Dnb & Dubstep Lover
Belgian based in Paris

Luis Flores's Upcoming Gigs
Sat 14 May, 16 
Trommel, District , Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Sound> Classifying Flores’s sound is a difficult feat, and that is precisely the  point. His personality and experience are present in every track he produces, resulting in a dark, groove driven sound. Luis’s interaction with the machine becomes the listeners’ interaction with auditory landscapes of eeriness, altered states and paranoia. A minimal use of elements results in a rich spectrum of textures and a dark and trippy dance floor pull. Live shows, improvisational in nature, can last anywhere from 2- 5 hours, resulting in a hypnotic exploration of the possibilities of electronic production.

Bio> In the more than 17 years he has been producing electronic music, Luis Flores has not only made a name for himself but has been at the forefront of a movement that made the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, a hot spot for electronic music production and events. At the center of this movement was Nopal Beat Records, a label he ran from 1998 to 2006. At the same time, he also worked with the city’s cultural bureau to produce a string of massive, free public events that could bring electronic music to a wider group of people and provided a stage for local producers.

In 2007, he returned to the studio focused once again in his techno roots which quickly yielded results like his enduring relationship with L.A.’s Droid Behavior or the demand for his live shows.

In 2009 the release of the “Damage” EP on Droid Recordings, established Flores as an international artist with its immediate success, making the charts of artists such as Speedy J, The Detroit Grand Pubbahs and Chris Liebing’s Best 10 of 2009. In 2010, Dietrich Schoenemann’s Hidden Agenda released “Pain + Prosthetics”, an EP which among other things includes a collaboration with Canadian: Vitamins 4 U.

Flores published “Love Your Machine” under the German imprint Micro.Fon the following year. Further exploring the audiovisual aspect of his music, he created the video teaser for the single using J.G. Ballard’s “Crash” as reference and inspiration.

In 2012 he returned to Droid for the release of “New Flesh” which included remixes by label owner Drumcell and CLR’s Brian Sanhaji. This year was also marked by people's interest in his sound with remix requests for legendary names like Jam n Spoon and The Advent.

2013 began with his first collaboration with Berlin based producer Material Object and the release of the “Crowd Control” EP under the Impact Unit moniker for the French label Silent Steps and in 2014 he released “Rituals of Submission” on Detroit’s Blank Code, “Test Pattern” EP in the Spring for CLR and the “Metal” remix for Black Asteroid under EDLX.

He began 2015 with the the release of “43” on Alex Bau’s Credo compilation and with his 3rd release for Droid Recordings, the “Static Forces” EP.

Luis has represented México at the Meet in Beijing, ADE in Amsterdam, Borderline Festival in China, Brussels BEMF, among others.

CHANCE is a being that stems from guilt, cultural heritage, a self-imposed rite of passage. He suffocates as much as he exists between the pages of chance and fate. 
 
"I had to do some memory work (Dhakira meaning) before I could embody CHANCE.
 
Currently a sound designer in the audiovisual field, he is developing his skills in the complex relationship between sound and image, particularly through work centred on sound effects, voice over and the creation of atmosphere 
 
"Paradoxically, my speciality is to work on what does not appear in the image (what is extra-diegetic), to provide information, sometimes even philosophical, that will honour the memory of the characters or places. In a way, this is also what I am trying to do with CHANCE. Without the image, I am experimenting with a structure that will leave enough space in its temporality or dynamics for the listener to also take a place in the distribution of the sound elements and find a certain window of emotions intertwined with their personal life experiences.
 
Formerly a composer with Dhakira, CHANCE is releasing his first album, which he has divided into two parts: Soliloque Éclairé // Celui dont la plume se lasse du papier
 
 
Soliloque Éclairé
 
A wink to his father figure, to the man who made him plunge into silence as much as he lulled him into long monologues during journeys without a precise destination. A distorted and omnipresent voice, a rhythmic pattern with a ritualistic appearance, impulsive distortions. These are all elements that have allowed CHANCE to externalise the memory of certain sacrifices. 
 
Three or four months separate the two parts. During this gap of emptiness and suspense, CHANCE abandoned his relationship with audible sounds and plunged into an intimate writing style that allowed him to open up a personal space of documentation.  The sequence of words on paper thus leads him to better grasp the second state in which Soliloque Éclairé emerged. 
 
Tired of writing, he draws on the energy of his texts and commits himself to the purpose of his album
 
The one whose pen gets tired of paper
 
An ink that causes us to take a step back after the intensity of the first part and that brings us closer to the symbols that CHANCE has allowed to wander through this album.
 
"The composition that closes the album had no chance of seeing the light of day. It is out of time, out of the fresco of the album, an open letter where you can hear me soliloquize on a blurred moment of my life.  When I listened to it again, after having finished the sound creations of the album, I felt a certain lightness. By taking this track as the album's closing track, I also acted as a sign of a bygone era, signing the freedom of my "Royaume" (closing track name).
 
 
Melancholy to make up the face of our parents
 
"Naked in a bed, thoughts jerked by the nuisance of cars emanating from that window we no longer close for fear of suffocating. "
 
 
 
CHANCE here opens a window on the weight of an existence.


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Chance is behind "Péché d'Ascèse" with @couronnedemerde, a new hybrid project mixing interviews of artists, sounds, videos, arts, against a background of psychoanalytic thoughts and criticism of the idea of asceticism. 
You can follow the journey on @ola_radio 

alias/es :
1/2 of Naufrage Nihiliste
- Sound Designer and 1/2 of @dhakira ( project ended )

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