Reynold Added by kwab, 28 September 2005

Sam Rouanet started playing violin and classical guitar at a conservatory at the age of 6. But a few years later he chose the electric guitar and started jamming with his father (who's an excellent jazz musician) Despite early exposure to jazz through his dad and growing up with soul music, by the 90's Sam developed a keen interest in the independent rock scene (bands like "Fugazi", "No means no" or "Helmet"?). Even back then experimenting with new sounds was mainly what he was aiming for! Hip hop was also a big step for Sam - especially in terms of production? the need to produce his own music became increasingly more important to him? especially after having met Matt Lux (the bass player from Isotope 217°). Sam then moved to Chicago and got inspiration from the house and "post rock" scenes (which at the time wasn't even called that way but how else would anyone label Tortoise's music, anyway?) And so Matt and Sam formed a funk band called A.U.F.M and started playing in the Chicago local scene! Sam then moved to London and his collaboration there with Kinobee and Scanone led him to concentrating on his own production work. Back in France he met Phil Stumpf and so it was only after a couple of European tours with the band OH. that the Canvas / Duplex100 and Minimal Dancin' adventures got started! His solo projects - Reynold also began developing around that time. Since then he's been releasing several records on labels like Dumb-Unit or Morris/Audio and also his own label called Trenton records that he's running together with Chris Clause (aka Aspro).

Now he lives in Berlin for new sharing experiences in terms of music, cultural and social exchanges!!!