Les Gordon

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Les Gordon
Birth nameMarc Mifune
Born Rennes, France
Genres Electronic
Years active2013-present
Labels Arista

Marc Mifune (born in Rennes, France), [1] whose stage name is Les Gordon, is a French electronic musician and songwriter. [2]

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Early life

Gordon went to the École des Beaux-Arts. [2] [3] Originally from Rennes, [2] he studied at the École Émile-Cohl in Lyon. His father is Taiwanese [2] [3] and his stage name comes from the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. [2] He notably studied cello and guitar. [4]

Career

Mifune began creating his first tracks under the pseudonym Morning Crash, when he began learning how to make computer-aided music. [5] His current stage name, Les Gordon, is a reference to Douglas Gordon, videographer and visual artist; "Les" is an English name that references British artists such as Four Tet, Gold Panda, Mount Kimbie and many others. [6]

Mifune has been an opening act for Stromae (Rencontres Trans Musicales of 2013), Madeon (Le Trianon) and Fauve [1] [7] (eighteen representations [2] ).

He composed Saisons (2014), Les cheveux longs (2015) and Atlas (2016), [7] along with a collaboration EP, Croquis n°1 (2015). [2] and signed to the French label Kitsuné [7] after leaving the label Allo Floride. [4]

He has a band, which is called Singapour (2015), where Gordon is a producer and his friend Roman Oswald writes lyrics. [5]

He is featured in several duos such as Mondrian with Roman Oswald [8] and Leska with Douchka. [9]

Nearly in 2018, Mifune was signed to French subdivision of Sony Music's record label Arista Records.

In the same year, he released his long-play album La. This album included song Flirting With June, that was used in Apple's September Event 2019 intro and advertisement Wonderful tools. [10] [11]

Albums

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References

  1. 1 2 "Le tube " Atlas " de Les Gordon détricoté par Kidswaste - Greenroom". Greenroom (in French). 22 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ainouz, Abigail. "[interview] Les Gordon : "Les gens pensent que l'electro se fait en tournant un bouton. Derrière les chansons, il y a un savoir-faire." - Les inRocks Lab". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  3. 1 2 Ainouz, Abigail. "Découverte du lab #135 : Les Gordon - Les inRocks Lab". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  4. 1 2 "Young Energy : Les Gordon, je ne voulais pas décevoir le public avant Stromae". 18 February 2015. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  5. 1 2 "Exclusive Mixtape & Interview: Les Gordon". 4 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "[Interview] les Gordon". 21 November 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 "Les Gordon – Atlas EP" (in French). Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  8. ↑ "Le Rennais Marc Mifune bosse avec Stromae et Fauve". jactiv.ouest-france.fr. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  9. ↑ "TransMusicales de Rennes. La programmation 2016 en vidéo". Ouest-France.fr. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  10. ↑ September Event 2019 — Apple , retrieved 2023-02-12
  11. ↑ Wonderful tools — Apple , retrieved 2023-02-12
  12. ↑ "White Land, by les Gordon".
  13. ↑ "Diadème, by les Gordon".
  14. ↑ "Françoise // Brigitte, by les Gordon".
  15. ↑ "SoundCloud - Hear the world's sounds".
  16. ↑ "La".
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