Les Techno has shares his Guilty Pleasure

“Post-punk brilliance touched off with a healthy dose of garage rock for
good measure ….” – AlternativeNation

Post-Punk provocateur Les Techno has released new music entitled “Guilty Pleasure“.

With an emphasis on groove, Mr. Techno has evolved and mastered his unique dance pop signature sound on this release. “Guilty Pleasure” is out now via Solid Bass Records.

With a New Wave / Underground sound, “Guilty Pleasure” has a rewind appeal for those who adore the 80’s retro club scene. it has a permeating resonance that has a “catchy” feel, and is very dance oriented, not that this is anywhere near a bad thing, may be more of what we need, a thinking man’s music, intelligent by design with lyrical strengths.

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.

Headstuff.org applauds Les Techno’s musical style, noting that “the scrappy riffing and Les’s softly reverberated, crooning vocals sound like something straight out of a classic movie’s montage sequence. His voice carries that confident but quivering quality, traceable to Bowie through Byrne, only a hint huskier. Hook after hook, with tongue-in-cheek lyrics, Les Techno has charm, wit and charisma in the bag.”   Alternative Nation dubbed him “a mad genius” with “seemingly boundary-less approach to crafting powerful, out of the box anthems.“

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.

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