on the move and thriving to share the stage with some of the biggest names in the industry, The Holy is a name that's not to be forgotten.

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After several years as a drummer in high school rock bands, it is upon his arrival in Montreal, Canada in 2018 that his love for electronic music comes to life: the discovery of house clubs and underground parties will be a real trigger. Surrounded by passionate friends, he decided to participate in the Montreal night scene by planning underground all-nighters and events in collaboration with local collectives.

Passionate about cinema above all, The Director links cinematographic and musical production concepts to give birth to a powerful music. Inspired as much by The Who as by Marvin Gaye, The Chemical Brothers or Alan Parsons Project, he tends to give back to music this "Bigger Than Life" side, a feeling missing from a current industry (too) motivated by the number of streams. Powerful in the essence of Chicago house and the French Touch, it has been several years that he digs in the archives of magazines and old forgotten forums in order to understand and create a new way of making music, adopting a sound and an energy proper to this golden age that a handful of French musicians knew. Four years later, the character The Director is born.

Between production techniques, DJ sets on vinyl, and videos filmed with a camcorder, the universe of The Director is worthy of the greatest pre-Y2K years, a universe that was noticed by Uppermost, head of the Uppwind Records label, who proposed him to release an EP in the summer of 2022; this was followed by Kookoo Records, the little brother of the legendary disco label Unidisc, with whom he released a single, as well as an EP in the summer of 2023.

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