Noone

NOONE IS AN ATYPICAL ARTIST. HE BEGAN MUSIC AT 6 AND HAS SINCE LEARNED TO PLAY THE PIANO, TROMBONE, SAX AND BASS. TO FEED HIS ARTISTIC APPETITE, HE THEN TOOK ON AN ILLUSTRATION DIPLOMA AT THE FAMOUS EMILE COHL SCHOOL IN LYON.

IN SPRING ?06, DETERMINED TO GET HIS MUSIC DISCOVERED, HE MANAGED TO STIR BEE RECORD'S INTEREST WHOSE REPRESENTATIVES HE MET DURING ONE OF THE LABEL'S BEE NIGHTS. THIS LED, SOME MONTHS LATER, TO THE REALEASE OF HIS FIRST EP ? FRAGMENTS ? AND IN 2009 HIS FIRST ALBUM ?GRENADINE?.

NOONE HAS GROWN A LOT, STRENGTHENED BY THE STAGE AND PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS. HE HAS LEARNT TO WORK HIS MUSIC AND TO ADAPT HIS LIVES IN SURPRISING WAYS BY PLAYING ALONG BIG NAMES SUCH AS MILANESE, CLARK, FLORE AND BEAT TORRENT. HE HAS DEEPENED THE SUBTLETIES OF HIS MIXES THROUGH COLLABORATIONS WITH NEKOCHAN AND MORNING CRASH.

ALL OF THIS WORK CAN BE FELT IN HIS LATEST PRODUCTIONS.

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HERE IS THE BIRTH OF A NEW HERO EMBODIED BY THE LATEST EP RELEASE: ?MAYBE THE LAST?. LIKE AN EVIL ASTRO BOY, NOONE DELIVERS A DIFFERENT AND SURPRISING PART OF HIMSELF WHICH MOVES AWAY FROM THE USUALLY PLAYFUL AND VOLUNTARILY ARTLESS SIDE OF HIS PRODUCTIONS. IT IS WITH CONTAINED EXCITEMENT THAT THE EP OPENS ON THE VERY SUGGESTIVE ?FUCK THE WORLD?, WITH INFLATED KICKS, ROARING MACHINES AND SINKING BASS ALSO ANNOUNCING THE DARK ?DEAD?, WITH ITS DISTORTED BREAKS AND ITS CATCHY MELODY. ON ?BORING LITTLE BOY?, NOONE OFFERS UP HIS VOICE, FULL AND DARK ON A MASSIVE AND SHARP TRACK. ONLY ?BIG BROTHER? MAKES A SUBTLE REFERENCE TOWARDS HIS PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS WITH A TYPICAL NOONE-LIKE MELODY! ?CARNAGE? EXPRESSES HIS FURY THANKS TO THE SHARP LYRICS OF K1000 FOR AN ACROBATIC COLLABORATION MIXING HIP-HOP AND DUBSTEP.

A RICH EVOLUTION WHICH CONFIRMS THE GENIUS OF NOONE AND DOES NOT CONFINE HIM TO A STYLE BUT AS A REAL ARTIST DIVERS IDEAS AND INFLUENCES. AN ARTIST WHO MOVES, CHANGES IDENTITY, EXPERIMENTS, THINKS, WORKS, PERFORMS AND ASSERTS HIMSELF LIKE A GREAT MARVEL HERO. WE JUST HOPE THAT ITS NOT HIS LAST OPUS AS THIS PROVOCATIVE TITLE SUGGESTS!

Noone

Noone est ce qu'on a coutume d'appeler un artiste atypique. Son parcours debute tres jeune apprenant tour a tour le piano, le trombone, le saxhorn ou bien la basse avant de decouvrir la musique electronique pendant ses annees d?etude a Emile Cohl ou il etudie le graphisme et l?illustration.

Des 2006, il reussit a eveiller la curiosite du label BEE Records, dont il rencontrera les representants durant une BEE Night. La collaboration nee ce jour-la, permettra quelques mois plus tard, la sortie du premier maxi intitule Fragments a la fin 2006 puis un premier album Grenadine, sorti en avril 2009.

Depuis, Noone a bien grandi, desormais aguerri par la scene et ses precedentes productions. De ses lives, aux cotes de grands noms tels que Milanese, Clark, Flore ou encore Beat Torrent, il apprendra a travailler encore sa musique et a l?adapter toujours de maniere surprenante. De ses collaborations avec Nekochan ou encore Morning Crash, il approfondira les subtilites du travail de mixage.

Des travaux qui finissent par se ressentir dans ses productions.

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Voici la naissance d?un nouveau heros incarne par le maxi: Maybe the last. Tel un Astro Boy version noire, Noone livre une piece differente et surprenante qui tranche avec le cote habituellement ludique et volontairement naif de ses productions. C?est dans une excitation contenue que le maxi s?ouvre sur le morceau evocateur Fuck the world, ses kicks gonfles a bloc, ses hurlements de machines et sa basse sombre annoncant dans la foulee le tenebreux Dead, ses breaks distordus et sa melodie catchy. Sur Boring little boy, Noone nous offre sa voix, plombee et obscure sur un morceau massif et tranchant comme une lame de rasoir. Seul Big Brother fait un clin d?oeil subtil a ses productions anterieures avec sa melodie typiquement Noonienne ! Carnage, quand a lui, laisse exprimer sa rage grace aux lyrics aceres de K1000 pour une collaboration de haute voltige melant hip hop et dubstep.

Une riche evolution qui confirme le genie de Noone et ne le confine pas dans un style reducteur mais comme un veritable artiste aux influences et envies diverses. Un artiste qui mue, change de costumes, experimente, reflechit, travaille, s?entraine et s?affirme tel un super heros Marvel. En esperant que ce ne soit pas vraiment son dernier opus comme ce titre provocateur le suppose !