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Artist
Marcelus
12+ albums
technoelectronicminimal technoelectronicadub techno
about
Techno aficionado Cédric Bros has for the past few years been engineering his assault on both the Parisian and European scenes. Better known as Marcelus, his inquisitive nature led him to experiment with various sequencers around 1998. Admittedly, he wasn’t planning a career in beat making but somewhere around this time the flame ignited and he began taking note of the Techno scene in Paris, listening to the likes of Radio Nova and Radio FG. The discovery of Jeff Mills began the love for the tough. The prevailing swagger of Laurent Garnier has never been far away, while if you listen carefully, the jazzy, experimental strains of Saint Germain are tucked away in his music. Marcelus takes a conscientious approach to his production, putting himself first as his biggest critic, describing his own music as ‘personal and honest’. The idea of ‘influence’ is also one that seems to escape Marcelus, in the studio anyway, pertaining to the ideal of not listening to anyone else’s music whilst he’s creating. This ‘true to self’ approach has found Marcelus floating comfortably between the realms of House and Techno, forging a sound that can be both subtle and forthright when necessary. After hooking up with DJ Deep at Rex Club in Paris, the young producer began sending over sounds for consideration and ultimately his first sign of prominence came through Deep’s ‘Deeply Rooted House’ imprint with ‘EP1’, which saw the shelves in 2010, followed shortly by ‘EP 2’. These tracks unsurprisingly
