No less, his path into music was somewhat inevitable. His mother was a musician and a painter and as such, it was something that immediately engaged him. “It started early for me musically,” he chimes. “I started to play the violin at five years-old and then later, the guitar at 13. Electronic music came up at 17, when I was still full-on into heavy metal and dub.”
So despite being born and growing up in France, he admits he’s never really played much in the country. “I actually started playing in Eastern Europe mostly,” he explains. “Countries like Austria, Croatia, Serbia and Hungary. The psy scene is coming back slowly in France and regardless, it has never been as strong as it may have been in some other European countries,” he says.
Studio-wise, the man is already an accomplished producer and artist. He has already completed two full-length LPs on Altar Records since 2011 as well as having released a few tracks on different compilations. These include Iono, Ovnimoon, BMSS and Digital Om. “Right now I’m planning on commencing work on a new album after the European summer tour. From that, of course a few tracks will come up as well, that are both down-tempo and progressive psytrance.”
In turn, these two movements – genres if you will – are his great loves. “I have kept the name the same for the two projects,” he explains. “This is because they are both strongly connected to who I am 100%. Musically, they express the same things but in slightly different ways. I like to focus my energy on sharing happiness, love and freedom. For me, the down-tempo is connected to the ‘water’ part and the progressive psy to my ‘fire’ part – both sides of my astrological signs.”
Having worked on a number of different musical styles before – the chap has had an electro/hip hop band as well as dabbled in heavy metal and reggae – and he adds that he still loves playing guitar on soul and funk songs. “I do like to play guitar on my down tempo sets as well,” he adds. “Also, I like to play around with effects on the sounds with the computer.” In between all of that too, he enjoys travelling, listening to new languages, and discovering new places and meeting new people.
Louis will make his Australian debut later this year which will see him play at Fourcolours, where he will be doing a world premier live performance with the vocalist Irina Mikhailova. “[I’m] hopeful that people will come and share the good vibes through the music,” he shares in excitement. Not an unreasonable assumption, either.
BY RK
