delachaux

It was innocent enough in the beginning, back in sunny 1970s San Diego. It was there 'on a lark beneath the Balboa palms' that I was designed by spaced- out hippies in Pacific Beach. After a brief stint with sex wax and Kiss make-up, I lost my boogie board to iguanas out in the Mojave Desert where my parents decided to relocate. Thrown into the infinite arid backdrop of Death Valley’s timeless stop-motion psychology, I picked up the guitar at twelve and hit the ground laughing. Inspired by peyote, tarantula hawks, malt liquor, and old Indian petraglyphs, I began harnessing chords and melodies to reflect the psychic adventures and unstable isolations of the Western Trip. As a teenager I migrated north to the Redwoods and earned my keep by walkin’ bass lines in a Dixieland jazz ensemble and dabbling in letters at the local university. All the while I kept being slain by the sounds in my head. They kept spinning, twisting, breathing, and exploding into heavenly bandstands of wild jungle drums, dream-soaked orchestras, and cherry neon melodies. In January of 1996 I smashed soul-first into San Francisco and was immediately washed beneath the city’s swirling underworld of dialated discos, carbonated cabarets, and kinky lounge lofts. It was in these salubrious waters amongst SF's thriving boho bananza of bongos, beat hucksters, rave nymphs, burlesque stars, porn carneys, lazer berries, crack muppets, hipsters, slicksters, bleeps, blips, and Black Rock commandos that I first learned to tilt my hat, pull my sleeves back, slide the fade up, and steer a pair of 1200s through the forbidden flames of hot sonic saturnalia. 'San Francisco's own Cocktail Break Shaker' Delachaux originally waxed his unique style of electronic music from the early days of San Francisco's seminal neo-burlesque movement. As a harbinger of vintage sounds Delachaux began warming up audiences for local cabarets like SF's Famous Burlesque Revue with eclectic cocktail sets that swirled everything from Weimar Berlin and brassy beatnik to torch-lit tiki and retro-atomic go-go. Mixing festive cine-sexy melodies with infectiously slick beats, Delachaux became the after-party starter for San Francisco's neo-burlesque community and can currently be found dropping his saucy retro-sonic barrage at such monthly parties as Splashadelic, Green Faerie, & Fete La Boum!'- SF Bay Guardian ..