Association pour le Bateau Genève

AGORIA (INFINE) / FR
Just out of his teens, Sebastien Devaud – not yet Agoria, but already a music lover –
stamped his feet in front of the counter of a record shop specialized in electronic sounds (or
house music as it was then known). He was waiting for improbable American or German
vinyls that would shape a culture and a well-defined willpower to engage permanently in an
eccentric/electric lifestyle…
A true education in parallel to the countryside family nest, where his fairly artistic parents (his
father is the architect of the bubble-house on the cover of his debut album, and his mother
teaches music) give him a taste for music and real life, where childhood friends are friends
for life, and where his radio serves as a musical matrix…
When he discovers the first techno tracks and raves, it was a true electroshocks that will lead
this young man to give life to what could have been a mere childhood dream, mark of the
passionate worker with an insatiable curiosity and eternal smile.
THE “BLOSSOMING”:
2003, Barcelona, Sonar, 5AM - Agoria enjoys the communion with a raging audience of
10000 people… He’s come a long way: training on the machines, first records for small
companion labels, learning the record industry too; a publisher, an agent, a manager, true
commercial and an album “Blossom”, in 2004.
Critically acclaimed all over the world, “Blossom” is a milestone for the new dance scene
mixing inventive melodies, groove and beats. Nothing to explain, just take note: a little
something more, the sincere craving to try. And it works: a track with Tricky on the first
album, a remix for Paul Kalkbrenner (Bpitch Control), or Inner City Detroit anthem “Big
Fun”, consistent artwork (hello Kofea), cheeky 12’’, real underground hits heard on every
single dance floor (La 11ème Marche, Sky Is Clear, Spinash Girl), a couple of plebiscite at
the core of electronic music (Trax, Groove,Dj Mag...).
TRAVEL BROADENS MIND:
Carrying round flight case, headphones and Sunday t-shirts every weekend, Sebastien
Devaud spread his Dj skills around the globe. Shifting from local basement to international clubs and festivals, from Brazil to Japan, Spain, Germany ... The list is too long! Probably
because of his attention to emotion and details in his set, Agoria was elected two years in a
row best DJ by the Trax magazine's readers poll.
2005, time to lay the staggering experience of his set down on a CD: Cute & Cult!
Inside : 15 years knowledge, rare & beautiful things, from the Mulholland Drive soundtrack
theme to a stunning piano reinterpretation of Derrick May's anthem... not to mention an
exclusive new track Les Beaux Jours done especially for the project. A perfect hors d'oeuvre
for his new album, “The Green Armchair”.
THE EVIDENCE:
Whether the fundamentalists of the electronic genre like it or not, The Green Armchair was
Undoubtedly an essential success of the fusion of styles. Eleven tracks of today’s music, a
sort of snapshot of a certain vision of electronic music, terribly ambitious, yet perfectly
accomplished and mastered.
A few dancefloor tracks, “Code 1026”, unanimously recognized as one of the techno anthem
of year 2006, “Europa” or the classic “Les Violons Ivres”... A few unusual collaborations
aimed at bringing the listener to a sort of melancholic reverie, to insert a bit of bittersweet
reflection beyond the original bang-bang-bang : Peter Murphy from the cult krautrock band
Bauhaus, Neneh Cherry, the soul sister or Francesco Tristano, a gifted young pianist ... As
a DJ he as kept on visiting the world with club residencies in Barcelona (Loft / Razzmatazz),
Madrid (Danzoo/Macumba), Lyon (Nuits Sonores, festival that he created in his hometown
and who is now the biggest music French festival) and Paris (Rex Club).
BE BRAVE:
No wonder this insatiable appetite for diversity and quality led Sebastien to set up his own
label. Born French late 2006, InFiné... has since then traveled to Mexico with Cubenx, to
Berlin with Apparat, Austria with Clara Moto or to Bamako with Donso. From the darkness
of Marseilles Danton Eeprom's electronic beats to the clear and almost divine piano notes of
Barcelona’s Francesco Tristano, Sebastien keeps with InFiné as with his own productions
on tracking quality across the genre for the sake of music.
AT THE CONTROLS:
2007 was also a busy year with remixes for: Underground Resistance release from John
“Billiebob” Williams, Unkle “Burn My Shadow” new single and his Lyon’s neighbour Scalde…
He set up his first live with his mates the Spanish Jose Lagarellos on machines and the
Berliner Honza from Pfadfinderei video design company. Created first time in his hometown
Nuits Sonores festival (2007 edition) and then he took off for Dour festival (Benelux),
Astropolis (Brest/France), Dance Valley, (Amsterdam/Holland), Creamfields
(Almeria/Spain)…
Meanwhile, after James Holden, Mandy and just before Claude von Stroke, Agoria released
the third issue of the mythic “At The Controls” mixed compilation collection, merging in two
CD, tracks from his new InFiné favorites, cinematic soundscapes and club anthems.
Innovative and diversified, “At The Controls” ended up second in Resident Advisor 2007
compilation chart.
GOING FASTER:
The action movie, focused on these famous ‘Go Fasters’, the automobile pilots with a
fury for ultra-powerful, armed convoys who transport over a ton of hashish at 200
km/hour or more on the European motorways, with an aim of outsmarting the police
forces. It just so happens that producers Emmanuel Prévost and Stéphane Lecomte
listened to Agoria’s album ‘The Green Armchair’ completely by chance. They were
soon to fall head over heels in love with the album, and decided to synchronise two
scenes of the film with tracks ‘Code 1026’ and ‘Europa’. Agoria asks to see the
scenes. Soon, he enjoys it so much that he is asked to compose the entire score for
the film. Apparently, imagining music over images is a job in itself.
Agoria soon realises this when someone tells him. But it does not deter him as he
tools to compose another album, which could naturally become his third, simply
inspired from the images and the scenario of ‘Go Fast’.
Three Eps will be taken from the soundtrack and released on 12”: “Dust”, “Diva
Drive” and “Solarized”. All of the them with a distinct style…
WHAT´S NEXT?
Agoria is taking a new bend end of the year 2009. On top of remixes for Josh Wink`s
Ovum and the funky official keyboard of the soulfull hip-hop Quannum Collective from
San Francisco, General Elektriks, he will sign, “Magnolia”, a first EP for his own
label InFiné in November. 2010 should also see the release of Internationally well
known mixed compilation … and the shine of his fourth album.
TO BE CONTINUED…

CLARA MOTO (INFINE) / SP
Autumn 2006. Melbourne. Clara was selected to attend the Red Bull Academy, a platform for up-andcoming
talents, invited over the course of a few weeks to perfect their studio technique and meet
professionals. Also part of the talent pool that year were Flying Lotus and Douglas Greed. The
Academy organises tours for its best students, who get to perform at major European festivals on a
dedicated stage. Which takes us back to where our story began: Geneva Airport. The Montreux Jazz
Festival.
Chance encounter in Terminal 3. An enthusiastic young French Dj tells her all about the label he has
just set up together with a few friends, his first protégés Francesco Tristano and Danton Eeprom and
his desire to develop and nurture young talent. Agoria is his name, and InFiné the label.
Fast forward to Autumn 2007. InFiné releases Clara Moto’s “Glove Affair”, a firm-handed, delicious
minimal house cut. One year later, and it’s with the release of “Silently”, a light and fluffy tune
featuring a killer chorus that Clara, with the help of Mimu on vocals, reveals a strong penchant for
pop.
As 2010 dawns and her first album is released, Clara provides ample proof of her allegiance to
electronic music. Her affection for the genre comes in many forms, each imbued with her unique
brand of femininity, and she embraces it in all its diversity and spontaneity. Clara takes life
snapshots, fragments of emotions and her daily – and nightly – perceptions and turns them into sounds. So it is quite appropriate that the opening track should be named after a character in The
Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. Clara Moto is polyamorous: the full-on intensity of simple little
love stories moves her more than relational exclusivity agreements of epic proportions.

OPUSWERK / CH
Born between Egypt and the Netherlands, architect and thinker, lover of basslines, snycopated
rythms, hypnotic melodies and of russian things. My musical universe constructs itself in the same
way it self deconstructs around similar structures yet different, while repetitive and full of the hale of
vodka. The far North, explored during the Transmediale Festival, as well as some EPs on label such as
Absolutive, Ayeko, Hope and others, also participate in the design of what goes through my ears and
comes out of my alambic.
My electronic activities range from production and dj to liveacts.