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Artist
SHIRTLIFTER
12+ albums
elektronic beatselectronicelectronicaAllunder 2000 listeners
about
Leclair's earliest musical memories are in Ottawa, his parents garage. He would frequently set up a make shift drum set consisting of four inverted metal garbage cans, using their lids for cymbals. He used found wood dowels for drum sticks, banging away for hours at a time. He begged his parents for a pair of sticks like those he had seen the drummers use on television. He felt like a rock star the day his mother surprised him with the real McCoy sporting those gleaming white nylon ends. By eight he had truly caught the musical bug, and began taking piano and guitar lessons. He was spending every bit of his pocket money on Rock and Funk records. The first record Leclair ever purchased was a copy of Magical Mystery Tour. Every single week he would add another album to his collection with the allowance money he received from numerous chores around the house. Leclair purchased his first pair of decks at a garage sale right around the time of disco. It was a $100 hand made DJ unit in a wood box with two dual turntables, home made mixer, and amplifier. His best friend and he would carry around this box like coffin, accompanied by three crates of records playing weddings, or special events they could talk people into hiring them for. As the 1970s faded, Leclair followed the 1980s musical trend from Rock and Disco to Electro-pop and New Wave, but it wasn't really until he moved to Toronto in 1979 to study Fine Art at the Ontario College of Art that he discovered the thrill of playin
