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Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer

Techno Soul and Futuristic Funk

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Techno Soul & Futuristic Funk
A Soul Designer's essence is undeniably connected to the principles of ART – which means human activities concerning esthetic manifestations in order to stimulate the senses, bring emotions and ideas, rather than looking for commercial results. These are the purposes that always guided the life of Fabrice Lig, a talented electronic artist that is today a huge example of forward-thinking mind to all the new generations of computer software producers.
Born about fifty km from Brussels, in the city of Charleroi, Fabrice Ligny used to be a History and Geography teacher, but the music brought him to the forefront of the electronic scene of his Country since his early artistic steps. Owner of a respected background, he has constantly been pushing things forward and bringing quality music under a personal and unique perspective. He started to buy records and then began to produce still young, with the help of a broad musical background that pointed to the many periods of Underground music he has been through on the last twenty five years. From the Break Dance era when he was still a teenager to the raise of the House scene of Chicago, the alternative electronic scene from Europe and the Techno from Detroit, Fabrice absorbed very rich elements that made of him a complete artist with a holistic perspective. For its Sci-Fi Soul essence, Detroit Techno would become his strongest influence; melted to the others, it would give him an eclectic ensemble that would make the difference in the future.
Detroit Techno's principles brought Fabrice Lig close to the idea of making something Soul-Aesthetic and at the same time pointed to the future, just like the standards of Science Fiction's books & movies. This esthetic may explain the large use of sophisticated atmospheres, seductive melodies, chords and rhythms on a perspective of beauty similar to the ones of the Motor-City artists. His natural attraction to these atmospheric ambiances brought him closer to Kevin Saunderson in particular, for which he made a version for a track of Kevin's tune called "Banjo" as E Dancer. (1999) That feeling of intellectual proximity and desire for beauty had approached Fabrice Lig to that scene to the point that he finally was considered "part of the Detroit musical culture itself" according to the words of Underground Resistance's leader Mad Mike, and with that release, the Belgian artist became the first white European to release through a Detroit Techno label : KMS.
Fabrice Lig's production career included releases on very conceptual labels such as Kevin Saunderson's KMS, Laurent Garnier's F Communications, and also Raygun Records, 7th City, Kanzleramt, Motech, Delsin, and more recently Third Ear Recordings and Versatile Records through where 'Evolutionism Promo Single' and 'X-Slaves EP' came out; he also had the opportunity to have some of his tunes included on quality compilations as well. Fabrice also collaborated with Japan superstar Ken Ishii on his last album 'Sunriser' (released on 70 Drums, Japan), and they collaborated once again on the new Soul Designer's album to come.
Also known as the Soul Designer, Fabrice is someone really committed to essence of his artistic Soul. As a natural consequence of his way to perceive, play and conceive Music with no frontiers or limitations, he received constant invitations to play and perform live on acclaimed festivals and events such as Montreux Jazz Festival, Sonar in Barcelone, Detroit Fuse-In Festival (voted best dj performance of 2005 by Detroit free press), I Love Techno from Belgium, Printemps de Bourges Festival from France (With Jean-Michel Jarre on stage), among other important ones, and also countless clubs of respect. After the release of his "Evolutionism Promo Single" on late 2007, Fabrice's new homonym album as Soul Designer is coming out in 2008 together with an international tour called 'Evolutionism World Live Tour' that just started this February with brilliant Fabrice Lig's live performances in Brazil & Japan.
Remember: "Where Techno Soul Meets Futuristic Funk, you will find the Fabrice Lig's Music".
Biography by Alain Patrick
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Current Residencies : Tilted Disco parties UK, Sub-Scape at Cafe Capital Antwerpen Belgium

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Member Since: 5/23/2006
Band Website: fabricelig.com
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Influences: Jazz/Funk/Blues/early hip Hop/Soul/Detroit Techno/Electro/House/Movie Scores...
Sounds Like: Evolutionism video teaser

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Out now on third Ear_2 tracks to listen !



VIDEO !!! SOUL DESIGNER : ROCK IT !
envoyé par wwweirdcoretv Ken Ishii & Fabrice Lig playing "Organised green" Live in Tokyo....

Standard 9 Tokyo, Evolutionism album Launch party

.. .. Evolutionism cd Promo in Japan.

Fabrice Lig Live @ Standard2, Air Club, Tokyo, Japan


Out Now ! 3 tracks to listen!


Record Label: Versatile, Third Ear, F-Com, Playhouse, Trapez...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Interview For Electronic Directory Japan in English

Check this out ! http://www.electronicdir.jp/2008/05/fabrice-lig-aka-soul-des igner-interview/ thanx to Kazuumi for that nice interview ;-)  ...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:17:00 PST

LiveSets.com Evolutionism Review !

Another review from the main page of Livesets.com (review by Dark-Stylz) Belgium finest producer Fabrice Lig releases a new album under his Soul Designer moniker on Third Ear Recordings.Evolutionism, ...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Tue, 27 May 2008 06:57:00 PST

Soul Designer "Evolutionism" IDJ Summer Issue Review

One of the few European producers to really make good on Detroit techno's romantic ideals, Fabrice Lig's Soul Designer alias bursts back in to life with 12 tracks of unbridled techno soul. Peppered wi...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Mon, 19 May 2008 01:05:00 PST

Soul Designer "Evolutionism" Vinyl part 1 OUT NOW !

Hello ! Just to tell u the first Vinyl of the "Evolutionism" album is out now...check ur favourite vinyl shop ! Check the previous Blog post to see the feedbacks in details... Feel free to leave your ...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Thu, 15 May 2008 10:37:00 PST

Soul Designer : Evolutionism Part 1 : Feedbacks

To give u an idea of what to expect...Here is some feedbacks about the Soul Designer LP part 1...check the previous Blog to get some direct link to some shops. I'm really happy, cause I wanted to do a...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:26:00 PST

Soul Designer : Evolutionism Part 1 on your favorite Digital webshop

Evolutionis LP part 1 is available on all the best digital dowload webshop ! Make your choice ! For those who prefer the Vinyl ! It should arrive into your favourite records shop next week...Will post...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:21:00 PST

Soul Designer : Evolutionism : special Myspace

Hello ! The Purple Raw 1 is out now...into the good records shop, on Beatport and may 6th on I-Tunes...(for the mac freaks). So now I can give u the information about the New Soul Designer album : Evo...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:14:00 PST

PURPLE RAW 1- Beatport exclusive available !!!

Be the first to buy it on Beatport ! Not listed yet on the website but secret link here : https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/1 06227/purple_raw_part_1 For Vinyl freaks, it will ...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:22:00 PST

FABRICE LIG OLD SCHOOL DJ SET

Hi there, Wanted to share that set with u. I played it for a special Sub-Scape Old school party. Normaly I don’t really like to play 100% old school dj set, but specialy for sub-scape I finaly ...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:26:00 PST

Purple Raw 1 on Versatile ! Available soon !!!

Yo ! Its time to let u hear the new versatile to come. it will be available on march 30th 08. Feedbacks are amazing, hope all the people will enjoy the release as much as the dj who got it to play. Ch...
Posted by Fabrice Lig Aka Soul Designer on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:21:00 PST