Valence born Krikor met his first Sampling Machine in 1995, during his sound engineering studies. he naturaly started producing tracks with Frederic Galliano, Krikor's firsts loves were funk music, and the bass instrument, for which he spent one year in the Bass institute of technology in Los Angeles...

After a five year break He put back his own label together newly named Omertà Registrazione, releasing his own production but also his fellowship's works (next release will be by Pilooski and Krikor's side project France Copland). He off course still collaborates to different project with Independents Companies and other labels such as TigerSushi, Kill The Dj...

The gathering of his many influences such as Prince, Bo Diddley, 80's Hip Hop, colder music some like to call new wave, to pure electroacoustic pieces lead him to come up with some weird funk, featuring an important natural environment sounding characteristic, result of years of everyday life recordings such as train, crowd, city sounds…

In the past year he has remixed many different artist coming from really different sound scapes such as Serge Gainsbourg, Ark, Chloe, Andy Vaz, Mateo&Matos, Ddamage…

His first album will be out in mid 2008, on the other side he still focus on his electroacoustik work that he started 3 years ago, attending the class of the great contemporary composer Octavio Lopez formerly from the Ircam… He has worked on several 5.1 instalations and mutlidiffusion projects such as Barbe Bleue for Lille2005, Versailles Off 2006 and he has composed music for several fashion show catwalk.

His performances live are strongly improvisation oriented using laptop, microphone, various beat box machines, bended effects and contact mics... He has participated in festivals such as Capitales Sonores Sonic Capitals in Paris, Club transmediale in Berlin, Mutek Mexico and Montreal several times, Festival Exit in Créteil, Event in honour of the great minimalists Lille 2004, ARS electronica in Linz

www.myspace.com/krikorparis