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FRACTION

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About Fraction:
Fraction aka Eric Raynaud is one and a new activist of the french electronica and experimental music scene, currently living in Paris. After a 10 years carrier as an indie rock band leader with Mary Lake, he started the Fraction project while he was living in Boston (USA) in 2005. He ditched his guitar and her pedal distortion for a laptop and his virtual tools then began kicking out the jams in 2005 under the name FRACTION, playing noisy-dancy-electronica in clubs all around USA and Europe. Beside his solo project, he’s involved in a lot of collaborations for which he develops his particular style, influenced by past and present artists like John Cage, Aphex Twin, Monolake, J.Coltrane and the french tradition for the concrete and experimental research. Entertaining and challenging at the same time fraction’s music glitches and bubbles and speaks and breaks and cuts, all while maintaining an engaging melodic conversation with its listeners, keeping bodies stable so the minds feel free to wander. Fraction is often playful, transitioning from the aforementioned well-calculated noise to an enterprising structure of beat and melody in clever and seamless motions. He’s the author of sound installations, movie soundtracks and produce music for American multimedia collective Order of the Artists founded by Ed broms. In 2005, he met in Boston the Indian artist Nandlal Nayak with whom he started to work on a specific artistic project called Nagbansi that involves strong artistic identities from different continents, aiming to provide to the audience new emotions.
He also met on tour T-Raumshmiere who invited him to release some materials on his famous Berlin based electronic label Shitkatapult. Known as well for his rocky’ style live set, he composes without codes, from electronica to techno, from the noisy and experimental music to the very classic melodic kind of tracks. He moved back in Paris in 2006. He’s now working on new productions, multimedia installations, and on different side collaborations. He first appears on Plastiqpassion with his experimental and free electronica release “Animals” in 2007.
for Full bio and discography go to PLASTIQPASSION
French/Français :
Fraction, aka Eric Raynaud, est un nouveau venu de la scène electronica française, résidant aujourd’hui à Paris. Après 10 passé au sein du groupe electro-pop Mary lake en tant que chanteur-guitariste, il lance le projet Fraction alors qu’il reside à boston en 2005. Se dotant d’un ordinateur portable et de quelques machines hardware, il décide de créer un projet solo totalement orienté musique électronique et dont les nombreuses collaborations lui apportent tour à tour l’occasion de parcourir un nouvel univers. On le voit tourner aux USA dès 2005, partageant la scène avec T-Raumshmiere qui scotché par l’énergie de son live et l’originalité des production l’invite à sortir quelques titres sur le fameux et exigeant label électronique berlinois Shitkatapult qu’il dirige avec son compère Apparat.A la fois divertissante et expérimentale, la musique de Fraction foisonne, se contracte, se construit puis se déconstruit pour enfin se dissiper sous une densité de textures électroniques et de beat atypiques. Passant de l’electro expérimentale à la techno minimale, de l’inspiration noisy du début des années 90 à la musique abstraite contemporaine, Faction construit ses titres de nulle part et toujours sans compromis, Il s’amuse, parfois, puis soudainement vous transporte dans un univers musical torturé où se mêlent enchevêtrements de sons et structures électroniques comme si chacun d’entre eux participaient à leur manière à l’élaboration du rythme principal. Il développe un live énergique, puisant dans sa culture rock, usant de la synthèse modulaire, où les morceaux volontairement dansant laissent régulièrement place à des compositions soignées, mélodiques et efficaces.
Artiste aux multiples facettes, il participe également à la réalisation d’installations sonores dans le cadre de collectifs artistiques, collabore à la composition de bandes originales pour le cinéma ainsi qu’a l’écriture de musique pour des projets parallèles (Order of The Artists - Boston, Nagbansi / ACM Record- New York). Il apparaît au cours de l’année 2006 sur plusieurs compilation dont un titre remarqué sur la compilation Xmas de Tsuku Boshi Records, et vient de sortir l’album de « free electronica » « Animals » sur Plastiqpassion. Dans la foulée, l’émission de France culture « Sub Culture lui était consacrée, au cours de laquelle on a notamment pu découvrir un univers sonore en perpétuel reconstruction, nourri d’influence multiples, et guidé par la volonté d’indépendance artistique.
Bio et complète et discographie sur PLASTIQPASSION
I have a new release on Plastiqpassion !!
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To download it, please go to PlastiQpassion website!!
Hey check my video from india out- i shoot it while i was traveling on a night train - ..was awsome ... so loopy. !!!.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/3/2006
Band Members: Eric Raynaud
Influences: music : anything that sounds free, experimental, noisy, honest, broken, unpredicted, underground, contre-culture , weird, and particularly imperfect

emotion: deception, fancy, melancholy, solar vibration (yeah, didn't you notice them?eh eh)

tools: beers, wine (in honest quantity), computers, modular synthesis, body mutations, social fights, good foods, good books, and good movies.

artists: monolake, sonic youth, mattew dear, yo la tengo, my bloody valentine, aphex twin, fourtet, sigur ros, john zorn, cornelius, michel onfray, sutekh, godspeedyoublackemperor, pharoa sanders, john cage, tortoise, charles mingus, john coltrane (fuck i should shift my first name for john), blond redhead, beck, pavement, sebadoh, alice coltrane

and my family and friends...

Sounds Like: destroyed machine.

Get "waiting for josh here" :

Fraction live@festival agoraphones - 23/06/2007

Record Label: Infine / PlastiQpassion
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

IF2011 : InFractive Dance Music ***Out 26th may***

IF2011 : InFractive Dance Music Eric Raynaud a.k.a Fraction belongs to a family of artists, which appreciates music in its integrality. He synthesizes in his tracks the raw strength of Rock (and used...
Posted by FRACTION on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:16:00 PST

Fraction on Infine

Dear friends, i'm very excited and proud to announce an upcoming fresh release on Infine!! There will be 5 tracks + 1bonus (only mp3) on a maxi Ep. To be release soon! Please check...
Posted by FRACTION on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:37:00 PST

Fuck the riff!! is not a track !!!

yo! yeah! ths first stuff in the player is not a track! ah ah. I ve extracted it from a very useless (means crappy) track done a couple months ago.. well, this is justa rifffffff... wanna use it?...
Posted by FRACTION on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:23:00 PST

ok. because of a donkey. New rules here.

Yesterday, i had troubles with a guy who doesn't understand (but apparently he belongs to the common parisian donkey community) that posting html comment here (means adds), give me therefore ...
Posted by FRACTION on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:49:00 PST

Fraction sur France Culture

Emission à réecouter ici : SUBCULTURE
Posted by FRACTION on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:46:00 PST

'Animals' by Fraction & the Microtracks

Animals, a new work by Fraction is now available on the label plastiQpassion . Please visit their website! It's a special offer! free download !! enjoy,...
Posted by FRACTION on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:40:00 PST

Back!

back from india... some updates and changes, enjoy.
Posted by FRACTION on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:15:00 PST