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Kris Menace (born Christoph Hoeffel) is an electronic musician and music producer. ==History== Christophe Hoeffel began to work as a producer and writer in the mid 1990s for different projects and started using the pseudonym "Kris Menace" in 2005. Menace's debut single (in collaboration with his friend Lifelike), "Discopolis", was released on Alan Braxe's label Vulture Music in 2005 and was one of the most anticipated house tracks and an Ibiza anthem within the same year. "Discopolis" was later picked up by Defected Records and re-released with various remixes (Kerri Chandler etc..) and a video directed by Seb Janiak.〔(Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis ) (YouTube video)〕 Menace later formed his label "Compuphonic" and continued to release singles under its imprint. In 2006, his track "Jupiter" became one of the most downloaded tracks on the electronic music download platform Beatport.〔(Compuphonic on Discogs )〕 In 2006, Kris also started DJing with Alan Braxe, who was part of "Stardust" with Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk, and together they released the single "Lumberjack"〔(Alan Braxe & Kris Menace - Lumberjack ) (YouTube video)〕 in June 2007 on Vulture Music.〔(''Together with Kris Menace'', One Week To Live Interview )〕 In 2008 he teamed up with the UK band Spooky to release the track "Stereophonic", which became UK's buzz charts nr.1 during the WMC and voted for being one of the hottest records of 2008 for DMC〔(DMC Update )〕 as well as with Felix da Housecat to produce the house anthem "Artificial" or Rex the Dog to produce "POW!"〔(Compuphonic Webpage )〕 Kris Menace contributed remixes for Depeche Mode (Mute), Robbie Williams (EMI), LCD Soundsystem (DFA), Röyksopp (EMI), Kylie Minogue (EMI), Underworld (Pias), and many others.〔(Kris Menace on Discogs )〕 His "Heartbreaker" remix for the band Metronomy, became number 1 most popular track on The Hype Machine and therefore the most played track across all blogs in July 2008.〔(Hype Machine )〕 His Kylie Minogue remix was featured on Kylie Minogue's ''Aphrodite'' special edition album. His remix of LCD Soundsystem became part of their album ''Sound of Silver'' in different territories like Japan.〔(Discogs.com Lcd Soundsystem )〕 His remix for Monarchy's "The Phoenix Alive" was used in the ''FIFA 12'' video game soundtrack.〔(YouTube Video to FifaSoundtrack 2012 )〕 As a DJ, he played all across the world in clubs like Fabric London, Razzmatazz Barcelona, Amnesia, Pacha, Space and many other clubs all around Europe, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Australia.〔(Kris Menace Homepage )〕 In November 2010 Kris did a minimix on Annie Mac's Radio1 show and broke the record of amount of used singles with 240 tracks played within 5 minutes.〔(Annie Mac Radioi1 )〕 From May 2009 to August 2010, Kris Menace had a weekly radio residency at Radio FG in Paris.〔(Radio FG )〕 Kris Menace released his debut album ''Idiosyncrasies'' in May 2009 on 3 CDs, followed by the singles "Metropolis" and "Idiosyncrasy".〔(Kris Menace´s Myspace Page )〕 The album received an outstanding rating by international press and was re-released as an "Special Edition" in November 2010.〔(Kris Menace.com )〕 In January 2010, Kris's track "Lightning" was mashed up with The-Dream's "Walkin' on the Moon" by Vancouver DJ/producer U-Tern.〔()〕 Later UK pop singer Emil resung the samples from "The Dream" and the song became released as "Walking on the Moon". It entered the official US Billboard Charts at Nr. 8.〔(Facebook Nervous Records Post )〕 In September 2010, Kris released his ''Masquerade EP'' on Steve Angello's SIZE Label, which was followed up by his "Phoenix & Triangle" release in January 2011 as well as "Alpha Omega" with acid house founder DJ Pierre. Kris is also part of different projects and released under a number of aliases, including Cut Glass (w/ Maxwell Cooke), Stars on 33 (with Lawrence LT Thompson), Love on Laserdisc (with Ludovic Bordas), Jaunt and Black Van ((DFA)〔(Kris Menace´s Myspace Detail Board )〕 and owns different record labels like Compuphonic or "Work It Baby" where he nurtured artists such as Lifelike, Fred Falke and others.〔(Work It Baby on Discogs )〕 His disco project, together with New York-based TV-Star Lawrence LT Thompson named Stars On 33 released music on Eskimo Recordings as well as a full length Album in 2013 called 'This Is Love'. The first release of his project "Black Van" together with koweSix from Moonbootica was released on LCD Soundsystem's DFA label and became nominated for the nu-disco Track of the Year 2009, based on sales.〔(Beatport Beatportal Awards )〕 "Black Van"'s follow up single "Moments of Excellence / The Calling" feat. Holy Ghost! was released November 2010 on the label Permanent Vacation and 'Inside' which entered the Hypem Charts at Nr.1 on the own label Excellent Music. In 2013 they released the 6 Track EP "The B-Sides". Black Van also remixed for the likes of Oliver (Kitsuné), Aeroplane (Eskimo), Robbie Williams (EMI), The Glass (Plant Music), Paul Weller (Universal) and others.〔(Black-Van.com )〕 WIth Love On Laserdisc, Kris remixed for Depeche Mode and released an album, where he teamed up with Pills ex-member and vocalist Ludovic Bordas, Thomas Azier and Black Hills. Kris is also the co-producer of some Aeroplane remixes like for Rapture or George Michael.〔(Discogs )〕 His "Menace" project released its first EP ''Hz & Tones'' on Fake Blood's label Blood Music.〔(Discogs.com )〕 In April 2012, he released his new album ''Electric Horizon'', which features live visuals by London based duo Hexstatic.〔(iTunes )〕 followed by the singles Falling Star 〔(Falling Star Video on Youtube.com )〕 and eFeel 〔(eFeel Video on Youtube.com )〕 One year later he released a live version of ''Electric Horizon'', recorded in Barcelona, Spain at the legendary Razzmatazz Club.〔(YouTube Documentary )〕 In November 2012, Kris released his album ''Features''. The first single and video to "Hide" a collaboration with Miss Kittin received a Vimeo Staff Pick.〔(Official Video for HIDE on Vimeo )〕〔(Hide on Youtube.com )〕 The video for the single "Lone Runner" was presented by MTV.com on 21 December 2012,〔(Lone Runner on Youtube.com )〕〔(Lone Runner on MTV.com )〕 followed by "Trusting Me" in February 2013.〔(Trusting Me on Youtube.com ) as well as "Voodoo Dilate" in March and "Waiting For You" in April.〕 The album includes guest vocals by Julian Hamilton from The Presets, Daft Punk collaborator Romanthony, legendary house music singer Robert Owens, German soul singer Xavier Naidoo, Chelonis R. Jones, Simon Lord, Lawrence "LT" Thompson, Dodgy and others.〔(Magnetic Magazine Preview )〕 In November 2013, he released the album ''The Entirety of Matter'', including 12 instrumentals and visuals, brought together with Boston, USA-based graphic motion designer Matthew DiVito aka Mr. Div.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kris Menace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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