Most of my productions and records have been alone with my Mac...
For many good reasons, I appreciate a lot working with other people, such as Denis Cohen-Scali (Hartigan) with who it's always nice, or Ma who sings so well, and I like her way to write and sing songs, Pascal Denimal who plays drums and guitars, Pascal Mulot the bassman killer, Nicolas Deutch who played acoustic bass on the electronica album "Carla Elves", Jennifer Cardini : we did a great record a year ago "Stay", on Cross town rebel, and some others.
I'm searching for a male voice, and artists who like to improvise on different styles, openned to cool and hard music at the same time. Musicians who like to play and create sounds with their instruments.
Please, get in touch as you like. We can also play in our respective studio and send file by the net. No big deal.
Any feedback are welcome.
Some trax in different styles : electronica, electro, techno, down-tempo, mixes, selection.
You can also hear some others on www.laurentho.com.
Influences
Born in the late 60's : the Beatles were singing everyday at home, from the morning to the night, until mid 70's.
Pink Floyd, America, Led Zeppelin came at home, thru my old pick up "Claude". Totally submerged by the pop wave from the 70's, mostly english and american bands : CSNY, King Crimson, the Who, Supertramp, the Eagles, Canned Heat, Steely Dan. and so many others.
Then I feld in love with the music of Elton John, just before my AC/DC fan times. I still like the 70's bands.
I was 13, when I discovered the clubby world. Fisrt time in club at the Sand's club, on hollyday of course. It was a great experience, I was standing all night long in front of the speakers, watching the amplifier's Vu meter, listenning to the fat basses,. it was amazing, I loved so much the power of the sound itself...
So I started to buy club music, maxi versions, 12 inches imported. At that time, we used to ear Michael Jackson, BB&Q band, EW&F, George Clinton, Kool and the bandn funky stuff. The radio was Radio 7, Maxximum, Futur generation, Radio corsaire...
I discovered Goth music, when I was 19. I used to go out a lot during my studies : at least 3 times a week, usually at the Locomotive or at the Boy. I heard there Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, XMal Deutchland, Wolfgand press, all the 4AD bands. At the same time appeared the new beat, the EBM and Rave parties. I was quite a big fan of F242, F.L.A. , Siglo XX, Trisomie 21, Neon Judgement, MZ412, ....
I passed a strange year listenning to some pure noise with no melody...
Then begun the rave parties era. Suddendly, Bands and stars disapeared, and the DJs became the artists we used to hear and like.
Back to the roots, I enjoy to hear a lot of different styles now : from electronica, such as Schematic label (one of the best ever), to very hard music as Killing Joke, Marilyn Manson, NIN, and cool easy listenning : Adult., Alex Smoke, Claro Intelecto, the Dandy Warhols, She Wants Revenge, Motormark, Jimmy Edgar, Patrick Watson, Secret Frequency Crew, Strings of consciousness, The Editors, The Stanglers, Flashbulb, Proem, Plaid, The Other People Place, Boards of Canada, Autechre, Smash TV, Biosphere, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Kate Bush, Underworld, Unit...
...You are so many to make good music...
Sounds Like
three different styles actually :
TECHNO/ELECTRO : for many years, I’m into techno and electro : music for dancefloors, pumping, groovy, with a loud hard bass drum.
I did a lot of EP on UW, ANLX labels. The last work was produced on CROSS TOWN REBELS (Damian Lazarus label), a co-production with Jennifer Cardini.
With Denis Cohen-Scali, aka Hartigan, we made 5 tracks already, in a EBM/electro style. We used to like the music from the 80’s, and you can feel those influences without making any copy/paste... We still searching for a label to produce those tracks.
ELECTRONICA : This is the third style I like to produce. the music is quite soft, melodic, cool, nice to hear, and the accent is put on deep atmospheres.
For this first album, I found a feminin name more appropriate to a softer sound : CARLA ELVES. this project was named Soundtracks.
You shouldn’t find any records left.
In september 2005, I released another album : a musical egg timer.
10 tracks during 1,2,3,...and 10 minutes long. You can chrono the cook of any vegetable,
HARDCORE : 2 albums released. My first one ever, SYNTETIC, was made in 1998. the CD1 is a 74 minutes long hardcore album : distorted noises and paterns from the underground. The CD2 is a strange CDROM comitted by Servovalve, a great designer, where there are a lot of strange hidden pictures, games, things to discover.
The second album is a double CD, signed INGLER, called _metaENDS. Tracks run at 200BPM. The CD2 is a live recorded in Verdun, France. I added some samples at the end of the CD2, to give to the people the opportunity to make some hardcore music (BD, SN, CR, SOUNDS files). You can make for your own tracks with those powerfull files.
Please visit www.myspace.com/laurenthomusic to hear some music.
As I prepare my new album, the tracks you could hear here are not avaiiable anymore.
Anyway, they were encoded in 128 kbit and honnestly, don’t use this very cheap quality.
As music and sound lover, I’d prefer you to listen to my music in better conditions. At the moment, CD’s sound OK, but don’t listen to tracks encoded in a resolution lower than 320 kbit... Please, don’t destroy the sound !... All details are just missed, forgotten, dead !!
OK, nobody cares about my mood or I don't know what.
Please read this if you're in trouble, if you follow a deep therapy with a strange psy.
Just glance at those pix I like because they are just true, dark, colored,...
Or drawings by Axen, my younger kid who started to draw very nice characters... ... Get touched by my new tracks, or visit the new myspace/INGLER. For the old crazy guys and dolls who still think hardcore is not dead, well, you can hear an old mix unreleased. Just fast, distorted with silly noises I used to love.
What is important to an artist? just to be listenned, and liked I guess.
I don't care.. In fact yes I care. If you like it : cool if not, too bad. You've just lost 37 seconds to read me.
My new album, the 5th one, will be out soon, and it's called BACK TO THE ROOTS, available in Digipak CD in real shops and audio files in the main internet music shops.
15 favourite tracks among 35 musical things made since 2004. Once again, very far from what I listen to, and far from my want. I still don't understand how to make commercial music indeed. Bloody hell.
10 are sung, and 3 in french. That was for the stats... It sounds totally different from the fucking mp3. Please don't hack it, don't upload or download it from Peer to Peer servers , even don't convert it into mp3 under 320kbit from a CD. Listen to the real sound to catch every details.
I tried to mix in an old school way. The tracks sound old, because it's a journey to the roots.
Cheers.
Out 2008-07-10.
And now, a short story.
1990.
Biginning of the rave parties in France.
I discovered a new world, magic, fantastic. Nothing as strong as those events : DJ without microphone, music for hours and hours only, without any stops. I started to mix at the gay FM radio FG, the first radio involved into electronic music ever.
After the Mayday Rave in Dortmund in april 1994, I jumped into the hard style, creating the same year the label Epiteth rec, the first hardcore label in France.
Under the name "Ingler", released many tracks at Epiteth rec, Industrial strength, Six Sixty Six, Shockwave, Headfuck, Juncalor, Headfuck...
Then I started to play a lot everywhere, from Germany to Japan, thru Switzerland, Italy,...
1998 marks the second period of my musical activities. 2 new label UW and ANLX, more experimental and techno, less hard than Epiteth rec, and still underground.
Then I created UWe, with 2 fucking guys.
This is the biginning of hard times. Too much work in the label and too much time behind my Mac working in graphic design and stuff at UWe, less and less music.
2000-2004.
Different side projects with a non dancin music.
2 electronica albums under the name Carla Elves. the cover was designed by Matali Crasset, a great french designer, and a musical egg timer released at Pa design, a design agency in Paris.
2004.
UWe is just a past good and very bad experience. Shares sold, and music work stollen by my old partners, I've lost the labels I've created.
New generation. 40 years, and still the want to do 1 000 things in a minute.
So I did many works in sound and graphix designing, masterized some albums and explored deeper the post production world. Amazing : having the chance to create music in very good conditions.
Friends help a lot.
As graphic worker, I comitted a Logo for a french restaurant in Montpellier called l'artichaut, and some global graphic design works.
20 000 pictures taken with some digital camera, coolpix 950, Lumix, D70 and D200 since 2000.
With Stephane Zanetti, we've tried to propose to the audience some electronica stuff on Modulo, "our" new label. The fist release is Unit, one of the best NYC electronica maker. Then Komori a french new comer, Domo Kun, Elektroplasma, some french great artists.
Our experience with Jennifer Cardini was quite succesfull : we enioyed a lot to play in the studio, and we spent around 6 months to finalize out : Stay (Cross Town Rebells).
The harder tracks have always born in presence of Hartigan, that guy from Micropoint. He's kind of sick sometimes. We try to operate directly into his brain each time we see. OK.The tracks are politically dancefloored.
Resident at the Rex club for 7 years, I love now this groovy electro techno pumping stuff.
A ear on the audio page on www.laurentho.com
Love designing : favourite activity with music ?
With cool people again, we installed in Europe a new design agency called "HHD". We produce products under the name "made-in-ho". The BOLOROMISATEURS are one of those new projects in 2007. Please, make a small tour on www.made-in-ho.com to know what it's about.
As Electronica maker, I still love working with Ma, a french creative, direct, and cool pussy singer. Now she sings on many tracks.
More infos, pictures, graphic works on www.laurentho.com.
Je viens juste de parler des mails qu'on avait échangé à mon frère et comme je l'avait prévu, il n'en revient pas! xD Il arrête pas de répéter qu'il est fan, que grâce à toi l'électro française à un second souffle. Son rêve ce serai un de tes concerts privé avec Audiojack en première partie. (Si jamais un jour ça arrive, ça ne me dérangerai pas du tout de recevoir une ou deux invit' ;D) J'avoue que son idée me plait beaucoup à moi aussi :D J'aime ton esprit de création. A toi tout seul tu combles déjà deux des cinq sens, la vue et l'ouïe. Merci et surtout continue comme ça! A bientot. Manon.
Salut mon Laurent, Je pense à toi et ... comme par magie je me retrouve en comment derrière l'écran de ton ordinateur portable. C incroyable cette technologie si grossièrement sophistiquée !!! impudique et pourtant intime. Et à vous lecteurs de comments, je vous réspecte juste parce que vous ètes un peu curieux. NONCOMMUN ?
poet pouet boom boom, viendez sur mon super nouvo space pour me faire un pur comment ! ca va pas du tout ! tu fais quoi pour la fete de la zic ? bises Adrien
Salut Laurent En souvenir du bon vieux temps viens te distraire sur ma page en allant matter le court et stupide métrage " Jouvence " de Quarxx. Comme tu le sais bien dans la réalité je suis une gentille timide soumise... Bisous Flo
