Violet Gave Willingly:
Remix Vol. 1
Out Mar 27, 2026
The Story:
My sister made a documentary about my mother and I made the soundtrack.
That album has become an remix series and teaching tool for all women, femmes, BIPOC and other marginalized folks to engage with electronic music creation and gain experience through the music release process and build their community of femme collaborators and professionals.
The ambient score of Violet Gave Willingly is the sonic root for this project. The samples from the album originated as a letter written to my mother’s abusers, from there I tore the recording up digitally, scrambling and warping the samples beyond recognition, from that pallet I built Violet. Through re-voicing these experiences and literal words spoken, we will create multiple volumes of remixes, the first phase to be released until the end of 2028.
The hope is that this project is ongoing over time and is curated by others who pull in are raise up the femme talent they see and want to support. By connecting women selectors, producers and industry professionals across our collective networks we give eachother better chances at having more women on our projects, more femme collaborators, and stronger female teams. My hope is that through this project we are able to give each other opportunities and experiences centred in advancing our collective experience as artists and technicians through an inclusive and expansive sense sisterhood.
Vol. 1 Release Schedule:
March 6, 2026 - To Live is To Love and To Lose (Hua Li 化力 Remix)
March 13, 2026 - Compassion Refrain (TARANEH Remix)
March 27, 2026 - Full Album Release
Full Track List:
To Live is To Love and To Lose (Hua Li 化力 Remix)
Compassion Refrain (TARANEH Remix)
Emote (Lila Gray Remix)
Awaken (El Ángel Exterminador Remix)
Garden (Sanford Remix)
Meet the Artists
Hua Li 化力
Hua Li 化力 is a Montreal-based recording artist, producer and DJ. Her project works the fruitful tension between opposing forces, whether being mixed-race, bisexual, or overtly political and softly vulnerable. In 2024 she released her most ambitious and personal record to date, ripe fruit falls but not in your mouth, garnering her a Global Asian Creative Award, a spot on Range Magazine’s best albums of 2024 and a GAMIQ nomination for best electro album of the year. An artful collaborator, Hua Li co-wrote and performed on Gayance's 2023 Polaris short-listed album, Masquerade and appears on tracks with Korea Town Acid, Magi Merlin and Evan Shay.
Beyond the studio, her DJ sets are uplifting and energetic. Her range of inspirations is vast, drawing from the soulful, vocal-driven house to the frenetic remixes of footwork, juke and ballroom. She’s delivered mixes for Shift Radio, 350 Radio and is the host of N10.as show “Nobody Says Augury" on the third Saturday of every month.
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TARANEH
TARANEH is a Canadian‑Moroccan music producer and artist who has carved out a captivating sound influenced by her mixed roots and shaped by her culturally rich upbringing in Ottawa, ON. Soulful, hard‑hitting, and cinematic, her style draws from Hip‑Hop, R&B, Pop, Funk, and old Middle Eastern/North African sampling.
She was recently named a “Producer to Watch” by SPLICE and selected as one of six Canadian women for the prestigious Women In The Studio National Accelerator by Music Publishers Canada. Her songwriting work has taken her internationally, with invitations to camps in Abu Dhabi, Paris, and Palma. Her music has aired on Prime TV, CBC, New York Fashion Week, and stations such as SiriusXM and CBC Radio, and her work has been featured in Earmilk, BeatRoute, SceneNoise, and more.
As the producer behind the all‑femme band NADUH, TARANEH helped drive the group’s success, earning over 900,000 streams, multiple WCMA nominations, Prime Video placements, and a growing international tour history across Europe, Mexico, the UK, and Canada. She has also shared stages with music legends including E‑40, Ghostface Killah, Raveena, Jacob Banks, and others.
TARANEH works closely with her in‑house team and creative partner Walter Pacheco to deliver fully realized sonic visions from start to finish. Her greatest passion is translating energy into sound.
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Lila Gray
Vancouver-based alt-pop artist and producer Lila Gray blends intimate lyricism with gritty, self-produced soundscapes, telling honest stories about queer womanhood, growth, and emotional vulnerability. Raised in the mountains of BC, her music is deeply personal yet quietly anthemic—rooted in feeling, addictive in sound. A CBC Searchlight Top 100 artist and recipient of the 2025 Olivia Quan Award for Audio Excellence, Gray was also named on Range Magazine’s 2026 Frequency Forecast. Her album Scared of the Dark (You Should Be Too) earned her recognition as one of CBC’s Young Artists to Watch in 2025. Classically trained on cello and later educated in audio engineering at Recording Arts Canada, Gray is also an alum of Music Publishers Canada’s Women in the Studio program. Lila’s unique production and intricate lyricism helped push her latest album, Scared Of The Dark (You Should Be Too), to new career heights.
Growing up listening to influential classics such as The Beatles, James Brown, Queen, and The Kinks, while constantly finding new artists from whom to draw inspiration (Arlo Parks, Lorde, Billie Eilish, Bleachers, and Feist), Lila locked into telling her authentic story through an indie pop sound. Lila Gray has collaborated with; Jill Barber, Moia & Claire, Aza Nabuko, Maïa Davies, and Max Cunningham. Lila Gray writes songs for the in-between moments, holding yearning and abandon in tension, and is currently finishing her next full-length release, slated for 2026.
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El Ángel Exterminador
Mexico City–born, Vancouver-based Max Ammo is an audiovisual artist and curator working across graphic design, animation, music production, and live performance. They co-founded Cadena with Elias Musiak (AKA Jaijiu), an interdisciplinary project between Montreal and Vancouver dedicated to showcasing Latin American electronic music through research, events, community building, and forthcoming editorial work.
Beyond a threatening aura and an often veiled presentation, El Ángel Exterminador honours the surreal vision of the film the project is titled after, following the fever dream approach to the transmutation of sociopolitical and inner tensions into audiovisual pieces.
Blending their previous sonic explorations as “Goo” with analogue hardware and a new foray into digital DAWs, Ammo has developed a sound they dub “thriller-electronics,” re-mystifying electronic music by injecting it with magic, spirituality and chaos. Their hybrid performances deliver sharp edges, ethereal undertones, and spectral Latin American influences.
(*Unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations)
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Sanford
A lifelong practice of emotional translation through the reorganization of words and sounds, music has invariably been a place where Sophia Sanford can articulate specific truths, telling her story poetically, turning pain to power. Building on her youth experience playing bass, piano, trombone, and travelling the world with choral and jazz choirs, Sanford brings a depth of emotion to their music production that echoes with the eerie beauty that is the result of an obsession with the voice and all things sound. Music and sonic expression are a space of sacred processing for Sophia, something they explore through their practices, producing and performing music that spans genres. Sophia hosts artists at Noise Machine, their rural studio & residency space, offering mentorship and technical & creative support to a wide range of sound projects. Always looking to deepen their technical skill, Sophia regularly offers and receives mentorship reveling in the opportunities their work presents to understand sound, nature, and culture on deeper levels. Their passion lies in translating life’s experiences into pleasurable activities centred around sound, self-expression, and connection.