Feedback Monitor was founded in 1996 by Greg Clow as a website and radio show on CIUT 89.5FM, University of Toronto Radio, covering emerging electronic and experimental music. Prior to Clow, Chris Twomey covered the same realm on a show called New Powers (now a music mail order service, e-mail new powers at interlog dot com) Clow signed off in 2005 to move on to other projects leaving your new hosts, Ib Khider and Victor Szabo to carry the mantle. We endeavor to do Greg Clow justice, long live Feedback Monitor!

About hosts Ib Khider/Victor Szabo and Craig Dunsmuir aka ‘the Sub’
Ib Khider is a writer for various publications both on-line and print including the early incarnation of Feedback Monitor and Perfect Sound Forever. Ib Khider also contributed to Exclaim! Magazine, Canada’s Globe & Mail, Dusted and EI Magazine among others. He is currently in the process of completing a biography on the late Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze for SAF publishing.

Victor Szabo is a musician, electronic music producer, label runner for Periphery Recordings and is credited on several short film scores. He lends his sound engineering skills and experience to this incarnation of FBM.

Fun facts about Vic:

  • Co-hosted the “Nuff Blending Showcase” on CKLN from 2002-2004
  • Has 500+ pieces of jungle/dnb vinyl (rarest = ‘96 Metalheadz)
  • Used to rave back in the day
  • Goldie once asked his which way to the exit
  • Got an e-mail from Photek
  • Has Mutt’s (Metalheadz recordings artist) phone number and calls it sometimes
  • Always has an air horn and glowstix on the ready in case of an emergency rave
  • Knows 0=0 on a first name basis
  • Regularly sent tracks to Hospital Records (UK) podcast (never played)
  • Says “Wikkid” a lot
  • Knows the junglist staff at Play De Records on a first name basis
  • Dropped sets at many of Toronto’s finest jungle-affiliated venues
  • Interviewed UFO! and Black Sun Empire

About Craig Dunsmuir ‘the sub’:
Craig Dunsmuir has been The Craig Dunsmuir Kanada 70 Solo Guitarkestra and one half of recording project Glissandro 70 (with Sandro Perri), as well as a dabbler in solo home recording under the aliases The Sheeet (cover songs), New Jack 70 (house/disco/fusion/funk or otherwise dance-y cover songs), and most recently simply Kanada 70, having just released two K70 CD-Rs of multitracked improvs collected over the last two years, Broad Strokes and Trou Bel, on Toronto noise/psych/drone imprints [ach.du.liebe] and Inyrdisk (so noise that it doesn’t even have a website). He hosts the monthly freeform radio show My Life In The Gush Of Boasts once a month on CKLN 88.1, contributes to Dream Chimney, and is currently website editor/sales clerk at Soundscapes in Toronto’s Little Italy.