Perturbator is James Kent, a French electronic musician from Paris. A produ… Read Full Bio ↴Perturbator is James Kent, a French electronic musician from Paris. A producer of dark and retrofuturistic music inspired by the 80's often referred to as synthwave or retrowave.
Kent has a background as a guitar player in several black metal bands. Since 2012 he has produced electronic music inspired by cyberpunk culture and with inspiration from movies like Akira, Ghost In The Shell and The Running Man. He uses a variety of software synths in his productions, such as the emulators of old vintage synths like the OB-X or the CS-80. Since his debut EP Night Driving Avenger he has released four full-length albums, the latest of which is The Uncanny Valley on the Blood Music label, and has performed several live shows. Several of his tracks were featured in the 2012 game Hotline Miami and its 2015 sequel Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. Perturbator's EP Sexualizer was released in part to officially release the song "Miami Disco" and as a way to thank the developers of Hotline Miami. The success of the Hotline Miami games resulted in a greater amount of exposure to a mainstream audience.
Perturbator released his fourth full-length album The Uncanny Valley on May 6, 2016 through Blood Music on a range of formats including Digibook CD, vinyl, and cassette tape. The album was met with generally positive reviews, with MetalSucks and Bloody Disgusting both writing in praise of it. Some versions of the album also included a bonus EP, with Kent writing that "The first three songs complement the themes covered within The Uncanny Valley, and the final track—'VERS/US'—is a demo from The Uncanny Valley writing sessions that fits the mood and atmosphere of the album but didn't quite make it into the final cut." Bloody Disgusting gave the album 5/5 and wrote that The Uncanny Valley "is sure to not only please fans of the genre but also win over newcomers."
Kent became interested in music in part due to the influence of his parents, who are journalists and rock music critics. His parents were themselves musicians and had a tech trance band when they were young, which influenced Kent to take an interest in synthesizers.
Kent also has a side project called L'Enfant De La Forêt
http://perturbator.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/perturbator
https://www.facebook.com/Perturbator
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Perturbator
Kent has a background as a guitar player in several black metal bands. Since 2012 he has produced electronic music inspired by cyberpunk culture and with inspiration from movies like Akira, Ghost In The Shell and The Running Man. He uses a variety of software synths in his productions, such as the emulators of old vintage synths like the OB-X or the CS-80. Since his debut EP Night Driving Avenger he has released four full-length albums, the latest of which is The Uncanny Valley on the Blood Music label, and has performed several live shows. Several of his tracks were featured in the 2012 game Hotline Miami and its 2015 sequel Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. Perturbator's EP Sexualizer was released in part to officially release the song "Miami Disco" and as a way to thank the developers of Hotline Miami. The success of the Hotline Miami games resulted in a greater amount of exposure to a mainstream audience.
Perturbator released his fourth full-length album The Uncanny Valley on May 6, 2016 through Blood Music on a range of formats including Digibook CD, vinyl, and cassette tape. The album was met with generally positive reviews, with MetalSucks and Bloody Disgusting both writing in praise of it. Some versions of the album also included a bonus EP, with Kent writing that "The first three songs complement the themes covered within The Uncanny Valley, and the final track—'VERS/US'—is a demo from The Uncanny Valley writing sessions that fits the mood and atmosphere of the album but didn't quite make it into the final cut." Bloody Disgusting gave the album 5/5 and wrote that The Uncanny Valley "is sure to not only please fans of the genre but also win over newcomers."
Kent became interested in music in part due to the influence of his parents, who are journalists and rock music critics. His parents were themselves musicians and had a tech trance band when they were young, which influenced Kent to take an interest in synthesizers.
Kent also has a side project called L'Enfant De La Forêt
http://perturbator.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/perturbator
https://www.facebook.com/Perturbator
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Perturbator
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@igorlukyan206
I brainstormed an entire fucking cyberpunk mega city building raid that plays on repeat every time I listen to this track. I gotta make it a reality you guys would love it.
Fuck it here’s how it goes.
0:00-0:29 it’s night time. A team of private high tech operatives are preparing to storm a building, hearts are beating, meanwhile HQ is monitoring the entire area with drones. They are clear to engage. This is gonna get bloody.
00:29 boom City view, blade runner cityscape, the building that comes into focus is a 100+ story mega complex with holographic drinks and prostitutes being advertised in the night sky. Cyborg females pole dancing in a dimly lit club, Crowded with people, lasers and pink lights and shit.
0:39 Doors blast open, the team opens fire without remorse. Guards on the upper floors are eliminated by snipers, EMP flashbangs, Civilian casualties are everywhere. All of this happens in seconds. Gangsters begin retaliating and flipping over tables for cover.
Other teams are taking over upper floors via grapple hooks and the entire lobby is a bloodbath.
1:08 the crime lord of this mega building is in the top penthouse looking at the camera screens. He’s fucking pissed.The task force claimed and secured the first 5 floors and are beginning to climb the elevators and stairs. He shouts some orders and the entire building is preparing for fucking war. They are being overrun by 300+ special forces by all sides.
1:47 spec ops hackers get into the building’s system. floors 1-50 go dark. The lights go out. The spec ops teams switch to night vision, while HQ is giving them constant information. The gangsters can only see the gun flashes. Brutal hand to hand combat and shooting through walls, the enemy is swiftly dealt with, everyone is double tapped, bullets to the head confirming kills.
2:26-3:06 the elevators continue climbing. There’s like 20 elevators this is a big ass building. The crime lord is becoming worried, send everything! Corridors are being boarded up. Meanwhile we got some wide angle views of the all the bodies and mechanical parts lying around in the lower floors.
3:06 spec ops guys are in the elevators and checking ammo, one of them takes off his fully covered helmet and tells them to step back. Mantis blades pop out of his forearms and he waits for the elevator ding.
3:24 “Ding!” The hallway lights up in gunfire, the guy with the blades is wall running and decapitating guards, turns a corner, shoots an implosive grenade in the other hallway, blowing the entrance of the crime lord’s main room. The boss shoots the mantis blades guy with his handgun but the main operative continues walking up to him. He’s spitting out blood and he’s full of adrenaline, basically ignoring all of his wounds. Then the boss realizes that this guy was one of his henchmen that he left for dead a few years ago. This shit was personal. The blades guy impales the boss and then sits down, both of them pretty much already dead.
The scene cuts to the city view, and there’s other building being raided the exact same way.
@Ouranyama
"My worst gig was in Poitiers (France), in a shitty hipster club, the minute i started, opening with "Future Club", everyone left the place (no joke here). And i finished the whole 1 hour set in front of like 3 guys. Seriously.
People came back once i got off stage, because the resident DJ played an avicii track."
-Perturbator
edit: this blew up and I forgot to add additional info in the op. This quote was by Perturbator, on a Q&A he did on 8ch in 2015. I wrote this comment that very same day. This was half the answer to "what was you best and your worst gig ever?". I recall him saying that his best was at a Russian club (don't know the club's name or location) where he played in front of like 200+ people that went fucking nuts, almost destroyed the club on their Perturbator fueled party.
@LuffyAndMe
God those fuckheads have the chance to hear Perturbator live and they just leave the place.
@DukeOfDiabetus
Fucking hipsters bro
@DifficultyTweak
so i've been told hipsters need to die
@bananawolf6417
fuck hipsters unless they have taste
@teodorlivadaru4714
+Baksin It's ironic, because avicii has the shittiest music I've ever heard.
@geraldmerkowitz4360
Thank you Hotline Miami, you made me discover an entire world of music I didn't new it existed
@reptahv1954
For me "Farcry 3: Blood dragon" did it.
@alpha1beta1gamma
Try reading an English textbook you might discover an entire world of grammar
@mauler7303
@@alpha1beta1gamma dude literally made one grammar mistake. is that a sin?