Carlo Montagnese (born July 29, 1987), better known as Illangelo, is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian producer, songwriter, musician and mixing engineer from Calgary, Alberta, who came to attention as long-time collaborator of The Weeknd. His work includes executive production of The Weeknd's 2011 mixtapes, the 2012 compilation album from The Weeknd titled Trilogy along with singles from rappers Wiz Khalifa's "Remember You", Drake's "Crew Love", Ricky Hil's "Nomads", all those featuring The Weeknd, and remixes such as Lady Gaga "Marry The Night (The Weeknd & Illangelo Remix)" and Florence and the Machine's "Shake It Out (The Weeknd Remix)". He released his debut concept albumHistory of Man on August 20, 2013 under his label Hear the Art Inc. & Bromance Records.
On August 20, 2013, Illangelo released his debut concept-album titled 'History of Man', which he describes as "a literary, visual and audio narrative inspired by the epic poem 'Paradise Lost' by 17th-century English poet John Milton".
Illangelo released a single titled 'What The Fuss' on February 18, 2014, which features up and coming Toronto native Rochelle Jordan. Earlier that month, he released a series of demos from the pre-House Of Balloons era (circa 2010) on his Bandcamp page.
On May 2, 2014, Illangelo collaborated with the Sydney trio Movement on their self titled debut EP. Their self-described style of minimal soul in combination with Illangelo's futuristic sound created a unique texture that has since been gaining much momentum selling out their Australian tour and several dates across the USA and Europe. Additionally 'Like Lust' and 'Ivory' went on receive back to back Best New Track on Pitchfork.
Illangelo released his single 'Clockwork', featuring vocalist Phlo Finister, on May 12, 2014. Shortly after he released a video with Los Angeles filmmaker Lance Drake that is as stunning and futuristic as the original composition. It has since gotten Staff Picked on Vimeo.
In an interview with Earmilk on July 1, 2014, Illangelo announced that he and Phlo Finister had created a band together called Youthquaker. The group's first release "Projections", containing 3 songs, was released via a BitTorrent Bundle. The songs were downloaded over 900,000 times in the first week of release.
