LIVE Rodriguez Jr.
Mobilee, F Communications
Electronic
Belgium
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ベルギーの首都、ブリュッセルを中心に活躍するプロデューサー、Rodriguez Jr.ことOlivier Mateuは、かつてGiles Escoffierと共にThe Youngstersとしてエレクトロサウンドで脚光を浴び、多くの作品を発表してきたベテランアーティストである。Laurent Garnerの手がける名門レーベルF-Communicationsからのリリースにより、国際的に名を知られるようになったThe Youngstersはヨーロッパだけでなく、南米、アジアなど各地のクラブやフェスティバルに招かれるまでに至る。
そんなThe youngstersとしての、作品の発表とツアーを繰り返す日々のサイクルから離れ、気の向くままに、自由で実験的な音楽作りに没頭すべく始めたOlivierのソロプロジェクトがRodriguez Jr.である。かつて、Stockhausen、LFO、Carl Craig、Eric Satie、Kraftwerk,、Michael Polnareffといったアーティストたちからインスピレーションを受けたというその音楽的ルーツをさかのぼり、再解釈したスタイルは、複雑なリズムとポップなメロディが入り乱れ、様々な表情を見せるカラフルなサウンドに仕上がっている。
プロデューサーとして、これまでにMobilee、Leena、Mothership、Boxer Recordsなど様々なレーベルからリリースを重ねるだけでなく、長年の活動で培われたセンスと技術を発揮するライブアクトとしても、各地で多くの人々を魅了し、着実にファンを増やして行っている。
Not many electronic music producers manage to release award-winning albums, sell shelf-loads of 12”s and perform around the world before they hit the big 3-0. But Brussels-based Rodriguez Jr. (aka Olivier Mateu) has done exactly that. As half of French electro act The Youngsters he’s already packed more into his time in the industry than some do in their whole career.
Over the past nine years he and his partner in crime have released loads of EPs and remixed tracks by dozens of artists. Their two studio albums?released, like their singles, on Laurent Garnier’s F-Communications?won a string of awards and accolades from some of dance music’s biggest names. This success catapulted them onto the international circuit, giving them the platform to take their electrifying live act to some of the biggest clubs and festival in Europe, South America and Asia several times over.
Now holed-up in the Belgian capital, Mateu’s Rodriguez Jr. project is the product of an almost schizophrenic brand of creativity and a thirst for the new and unexpected. Going solo offers something valuable within this business: the freedom to experiment, step off the release-gig-release merry go round, and break out of the musical mind- ghetto that so many great acts end up slipping into. The Rodriguez Jr. alter-ego represents his own journey of re-discovery, drawing inspiration from artists as diverse as Stockhausen, LFO, Carl Craig, Eric Satie, Kraftwerk, and Michael Polnareff, his spirit of adventure translates into music that can’t be comfortably pigeon-holed.
While it’s all electronic and put together largely in Rodriguez’s own MLab Mk5 studio in Brussels, his music can be leftfield and experimental or rich, melodic and poppy? depending on his mood. This is probably why Rodriguez Jr. has released critically acclaimed material on imprints such as Leena, Mothership, Boxer Records and Giant Wheels, with even more exciting things to come as the result of joining the Mobilee roster. Be prepared for the unexpected.
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