..I have lots of interests in life, starting by music of course, cooking, French and Italian food, vintage wines, art and culture, electronic music instruments (vintage synthezisers, theremins), movies (Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Suspens…) I love walking, hanging out in cemetaries, science, astrophysics and a bit of occult as well… I'm curious about everything!
The most wonderful toys for the electronic musician : the analog modular synthesizers…
These synthesizers can be considered as the electronic music Stadivarii of the late 20th century. Enjoy !
..Here are some of my favourites :
[no Rap, no Hip-Hop and no R'n'B, please]
• L'Âme Immortelle
• Andra Dare
• Anne Clark
• Arcana
• The B-52's
• Barry Gray
• Basil Poledouris
• Bauhaus
• The Beatles
• Bernard Herrmann
• The Birthday Massacre
• Björk
• Blutengel
• Brian Eno
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• The Cerberus Ensemble
• Claire Voyant
• Claude Debussy
• Cocteau Twins
• Collide
• The Cure
• Danny Elfman
• David Bowie
• Dark Sanctuary
• Dead Can Dance
• Delerium
• Depeche Mode
• Dominic Frontiere
• Edvard Grieg
• Ego Likeness
• Empusa
• Ennio Morricone
• Era Nocturna
• Erik Satie
• Eurythmics
• Evanescence
• The Fair Sex
• Fantômas
• Fear Factory
• Front 242
• Funeral Dusk
• Frederick Chopin
• Garbage
• Gary Numan
• Girls Under Glass
• Goûts de Luxe
• Gustav Mahler
• Hanz Zimmer
• Human League
• I:Scintilla
• Iron Maiden
• Igor Stravinsky
• Jad Wio
• James Newton Howard
• Jean-Michel Jarre
• Jerry Goldsmith
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• John Barry
• John Carpenter
• John Williams
• Joy Division
• Kate Bush
• Klaus Schulze
• Kraftwerk
• Ladytron
• Lalo Schiffrin
• The Last Dance
• Laurie Anderson
• Lene Lovich
• Loreena McKennit
• Louis and Bebe Barron
• Lisa Gerrard
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
• Maurice Ravel
• Marilyn Manson
• Mike Oldfield
• New Order
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Nightwish
• Nina Hagen
• Nine Inch Nails
• Pantera
• Peter Gabriel
• Peter Murphy
• Pink Floyd
• Portishead
• Rammstein
• The Residents
• Richard Wagner
• Rob Zombie
• The Sisters of Mercy
• Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows
• Stevie Nicks
• Tangerine Dream
• This Mortal Coil
• Thomas Newman
• U2
• Vangelis
• Vendetta Palace
• Visage
• Wendy Carlos
• The White Stripes
• Within Temptation
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Wumpscut
• Yazoo
• Yendri
• Zeromancer…
..John Carpenter's films, Hammer Films, Vampire films like Nosferatu, Dracula, Le Bal des Vampires (The Fearless Vampire Killers), etc… also Tim Burton, Alfred Hitchcock's films, Lots of Sci-Fi films from the 50's-60's, The "Dirty Harry" series, Sergio Leone, funny films an comedies like The Big Lebowski, Airplane, Monty Python, Young Frankenstein, Re-Animator, Woody Allen, Louis de Funès, Bourvil, Jean-Paul Belmondo, etc… Dramas like Dead Poet's Society, American Beauty, Dance with Wolwes, Citizen Kane… I'm a very eclectic guy.
..I barely watch TV as most of the programs are stupid. But I love to watch (usually on DVD) some of the great TV series classics like : The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Persuaders, The Wild Wild West, Seinfeld, Tales from the Crypt, the Twilight Zone, the Outer Limits (the original series), Space 1999, Star Trek (the original series), The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Columbo, Sherlock Holmes, Man from Atlantis, Logan's Run…
I also enjoy watching documentaries about history, science, paranormal, etc… And sometimes kiddies programs as well :-p I'm a great Tex Avery fan, and of course Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales, Mother Goose & Grimm, Pinky and the Brain…
..I've been reading mostly technical books lately… :-p But when I have time I enjoy reading novels (Hitchcock anthologies), Isaac Asimov, Amélie Nothomb, Edgar Poe, Jules Verne, John Morlar…
..Batman, Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Carpenter, Snake Plissken, Patrick McNee, Diana Rigg, Patrick McGoohan, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, John Morlar …