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Artist
Will.E.P.
6+ albums
chilloutHousedanceelectronicProgressive
about
William Parlier, better known as Will.E.P. started his production career at the young age of 11 when he started out by recording himself on an old stereo two track tape recorder that used to belong to his father, but even before that William started playing music. Parlier’s first instrument was the piano, which was more so his parent’s idea than his, but it did not instantly strike him as appealing and quickly Parlier discontinued his lessons. Only a couple years later he regained interest in music while visiting a family friend who he called E.T. He found both an old classical guitar and an auto harp in her attic and it opened many new doors for Parlier. Slowly he began to pick up the ability to play almost any instrument you handed to him. At the age of 13 his parents bought him recording software, a midi keyboard, and microphones, and Parlier’s producing really began to lift off the ground. As he learned his way around his recording software he also began to delve in electronic music, and with that came his invite by UK producer Greg Hartley to join their abilities to form the electronic music duo entitled Idiot-Gene. Parlier and Hartley produced genres all the way from minimal electronica to trance. While William was in Idiot-Gene he also produced electronic music under the name Grünhexe, and recorded and produced film scores and folly for student films throughout the country for students attending schools such as The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, an
