I am a young DJ and producer who was born in 1985 in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada.
At the opposite of what people could think, I haven’t been into music all my life. I actually spent the first 12 years of my life not giving a single damn about any type of music whatsoever. It is in the holy year of 1997 (that’s it, I just revealed my age there) that I had a musical epiphany, being exposed for the first time to a special kind of music you would barely hear during the day: Electronic Dance Music. It was indeed in a nightly, live transmission of a nightclub’s music on the radio waves that I could take a grasp on the genre for the first time.
For those who know their music history, you probably know that 1997 was the year a harder Dance sound started to develop, Eurodance music started to fade away, and short-lived genres such as Dream House and Neo Disco were beginning to leave the floor to other more established, resurfacing genres such as House music (at least that’s how it was in Canada). This was a great time to get into the Electronic Dance Music scene as the three following years were plenty of those changes.
Starting to listen to music in 1997 also mean I had a good grasp of then-popular Eurodance music, which is still to date my favourite genre of music. My original stuff, mixes and remixes are very reminiscent of this era of EDM history. It still touches a bit to other music genres such as House, Techno, and Trance. To date I’ve created over a hundred productions, with software such as ModPlug Tracker (the early years) and FL Studio (nowadays).
My music has been featured in various events and radio shows around the world, but my most notable mention is for appearing on a CD compilation, “Spin volume 5“, mixed by nationally known DJ Daniel Desnoyers, with the song “The Annoying Alarm Anthem” (which was accompanied by a 12″ vynil release). I’ve also remixed officially for a few local artists such as LaBo. During my university years, I was host of a radio show entitled “The Beat Goes Bourg” (in French), focusing on Electronic Dance Music, both classic and modern.
Nowadays I produce and DJ sparsely. I usually release only a couple of tracks per year, rather concentrating on my animation and comic booking aspirations. I do not spin in clubs. Since 2008 I release, at the end of every year, a chart mix entitled “La Grande Rétrospective Musicale de l’Année 20xx“, which contains all the greatest hits of the current year in the mainstream music industry, all mixed and mashed together.
