Kris Menace Explained

Kris Menace
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth Name:Christoph Hoeffel
Alias:Black Van, Love on Laserdisc, Stars on 33, Cut Glass, Menace & Lord
Birth Place:Landau in der Pfalz, West Germany (now Germany)
Birth Date:1980
Genre:Nu-disco, progressive house
Occupation:Disc jockey, record producer, remixer
Label:Compuphonic, DFA, Size, Pias, Work It Baby, Blood Music, Newstate, Kontor, Permanent Vacation, Defected, Vulture
Associated Acts:Alan Braxe, Felix da Housecat, Rex the Dog, Romanthony, Julian Hamiton, Xavier Naidoo, Miss Kittin, Robert Owens, Unai, Fred Falke, Chelonis R. Jones, DJ Pierre, Aeroplane (musician)

Kris Menace (born Christoph Hoeffel) is a German DJ, remixer and music producer.

History

Christophe Hoeffel began to work as a producer and writer in the mid-1990s for different projects and started using the pseudonym "Kris Menace" in 2005.

Menace's debut single "Discopolis" (in collaboration with his friend Lifelike) was released on Alan Braxe's label Vulture Music in 2005. "Discopolis" was later picked up by Defected Records and re-released with various remixes (such as that of Kerri Chandler) and a video directed by Seb Janiak.[1] It became a huge hit in late 2006, reaching #10 in Finland and #89 in the UK Singles Chart.[2] [3]

Menace later formed his label Compuphonic and continued to release singles under its imprint.[4] In 2006, Kris also started DJing with Alan Braxe, who was part of "Stardust" with Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk, and together they released the single "Lumberjack"[5] in June 2007 on Vulture Music.[6] In 2008, he teamed up with the UK band Spooky to release the track "Stereophonic", as well as with Felix da Housecat to produce the house anthem "Artificial". and Rex the Dog to produce "POW!".[7] His Kylie Minogue remix was featured on Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite special edition album. His remix of LCD Soundsystem's "North American Scum" became part of their album Sound of Silver in different territories such as Japan.[8] His remix for Monarchy's "The Phoenix Alive" was used in the FIFA 12 video game soundtrack.[9] In November 2010, Kris did a minimix on Annie Mac's Radio1 show and broke the record of number of used singles with 240 tracks played within five minutes.[10]

From May 2009 to August 2010, Kris Menace had a weekly radio residency at Radio FG in Paris.[11]

Kris Menace released his debut album Idiosyncrasies in May 2009 on three CDs, followed by the singles "Metropolis" and "Idiosyncrasy".[12] Later, UK pop singer Emil resung the samples from "The Dream" and the song became released as "Walking on the Moon". It entered the US Billboard Hot Dance Chart at #8.[13] In September 2010, Kris released his Masquerade EP on Steve Angello's SIZE Label, which was followed up by his "Phoenix & Triangle" release in January 2011 as well as "Alpha Omega" with acid house founder DJ Pierre.

Kris is also part of different projects and released under a number of aliases, including Cut Glass (with Maxwell Cooke), Stars on 33 (with Lawrence "LT" Thompson, Love on Laserdisc (with Ludovic Bordas), Jaunt and Black Van (DFA)[14] and owns different record labels like Compuphonic or Work It Baby, where he nurtured artists such as Lifelike, Fred Falke and others.[15]

The first release of his project Black Van, together with koweSix from Moonbootica, was released on LCD Soundsystem's DFA label and became nominated for the Nu-disco Track of the Year 2009 based on sales.[16] "Black Van"'s follow up single "Moments of Excellence / The Calling (feat. Holy Ghost!)" was released in November 2010 on the label Permanent Vacation and "Inside", which entered the Hypem Charts at #1.[17]

In November 2012, Kris released his album Features. The first single and video was "Hide", a collaboration with Miss Kittin that received a Vimeo Staff Pick.[18] [19] The video for the single "Lone Runner" was presented by MTV.com on 21 December 2012,[20] [21] followed by "Trusting Me" in February 2013,[22] "Voodoo Dilate" in March and "Waiting for You" in April.

Discography

Albums

Singles

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DdqFxi4bKU Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis
  2. https://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Lifelike+%26+Kris+Menace&titel=Discopolis&cat=s Finnishcharts.com - Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis (Song)
  3. https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/17783/lifelike-and-kris-menace/ Lifelike & Kris Menace full Official Chart History
  4. http://www.discogs.com/label/Compuphonic Compuphonic on Discogs
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdnkQeElVDc Alan Braxe & Kris Menace - Lumberjack
  6. http://www.oneweektolive.com/profiles/profilesDETAIL.aspx?contentid=12474&folderid=182&index=0 Together with Kris Menace, One Week To Live Interview
  7. http://www.compuphonic.net Compuphonic Webpage
  8. http://www.discogs.com/LCD-Soundsystem-Sound-Of-Silver/release/2022883 Discogs.com Lcd Soundsystem
  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRE02BB6NrM YouTube Video to FifaSoundtrack 2012
  10. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vmzwf Annie Mac Radioi1
  11. http://www.radiofg.com Radio FG
  12. http://www.myspace.com/krismenace Kris Menace´s Myspace Page
  13. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=7384133&l=9aeedac4a8&id=80496125752 Facebook Nervous Records Post
  14. http://www.myspace.com/krismenace Kris Menace´s Myspace Detail Board
  15. http://www.discogs.com/label/Work+It+Baby Work It Baby on Discogs
  16. Web site: Beatport Beatportal Awards . 2010-05-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121021095336/http://www.beatportal.com/tags/tag/beatport+music+awards//beatport-music-awards-2010/ . 2012-10-21 . dead .
  17. http://www.black-van.com Black-Van.com
  18. https://vimeo.com/53044322 Official Video for HIDE on Vimeo
  19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjG92cKFKc8 Hide on Youtube.com
  20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozrGFVLBzcQ Lone Runner on Youtube.com
  21. https://web.archive.org/web/20130127053302/http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2012/12/20/kris-menace-lone-runner-video-unai/ Lone Runner on MTV.com
  22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebSkdeH-Z5o Trusting Me on Youtube.com

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