HAKEEM LAPOINTE
Under Amselysen, Montreal-based artist Hakeem Lapointe strips genres like experimental, ambient, techno, noise, punk, IDM, into confrontational leftfield electronic music. Their live shows are challenging audiences’ comfort; intense, unpredictable performances that force audiences out of passive listening. Amselysen’s sounds become fields of subversion, where conventions go to die.
The project's uncompromising vision has earned recognition from the underground's most forward-thinking artists. Amselysen has shared stages with an impressive roster of boundary-pushers including Caterina Barbieri, Lorenzo Senni, Courtesy, Dreamcrusher, Marie Davidson, MESH/Hesaitix, Orchestroll, Myriam Bleau, and Racine, amongst others.
Founder of the label and event series EAF (Electronic Assault Front), Lapointe has been stoking the flames of the alternative electronic scene in Montreal, welcoming new and established talents such as:
Jan Jelinek, FOODMAN, Hesaitix, African-American Sound Recordings, Heith, Roméo Poirier, Orchestroll, Nadah El Shazly, Sisso and Maiko, CECILIA, VISIO, Sense Fracture, and more.
The project has already earned the trust of MUTEK, SAT, Akousma, and Flux through its visionary ambitions and strange conceptual approaches.
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The project's uncompromising vision has earned recognition from the underground's most forward-thinking artists. Amselysen has shared stages with an impressive roster of boundary-pushers including Caterina Barbieri, Lorenzo Senni, Courtesy, Dreamcrusher, Marie Davidson, MESH/Hesaitix, Orchestroll, Myriam Bleau, and Racine, amongst others.
Founder of the label and event series EAF (Electronic Assault Front), Lapointe has been stoking the flames of the alternative electronic scene in Montreal, welcoming new and established talents such as:
Jan Jelinek, FOODMAN, Hesaitix, African-American Sound Recordings, Heith, Roméo Poirier, Orchestroll, Nadah El Shazly, Sisso and Maiko, CECILIA, VISIO, Sense Fracture, and more.
The project has already earned the trust of MUTEK, SAT, Akousma, and Flux through its visionary ambitions and strange conceptual approaches.
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Selected Works
Albums
Organe Solaire, 2022, Genot Centre
Hypnagogic Surge, 2020, Genot Centre
Amselysen EP, 2019, Dream Disk Lab
Singles / Compilation
Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light, 2023, Katharsis
Larval Worlds, 2023, Interzone
Deaccession Forms, 2022, formforum
Epilogue, 2022, SBVRSV Press
VA-002, 2021, Causal Chain Certified Reality, 2020, Non/Being
Remixes
Ecdysis, 2026, Faebi Axis & Sanea Ima
On a Nimbus Remixes, 2020, naff
Musical Production
2023 - Léolo - Mainland - Cliffhanger
Consultancy
2023 - Léolo - Mainland
2021 - Racine - Amitiés (DN021)
2021 - Seraphim - Parhelion (ANBA)
Commissions2025 - Across the Dancefloor (dir. Aidan McMahon) - film score 2022 - Mycoaudio Showcase
2022 - M.A.D Festival - M.A.D. Shoppe Promotional Video (dir. Dayana Matasheva)
2019 - Mik'osi, Beric Manywounds, presented at Montreal Queer 2S - Kent Monkman, McCord Museum, Montreal
2019 - For Luca, Jacqueline Beaumont, presented at Art Pop Mtl, Rialto Theater, Montreal
2017 - Video Segment for Adolescent Magazine (dir. Laurence/Larry Philomene)
Panels
2025 - Slut Island (an. Odile Myrtil)
Dates
2026.02.28 - Échos @ Atelier Belleville (MTL, CA)
2026.02.21 - Zoe McPherson, Amselysen, CPR Annie @ SAT (MTL, CA)
2025.10.17 - Paimonia @ C3 (Milan, IT)
2025.10.12 - Toumba, Rosa Pistola, ABADIR, Amselysen @ Kwia (Berlin, DE)
2025.09.27 - Musica festival @ Karmen Camina (Strasbourg, FR)
2025.09.24 - Lunchmeat festival @ Ankali (Praha, CZ)
2025.05.31 - EAF: Hesaitix, laced, Amselysen @ SAT (MTL, CA)
2024.06.07 - Humidex 5y: 2Lanes, Pascale Project, Amselysen+Racine @ SAT (MTL, CA)
2023.08.24 - MUTEK: Kyoka, Nadia Struigwhig, Esse Ran, Twin Rising, Amselysen+Racine @ SAT (MTL, CA)
2023.03.25 - Club SAT: Caterina Barbieri, Lorenzo Senni, Marie Davidson, Amselysen @ SAT (MTL, CA)
2023.02.08 - Exposé Noir: Courtesy, Shacke, Callum Magnum, Pulsum, Amselysen @ Fonderie Darling (MTL, CA)
2022.08.20 - Interzone: Orchestroll, Myriam Bleau, Ana DM, Worm Quartet, Amselysen+Racine @ Sala Rossa (MTL, CA)