Philippe Hallais, aka Low Jack (born 1985), is an

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

composer and DJ, living in Paris. For four years, he has been tightening together club-oriented and experimental music sounds, and acting as a DJ and live performer in clubs and the digital arts & music festival circuit.

Biography

Hallais was born in

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(

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

). He entered the music world through a series of

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EPs, with the ''Slow Dance'' EP charting #1 on Clone.nl.. ''Slow Dance, Free Pyjamas, Like It Soft'' and ''Flashes'' show his always changing sound palette, from electro influenced by artists like

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to more tense and dark techno. His first long-player ''Garifuna Variations'', was released in 2014 by the dance label L.I.E.S (New York). Based on a commissioned live performance by the French Musée du Quai Branly and festival Les Siestes Electroniques, the recordings put together the imaginary tales and sounds of the

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, a tribe from Honduras about which little is known. The result has been described as a sonic fiction blending ethnographic recordings and industrial music. This same year, he began touring as a DJ in France. In 2014, he was invited by the GRM (a French national institution in electronic experimental music) to play for the celebration of the anniversary of the institution. 2015 began with the release of ''Imaginary Boogie'', a 6 tracks EP on The Trilogy Tapes (London) presented as a failed attempt at producing « boogie-infused » house music. His second album ''Sewing Machine'' on French label

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(Paris) marked a decisive step with profile from national press ''Libération'', as well as rave reviews in specialist music publication like ''

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'', ''

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'', ', ''Les Inrockuptibles''. According to

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writing for ''

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'', "Low Jack (aka Philippe Hallais) is one of the more exciting producers to emerge from the experimental techno community". Low Jack was selected by the SHAPE program, a

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funded cultural program based on the vote of major festival programmers and aimed at helping the flourishing of new talent in European culture. A tour of more than 25 shows followed, with appearances at CTM, Unsound,

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and more. The first artist to record for the Red Bull Studio Paris Sessions, he played for the closing of the Red Bull Music Academy in Paris in November 2015. Low Jack's new album, entitled ''Lighthouse stories'', was released on Modern Love (Manchester) on 1 April 2016.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Low Jack French electronic musicians French DJs 1985 births Living people Electronic dance music DJs