Biography
As a child, JS Vaillancourt started to play piano by himself more or less when nobody was home. During the secondary school, in his far away little hometown surrounded by firs, beaches, and cold sand, he began playing sax in music classes, then logically switched to bass guitar a few years later, which is definitely cooler when you are a teen. He moved out to study music and sound design, and then finally arrived in Montreal in order to pursue a photography degree. He quickly merges himself to an electro-rock band and participates in a variety of projects where he works as a bassist for a period of 8 years. Throughout this journey, he is led to play at the local scene, make a few demos and record an album. He then decides to follow a path that is more personal for what will eventually become Micropanik.
Micropanik was born after the purchase of a first synthesizer, then another one, etc. In the wake of a lot of tweaking, many hours of experimentation and a few demos, a first complete album entitled Fall of Melancopolis has finally been born in 2012. Micropanik draws its influences from the two decades preceding the second millennium turning point. The work was built while listening in background to bands such as Massive Attack, The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, the era following Radiohead’s OK Computer and the more ambient sound of Nine Inch Nails.
Micropanik can be warm but mostly cold. It explores the object that becomes sound, the instrumental and the vocal. It also combines the digital to the analog, electronic sounds to real instrumentation and it brings out hope, rage and melancholy. As a result, we obtain something that we can describe as indie electronica created in a totally independent manner. DIY ethic, no choice!!!
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