Albums: Restore, Minimize to Maximize, Bay of Figs E-Sides

Currently sharing his time between New York and Berlin depending on tour commitments, Marc grew up in Windsor just across the waters of Lake Erie from Detroit. He was and still is a first generation computer game addict. The theoretical side of his musical education arrived through piano and drum lessons, complimenting the bleeps, clonks and whirrs of the laser gun battles he fought on a daily basis.

European electro-pioneers like Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode had a strong influence on him, but things began to take shape in the early nineties when After soaking up the vibes under the expert guidance of Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, John Aquaviva et al, he would return home, applying these new found ideas to his sound which, in turn, began to evolve in a hyper, distorted ‘Aphex Twin’ direction. Currently rubbing shoulders with an elite group of electronic producers on Richie Hawtin’s latest DE9 instalment, he also remains faithful to the retro-sounds that first inspired him to start producing. Nevertheless it goes a long way to prove that behind the elegant sonic structures Marc Houle creates – those robot grooves with their clean edges and perfect angles - there is still space for a little madness in his method.

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