Artist: Akufen
Genre(s):
Pop
Other
Techno
Trance
Dance
Discography:
On The
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
In Bordel We Trust
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Fabric 17
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
Psychometry Vol. 3
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Quebec nightclub
Year: 2001
Tracks: 6
Psychometry vol.2
Year:
Tracks: 3
Psychometry vol.1
Year:
Tracks: 3
Psychometry Remixes (oliver hacke)
Year:
Tracks: 2
Since 1999, Akufen (Montreal's Marc Leclair) has been amassing a thick stockpile of 12" releases for labels like Perlon, Background, Traum, Oral, Trapez, and Force Inc. With influences ranging from Bootsy to Mancini to Moroder to Reich, Leclair's productions veer from ambitious observational techno to pop-oriented micro-house. For most of the tracks on 2002's My Way, his number 1 full-length album for Force Inc., Leclair employed a proficiency he referred to as "microsampling." Leclair would drop hours of each dawn recording substantial from AM/FM dials and a shortwave, and he would then habit those recordings as fresh fish for his productions, splice seconds into minute fragments (consisting of voices, song dynasty snips, acoustic guitar flicks, and all sorts of unidentifiable moments) and applying them to danceable, hook-heavy house tracks. The anticipation for the album was increased significantly by a special passing of the album's feature cut, "Deck the House," a dazzling crazy quilt of short-attention-span house dementia. Leclair has as well recorded as Anna Kaufen and Nekufa.
