
druc drac
As a child, druc drac (a.k.a. Francois Dumeaux, born in 1978) was dreaming about building his own modular synthesizers. Unfortunately, it was impossible to learn this kind of stuff in the French countryside, back in the eighties...
At the age of 15, he started mixing Acid, Hard Core and Techno in his room. After his first psytrance party in '95, he fell in love with this music and began mixing this kind of sound in many underground parties.
Since 1998, druc drac produce psytrance but also idm, electrodub, ambient and experimental noise music. He played live and released records alone and with some bands in a few musical style (free improvisation, traditional music, electronica, electrodub, etc.).
Between 2002 and 2006, Francois Dumeaux studied acousmatic music composition in the Bordeaux Music Academy.
In 2008, the time is coming for his first psytrance releases (for Ultiva Records and D-A-R-K Records).
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Yes, in France mostly, but opened to invites out of the country.
Your musical influences
sylextra*, psykovsky, the forest, gong, osom, zaar, procs, hayao miyazaki, early koxbox, orichalcum, kindzaza, the orb, digital talk, eat static, c-p-c, electrypnose, magma, polo, la psylocibine à campagnac, bernard parmegiani, le rouquier, kraftwerk, franÃois bayle, patatrack, jahbo, hidenori ishida, shinji kobayashi, eliane radigue, juno reactor, le buron, the young gods, ocelot, l'aubrac, full moon parties, pelin pala, the residents...