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Continuing Marc’s 2013 podcast series, his latest mix was released by Soundwall.it - Italy’s no. 1 website for electronic music. This energetic, dancefloor-orientated mix features lots of new unreleased music and some of Marc’s latest hits.

Full article & download link here: http://www.soundwall.it/soundwall-podcast-164-marc-houle/
On Mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/Soundwall/soundwall-podcast-164-marc-houle/

Tracklisting:
1. Marc Houle - Alpha Bit (unreleased)
2. Marc Houle - Cola Party (unreleased)
3. Marc Houle - Fusion Pop (unreleased)
4. Phil Kieran & Green Velvet - Birds and Bees (Marc Houle Remix) | free track via DJMag Weekly
5. Marc Houle & Click Box - Razzmatazz | out Sept 20 on Items & Things (IT025)
6. Alexis Raphael - Brickwall (Marc Houle Remix) | Heidi pres. Jackathon Jams, HPJJ02
7. Marc Houle & Miss Kittin - Where Is Kittin? | Items & Things, IT022
8. Marc Houle & Click Box - Cable Line | out Sept 20 on Items & Things (IT025)
9. Nyma - Kybernetik (Marc Houle Remix) | Items & Things, IT020
10. Marc Houle - Borrowed Gear | Minus023
11. Marc Houle - Suces Mes Graines | free track via Dancing Astronaut

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2013-07 Marc Houle - Soundwall Podcast #164

Released on Nov 25, 2009. Buy on Beatport: http://www.beatport.com/release/salamandarin-ep/206156

Marc Houle returns to Minus this year with a special digital only release of tracks collectively titled the Salamandarin EP. The purpose here is functionality, as Mr. Houle simply puts "these are five tracks to dance to".

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Marc Houle - Yonkers | Minus | 2009

Marc Houle - Salamandarin | Minus | 2009

Released on Nov 25, 2009. Buy on Beatport: www.beatport.com/release/salamandarin-ep/206156

Marc Houle returns to Minus this year with a special digital only release of tracks collectively titled the Salamandarin EP. The purpose here is functionality, as Mr. Houle simply puts "these are five tracks to dance to".

Connect with Marc Houle:
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Marc Houle - Blunderstorm | Minus | 2009

From IT029 "Fusion Pop"
Artist: Marc Houle
Label: Items & Things
Release date: 25 April, 2014
Tracklist:
1. Fusion Pop
2. Hello Friend
3. Fusion Pop (Magda's Lost In Mezcal Mix)
4. Fusion Pop (NYMA's Confusion Mix)

Also available on vinyl.

IT029 Marc Houle - Fusion Pop (Magda's Lost In Mezcal Mix)

There's no doubt in our collective mind that we're right in the middle of the cold and dark season that is winter. Yep, it’s become exceptionally clear that the holiday period is are over but that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. No; there's plenty that we can draw from the elements running wild at this time of year. Train yourself to think more in a more positive light, just as Hybrid Recordings boss Cari Lekebusch has done in his latest mix for us. Referencing his homeland's own frozen environment he's put together a selection that injects a tangible yet mystic energy into the fold. It’s also the perfect indicator of what we can expect from his next visit to Farringdon later this month when he joins Terry Francis and Peter Van Hoesen in Room Two.

Advance tickets: http://www.fabriclondon.com/club/listing/1038

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Tracklist:
Cari Lekebusch - Mad Poet (secret mix)
Rapheal Dincsoy & Chris Hirose - Black Roses
Dubspeeka - Primary K256
Juan Sanchez - Terms
Psyk - Last Word
Juan Sanchez - Shape 2
Planetary Assault Systems - GT (Function vs Jerome Sydenham remix)
Cardan - Synthetic
Juan Sanchez - One Sided
Marco Bailey - Black Cave
Re:Axis - Mad Science
Twice G, Booz - Mitte



Cari Lekebusch - fabric Promo Mix (Jan 2015)

Joseph Capriati presents 100% JC @ BPM festival 2015 / 7 hrs set @ Fusion beach (Playa Del Carmen - Mexico) 17.01.2015

Joseph Capriati @ BPM festival 2015 / 7 hrs set @ Fusion beach (Playa Del Carmen)

Download LP here: http://www.beatport.com/release/undercover/867190

Release date: 24/02/2012

Let’s call ‘Undercover’, the new album from Marc Houle, a double departure. His last album, ‘Drift’ was on Minus, and his label, Items & Things, run alongside Magda & Troy Pierce, was until last year a Minus sub-label. He’s now left the label, and Items & Things stands on its own two feet poised for great things in the years to come. With this new found freedom Marc’s synth-driven techno sound continues to grow, evolve and surprise. Nowhere is this growth more evident than in the tracks that make up ‘Undercover’.

Things kick off with ‘Hearing’ which has a bassline that drives like a vintage Mercedes shifting gears on the Autobahn as it picks up speed. The synths, with their soft melody, let you know how smooth the suspension is while a metallic voice whispers in your ear from the back seat. ‘Undercover’, the eponymous single, is a case study in the deep and moody side of old school Chicago House.

In a recent interview Marc said that ‘right how I am trying to get away from my regular tempo, play some real drums and get some non 4/4 fills and beats going on.’ On ‘Juno 6660’ he does just that and with stellar results. ‘Juno 6660’ sounds like what could have happened if early Warp artists like LFO and Sweet Exorcist had grown up on NYC freestyle rather than Detroit Techno. ‘Very Bad’ is actually very good, so Marc must be referring to something else entirely; the mystery remains within him and the music. Bink is able to set you off balance with a melody that sounds like it’s from an old music box that’s been wound up just a little too far. The ballerina dancing on top of the box is held steady only by 4/4 beat, acid house claps and bouncy bass.

Continuing with ‘Am Am Am’ Marc takes things in a bit of an industrial direction. Not the industrial of Nitzer Ebb & Einstürzende Neubauten but rather a construction site buried deep inside an unsettling dream. Hammers ping and echo, while the sounds of cables detune and voices echo from other floors. When ‘Mooder’ drops you wake up slowly and find yourself back on the dance-floor. The tracks driving rhythm and pitter pat toms keep things moving underneath the track’s ever dreamy pads.

The albums concludes with ‘Under the Neath’ which succeeds in taking things even deeper than just ‘Under Cover’ while at the same time unearthing Marc’s roots in the sound of Detroit Techno. Chords shift back and forth in pitch as the rolling bassline goes lower and lower. Kept steady by a very live shaker sound the track completes its cycles adding new layers and voices upon each turn.

Marc says that this album represents ‘my personal sound more than anything I've ever done before’ and it shows. With influence and inspiration from such diverse sources that Marc calls upon, ‘Undercover’ more than manages to carve out a distinctive flow that is all his own. What the future holds is anyone’s guess, just expect the unexpected.

Tracklist:
1. Hearing
2. Undercover
3. Juno 6660
4. Very Bad
5. Bink
6. Am Am Am 
7. Mooder
8. Under the Neath

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Marc Houle - Am Am Am | Items & Things | 2012

Download here: http://www.beatport.com/track/25-bitches-marc-houle-remix/125363

Release date: 11/05/2006

Marc Houle grew up in Windsor, Canada with Detroit as his mid-90’s backyard party playground – as a kid he had a love for obscure new wave & analog synths, so it was just a matter of time before he started making music of his own. Ask any of his friends, and they’ll tell you the same: the guy is a prolific music-making-machinist, dedicated to quality, but quantity as well – with nearly 1,000 tracks to his credit (most of which are tucked away on his hard drive as super secret weapons).

Now taking the reigns alongside his A&R partners Magda & Troy Pierce, Marc Houle has resurrected their label Items & Things, breaking it free from its former Minus sub-label status. Spanning electronic genres in a variety of forms… from disco tech to experimental to techno, to bring their eclectic tastes together as an outlet for music they discover on their travels & a home for their own releases.

Marc Houle’s current sound can be described in cityscapes – somewhere between Chicago & Detroit, with a new-wave underbelly. His live performances are always diverse & genre-bending reigns supreme. No two sets are ever the same, except perhaps, their ability to impress the crowd.

He’s travelled a long way from his 1997 residency at Richie Hawtin’s club “13 Below” in Detroit, to being asked to join the legendary Minus label, now making Berlin his home & continuing to show his diverse musical roots on his productions. In February 2012 Marc Houle released his heavy-hitting, second album and single “Undercover” on Items & Things, with more releases in the making.

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Troy Pierce - 25 Bitches (Marc Houle Remix) | Minus | 2006

Download here: http://www.beatport.com/track/headcase-marc-houle-remix/2758840

Release date: 10/10/11

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Plastikman - Headcase (Marc Houle Remix) | Minus | 2011

Download EP here: http://www.beatport.com/track/helen-in-the-keller-original-mix/967703

Release date: 05/10/2009

As a production team, Run Stop Restore has been a pragmatic group with Marc Houle, Troy Pierce and Magda pursuing their own hectic schedules of production and performance. Recently, the three members have taken the opportunity to meet in the same studio to combine their unique ideas. Their Items and Things imprint - a label set up as an output for new projects, collaborations and ideas with a distinctly left of centre attitude is primarily run by wireless communication. After a pair of compilation EPs, the first act to receive a dedicated release was Click Box - the brainchild of Marco Silva and Pedro Turra whose tough, retro sound, non-conformist arrangements and skilful sound design fitted perfectly to the I&T ethos. The relationship has obviously grown at speed, culminating in this two track Minus release recorded during a five day session in Sao Paulo, Brazil. With all five artists jamming together on a host of analog synths and a low slung bass guitar contribution from Marc Houle.

The collaboration produces two cylindrical grooves that work like a thermos flask - signifying the presence of heat without radiating it. There’s a smouldering intensity contained by a cool outer casing that give the tracks a very particular attitude, with certain key instruments being recorded and used unsequenced, without edits or quantization that raise the curtain on side A. Any track entitled Helen in the Keller needs to be approached with a certain amount of caution and the glassy shards of warping live bass guitar together with Troy’s raw claustrophobic vocal musings create a dark tone as the lunatic fringe takes over. The track is essentially split into two halves, with the second introducing a low, oscillating Juno-60 style bass riff that merges with the hi-hat driven rhythm section to enhance the tracks danceability. From there on, all the elements gel perfectly creating a track that manages to harness the energy of a live performance with some instruments being recorded in one shot.

As collaborations go – it fits like a glove. Anyone who’s been following the trajectories of those involved should have no trouble spotting their individual contributions and how they compliment each other so effectively on these futuristic interpretations of bygone genres.

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Click Box vs Run Stop Restore - Helen In The Keller | Minus | 2009

With the launch of his website www.marchoule.net, Marc released one special Marc Houle ringtone every day of the first week, as well as further ringtones as new releases come out.

The ringtones are available for iPhones and Android, and feature sounds from the Marc Houle classics such as Arrows, Edamame, Techno Vocals and Third in Trees, as well as his latest hits.
 
To download the Marc Houle ringtones be sure to check out http://www.marchoule.net/audio and follow him on Facebook.

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FREE DOWNLOAD HERE

Marc Houle - Techno Vocals vocal (ringtone)

Download EP here: www.beatport.com/release/sixty-four-week-2/129053

Release date: 21/09/2006

Over the course of the past two years, Marc Houle's music has quickly elevated his studio prose into desired analogsoaked treasures of the dancefloor. Developing fans from vinyl to the club, the new double pack outing titled BAY OF FIGS showcases new developments in his already minimal pop genius that have been tested on the road over the past few months. From the manic title track onward his sound continues to develop from a rich bed of electro pop and minimal techno, with gems that stay in the groove or contort themselves by design.

The arctic storm that is "Bay of Figs" sends a simple yet effective message through it's haunting and menacing drone. On the bouncing and loose "Thirds In Trees", Marc drops in live claps and bass guitar in the melodic and hooky mood reminiscent of the Kingsley classic "Popcorn". A clear fan of euro & industrial attitudes from decades past, "Black Jack 13" claps and bends with electro fever, rattling around erratic effects and synth lines all under four minutes time. One of the more intense tracks in Houle's live sets is the square-wave melody of "Edamame". But its "Items and Things" that highlights Houle's musicianship for synth pop while also revealing his obvious contribution another side project, Run Stop Restore (the trio with Magda and Troy Pierce). Houle's arrangements, melodies and choice effects create easy instrumentals that hold their own beauty without vocal attachments.

In the past year he has remixed Slam's "Kill The Pain" single (featuring Dot Allison) and "Turbo Dreams" by Ellen Allien & Apparat. Between DJs championing his work in clubs and after-parties or making it an essential addition on mix albums from producers like Slam or Loco Dice, Houle is working his way to the top. His live performances from Europe to the US have doubled the impact, on tour in the US during May for the min2MAX bus tour.

Press contact: press@marchoule.net

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Marc Houle - Edamame  | Minus | 2006

Over the course of the past two years, Marc Houle's music has quickly elevated his studio prose into desired analogsoaked treasures of the dancefloor. Developing fans from vinyl to the club, the new double pack outing titled BAY OF FIGS showcases new developments in his already minimal pop genius that have been tested on the road over the past few months. From the manic title track onward his sound continues to develop from a rich bed of electro pop and minimal techno, with gems that stay in the groove or contort themselves by design.

The arctic storm that is "Bay of Figs" sends a simple yet effective message through it's haunting and menacing drone. On the bouncing and loose "Thirds In Trees", Marc drops in live claps and bass guitar in the melodic and hooky mood reminiscent of the Kingsley classic "Popcorn". A clear fan of euro & industrial attitudes from decades past, "Black Jack 13" claps and bends with electro fever, rattling around erratic effects and synth lines all under four minutes time. One of the more intense tracks in Houle's live sets is the square-wave melody of "Edamame". But its "Items and Things" that highlights Houle's musicianship for synth pop while also revealing his obvious contribution another side project, Run Stop Restore (the trio with Magda and Troy Pierce). Houle's arrangements, melodies and choice effects create easy instrumentals that hold their own beauty without vocal attachments.

In the past year he has remixed Slam's "Kill The Pain" single (featuring Dot Allison) and "Turbo Dreams" by Ellen Allien & Apparat. Between DJs championing his work in clubs and after-parties or making it an essential addition on mix albums from producers like Slam or Loco Dice, Houle is working his way to the top. His live performances from Europe to the US have doubled the impact, on tour in the US during May for the min2MAX bus tour.

Press contact: press@marchoule.net

Connect with Marc Houle:
www.marchoule.net/
www.facebook.com/marchoule.official 
www.mixcloud.com/marchoule
www.youtube.com/user/MarcRHoule
www.twitter.com/MarcRHoule
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/marchoule 
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www.discogs.com/artist/Marc+Houle 
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Marc Houle - Manager  | Minus | 2006

Download EP here: http://www.beatport.com/release/techno-vocals/73547

Release date: 28/09/2007

Why are the vocals turned down so low? This is the way we make Techno!

To mark the label’s 50th release Marc Houle gets right back to basics with two raw, stripped down future classics. What’s more both vinyl cuts, “Techno Vocals” and “On It” clock in at under six minutes meaning that this compact 12inch’s sound and message is going to be coming through extra loud and clear.

On “Techno Vocals” (as with all Houle productions) each sound is perfectly realised, commanding its own space with metronomic discipline. The rigid drum patterns, analogue explosions, regimented snare rolls, laser guided effects and delayed bleeps interact with supreme efficiency, while the arrangement is mapped out with cool, calculated intent. The result is a totally robust example of A-grade techno that’s really brought to life by the self-referential, pitched down vocal hook!

It’s well documented that Marc has more than a passing interest in 80’s electro, New Wave and retro computer games and these influences are somehow more apparent on Minus 50 than on his earlier solo releases or as part of Run, Stop, Restore. “On It” in particular will turn a few heads, making, as it does, a detour into previously unexplored territory. Revolving around a heavily filtered melodic bass riff, Houle punctuates the dry, upfront groove with a choice selection of rough, old school samples before dropping into a series of moody bass variations that give the track its distinctive flavour.

To complete the release, dub and accapella versions of “Techno Vocals” are also available as digital downloads offering amongst other things the chance to reformat the vocals over the original beats.

Press contact: press@marchoule.net

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www.residentadvisor.net/dj/marchoule 
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Marc Houle - Techno Vocals | Minus | 2007

Download EP here: http://www.beatport.com/release/techno-vocals/73547

Release date: 28/09/2007

Why are the vocals turned down so low? This is the way we make Techno!

To mark the label’s 50th release Marc Houle gets right back to basics with two raw, stripped down future classics. What’s more both vinyl cuts, “Techno Vocals” and “On It” clock in at under six minutes meaning that this compact 12inch’s sound and message is going to be coming through extra loud and clear.

On “Techno Vocals” (as with all Houle productions) each sound is perfectly realised, commanding its own space with metronomic discipline. The rigid drum patterns, analogue explosions, regimented snare rolls, laser guided effects and delayed bleeps interact with supreme efficiency, while the arrangement is mapped out with cool, calculated intent. The result is a totally robust example of A-grade techno that’s really brought to life by the self-referential, pitched down vocal hook!

It’s well documented that Marc has more than a passing interest in 80’s electro, New Wave and retro computer games and these influences are somehow more apparent on Minus 50 than on his earlier solo releases or as part of Run, Stop, Restore. “On It” in particular will turn a few heads, making, as it does, a detour into previously unexplored territory. Revolving around a heavily filtered melodic bass riff, Houle punctuates the dry, upfront groove with a choice selection of rough, old school samples before dropping into a series of moody bass variations that give the track its distinctive flavour.

To complete the release, dub and accapella versions of “Techno Vocals” are also available as digital downloads offering amongst other things the chance to reformat the vocals over the original beats.

Press contact: press@marchoule.net

Connect with Marc Houle:
www.marchoule.net/
www.facebook.com/marchoule.official 
www.mixcloud.com/marchoule
www.youtube.com/user/MarcRHoule
www.twitter.com/MarcRHoule
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/marchoule 
www.dj.beatport.com/marchoule 
www.juno.co.uk/artists/Marc+Houle/
www.discogs.com/artist/Marc+Houle 
www.itemsandthings.com

Marc Houle - On It | Minus | 2007

Marc Houle - Techno Vocals Dub | Minus | 2007

Download EP here: http://www.beatport.com/release/licking-skin/172946

Release date: 27/05/2009

Marc Houle’s music is always innovative, experimental and unconventional, his live sets, choice of instruments and track titles never fail to grab the attention while his natural instinct as an electronic musician is to take the listener out of his or her comfort zone, dismantling the strict set of rules that techno music adheres to in the process. These two digital only tracks build on the foundations laid by last year’s sixty-four collection and will certainly appeal to lovers of the avant garde, so if you’re looking for familiar, user friendly beats that blend seamlessly and don’t ask too many questions…don’t bother reading any further.

Apart from the clinical drum machine groove Houle employs on Dirty Dirty, there’s nothing that remotely resembles anything from your standard soundset, yet it somehow remains deliciously monotone and minimal. If techno ever found it’s way into a Tarantino flick then Dirty Dirty would be a prime candidate with its fuzzy plucked guitar surging through beaten up amps and crazy, oscillating analogue synth line that seems to rise and fall simultaneously, creating bedlam. Houle makes it all sound so ridiculously easy as he stitches his wild, staccato riffs together, applying heavy doses of sporadic reverb to the twisting time signatures. A warm bassline rounds out the groove, before a secondary guitar line leads us into the tense breakdown from which the groove quickly reforms, although the shadows have all shifted slightly.

If anything Licking Skin goes deeper into the realms of abstraction cramming a night of feverish dream sequences into seven eventful minutes. Underpinned by another nervous guitar pattern, Houle sets the scene with some instinctive keyboard stabs and scary b-movie pad fx that create an odd, hallucinatory state before a chorus of chiming clocks send the Dali-esque symbolism into overdrive. What’s more, the subsequent subliminal mantra ‘I like to take things apart and put them all back together’ perfectly sums up Houle’s grasp of the logic of the absurd. At times it sounds like an orchestra warming up before a mischievous percussion improvisation takes control, accompanied by a chorus of heavily treated vocals that recall the climax of the early 80’s new wave punk sci-fi movie Liquid Sky. It certainly wouldn’t be speaking out of turn to suggest these two tunes deserve the same cult classic status.

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Juanpablo Gaviria