Minuit De Lacroix is an international recording artist & music producer.

Born on March 29th, 1974 in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
He performs & records various styles of electronic music since 1991
mainly under his own name or with several pseudonyms such as MDL.

Minuit De Lacroix as a singer
really stands out from the rest of his projects in a number of aspects.
The first being that the music has lyrics & his voice.
Secondly, the songs are more of a dark-wave meets synthpop hybrid
as opposed to his other works which are mostly instrumental recordings.

“My songs are a very descriptive memoir assortment
in which I take the listener along my travels through Europe
as I address some of the experiences & relationships
that have shaped my life in the last few years.”

Minuit De Lacroix has an electronic pop approach which is very alluring.
His atmospheric sounds & cryptic lyrics invoke a dreamy sensuality
& the songs are much more mellow than his other various musical outputs
even though elements of synthpop blend with dance floor friendly beats.
Immediate comparisons invoke Coil or a much more subdued Nick Cave
or a darker, edgier & more matured Depeche Mode.

“A challenging mixture of atmospheric pop filled with unsettling details
ensure that nothing else particularly matters while it slowly occurs…”

Other works as Minuit De Lacroix include soundtracks for theatre, various dance troupes, short films, live music backdrops for fashion shows, photography expositions, art exhibits & installations.

Currently he works in Barcelona, Spain as composer, producer, singer & actor.

SIDE PROJECTS

MDL combines real-time hardware manipulation of minimal electronic grooves & synthetic sounds. Check out the LIVE page for further details.

Into Ether [with Adrián Sierra / Viktor Alzina & Dawn Atlas + guests]
It began as a side project in 1998
& sporadically has been reactivated through the last decade.
The initial idea was to merge ambient synth textures
& passages of original neo-classical music compositions
with fast jungle-style break-beats & deep sub-bass lines
bringing an ethereal past & an imagined future together.
A series of events took the band all over Southern California
with different guest singers, dancers & musicians.
Live shows went from performing the funky DnB stuff
to the noisy improvisational Sonic Sculpture sessions,
through industrial dance, EBM with rap & acid techno trance.
Into Ether has been described as
‘Analog electronic music for contemporary dance in urban settings.’
Heavily influenced by the energy of Underworld, Front 242, NIN & Download,
Into Ether could be considered “maximal” techno, for lack of a better world.

33Canales [with Vate]
The collaboration between these two Mexican electronica producers
has so far brought forth a truly astounding piece of music entitled 33Minutos.
Clocking in at excatly 33 minutes, it keeps interesting & evolving all the time;
a lovely mix of dubby basslines, FX, jazz & techno with a stunning atmosphere,
reminiscent of Move D & Namlooks collaborations in places.

Women Like Objects combines stripped down electronics
that converge rhythmic noise & movie samples
while distorted industrial beats pound out the foundation of the tracks.
“groovy improvisation with heavy sequences & strong pounding beats!”
The most contrasting facet of the Minuit De Lacroix catalogue
which showcases great artistic diversity.

Slomophobe [Forthcoming "eclektro" project with Luis Velez]

FORMER INCARNATIONS

TIDE (1993-1996)
The first experimental / industrial project in 1993.
Taping absurd prank phone conversations, home appliances,
bicycles, plastic bottles & acoustic guitars in bathrooms.
Hours of this nonsense are kept on high quality chrome cassette
somewhere in an old wooden box back home!

Spellbinder (1996-1997)
Minuit started to gig under this extravagant moniker
with a nice collection of small Yamaha keyboards,
playing elaborated compositions with piano, harpsichord & organ sounds.
The female voice who sang for this project was Raquel Astorga.
Because of this project Minuit De Lacroix is still considered a Gothic musician.

Plexus (1997)
Beatless cascades of thick sounds & synthetic textures.
AX-80, Juno-106, an FM tone generator & a broken Casio
separately recorded into two individual stereo tracks (L/R).
Very few copies of “Synthesizers on magnetic tape” were distributed in 1998.
The richness of the sounds was utterly fantastic!

Mosquito [Tijuana pop / rock supergroup with Octavio De La Torre + guests]
Lemniscata / Frown ComPlex [Dark ambient / Industrial band with Heibeg]

MIDI & Recording Studios
• A cold storage space of spite (Home studio in Tijuana, México)
• The BreedFactor Lab (Owned & maintained x Héctor i.Benítez aka Heibeg)
• Sassafras studio (Formerly run x Adam Joyce aka Trip Tribe in San Diego, CA)

Minuit De Lacroix has performed in several European cities & in SoCal.
In recent years, interesting participations have been:
Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival in Berlin with Rinus Van Alebeek
LEM: International Experimental Music Festival of Barcelona
Zeppelin: Festival of Sonic Projects About Control
at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona.

As arranger Minuit De Lacroix has also worked on mixes
for a wide range of musicians such as Vate, Ford Proco, Murcof,
Francisco López, Rafael Flores, Zan Hoffman, among many others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He’s constantly recording vocals & / acoustic or electronic instruments
(& / or writing lyrics / journal notes / making friends / taking photos)
in random rooms all over Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Donosti, Bilbao,
Udine, Salzburg, Hallein, Eugendorf, Berlin, München, Paris & London.
Also on trains, airports, radio & / or bus stations + on occasion, public Wcs.

Correspondent member of Oidem Paris: Interdisciplinary research team.
Focused in projects that merge architecture with contemporary art / dance.

Active member of Schmiede Hallein:
Yearly Austrian workshop for the promotion of digital culture.

He also participated with workshops & a presentation of selected works in the
Forum for music in film & digital media (Salzburg & Munich, 2008).

In 2002 with Heibeg he founded the independent label Eklegein Recordings;
the first record company in Mexico to specialize in ambient noise.

In October 2004 he received the support of APROMAC
(National Program for Promotion of Art & Culture)
by the International Projects Department from CECUT
(Tijuana’s Cultural Centre) for artist development.
He then travelled to Spain to record new original sounds
& promote his work on local radio programs.

The future holds a film & re-interpretations of classic Elvis Presley songs
but as to how long before this actually happens – only time will tell…
The good thing about the matter is: Surprise is on our side!