At 31, sound designer and DJ Vincent Gauvin has 250 performances under his belt, including gigs at Metropolis, the Théatre Juste Pour Rire, the Capitol, S.A.T. Parking Nightclub, Club Cherry, Salon Pearl, Circus Afterhours, C.A.A., L’Union Française, and Salon Daomé. His resume includes televised performances (for the TVA, CANAL VIE and ARTV networks), musical direction for numerous projects (most notably the 2007 LEUCAN financing campaign), many sound design projects and the sponsorship of two “Jeunes Volontaires” projects.
Over the years, X-Cube has finessed the art of wide-ranging journeys booming with connoisseur’s tech-house, techno, minimal-tech and progressive. Steeped in artists such as Miss Kittin, Misstress Barbara, Thomas Krome, Alex Bau, Preach, Alex Axx Koss, Yaz, Chris Liberator, Anton X, Laflèche, Vega, Mini, Creator, Pink Feria, Maus, Mateo Murphy, Bender, Jeff Fontaire, Wizz, Kal and many more, an X-Cube set is always tailored to the crowd in front of him.
Owner of the popular Ovum Recordings label, Josh Wink has always run ahead of the pack, as a DJ, label owner, producer, remixer, and artist. Getting going in the late 1980s, by 1995 Wink had become one of the first DJ-producers to find mainstream success, when he unleashed a string of classics that topped charts worldwide and made him a bona fide pop star in Europe. In the past year Wink has released two dancefloor anthems, “How’s your evening so far” and “Superfreak”.
Pondering the mysteries of the supposedly ever-expanding universe, exploring the do-it-yourself-or-don’t-do-it discipline as a mere human being. A peculiar interest in more-or-less useless mathematical formulas and sci-fi theories which have probably nothing to do with the answer to the equation of fragmented tones knitted into a deep house vector where sound loss and hypersampling shaped into rhythmic thought…
Almost too old to even be qualified as old school, this Basement Boy no longer counts the years that separate the present moment from the time he first began making mixtapes for the extended Basement family. Already the most popular kid on the block, the parties, chips and lemonade he organizes for his friends were simply the essentials of a time and place. And despite all the success and notoriety he’s experienced over the years, That Basement Guy has always remained the same ole guy, humble, soft, supple, and fragile. Underneath it all and always before all else, he’s a lover of good beats.
