"Madeon Is A French Electronic Musician Who Talks About Himself In The Third Person - What A Snob." ~ Hugo Leclercq Madeon 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. It Wasn't Until 2015 That Madeon's Debut Album Adventure Was Released By Columbia. The Album Reached Number One On Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums Chart And Featured Hit Singles Such As Pay No Mind And Nonsense. Alongside The Album's Release Were Two Headlining Tours. 2016 Gave Way To A Collaboration With Artist Porter Robinson To Create The Animated Single Shelter. The Song Has Gained Over Thirty-Five Million Views As Of September 2018 And Was Played Live Alongside Many Others Of The Artist's Previous Tracks During The Shelter Live Tour.
Pop Culture Is A Launchpad Mashup Created By Madeon And One Of His First Claims To Fame. The Mashup Was Recorded And Posted To YouTube On July 11th 2011 When Hugo Was Only 17 And Went Viral In A Matter Of Days Currently Having Amassed Over 50 Million Views. The Song Resulted In Several Record Labels Approaching Hugo And Lead To Him Eventually Signing To Colombia Records. The Songs Sampled In The Mashup Are As Follows Alphabeat - Boyfriend Alphabeat - Fascination Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars Black Eyed Peas - Gotta Feeling Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time Capsule - Can I Have A Word Chromeo - Momma's Boy Coldplay - Viva La Vida Daft Punk - Aerodynamic Daft Punk - Around The World Deadmau5 - Raise Your Weapon Madeon Remix Deadmau5 - Right This Second Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed ELO - Mr. Blue Sky Girls Aloud - Biology Gorillaz - Dare Gossip - Heavy Cross Fred Falke Remix Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For? Jacques Lu Cont's TWD Mix Housse De Racket - Oh Yeah Justice - DVNO Justice - Phantom Part II Katy Perry - One Of The Boys Ke$ha - Take It Off Kylie Minogue - Wow Lady Gaga - Alejandro Linkin Park - Crawling Madonna - Hung Up Martin Solveig Ft. Dragonette - Boys And Girls Michael Jackson - Billie Jean Nero - Me And You One Republic - All The Right Moves Danger Remix One-T - Magic Key Ratatat - Shempi Solange - I Decided Freemasons Remix Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star The Killers - Losing Touch The Who - Baba O'Riley SebastiAn Remix Yelle - Que Veux Tu Madeon Remix Made With FL Studio & Ableton Live Played On A Novation Launchpad & Novation Zero SL MKII. Facebook.Com/itsmadeon soundcloud.Com/madeon youtube.Com/itsmadeon twitter.Com/itsmadeon