If you’ve never heard of Akufen (AKA Horror, Inc., AKA Marc Leclair), we can’t really call you clueless. After all, the elusive Montreal-based producer rarely gives interviews and it’s been a minute ...

Though he's better know as Akufen, Marc Leclair just released a new LP with his Horror Inc. project. Briefly Eternal, which is out now on Germany's Perlon label, finds him embracing not only ...

The latest installment in London club Fabric's mix series is one of its best. Akufen highlights the cream of the recent abstract techno and tech-house crop, tracks that use their more glitchy elements ...

Out now on Force Inc. Montreal-based Akufen’s “My Way” primarily showcases DJ Marc Leclair’s newly developed production technique called “microsampling,” and doubles as an intriguing dance music album ...

Advances in the electronic realm known as microhouse are minuscule by nature, but the past few months have been loaded with albums that convert the genre's finicky obsessions to grandiose aural ...

Geräuschmusik trifft Techno: Der Kanadier Marc Leclair verfolgt mit seiner Musik einen kaleidoskopischen Ansatz. Am Samstag spielt er im Basler Club Sud ein Set unter seinem Akufen-Alias.

"I'm interested in any source of sound, other than what is too familiar," says Montreal-based soundsmith Marc Leclair, better known as Akufen. There's no question that the avoidance of all things ...

Montreal-based microhouse maestro Marc Leclair drew rave reviews for his glitch-tastic debut album as Akufen, 2002's My Way, only for his releases to slow to a trickle afterwards. Last year's ...

Was ist Techno? Musik aus Maschinen. Der Rest war eigentlich immer schon egal. All das Gequatsche über die Produktionsmittel im Techno war nur ein hilfloser Versuch, einer neuen Musik mit einem neuen ...

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