Foeniks, also known as ELectroBin, is a French electronic music producer who has released a couple of albums on Bandcamp over the last few years. He's been described as not being defined by a genre but by his creativity. His affinity with music began when learning how to play guitar that he patiently taught himself via an insatiable amount of practice and dedication. Blending different styles of music ranging from classical, soul, funk, jazz, trip-hop, metal and others, Foeniks first discovered music production way back in 2001. Throughout the intervening years, fellow producers, sound engineers, and DJs, have accompanied him and helped tremendously in nurturing his sound and making him grow as an artist. Despite the fact that he has never pursued a specific genre of music, he dabbles in trance, techno, electro-rock, drum 'n' bass, breakcore, and cinematic music. He recently posted an album's worth of unreleased music, and it's a fascinating mixture of all the above-mentioned genres, from the idiosyncratic opening cover of 'Sentimental Journey' to the cinematic soundscape of 'Troubles And Melodies' . I'd never heard of him before discovering this album, but I really like it, in particular his inventive use of samples, film dialogue and old jazz records of the 40's, and it's returned to the playlist more than a few times since I found it.
Track listing
01 Sentimental Journey
02 No Sympathy
03 Deleste (feat. Favo)
04 From Me To You
05 Holiday's Interlude
06 Ils S'en Vont
07 Dark Days
08 Honey
09 We Think Too Much
10 Childish Interlude
11 I Can Dream
12 Troubles And Melodies
