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Biography of Fabrice Lig | | | Moniker(s) / | Soul Designer, Mauler |
Techno Soul & Futuristic Funk
A Soul Designer's essence is undeniably connected to the principles of ART – which means human activities concerning esthetic manifestations in order to stimulate the senses, bring emotions and ideas, rather than looking for commercial results. These are the purposes that always guided the life of Fabrice Lig, a talented electronic artist that is today a huge example of forward-thinking mind to all the new generations of computer software producers.
Born about fifty km from Brussels, in the city of Charleroi, Fabrice Ligny used to be a History and Geography teacher, but the music brought him to the forefront of the electronic scene of his Country since his early artistic steps. Owner of a respected background, he has constantly been pushing things forward and bringing quality music under a personal and unique perspective. He started to buy records and then began to produce still young, with the help of a broad musical background that pointed to the many periods of Underground music he has been through on the last twenty five years. From the Break Dance era when he was still a teenager to the raise of the House scene of Chicago, the alternative electronic scene from Europe and the Techno from Detroit, Fabrice absorbed very rich elements that made of him a complete artist with a holistic perspective. For its Sci-Fi Soul essence, Detroit Techno would become his strongest influence; melted to the others, it would give him an eclectic ensemble that would make the difference in the future.
Detroit Techno's principles brought Fabrice Lig close to the idea of making something Soul-Aesthetic and at the same time pointed to the future, just like the standards of Science Fiction's books & movies. This esthetic may explain the large use of sophisticated atmospheres, seductive melodies, chords and rhythms on a perspective of beauty similar to the ones of the Motor-City artists. His natural attraction to these atmospheric ambiances brought him closer to Kevin Saunderson in particular, for which he made a version for a track of Kevin's tune called "Banjo" as E Dancer. (1999) That feeling of intellectual proximity and desire for beauty had approached Fabrice Lig to that scene to the point that he finally was considered "part of the Detroit musical culture itself" according to the words of Underground Resistance's leader Mad Mike, and with that release, the Belgian artist became the first white European to release through a Detroit Techno label : KMS.
Fabrice Lig's production career included releases on very conceptual labels such as Kevin Saunderson's KMS, Laurent Garnier's F Communications, and also Raygun Records, 7th City, Kanzleramt, Motech, Delsin, and more recently Third Ear Recordings and Versatile Records through where 'Evolutionism Promo Single' and 'X-Slaves EP' came out; he also had the opportunity to have some of his tunes included on quality compilations as well. Fabrice also collaborated with Japan superstar Ken Ishii on his last album 'Sunriser' (released on 70 Drums, Japan), and they collaborated once again on the new Soul Designer's album to come.
Also known as the Soul Designer, Fabrice is someone really committed to essence of his artistic Soul. As a natural consequence of his way to perceive, play and conceive Music with no frontiers or limitations, he received constant invitations to play and perform live on acclaimed festivals and events such as Montreux Jazz Festival, Sonar in Barcelone, Detroit Fuse-In Festival (voted best dj performance of 2005 by Detroit free press), I Love Techno from Belgium, Printemps de Bourges Festival from France (With Jean-Michel Jarre on stage), among other important ones, and also countless clubs of respect. After the release of his "Evolutionism Promo Single" on late 2007, Fabrice's new homonym album as Soul Designer is coming out in 2008 together with an international tour called 'Evolutionism World Live Tour' that just started this February with brilliant Fabrice Lig's live performances in Brazil & Japan.
Remember: "Where Techno Soul Meets Futuristic Funk, you will find the Fabrice Lig's Music".
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Selected discography of Fabrice Lig
7th City records (Detroit, U.S.A)
SCD 12 : Titonton Duvanté & Fabrice Lig : « Sensual e.p » 4 tracks e.p (2001)
F-Communications (Paris, France)
Soul Designer : EP 1 by Fabrice Lig (October 2001)
Soul Designer : LP/CD Walking On A Little Cloud (March 2002)
Soul Designer : The Mother Funky Beat e.p, F…U!F-Com. (November 2004)
*check remixes section
Llorca and Fabrice Lig « after Z comes A », on 10 years anniversary F-Com cd. (late 2004)
Third Ear recordings (London/Tokyo)
Soul Designer : “The Soul is Back/Rockit” (nov 2007)
Soul Designer : “Evolutionism” LP part 1 (april 2008)
Soul Designer : “Evolutionism” LP part 2 (may 2008)
Soul Designer : “Evolutionism” LP (Limited 2 vinyls edition) (may 2008)
Soul Designer : “Evolutionism” CD+Digital download (may 2008)
* check remixes section
KMS records (Detroit, U.S.A)
E-Dancer : Banjo (Fabrice Lig remix) / the move (Kevin Saunderson) / Velocity Funk (Stacey Pullen remix) kms records 64, 1999
Versatile recordings (Paris, France)
Fabrice Lig “X-Slaves e.p” (October 2007)
Fabrice Lig “Purple raw e.p vol 1” (march 2008)
Submerge (Detroit, USA)
“Tokem” A story into sound. Various artists :
Fabrice Lig “Enter Tokem”, &
Fabrice Lig & Gerald Mitchell “uncontrollable” (2008)
Trapez Ltd records (Germany)
Mauler : “The Hybrid project” (may 2007)
Motech records (Detroit/USA)
DJ 3000/Fabrice Lig “Balkan Bridge e.p” (June 2007)
DJ 3000/South Union “Drums United e.p” (August 2007)
Kanzleramt records (Berlin, Germany)
Fabrice Lig “Universal Tech E.p” (2003)
Fabrice Lig “Los Picaros” orig + Diego remix (September 2003)
Fabrice Lig “My 4 Stars” 2xLP/CD (april 30th 2004) (under P-Vine records licence for Japan).
Fabrice Lig “Sleep baby Sweet” Bonus 12’’ with “My 4 stars” album
Fabrice Lig “My 4 stars” Vocal version, 12’’, Voidcom/Ministry of Sound Germany. (June 2004)
Fabrice Lig “Sleep Baby Sweet/My 4 Stars” Ian O’Brien/Off Shore Funk and Fabrice Lig remixes (april 2005).
* check remixes section
Playhouse records (Frankfurt, Germany)
Fabrice Lig : Deep Inside e.p (2002)
Fabrice Lig : Meet You in Brooklyn e.p (October 2003)
Minimaxima/Technorient rec (Hong Kong)
Fabrice Lig : The story of a musical puzzle, best of cd (September 2005)
Raygun records (Detroit, U.S.A)
Fabrice Lig/Bug Orchestra : Justice e.p (2000)
Bug Orchestra : Electroshop Special e.p 1 (2000)
Bug Orchestra : Electroshop Special e.p 2 (2000)
Bug Orchestra : Electroshop CD (2002)
Fabrice Lig : Escape from Nowhere e.p (2001)
Fabrice Lig : Galapagos e.p (2002)
Fabrice Lig : Escape from Nowhere – John Tejada,Memory Foundation, Franco Mento remixes (June 2003)
Fabrice Lig : Roots of the Future – LP/CD (october 2003)
Fabrice Lig : Thru your soul e.p (february 2004)
Fabrice Lig : Thru Your Soul remixes (DJ 3000/Fabrice Lig/Sounder Department (2006)
Adrenogroov records (Lausanne Switzerland)
South Union : On Stage e.p (2004)
Starbaby records (California-U.S.A)
Fabrice Lig : Last Eden e.p, Morgan Geist remix (2001)
Fabrice lig & VA (Morgan Geist, John Tejada): Starbaby 13, 10th Anniversary (june 2006)
Serotonin Records (N-Y, U.S.A)
Bug Orchestra : one track on compilation Ser 014 : Regenerate by Fabrice Lig ( 1999 )
Bug Orchestra : 2 loops on Serotonin 015 : Eternal play by Fabrice Lig…..SOON
Residual recordings (Columbus, U.S.A)
Interwaves e.p vol IV : Closed/Closed (Titonton rmx)/Forbidden channel/Rafale by Fabrice Lig (2000)
Various artists “Refraction e.p” : Titonton & Fabrice Lig/John Tejada/Jeff Samuel.
Elypsia records (Belgium)
Bug Orchestra : Find your future/I'll find you/Micro biosphere/Keep searching by Fabrice Lig ( 1998 ).
HeadScape records (Scotland)
Various Artists , Fabrice Lig “Man or Beast” (june 2003)
Music Man Promo Label (Belgium)
Interwaves e.p I : 5 tracks by Fabrice Lig ( 1994 ).
Music Man records ( Belgium)
R.S.P : Follow the funk Original/Grain remix/ Funkanoïd (99 edit)
Foreplay rec
Deep Forces « You're my one and only » (2001)
Remixes
e-dancer « Banjo », KMS records (Detroit, USA)
Laurent Garnier « Greed », F-Communications (France)
Aqua Bassino « C’Mon », F-Communications (France)
Only Paradise « Help me », V2 Music (France)
Duplex “Meta”, Clone records (The Netherlands)
Arne Weinberg “Crusade”, StarBaby records (France/USA)
Larissa Kapp « You », Négligé Tunes records (Austria)
Mijk Van Dijk « How Deep is your Love », Superstition records (Germany)
Hi-Lo “Central Special Project”, Central records (Germany)
Moody Preacher “That Bass in my Head”, Adrenogroov records (Switzerland)
Funk4Sale “Loco“, BMG (Germany)
Marc Morgan “Discordance” Soul Designer remix, viva disc , 2003
Frédéric Galliano « Walaï », F-Communications (France)
Diego « Me Fragments », Kanzleramt (Germany) april 2003
Spirit Catcher « Lazerbeam e.p » Fabrice Lig remix, Silver Network (France), 2003.
La Noiraude « Poisson capitaine », Fabrice Lig remix, Initial cut (France), 2003.
Splinterfaction “Ultraism”, Digital Soul (U.K) 2004
Teknik “Sonar”, Fabrice Lig remix, Nice and Nasty (Scotland) 2004
Truby Trio “Cruisin”, Fabrice Lig remix, Compost (germany). (Fall 2004).
NipponConnection “Shi Doru No Kyoku” Fabrice Lig remix, Das Modular rec (Germany) 2005.
Superlux “Microbiota” Fabrice Lig remix, Soundstation/News 2006
Dennis Desantis “5 minutes,today,forever”, Fabrice Lig remix, Third ear records (UK/Japan) 2006.
Ianeq : The return (Fabrice Lig remix), Mental Groove (Switzerland) 2006
DJ 3000 “Ancestors” Fabrice Lig remix, Submerge rec (Detroit/USA) 2007
Chymera “Hundulu” Soul Designer rework, Delsin records (Amsterdam/NL) 2008
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