Releases by crusz

Classical music leads to everything. To everything, including to Crusz. At only twenty-five years old, Crusz is already one of the future genius of the electronic mixes “à la française”. Flashback : a childhood in a parisian suburb, student at the Strasbourg University of music, specialist of the saxophone, Crusz discovers by chance the use of the machines through the transcription of classical scores. At the same time, he feels the thrill of the electronic beats of Motorbass and of the insolent hip hop of Premier and Dr Dre. Dertermined not to follow the royal path of the academy of music, he invests his grandfather’s legacy in synthesizers and samplers and starts writing music. Fortune smiles on him when he meets Julien (aka Jayrockz), the founder member of the 20000ST label, to whom he gives a demo tape during a party. Impressed by his promising talent, he is asked to join the label. He tries his luck and decides, three years ago, to come back to Paris. With the help of the young label, Crusz manages to combine and improve his skills of sound engineer and producer for other artists of the label and for himself. He attracts the attention of the parisian electronic movement with his first solo and maxi effort « Whispering ». But its thanks to his – more or less official - bootleg of the amazing « Somebody’s Watching me » by Rockwell that he wins the crowd and climbs the charts. One year and a half later, spent to prepare his first album, Crusz finally releases « Redemption » that he mischievously presents as a modern opera ; thus, admitting with no shame his love for classical music and mainstream pop music. This is actually those different influences and his classical background that make the fifteen titles of his first album so strong. Crusz confirms his ability to play with electronics which lead him towards unknown lands. Supported by the voices of Harrison Crump (Felix Da Housecat’s singer), Yann Destal (ex-Modjo), Boris Schneider, Naommon or the promising Apollo, the fifteen titles of the album are either flirting with nostalgic electro-pop (“Alone”), the vicious RNB school (“Blonde Girl”) or with weird cristal electronic fantasies (“I’m a wasp”) that could be directly coming from original futurist comics. A musical story that only an opera could propose, full of humility and grandiloquence. The whole is presented through the current electronic filter, dancefloors and Radio pop music, tuner and ghetto blaster, organic instruments and beat boxes. Without losing from sight the obsession of the pop format of his titles. As Crusz says with a sparkle in the eye : “ “Redemption” is an international pop album”. But this kind of pop music we will listen to tomorrow. Patrick Thévenin. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.