Everything but the gig Ever hear of a DJ not playing his own release party? Such is the plight of cheeky young Montrealer Fred Everything. In fact, the boy can't get a gig in this city. He has, however, been signed to produce EPs for all of the labels that any self-respecting house DJ would lick their own arses to get onto. It started with an EP for Toronto's Vinyl Peace (the imprint behind the famous Everything-less "launch" of his C'est la vie EP at Sona two weeks ago), then DIY UK, Onionz's Electric Soul, Large UK and lately for Ralph Lawson's 20/20 Vision label. Add two tracks for Tag and Undercover UK, coverage in DJ, Muzik and Blues & Soul, and you've got a pretty prolific producer in pressing need of some on-the-decks/ under-the-table action. But this Friday (April 11, $8), Everything's manna falls. Since he's signed to the DIY label, party-makers Harmony decided it might be fitting to put him on alongside DIY magistrates Digs & Woosh for the swarming (800 heads and counting) Harmony weekly at Groove Society. Old habits die hard, though, and Everything won't be playing the new Playground. The club's will reopen in early May (so they say­a haggle over interior designers is still ensuing), and the DJ roster looks like it will bracket a tight rotation of "big" DJs of the Mark Anthony/Luc Raymond/Alain Vinet ilk. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it consisted of those exact three. Call it a hunch. If anyone out there had a hunch that the DJ spinning at the Beck show was DJ Shadow, they might be right. The man in black wearing the obscuring cowboy hat and mask had cross-cut skills altogether too brilliant for a busy man like Beck to trace without visiting a DMC competition (the DMC contest from the planet INSANE, perhaps) or two. Add the fact that the "mystery DJ" was clocking out samples of "DJ Shadow, DJ Shadow, DJ Shadow," and the riddle pretty well unravels. Dare to compare the Shadow show at Groove, March 20 (info: 859-9055). * * * Copyright Liberation Front: Highly illegal mixed tape of the week! Fred Everything's "Promo" cassette chips at choppy nu-house. Those Norwegians to Daft Punk, straightforward mixing, and a very "high in the basement" canter. Available at In Beat (3443 St-Laurent).