Emotional Spy uses misunderstood happenings, what can be read only from the unsaid to create soundtracks of non-existing movies.
Often possessed, always looking for a direct mental direction, the French’s producer’s works are all about analyzing these feelings that can’t be expressed.
Spy manipulates electronics to soundtrack (y)our souls and the world around us. It’s probably there that raises this clinic dimension of descriptiveness in his music, making his tracks leaving in you this taste of soundtracks of non existing movies.
Emotional Spy started to work on his music project in 2002, working on atmospheric landscapes research, sounding like sci fi work or paranoid ambient.
Moving to Amsterdam in 2004, the music of the Frenchman starts to get closer to the work of the Warp records and Radiohead’s Kid A period, with more beats and electronica sense but still considering as a priority the expression of neurosis complexity.
‘Sky’s Playground’ has been selected as the official Art4Aid soundtrack for a massive modern art event taking place in Amsterdam in April 2007. The profits being donated to Unicef.
His first album, ‘Secret Science’, released on Warp Light District in spring 2008
presents a reflection of this highly technologic world being prepared underground.
From cinematic explorations to more groovy territories, from mad electronica to ambient soundscapes. “Secret Science” appears somewhere halfway to beauty,
halfway to this future we still think as being fiction. Mixing organic and digital sounds as much as transgressing musical codes, Spy’s cinematic experimentations escape all possible categorisations. “Uptempo Performers” or “Open Skulls” got you listening to mad electronica? Then “Brainwashers” or “A Colour To A White Lie”
switch on the screen to loose your mind in the middle of sci-fi pictures. The whole album challenging the codes of IDM, electronica, ambient or pop to follow its own way…
More and more interested by exploring new sides of dark progressive electro, Emotional Spy works now on new tracks to present each time on stage more smashing live sets. Having shared line ups with BBC Radio 1 experimental mistress Mary Anne Hobbs, Planet Mu's Milanese or other Funckarma among many others, Emotional Spy prepares new live appearances and works on first-love cinematic music....