Fraction is Eric Raynaud, a french electronica and experimental artist, currently living in Paris. After a 10 years carrier as an indie rock band leader, he launched the Fraction project while he was living in Boston (USA) in 2005. He ditched his guitar and her pedal distortion for a laptop and his virtual tools then began kicking out the jams in 2005 under the name FRACTION, playing noisy-dancy-electronica in clubs all around USA and Europe.
Entertaining and challenging at the same time fraction’s music glitches and bubbles and speaks and breaks and cuts, all while maintaining an engaging melodic conversation with its listeners, keeping bodies stable so the minds feel free to wander. Fraction is often playful, transitioning from the aforementioned well-calculated noise to an enterprising structure of beat and melody in clever and seamless motions.
On tour in US in 2005, he met T-Raumshmiere who invited him to release some tracks on his famous Berlin based electronic label Shitkatapult. Known as well for his rocky’ style live set, he composes without codes, from electronica to techno, from the noisy and experimental music to the very classic melodic kind of tracks. He moved back in Paris in 2006 and works since that on new productions, multimedia installations, and for side collaborations. He first appears on the french net label PLASTIQPASSION with his experimental and free electronica release “Animals” in 2007, then came back with Mess up! in 2008.
He's got signed on INFINE in 2008, and releases his first 12", 2008 (Superposition Ep).