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Russell Vaz, commonly known by his stage name VJ Hypnotica, is a Canadian VJ and visual performance artist. One of the originators of Vjing in Canada in 1995, VJ Hypnotica's style has evolved markedly from early beginnings, consisting more of scratching, B-movie and synthetic synesthesia than psychedelic and geometric.
Biography
Vaz was born and raised in Montreal, QC, where he spent much of his youth playing the guitar, listening to mostly classic hip-hop, new wave and industrial, and watching movies from the golden age of cinema to current Hollywood films. Vaz was also influenced by the local punk scene and the music of touring American and Canadian bands that would play at show bars such as Les Foufounes Electriques (translated from French: The Electric Pussycat) including Ripcordz and Nirvana. Vaz frequented a local record store called Inbeat Records, where he became acquainted with the sounds of artists like Kraftwerk, Ministry, Public Image Limited, Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, and dance music genres like trance, house, techno, acid, and tribal.
He gained experience in the Mars Bar nightclub as the light man for a short time prior to founding Hypnotica Visuals in 1995. The first few years of work saw Hypnotica performing live VJing for many underground raves, using heavy slide and video projectors, video cassettes, live cameras and video special effects. 1997 saw VJ Hypnotica serve as an original advising consultant and beta tester to ArKaos for their first VJing software X<>pose which was released the following year, 1998.
In 2002, VJ Hypnotica's uncredited work producing the visuals that were projected behind the live performance recorded for the French-Canadian singer Garou (singer)'s 2002 DVD release “Garou: Live a Bercy”, with the participation of Celine Dion and Luc Plamondon, produced by Sony Music Entertainment and BMG, helped this DVD receive a professional review score of 17 out of 20 points: the “Image” section of the DVD review, which covers the quality of the projected visuals as part of the emotional impact of the live performance, received 5 out of 5 points. The reviewer concluded, translated from French, “For those who haven't caught on yet, this DVD is a bomb that you must absolutely explode in your living room.” [1]
References
- ^ [http://www.dvdcritiques.com/critiques/dvd_visu.aspx?dvd=73 Review of the DVD “Garou: Live a Bercy” on dvdcritiques.com
External links
- VJ Hypnotica official Website
- VJ Hypnotica official MySpace
- VJ Hypnotica official Facebook fan page
- VJ Hypnotica official twitter page
Catgegory:People from Montreal, QC
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