laurent ho

Music:

Member Since: 7/22/2006
Band Website: laurentho.com
Band Members: Most of my productions and records have been alone with my Mac...

For many good reasons, I appreciate a lot working with other people, such as Denis Cohen-Scali (Hartigan) with who it’s always nice, or Ma who sings so well, and I like her way to write and sing songs, Pascal Denimal who plays drums and guitars, Pascal Mulot the bassman killer, Nicolas Deutch who played acoustic bass on the electronica album "Carla Elves", Jennifer Cardini : we did a great record a year ago "Stay", on Cross town rebel, and some others.

I’m searching for a male voice, and artists who like to improvise on different styles, openned to cool and hard music at the same time. Musicians who like to play and create sounds with their instruments.
Please, get in touch as you like. We can also play in our respective studio and send file by the net. No big deal.

Any feedback are welcome.

Some trax in different styles : electronica, electro, techno, down-tempo, mixes, selection.
You can also hear some others on www.laurentho.com.

Other mix on www.laurentho.com

Influences: Born in the late 60's : the Beatles were singing everyday at home, from the morning to the night, until mid 70's.
Pink Floyd, America, Led Zeppelin came at home, thru my old pick up "Claude". Totally submerged by the pop wave from the 70's, mostly english and american bands : CSNY, King Crimson, the Who, Supertramp, the Eagles, Canned Heat, Steely Dan. and so many others.
Then I feld in love with the music of Elton John, just before my AC/DC fan times. I still like the 70's bands.

I was 13, when I discovered the clubby world. Fisrt time in club at the Sand's club, on hollyday of course. It was a great experience, I was standing all night long in front of the speakers, watching the amplifier's Vu meter, listenning to the fat basses,. it was amazing, I loved so much the power of the sound itself...
So I started to buy club music, maxi versions, 12 inches imported. At that time, we used to ear Michael Jackson, BB&Q band, EW&F, George Clinton, Kool and the bandn funky stuff. The radio was Radio 7, Maxximum, Futur generation, Radio corsaire...

I discovered Goth music, when I was 19. I used to go out a lot during my studies : at least 3 times a week, usually at the Locomotive or at the Boy. I heard there Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, XMal Deutchland, Wolfgand press, all the 4AD bands. At the same time appeared the new beat, the EBM and Rave parties. I was quite a big fan of F242, F.L.A. , Siglo XX, Trisomie 21, Neon Judgement, MZ412, ....
I passed a strange year listenning to some pure noise with no melody...
Then begun the rave parties era. Suddendly, Bands and stars disapeared, and the DJs became the artists we used to hear and like.

Back to the roots, I enjoy to hear a lot of different styles now : from electronica, such as Schematic label (one of the best ever), to very hard music as Killing Joke, Marilyn Manson, NIN, and cool easy listenning : Adult., Alex Smoke, Claro Intelecto, the Dandy Warhols, She Wants Revenge, Motormark, Jimmy Edgar, Patrick Watson, Secret Frequency Crew, Strings of consciousness, The Editors, The Stanglers, Flashbulb, Proem, Plaid, The Other People Place, Boards of Canada, Autechre, Smash TV, Biosphere, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Kate Bush, Underworld, Unit...

...You are so many to make good music...

Sounds Like: three different styles actually :

TECHNO/ELECTRO : for many years, I’m into techno and electro : music for dancefloors, pumping, groovy, with a loud hard bass drum.
I did a lot of EP on UW, ANLX labels. The last work was produced on CROSS TOWN REBELS (Damian Lazarus label), a co-production with Jennifer Cardini.
With Denis Cohen-Scali, aka Hartigan, we made 5 tracks already, in a EBM/electro style. We used to like the music from the 80’s, and you can feel those influences without making any copy/paste... We still searching for a label to produce those tracks.

ELECTRONICA : This is the third style I like to produce. the music is quite soft, melodic, cool, nice to hear, and the accent is put on deep atmospheres.
For this first album, I found a feminin name more appropriate to a softer sound : CARLA ELVES. this project was named Soundtracks.
You shouldn’t find any records left.
In september 2005, I released another album : a musical egg timer.
10 tracks during 1,2,3,...and 10 minutes long. You can chrono the cook of any vegetable,

HARDCORE : 2 albums released. My first one ever, SYNTETIC, was made in 1998. the CD1 is a 74 minutes long hardcore album : distorted noises and paterns from the underground. The CD2 is a strange CDROM comitted by Servovalve, a great designer, where there are a lot of strange hidden pictures, games, things to discover.
The second album is a double CD, signed INGLER, called _metaENDS. Tracks run at 200BPM. The CD2 is a live recorded in Verdun, France. I added some samples at the end of the CD2, to give to the people the opportunity to make some hardcore music (BD, SN, CR, SOUNDS files). You can make for your own tracks with those powerfull files.

Please visit www.myspace.com/laurenthomusic to hear some music.
As I prepare my new album, the tracks you could hear here are not avaiiable anymore.
Anyway, they were encoded in 128 kbit and honnestly, don’t use this very cheap quality.
As music and sound lover, I’d prefer you to listen to my music in better conditions.
At the moment, CD’s sound OK, but don’t listen to tracks encoded in a resolution lower than 320 kbit... Please, don’t destroy the sound !... All details are just missed, forgotten, dead !!