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Member Since: 12/20/2005
Band Website: minimatic.net
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Minimatic
also almost (un)known as Brother Moulinex or Monsieur
Sonotone or Raymond Tempi the erotomaniac, or most of
the time as a bald guy called Pascal Houpert.
Composer, musician, producer, living in Paris, France.
How to explain this fascination for a period that he
doesn't even live in...Errr...
Born in Nice, 1970.
Riviera, seaside, deluxe cars and high boots, eternal
sun, "Promenade des Anglais"... Well, everything is
said.
Black and white. Fatal love for easy tunes, smoothy
arrangements, sad pop, punk rock...& passion for
the deep soul-funk ghetto sounds, deep grooving from
the roots black culture.
Between sillyness and consciousness. Between kitsch
& beauty. Always hesitating.
How to precisely define his sound ?
Retro or modern ? Funky or dark ? Groovy or gloomy ?
Cheesy or suicidal ? Never choose. Life has to be cinematic.
That's all.
In the real life, he has been seen in various positions
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playing Fender Rhodes live on stage for the uk pop songwriter
Bill Pritchard, dj mixing @ the glamorous Cannes French
Film Festival alongside with Jean Croc & Ariel Wizman
(Radio Nova), spinning rare 45s in the Unique Club in
Dusseldorf, composing cinematic soundtracks for serious
contemporary theatral plays, ex-artistic director of
Le Cithéa (old temple of early soul & afro-funk
place in Paris), sound designing several TV ads and
trendy luxe shops musical ambiances, and inaugurating
the Boutique-Chic EP series on Stereofiction, his friend
Georges Deligny's label.
Minimatic used to mix and appear with the blackiest
of all his white friends, a crazy guy called Soulist
(promoter of the groovissimo 'What The Funk' parties
in Paris.)
Alongside with his beloved co-mate Grand David, Minimatic
has a basecamp named "Studios46" in Montreuil : a
vintage recording studio surrounded
by old and vintage synths, vibrating organs, magic outboards
racks, :
squeaky
pedals and mountains of rare collected vynils... :
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Influences:
DISCOGRAPHY...
INFLUENCES ? musically,
and without any decent order :
Johnny
Harris, Serge Gainsbourg, Arvo Pärt, Lali Puna, Brian Auger, Henri Mancini,
D. Shostakovitch, John Bonham, Spanky Wilson, Blossom Dearie, Alan Moorhouse,
Jean-Claude Vannier, Bernard Estardy, Alvin Cash, Ennio Morriconne, Donny Hathaway,
Jack Arel, Doris, The Sonics, Dashiell Hedayat, The Stooges, Delibes, Alan Hawkshaw,
Syd Dale, KPM, Boosey & Hawkes, De Wolfe, Johnny Hawksworth, Julie Driscoll
and the Trinity, Nita Rossi, Claudine Longet, Julie London, Dusty Springfield,
Yvonne Fair, Nino Ferrer, Jean Brun, Electrelane, Esquirel, Joe Thomas, Devo,
Ricky Roberts, Chuck Berry, Les Baxter, Michel Legrand, Hugo Montenegro, Jacques
Delon, Jimmy Mc Griff, Mount Sims, Talking Heads, Peter Sellers, Eddie Jefferson,
Velma, Jean Jacques Perrey, Brother Jack Mc Duff, David Whitaker, Peter Thomas,
The Doors, Ramsey Lewis, Phil Upchurch, The Capitols, Ursula 1000, Michel Colombier,
Manfred Krug, Jean Constantin, Nancy Wilson, Sonic Youth, King Curtis, Billy
May, Whale, Nina Simone, Etta James, Steve Reich, Michael Nyman, Billy Larkin,
Bob Dorough, The Kinks, Erik Satie, Edwin Birdsong, Georgie Fame, Lalo Schiffrin,
Ken Ishii, Anita O'Day, Akuphen, Tom Scott, Etta James, Bob Dorough, Chris Montez,
Dick Hyman, Sergio Mendez...
in other ways :
Dino Buzatti, Edgar A. Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Michel Butor, Pierre Paulin,
Charles Eames, Vasarely, Franck Lloyd Wright, Martin Paar, Stanley Kubrick,
Steve Mc Queen, Jesus-Rafael Soto...tbc
and finally but mainly, a few women with extra charm and something more :
Sharon Tate, Gena Rowlands, Joanna Lumley, Frances Farmer, Francoise Dorleac, Joanna Shimkus,
Claudine Longet, Soledad Miranda, Anna Karina... and Cyd !
Sounds Like: if you find it, give me a call.
Record Label: French Safari Rec / Stereofiction
Type of Label: Indie
