“Madeon is a french electronic musician.Hugo Leclercq (born
May 30, 1994), known by his stage name Madeon, is a self-described
“electro-pop-house-whatever” producer from Nantes, France.Leclercq started
composing music at the age of 11, and adopted a nu-disco style under the name “Madeon”
in 2010. In the fall of that year, at the age of just 16, he gained popularity
for his award-winning remix of The Island by Pendulum which was praised by the
likes of Skrillex and Pendulum front-man Rob Swire.In 2011, he created a remix
for Yelle’s “Que veux-tu”, and then went on to remix deadmau5’s Raise Your
Weapon which was praised by deadmau5 himself on Facebook and other social
utilities. In the summer of 2011, a YouTube video of his live mashup “Pop
Culture” went viral, which combines 39 pop hits into one song. As of November
2012, it has approximately fifteen million hits.Leclercq has been featured on
15 Minutes of Fame, a segment of Pete Tong’s radio show on BBC Radio 1. Also on
the 27th of January 2012 he played a 20 minute set as part of a show organised
by Pete Tong to showcase up and coming stars in Electronic music. He included
some of his own songs such as Pop Culture and Icarus, as well as merging songs
together; These ranged from Shuriken alongside Que Veux Tu and DJ, to M83’s Midnight City being played on top of a Madeon
edit of Blitz by Digitalism.Leclercq has cited The Beatles and Daft Punk as his
greatest musical influences. He is also known to use Novation’s Launchpad for
his live performances, and FL Studio as his music production program of
choice.A debut EP was scheduled to be released in 2012, but then cancelled in
favour of multiple singles, the first of which – Icarus – is planned to be
released in February 2012.Mid 2012 Madeon teamed up with one of EDM’s favorite
voices, Ellie Goulding, to produce Stay Awake.The track was meant for Ellie’s
Halcyon album, but wasn’t delivered in time. It made a standalone release in
March 2013.Listen song here:YouTube
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