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Born in 1959, Louis Philippe first recorded for Belgian label Les Disques du Crepuscule, under the names ‘The Border Boys’ (the ‘Tribute’ 12” EP, produced by Andy Paley, who’d worked with The Ramones and the Modern Lovers previously), and ‘The Arcadians’ (one single and one album, ‘It’s a Mad, Mad World’, 1986, later re-released on a variety of labels as ‘Let’s Pretend’). On the advice of A&R man Mike Alway, Louis Philippe moved to London in late 1986, and soon became one of the major figures of cult indie label él Records (1986-1989), a subsidiary of Cherry Red Records for which he recorded five singles and three albums (‘Appointment With Venus’, 1987; ‘Ivory Tower’, 1988; ‘Yuri Gagarin’, 1989). He also appeared in one guise or another - as songwriter, arranger, backing vocalist or instrumentalist - on more than half of all the label’s releases. él, now considered to be one of the most influential labels of its time, was, however, not a commercial success in the UK; but it scored a string of independent hits in Japan, where Louis Philippe (whose ‘You Mary You’ was él’s best-selling single) became an iconic figure for the so-called Shibuya-kei, or ‘Shibuya Sound’.

Following the demise of él in 1989, he turned to Japan to pursue his career, with the support of celebrity fans such as Cornelius.
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  • SimonePerrota

    To everyone who just stumbled on to this page - do yourself a favour and listen to Azure as soon as possible.

    2 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Sonicjr01

    Indeed ~ ^ ^

    30 Jan 2012 Reply

  • watermelange

    lovely indeed

    25 Oct 2011 Reply

  • tidawilson

    Lovely

    12 Jun 2011 Reply

  • Hear-Japan

    Louis Philippe released a new track for this cover album with other Shibuya-kei artists. Check it out: http://www.hearjapan.com/store/album_info/Happy_End_CITY_Cover_Book

    26 Jan 2011 Reply

  • goupil_libertin

    There's barely anybody in France to know the quality of Philippe Auclair's work. In France, he's well-known, but as a sports journalist specialized in football ! And when you see that the only video using "she means everything to me" as music on Youtube has got 45 views, given that I'm responsible for a lot of them, you think that something somewhere must have gone wrong. Auclair's a REALLY fine songwriter, with undeniable inventiveness and finesse, and very good vocals, quite reminiscent of an in shape Polnareff -and believe me, that's something to say... He would deserve to be more known, certainly not mainstream because no good artist wants to be mainstream, but somehow known and estimated. That would be nothing but fair.

    29 Oct 2010 Reply

  • diepaprikantin

    ♥

    8 Oct 2010 Reply

  • ItsElementary

    He's Great! He's greater than great!

    21 Jul 2010 Reply

  • curtisb3000

    One of his songs just caught me out of blue! Kinda of blue

    18 Jan 2010 Reply

  • MamaLuigi

    Amazing musician. Too bad not many people have heard of him.

    9 Jan 2010 Reply

  • indiescutable

    and when?

    13 Jan 2009 Reply

  • umberto71

    how?

    6 Jul 2008 Reply

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