Akufen

Since 1999, Akufen (Montreal’s Marc Leclair) continues to be amassing a heavy stockpile of 12″ releases for brands like Perlon, Background, Traum, Mouth, Trapez, and Drive Inc. With affects which range from Bootsy to Mancini to Moroder to Reich, Leclair’s productions veer from complicated experimental techno to pop-oriented micro-house. For some from the monitors on 2002’s My Method, his initial full-length record for Drive Inc., Leclair utilized a method he known as “microsampling.” Leclair would spend hours of every morning recording materials from AM/FM dials along with a shortwave, and he’d then make use of those recordings as fodder for his productions, splicing secs into minute fragments (comprising voices, melody snippets, classical guitar flicks, and a variety of unidentifiable occasions) and applying these to danceable, hook-heavy home paths. The expectation for the recording was more than doubled by way of a limited launch from the album’s feature cut, “Deck the home,” a stunning crazy-quilt of short-attention-span home dementia. My Method received wide-spread acclaim, and it had been accompanied by a remix 12″ and an EP entitled Hawaiian Wodka Party in 2003. Akufen’s 1st mix Compact disc, Fabric 17, made an appearance in 2004. That same yr, he also distributed a split Compact disc known as Blu TribunL with Freeform as well as the Rip-Off Designer. All the album’s paths were predicated on blues examples. Leclair released a far more experimental recording under his personal name in 2005, and was mainly inactive before early 2010s. Akufen’s Battlestar Galacticlown EP made an appearance on Musique Risquée in 2012, and an electronic EP of previously unreleased paths from 2008 known as Dollhouse also made an appearance. Carrying out a 2013 full-length beneath the name Horror Inc., Akufen came back in past due 2016 with EP.