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Mon Jan 31, 2022, 10:17 AM Jan 2022

Sebastien Leger live at the Great Pyramids of Giza, in Egypt for Cercle



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To those not in the know: He's actually playing live with a modular synthesizer. To fully appreciate the technicality of this set, you should know that all those wires are connecting different sound generating modules. Most of them would make squeaky, unpredictable noise. Getting them to do WHAT YOU WANT requires not only complete mastery of each separate module connected with the wire, but full understanding how that mesh of cables should connect between different sound sources to create something melodic, instead of "cat being tortured" screams. So, doing that live - you HAVE to know exactly what each does and what sound you're after - otherwise you'll get unpredictable noise (or nothing). Millions of possibilities, most of which would result in chaos. He keeps them in order.

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Video credits:

Artists: Sébastien Léger
Venue: The Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Produced by Cercle
Executive producers: Philippe Tuchmann & Derek Barbolla
Film directed by: Pol Souchier & Derek Barbolla
Directors of photography: Mathieu Glissant & Mickaël Fidjili
Drone pilots: Ifly
Sound mastering: Antoine Guest
Post-production: Mathieu Glissant (Saison Unique Production)
Technical Manager: Aurélien Moisan
Stage design: Karim Yousry

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Special thanks to:
Bas Enab, Mahmoud Zidan & Misty Moustafa Sheta from Playground.
Donal Mccarthy, Cian Toner & James Pidgeon from Sébastien Léger's management.
Eric Caucheteur from Paris Webcube.
Galerie Joseph.

Also, special thanks to Freedom Music.

And finally, special thanks to Ahmed Youssef, chairman of Egypt's Tourism Promotion Authority from the Ministry of Tourism.

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This artistic performance has been recorded live.




Biography Sébastien Léger

One of the most outstanding artists in the recent electronic music business, an exceptionally gifted producer who is operating far beyond all the French filter house clichés.

Being born as the son of two professional musicians Sébastien attended the academy of music from the age of five to 15, integrating technique and musical theory on piano and drums. But soon Sébastien Léger began visiting record stores, being impressed by the likes of Ian Pooley, Daft Punk and Sneak, diving into a complete new world. Consequently Sébastien stepped behind the turntables. Training his DJ-skills was not that difficult for the talented percussionist he was. In 1998 he started creating his own house productions, or even techno, still completed with syncopations and funk sounds. In 1998 Sébastien published his first EPs under the alias Deaf'n'Dumb Crew.

Over the following years Sébastien was releasing more than 30 records on many international labels, building his worldwide reputation and contributing an essential element to its musical evolution. Working for Black Jack gave Sébastien the chance to meet many prestigious artists of Chicago House. He learned a lot from them but his aim was to innovate and not imitate. As always in his long musical career he kept the faith to pushing the boundaries ahead. In 1999 Sébastien and his partner Jimmy van de Velde established the house and tech-house labels Cyclik, Subkroniq and recently BITS music for more Electro/Floating House. That year saw Sébastien Léger´s first album "Atomic Pop" coming out including a great appearance of Junior Sanchez. Parallel to building his international DJ career Sébastien Léger is becoming of the world´s most demanded remixers, working for artists like Armand Van Helden, Kevin saunderson, Ron Carroll, Jakatta feat Seal or Paul Johnson, or labels like Defected or Intec just to name a few!

Consequent progression in his production work, the great variety of house music colours in his tracks, the construction and arrangement of its electro and funky rhythms, all these ingredients helped to establish his position at the forefront of reconstructing contemporary electronic music. As a result of this you can find Sébastien Léger´s releases on world famous imprints such as Carl Cox´ Intec, Defected or Josh Wink´s Ovum just to give a brief summary. After gaining a lot of success and appreciation in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, the US and the Netherlands Sébastien Léger is only at the beginning of conquering the electronic music world, giving his audience the great chance to dive into the electro bath.
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