Les presents songs of social commentary with sonic influences ranging from hip-hoppy grooves and 80’s punk-wave to electric guitar psychedelia and electronic music. A New York City rocker, noted guitarist and studio whiz-kid, Les’ prior releases “Guilty Pleasure” and “Come Along” continue to get regular play. “Edge of the World” reached #20 Indie DRT Chart and #144 Global DRT Chart in December 2019 and “Where were You?” was featured on Detroit’s WRIF & “Underground Sound System” in 2018. Les has made hip-hop tracks with Run-DMC (Profile), Mobb Deep (Loud/RCA), Onyx (Def Jam/Sony) and Red Hot Chili Peppers (Higher Ground).
Les Techno is a New York City rocker that played guitar, and sang in the usual rock hangouts, including in the bands Sim-Stim and Love Posse. Les Techno trained as a guitarist, occasionally with the late jazz-man Larry Coryell, learned to work with analog synthesizers with those big, round knobs, analog reel to reel tape machines, razor blades and a grease pencil in order to make obscure atonal music.
Les Techno continues to ignore the unforgettably amusing advice of a “knowledgable” A&R man at a “Major Record Label”: “You know, genre mixing in this business is dangerous.”
This song is a spring song, you know ? Its like we’ve been cooped up, but we’ve unloaded some bad stuff and its getting better. “We’re in the sunshine.” The track, well, I was fooling around with my old acoustic-electric jazz guitar. My luthier had fixed it up beautifully and these jazzy sounds materialized out of my hands like magic. So I went with it.
