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Jackson And His Computer Band
From his Wikipedia page:
Jackson Fourgeaud began making music aged 15, intrigued by the musicians and equipment surrounding his mother. After his acid house debut on Pumpking records in 1996, Sound Of Barclay released the "Sense Juice" and "Gourmet EPs" under the name Jackson & His Computer Band. Even then, these thumping filtered house cuts sounded weirdly different to the prevailing "French Touch" style of Daft Punk and Cassius, leading to articles in NME, I-D, Jockey Slut and the like. On the back of this acclaim, Jackson was commissioned to remix an array of artists, sprinkling his fucked-up magic over Femi Kuti, Air, Vanessa Paradis, Freeform Five and Jean Jacques Perrey and Luke Vibert's forthcoming "Moog Acid". No one has yet remixed Jackson. This year he's DJed at parties in London (everywhere from The Social to Harrod's) and recently terrorised the idyllic Territoires Electroniques festival in Aix-en-Provence. Perhaps you caught his excellent DJ set on Radio 1's Breezeblock show in March. Now Jackson is working on a killer live show which will be unveiled around the time of Smash's release in September.
Jackson Fourgeaud rose to prominence in 2003 when his fourth single, album opener "Utopia", tweaked all manner of DJs and tastemakers with its celestial apres-rave shimmer. Featuring vocals by his mother, Paula Moore, a folk and blues singer who's just recorded an album with Nouvelle Vague producer Marc Collin, "Utopia" and its mesmeric sister track "Radio Caca" seduced producers as diverse as Richie Hawtin, Matthew Herbert, Ellen Alien, Ricardo Villalobos, 2 Many DJs, Erol Alkan, Paul Epworth, Gilles Peterson and Trevor Jackson. Then Jackson's radical "Midnight Fuck" remix of M83's "Run Into Flowers", later the stand-out tune on Michael Mayer's Fabric 13 DJ mix, proved this unique artist's mettle and crossover appeal.
Warp picked up on these records, released on French imprint Sound Of Barclay, instantly recognising Jackson as a genuine innovator with his own distinctive sound and personality -- rare qualities in modern electronics -- and signed him.
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