FELA KUTI!!! You're drawing from all of the right inspirations.

listen professor, it would be the best experience percievable in the 3rd dimensional quadrant of the milky way if you played at Rhinoceropolis or GLOB or a DIY venue like that here in Denver, CO.

Outstanding! The whole thing. Mike "What" Else

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An unfinished sketch from 2009 conjuring themes of inevitable doom.

Sunday (Doom)

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"Her Majesty's Socialist Request"

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RJD2 - Her Majesty's Socialist Request (Spark Arrester & Bluhax Remix)

An OP-1 sketch of a track for my forthcoming album, then I realized that I forgot to export the stems... so it ends here.

Steam Sleep (OP-1 Sketch)

This is a documentation of works between 2006 and 2007, working at a gas station and attending a community college where I grew up. This album captures the last page of this chapter of my my life.

Plastic & Flashing Lights

Composed and recorded from January 2014 to May 2015 using Ableton Live and Push, NI Komplete Ultimate 9, a Teenage Engineering OP-1, a fully-restored Moog Rogue, Maschine, and a Zoom H4n for recording various hand-played percussion, all on a 15" MacBook Pro.

Mastered by Chicago Mastering Service.

Cove Landing

I just hit record on my phone and on Reason and just played this. This is the same way I recorded "Ambition" on Scientific Method Vol. II  - Thank you all so much for your support.

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Dollar Mami

Sugar EP

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Grape Nova by Flavours (Out now via Westwood Recordings)

Hiding Time

Pachanga Boys - Time

This was a real bitch... I couldn't seem to get my hands on a full, legitimate acapella of this track, but I was determined to at least make something based around the original. I had premeditated the whole thing a few months in advance, namely about a month before the end of my last semester in college. In Orchestration, we always had the opportunity to write a short piece of our own for the ensembles to play at the various workshops. I was already working on this instrumental and wrote out some stuff for a string and woodwind octet, recorded it and incorporated it (however sparingly) into this track.

This track was fully commissioned by a good friend and generous donor, Bill Jagnow. A veteran of the horrors of music school, Bill gave me a few solid pep-talk emails and it always helped a shit load... so I was really determined to give this one everything I had. Bill, I hope you like it.

Lady Gaga - Scheiße (Professor Kliq's Fist of Music School Mix)

The last of the commissioned works, this was a request by a good friend and fellow music student, Doug Raymond AKA "Lord Irwin" (you can find him here on SC). 

I really wanted to do something in my own classic style and get back to the stuff I honestly and truly like and not try to compete with the direction that a lot of dance and electronic music is going. Thusly, this is a lot more disco, a lot more cinematic... I think I was able to dig up a lot of the old styles I got into and, thusly, was able to get a lot more out that way.

Thanks for asking me to do this, Doug, and thank you for your generous donation!

Gorillaz -  Feel Good Inc. (Professor Kliq Remix)

I think this might be the first live show I've ever posted. I've always intended to record one, but it actually happened last night. Akashic Grenade, Royb0t, D2A, Protman and myself played a killer show at The Elbo Room here in Chicago for AG's CD release (EP is titled "Pull The Pin").

Here's the tracklist of everything I played: 


     [Intro - Mary Poppins]
     [Danny Elfman - Chamber Music (Forbidden Zone OST)]
Professor Kliq - Tek In The Trunk
     [The Chemical Brothers - Not Another Drugstore (Planet Nine Mix)]
     [The Dad Machine - Desktop Sucky Fucky]
     [Professor Kliq - I Can Still]
Professor Kliq - Flip
The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City
Kool & The Gang - Love The Life You Live
Professor Kliq - The Dirtiest
Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight
Professor Kliq - I Can Still
Professor Kliq - Crystals
Professor Kliq - Work At Night
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Professor Kliq Remix)
Vitalic - Terminateur Benelux
Mr. Oizo - Cut Dick
Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down
Bachmann-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
Young M.C. - Know How
     [C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance)]
     [The Black Strobes - Me & Madonna (The Twelves Remix)]
Metronomy - The Bay (Erol Alkan's Extended Remix)
Professor Kliq - Lift
     [Animaniacs - Vowels]
Professor Kliq - The Vowel Song
Rammstein - Du Hast
Casper - Casper Cha-Cha Slide
Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
Gorillaz - Dare
Professor Kliq - Guerilla 
Switch - A Bit Patchy
     [Madonna - Vogue]
     [Daft Punk - Aerodynamic]
Professor Kliq - All That Matters



Professor Kliq - Live @ The Elbo Room Chicago 2012

Little People is the moniker of UK based downtempo electronic musician Laurent Clerc… He returns with his second full length album - We Are But Hunks Of Wood - a whole 6 years after his first album (Mickey Mouse Operation) was released on Illicit recordings. Whilst his debut - an accomplished ode to late 90's instrumental hip hop - has unexpectedly gone on to be in the top 30 selling album downloads on iTunes in the electronic genre in the US for the last 2 years, he is still all but unknown to most tastemakers and influential blogs shaping today's electronic music scene. Having followed an unconventional route to success - thanks to in no small part to Pandora radio generating him huge amounts of exposure - he seemingly exists outside the normal channels used to promote artists. We sense this is all about to change…

'We are But Hunks of Wood' is a sonic leap forward for LIttle People (that's the least you can expect after a 6 year hiatus between albums!) which should help establish himself as key proponent of the downtempo electronic music scene. Part beats, bleeps and real live instrumentation, this new record maybe falls in a place where Bonobo and Anders Trentemoller would hypothetically meet. Having initially come from the world of instrumental hip hop where tracks are often more akin to just sketches or interesting ideas, Laurent Clerc's pieces are fully fledged songs whose arrangements create a sense of mood and movement, effortlessly going from nuanced electronic patterns to soaring string arrangements over the course of the journey. This is no beat tape.

There are many reasons why it has taken him so long to release his follow up record - like nearly turning his back on making music and becoming the father of a set of twins… But the main reason was that he felt he had to reinvent his work methodology and write and record his tracks from the ground up. He saw sampling as tantamount to taking another man's 2 bars of inspiration and passing it off as your own. The story of the samplist making the jump to creating his own material is not new… but it isn't always a successful one. Laurent took enough time to make sure that leap was taken with aplomb.

We Are but Hunks of Wood

Farewell

Music researcher looking for ways to actually feel something again and hoping that writing music will help me on this journey. I'm inspired by so much but have a fondness for electronica of 90's, experimental music and cinematic & classical pieces. 

if you like what you hear follow and leave a comment I really do appreciate it!

Professor Kliq - Live @ The Elbo Room Chicago 2012

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