The project was initially developed with the conviction that the C.D as an object has no future unless it becomes an art form, incliding image and design. Smooth One consistently desired to link more and more intimately music and images.
Unconvinced by the immutable format of song, Smooth One delivers with Industrial Welfare music wich is essentialy modal based on harmonics, tones and rythmic juxtapositions. Mixed with the jazz and hip-hop influence of his early days, are repetitive music, ambient, hint of dub and post-rock. Ultimately, Industrial welfare is an album to be classed alone.It is both electronic and acoustic while exploring today’s technology, searching for maximum emotion.Emotion is the main driving force in this cd. Elegant and ultra-modern, swinging form violent to contemplative but above all poetic.
CATHERINE HEBERT : BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS.
Fashion editor, photographer and filmmaker, Catherine hebert has worked for many magazines such as Elle, Technikart, DS, and Icon. In 2002, she published « The Book of Elegance » with the publisher La Martinière. Her work is founded on the sharpness of her eye, and her culture on image and fashion.Her preference goes to belgium and Japanese creators. She mises fashion photography with landscape and portrait with a sense of justice and love for her subjects, men and cities.
SMOOTH ONE : BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS.
Smooth One, who comes from the abstract hip-hop scene, wrote with dj Cam the first two eponymous albums : « Underground vibes » and « Substance » ( Inflamable/Sony Music). Then followed a live recording at the « Rennes transmusical festival. After remixing for Air, Tek9, Jean-Louis Murat, Silent Poets,la yellow 357 etc…Smooth One decided to concentrate on film scoring and on his own label Superflux.He wrote the music for the film « New York ZeroZero »( Superflux /believe) and « Amsterdam reconstruction » by Jerome Schlomoff. He worked on CatherineHebert’s film « Exit Port St Louis », wich uncluded the cd « Exit remix »( superflux/believe) with remix by Elektrokut, laurent Ho and Junior Cony.
The project was initially developed with the conviction that the C.D as an object has no future unless it becomes an art form, incliding image and design. Smooth One consistently desired to link more and more intimately music and images.