Thu February 18, 2016
Partyfine label night featuring Yuksek, Jean Tonique and local guests Funk Leblanc & Gary Paradise.
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Two or three times a week, on his Myspace page, Yuksek gets an e-mail from Istanbul or Ankara saying "Hey, know what? Yuksek means "high" in Turkish!". No, Pierre-Alexandre Busson didn't know when he chose the name by instinct four years ago, partly for its sound and partly to buck the trend of English-sounding names that are common in electronic music. In recent months, the pseudonym has been collecting an ever-growing halo of buzz.
Yuksek, originally with Birdy Nam Nam's label and wunderkind of the blogs, has crafted some of the dirtiest, most inspired remixes of hits by Mika, Kaiser Chiefs, Ghostface Killah (Wu Tang Clan), French rapper Booba, Tahiti 80… His fiery live sets, where Yuksek's svelte, supple physique swoops between his vintage keyboards and FX board, have set alight concert venues, clubs and festivals. Now, the suave musician – anything but a clubber, strangely enough – is poised to let loose his first album, packed full of future hits called "Tonight", "Extraball" and "I Like To Play".
Yuksek was born in 1977 and spent his adolescence practising piano several hours a day at music school before realising that "the only job I could get was as a music teacher." He was convinced that there had to be some other path to take. A fan of pop music, raised on The Beatles and Gainsbourg, amazed by the early West Coast rap of NWA and De La Soul and – above all – stunned in his early secondary school years by Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (the beginning of a chain of events that would eventually lead him to Lou Reed's "Transformer", what he calls "the unequalled summit of modern music"), he grew up to be an intrepid lad who decided, age 17, to stop the studying and start the adventure.
Little by little his reputation grew as one of Reims' key pop figures, going from The Bewitched Hands on the Top of our Heads (authors of the great guitar-led cover version of "Tonight", a hidden track on the album) to Alb by way of Brodinksi & The Shoes, to become the artist we know now. Yuksek also played bass guitar and wrote with electro-rock combo Klanguage. He soon found a passion for the art of making sound – whether it be the arrangements of the Beach Boys, the keyboard style of Ray Manzarek or the productions of David Bowie – leading him to produce the next Birdy Nam Nam and The Bewitched Hands albums. And since his adventure started at the end of the 20th Century, Yuksek inevitably, naturally, discovered electronic music. "Compared to pop, it had a freedom about it," he remembers. As an admirer of the Warp label, he found it "great that Aphex Twin could release Window Licker and then, the following week, some weird experimental track that would be almost unlistenable."
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Yuksek, originally with Birdy Nam Nam's label and wunderkind of the blogs, has crafted some of the dirtiest, most inspired remixes of hits by Mika, Kaiser Chiefs, Ghostface Killah (Wu Tang Clan), French rapper Booba, Tahiti 80… His fiery live sets, where Yuksek's svelte, supple physique swoops between his vintage keyboards and FX board, have set alight concert venues, clubs and festivals. Now, the suave musician – anything but a clubber, strangely enough – is poised to let loose his first album, packed full of future hits called "Tonight", "Extraball" and "I Like To Play".
Yuksek was born in 1977 and spent his adolescence practising piano several hours a day at music school before realising that "the only job I could get was as a music teacher." He was convinced that there had to be some other path to take. A fan of pop music, raised on The Beatles and Gainsbourg, amazed by the early West Coast rap of NWA and De La Soul and – above all – stunned in his early secondary school years by Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (the beginning of a chain of events that would eventually lead him to Lou Reed's "Transformer", what he calls "the unequalled summit of modern music"), he grew up to be an intrepid lad who decided, age 17, to stop the studying and start the adventure.
Little by little his reputation grew as one of Reims' key pop figures, going from The Bewitched Hands on the Top of our Heads (authors of the great guitar-led cover version of "Tonight", a hidden track on the album) to Alb by way of Brodinksi & The Shoes, to become the artist we know now. Yuksek also played bass guitar and wrote with electro-rock combo Klanguage. He soon found a passion for the art of making sound – whether it be the arrangements of the Beach Boys, the keyboard style of Ray Manzarek or the productions of David Bowie – leading him to produce the next Birdy Nam Nam and The Bewitched Hands albums. And since his adventure started at the end of the 20th Century, Yuksek inevitably, naturally, discovered electronic music. "Compared to pop, it had a freedom about it," he remembers. As an admirer of the Warp label, he found it "great that Aphex Twin could release Window Licker and then, the following week, some weird experimental track that would be almost unlistenable."
Two or three times a week, on his Myspace page, Yuksek gets an e-mail from Istanbul or Ankara saying "Hey, know what? Yuksek means "high" in Turkish!". No, Pierre-Alexandre Busson didn't know when he chose the name by instinct four years ago, partly for its sound and partly to buck the trend of English-sounding names that are common in electronic music. In recent months, the pseudonym has been collecting an ever-growing halo of buzz.
Yuksek, originally with Birdy Nam Nam's label and wunderkind of the blogs, has crafted some of the dirtiest, most inspired remixes of hits by Mika, Kaiser Chiefs, Ghostface Killah (Wu Tang Clan), French rapper Booba, Tahiti 80… His fiery live sets, where Yuksek's svelte, supple physique swoops between his vintage keyboards and FX board, have set alight concert venues, clubs and festivals. Now, the suave musician – anything but a clubber, strangely enough – is poised to let loose his first album, packed full of future hits called "Tonight", "Extraball" and "I Like To Play".
Yuksek was born in 1977 and spent his adolescence practising piano several hours a day at music school before realising that "the only job I could get was as a music teacher." He was convinced that there had to be some other path to take. A fan of pop music, raised on The Beatles and Gainsbourg, amazed by the early West Coast rap of NWA and De La Soul and – above all – stunned in his early secondary school years by Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (the beginning of a chain of events that would eventually lead him to Lou Reed's "Transformer", what he calls "the unequalled summit of modern music"), he grew up to be an intrepid lad who decided, age 17, to stop the studying and start the adventure.
Little by little his reputation grew as one of Reims' key pop figures, going from The Bewitched Hands on the Top of our Heads (authors of the great guitar-led cover version of "Tonight", a hidden track on the album) to Alb by way of Brodinksi & The Shoes, to become the artist we know now. Yuksek also played bass guitar and wrote with electro-rock combo Klanguage. He soon found a passion for the art of making sound – whether it be the arrangements of the Beach Boys, the keyboard style of Ray Manzarek or the productions of David Bowie – leading him to produce the next Birdy Nam Nam and The Bewitched Hands albums. And since his adventure started at the end of the 20th Century, Yuksek inevitably, naturally, discovered electronic music. "Compared to pop, it had a freedom about it," he remembers. As an admirer of the Warp label, he found it "great that Aphex Twin could release Window Licker and then, the following week, some weird experimental track that would be almost unlistenable."
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Yuksek, originally with Birdy Nam Nam's label and wunderkind of the blogs, has crafted some of the dirtiest, most inspired remixes of hits by Mika, Kaiser Chiefs, Ghostface Killah (Wu Tang Clan), French rapper Booba, Tahiti 80… His fiery live sets, where Yuksek's svelte, supple physique swoops between his vintage keyboards and FX board, have set alight concert venues, clubs and festivals. Now, the suave musician – anything but a clubber, strangely enough – is poised to let loose his first album, packed full of future hits called "Tonight", "Extraball" and "I Like To Play".
Yuksek was born in 1977 and spent his adolescence practising piano several hours a day at music school before realising that "the only job I could get was as a music teacher." He was convinced that there had to be some other path to take. A fan of pop music, raised on The Beatles and Gainsbourg, amazed by the early West Coast rap of NWA and De La Soul and – above all – stunned in his early secondary school years by Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (the beginning of a chain of events that would eventually lead him to Lou Reed's "Transformer", what he calls "the unequalled summit of modern music"), he grew up to be an intrepid lad who decided, age 17, to stop the studying and start the adventure.
Little by little his reputation grew as one of Reims' key pop figures, going from The Bewitched Hands on the Top of our Heads (authors of the great guitar-led cover version of "Tonight", a hidden track on the album) to Alb by way of Brodinksi & The Shoes, to become the artist we know now. Yuksek also played bass guitar and wrote with electro-rock combo Klanguage. He soon found a passion for the art of making sound – whether it be the arrangements of the Beach Boys, the keyboard style of Ray Manzarek or the productions of David Bowie – leading him to produce the next Birdy Nam Nam and The Bewitched Hands albums. And since his adventure started at the end of the 20th Century, Yuksek inevitably, naturally, discovered electronic music. "Compared to pop, it had a freedom about it," he remembers. As an admirer of the Warp label, he found it "great that Aphex Twin could release Window Licker and then, the following week, some weird experimental track that would be almost unlistenable."
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