NYC Post-Punk Provocateur Les Techno Drops His New Track "Guilty Pleasure"
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Like a character out of a dystopian movie script, Les Techno projects an effortless mystique and a slight strangeness. Cooled out emotions and swaths of satire drip from his signature croon and artful lyrics. The rawness of the post-punk movement like the Psychedelic Furs and the Talking Heads combined with the electronica-infused pop popularized by artists like New Order all factor into Les Techno's sound, which would be equally at home on the radio or as vinyl spun at a post-apocalyptic goth club.
Les Techno comes from New York City, a rocker that has played guitar and sang in the punk rock hangouts, including in the bands Sim-Stim and Love Posse. Trained as a guitarist, occasionally with the late jazz-man Larry Coryell, Les learned to work with analog synthesizers and analog tape using razor blades and a grease pencil. While working on his "studio tan," Les created tracks and mixes across a wide variety of genres: classic hip-hop with Run-DMC (Profile) and Mobb Deep (Loud/RCA), reggae dance-hall with Georgie Blacks ("Kickup Unwine", RCA), techno dance with Stimulator ("Are you a Freak?"/ PowWow), and dance remixes for Red Hot Chili Peppers (“Higher Ground”). He also worked with the late legendary funkmaster Bernie Worrell (“Downtown”, Virgin/EMI).
Les Techno’s familiarity with producing these different sonic styles is readily heard in Les’ music. Cinematic, challenging, and filled with all variation of carefully crafted ear candy, Les Techno's music is the sound of a man truly making the music he wants to make.
Listen to Les Techno’s new track “Guilty Pleasure” right now and connect with him on his social media. Also, check out the lyric video HERE.