The Micronauts

The nineties brought him the joy of discovery, apprenticeship and craze. He set up Eden, a collective and a pocket size fanzine, with a handful of like-minded clubbers. He produced many records for his solo and collaborative projects, Nature, Discotique, The Eurostars, Impulsion and obviously The Micronauts for labels such as Rave Age Records, Fnac Music Dance Division, Loaded, Phono, Distance, Independiente, Sony... Whilst gigs and remixes followed on, mostly in the UK. In 1999 Virgin's offshoot Science released The Micronauts single "The Jag" and its druggy video made by Hollywood director Gregg Araki. Then one year later came the mini-album "Bleep To Bleep". Both caused a storm amongst the left field scene. These hectic years were also those of scattering and unbalanced work relationships.

With the new millennium came the time to make a fresh start. Monier decided to concentrate on The Micronauts as a solo project, to develop his career in his native country of France, and to stay true to the ideals which allowed the house and techno creative explosion: underground, independence, innovation. He setup a web site, the-micronauts.com, a label, Micronautics, produced soundtracks and embraced the digital revolution. His music is available for download sales on the best internet shops. As a DJ he plays across the world and he's a laptop early adopter (please note: no mp3 involved here, only full res wav and aif!). As a producer he refines his sound, adding the latest software technology and synthesis methods to his already rich range.

You can hear it now on the new Micronauts album, "Damaging Consent" released on Citizen Records, the Dijon-based label that brought us Vitalic, JohnLordFonda, Teenage Bad Girl and The Penelopes. Exploring the boundaries of electronic dance music, it's a fascinating travel through electro, techno, acid, hip-hop and rock. From the opening throbbing disco pulse of "Reaction" to the banging Chicago acid implosion of "Get Down" and the electro edged "Superstar", The Micronauts powerful dance-floor science is rooted in twisted experimentations that take us on a journey through new mutations and sound.

Inevitably over the years major artists have asked Monier to remix one of their tracks: Pizzaman, Neneh Cherry, The Chemical Brothers, OMD, Underworld, Death In Vegas, Mirwais adn Madonna to name but a few. Most of these remixes are featured on "A Remixes Retrospective", the CD that accompanies his new album.

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/themicronauts

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La Bossa Fataka de Rameau

This modern dance company takes us into a magical world in their show La Bossa Fataka. Using extensive visual effects, La Bossa Fataka is a journey into the imaginary world of J.P Rameau, compositor at the court of King Louis XV. Extravagant and poetic, this combination of dance and video installation will leave you and your family dreaming.

218 performances between November 2006 and May 2008 including 38 performances outside France.

CHOREOGRAPHER’S NOTE

The title is a joyful combination of a fragment of a phonetic poem "Die Karawan" by Hugo Ball and the name of a composer of genius from the XVIII century, Jean-Philippe Rameau.

The title is a nod, a bow (but not a historically accurate one) to the founder of the Dada movement, a movement that gave a sense of aesthetic depth to new expressive forms such as collage, assemblage, photomontage and sound poetry, which indirectly form the basis for this work.

LA BOSSA FATAKA DE RAMEAU, freely inspired ON DANSE, is shot through with intense imagination, extravagance and madness, and carries us with it through the hymn to pleasure that is the very heart of the Jean-Philippe Rameau’s philosophy and his musical works. José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu draw a very sunny portrait of the composer, in contrast to his customary, austere one – a contemporary vision of his aesthetics of pleasure that, in its richness, triumphs over "Les Indes Galantes" and "Les Boréades"

José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu make use of technological imagery, with its ability to project, to edit and to make collages, and they transpose it, in a series of free and zany whims, extravagant machinery, special effects, tight-walking clouds, transformations, flying carpets and visible changes to the enchanting theatre to bring it to the present.

A playful bestiary links us by a secret chain to the world of Jean de la Fontaine. And the world of the fabulist is José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu’s thread that leads through the unreal world of the marvelous, the magicians, the metamorphoses, the disguises and the transformations of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric theatre.

The libretto of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet LES PALADINS is inspired by the tale "The Little Dog".

Through a subtle game of quotations, in which the old and the present-day reinforce, elucidate and amplify each other, José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu invite us to come with them to a wonderland of Rameau-like sounds. Rameau sweeps us off to his planet of light euphoria and of extravagance with its atmosphere of hedonist utopia.

Official Website: http://www.montalvo-hervieu.com/

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