Akufen
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Marc Leclair (born August 13, 1966), better known by his stage name Akufen, is a Canadian electronic musician. His music is electronic music that is often described as minimal house, minimal techno, glitch, or microhouse.
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1966-08-13
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Akufen is the musical pseudonym of Montreal, Canada based artist, Marc Leclair. Leclair makes electronic music that is often described as minimal house, minimal techno, glitch, click hop, or microhouse. Leclair's pseudonym comes from the french word for tinnitus (ringing of the ears), acouphène. His 2002 album "My Way" introduced his concept of "microsampling", which was essentially a way of using extremely small and short clips of samples he had randomly recorded off of F.M. radio broadcasts as
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- www.musique-risquee.com
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- AkufenBaltimore.jpg
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- date of birth
- 2000-01-01
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- Akufen
- start of work period
- 1996-00-00
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- Discography
- As Akufen
- Studio albums
- EPs
- Mixes and remixes
- As Marc Leclair
- As Horror Inc.
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Marc Leclair (born August 13, 1966), better known by his stage name Akufen, is a Canadian electronic musician. His music is electronic music that is often described as minimal house, minimal techno, glitch, or microhouse.
His 2002 debut studio album My Way introduced his concept of "microsampling", which was essentially a way of using extremely small and short clips of samples he had randomly recorded from FM radio broadcasts as a key musical element.