Made In Glitch : 13 March 2009

Lunice: Artist Bio

Anyone who has seen this charismatic shy guy come to life on stage will testify that he is the truth. It was just over a year ago that Lunice started bumping his own beats at the Bass Culture + Turbo Crunk nights, and in that short amount of time the music he creates has come full circle, from a burgeoning hiphop producers bedroom, to a deep current club sound, and settling somewhere right in the middle, with a twist of blips and soundclips.

The cross section of people that get open to his music is astounding, his live show instantly allows people to see how much love he has for the beats he makes and his motivation for doing them. He has juice. Lunice loves to make people get down to it.

In a short amount of time Lunice became the anchor for the Turbo Crunk events, playing earlier slots with a bit slower beats, and bringing it up to pace for a full night of remix music. It is in fact a very tough job for most DJs, but an exceptional task to do well by any producer. Lunice taxes crowds and leaves them wanting more.

Recently signed to the Codeine Drum label (for a collab project between himself and Al Ripken Jr.) all we can really say is to keep your ear open for him. Dude is doing those big things already.

You can catch Lunice as a resident at Turbo Crunk.

Listen or download Lunice's new promo mix from our mixtapes page
so you can hear Lunice before you see him live at our next MIG event:

Lunice - Mixtape Download: 54.7 Mb 160 Kbs Listen:

Pitchfork.com write up:
New Music: Lunice [ft. Al Ripken Jr.]: "Jane's Addiction" [Stream]
by Erin MacLeod

Lunice seems to churn out remixes in his sleep and big beats overnight. Good thing, because 2009 just might be Mr. Fermin Pierre II's time. The 20-year-old Montrealer linked up with Megasoid (Rob "Speakerbruiser" Squire and Hadji "Wolf Parade" Bakara) last year after his very first public gig. He's since been a part of their Turbo Crunk crew, bring his own special blend of bittersweet bass-driven goodness. Whether one calls what Lunice is doing Lazer Bass, Wonky or Street Bass, it's all about what will make folks dance. To be expected, given that he's a competent (and formerly competitive) breakdancer with his own particular style. "Janes Addiction" finds him in a more glitchy mood alongside Baltimore's Al Ripken, Jr.



Montreal Mirror write up: UNSTOPPABLE
On The Next Thing: Lunice
by Erin MacLeod

When Lunice Fermin Pierre II says, "There's been a lot of stuff this year," he's not kidding. "I've been in so many random things," he laughs, describing a Rona-sponsored corporate dance tour across Canada that led to a performance at Just for Laughs, and how one of his online YouTube dance videos was featured, leading to potential offers of work on U.K. music videos and free clothes.

But this is all "so on the side," he says, since he's now putting energy into music. After all, 2008 was the year Lunice connected with Mofomatronix and got involved in Montreal's successful, New Yorker-approved, Megasoid-fuelled Turbo Crunk parties after his very first shot at performing his own work-big, bassy stuff with a melodic, sweetly melancholic touch that's quite unique among the new crop of producers whose dancefloor bangers are alternately labelled as street bass, lazer bass or wonky.

The 20-year-old Concordia Intermedia/Cyberarts student has been at it for a while. "I started out with graffiti, then b-boying, going to competitions." A former member of 701 squad breakdancing crew, Lunice started dancing in his early teens. Then, at around 16, the proficient beatboxer got the idea to try some music.

"Music only came up one day when I was with a friend and we were thinking about what we were going to do later on. And I thought, when I get around 20 or so, I'm going to get some equipment and start making music, just for fun. I first tried in 2004. I made one or two beats and thought, nah, too complicated. So I stopped until 2006, and then I started to get the hang of it and it was so fun. There's no way I'm stopping now."

It's a good thing, given the attention Lunice has been getting. Having started his MySpace "for fun," he's linked with folks not only in Montreal but across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.-he's got a collaborative EP, entitled Paper Spray, with Baltimore's Al Ripken Jr., due for release in January on Glasgow's upstart Codeine Drums label. There are plans for stateside dates with Turbo Crunk and a potential Japan trip.

As people get more and more curious, this prolific Montrealer just keeps cranking out the tunes. He's got piles of music up on his MySpace, a lot of which he refers to as his "old stuff." For Lunice, this means tunes from a few months ago-he's committed to keeping it fresh. "I'm always on to some other thing."



XLR8R Magzine write up: (excerpt)...
The French (Canadian) Touch
by Raji Sohal


In Poirier's native Montreal, the scene coalesces around two parties: his own Bounce Le Gros and Megasoid's monthly Turbo Crunk party. The names themselves-"fat bounce" and aggressive techno-rap on overdrive-have proven to be good descriptors of the DJ/producers' sound, which involves tweaking popular hip-hop acapellas over experimental, off-kilter hip-hop-speed beats, and sometimes augmenting them with rappers and dancehall MCs. Megasoid is the backbone of the Montreal scene, often performing with collaborators in the Turbo Crunk posse, including rising lazer-basser Lunice, whose music has morphed from sample-based, Dilla- and bossa nova-inspired stuff into minimalist hyphy. "Megasoid makes the marriage of Detroit techno and hip-hop impossibly entertaining," Squire explains. "We're more and more concerned with heavy bass."



Up and Coming Releases '09:

March 23rd: A remix of Xrabit & DMG$'s single called "Damaged Goods"
for Big Dada Records. "Xrabit & DMG$ - Damaged Goods (Lunice Remix) (Big Dada Records)"