Cloverdale Launches Multi-Format Project Channel 303 Blurring Club Performance, Concept Album and Live AV Installation

After years of bubbling beneath the surface, Canadian producer Cloverdale has unveiled his most ambitious project to date: Channel 303. Channel 303 is a fully DIY experience that reimagines what live electronic music can be; equal parts concept album, audiovisual performance and art project. It’s the culmination of nearly 20 years of creative obsession, finally bottled into a high-voltage transmission from the mind of Halifax’s own Alex Walsh.

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Born out of disillusionment with the rinse-and-repeat culture of tech house, Channel 303 marks a hard pivot from formulaic DJ sets into the raw & the retro. Ditching CDJs entirely, Cloverdale now performs live with a fully integrated hardware setup: synths, drum machines, custom visuals, reactive lighting, all sequenced and triggered in real time. Visually, it’s a pixelated fever dream, inspired by busted CRT televisions, late-night cable weirdness, and analog grit. Sonically, it’s a high-octane ride through hardware techno, breakbeats, garage swing, and rave nostalgia, delivered with a sense of urgency and soul that’s become increasingly rare in club music.

It all began in a basement on Cloverdale Road during the pandemic, where the original sketch for 100k Watts, a slow, dark groover at the time, sat untouched on a hard drive for years. When the vision for Channel 303 finally crystallised, that track became the perfect opener: beefed-up, tempo-punched, and reworked into a relentless five-minute barrage of energy.

Reuniting with longtime friend and Ottawa-based producer Return of the Jaded, the two crafted Nobody a moody, swung-out garage tune wrapped in warm bass pressure and sharp vocal edits. Trinity Bellwoods, a raw, Toronto-rooted techno cut with vocals from TyriqueOrDie and a kick drum that sounds like it came out of the subway system; Lunatics, a breakbeat ripper that channels Cloverdale’s earliest dubstep roots; Dream Operator, a distorted journey into sleep paralysis and night terrors; and Hear You Calling, a 140bpm hardgroove roller driven by stripped-back drums and one of the catchiest vocal hooks in the whole project.

Technically, the album is a playground of hardware and software. On the hardware side, the live show features the Elektron Model:Cycles, Moog Sub 37, Behringer TD-3 to name a few. The visuals are no less hands-on: designed frame-by-frame in Adobe After Effects and controlled using Resolume and LightKey, often played across vintage TVs, LED bars, and motion-controlled lighting rigs that sync perfectly to the performance.

But at its core, Channel 303 isn’t just a technical flex but a return to purpose. A creative reset. A reminder that making art is supposed to be messy, time-consuming, and deeply personal. From Cloverdale’s roots designing MySpace layouts and ripping After Effects in his teenage bedroom, to festival stages across North America, EDC Las Vegas, The Brooklyn Mirage, Mission Ballroom, Webster Hall, Exchange LA, this moment represents a complete artistic evolution.

Channel 303 is out now across all platforms with more music, visuals and live performances to come.