James Kent, AKA ‘Perturbator’, is a Parisian musician who blends retro eighties synthesizer style, modern EDM percussion to make great electronic music. Kent has self described his music as dark and retrofuturistic and gets his influences from 1980s style movies like ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Alien’ or ‘Total Recall’. His nickame ‘Perturbator’ is taken from his love of 1980s films that end with ‘ator’ such as ‘Terminator’, ‘Predator’, ‘Exterminator’ and his enjoyment of the word ”perturbed’. He started his musical career as a guitar player in a progressive/death metal band called ‘I The Omniscient’. Aside from working as ‘Perturbator’, Kent has another side project called ‘L’enfant De La Forêt’ which is more of an ambient/trip-hop style of music. In 2012, he released his first album entitled ‘I am the Night’ and followed it up with another album in the summer called ‘Terror 404’. Perturbator’s music can be heard on the soundtrack for the video game ‘Hotline Miami’. Hotline Miami is a 2D top-down action video game by Dennaton Games. It received high praise by many video game publications and received a score of 85/100 on Metacritic. The game’s soundtrack was made available to purchase on Valve Corporation’s digital distribution platform, Steam. The game received the ‘Best PC Sound of the Year’ accolade by IGN in its end of year awards (2012). PC Gamer awarded the game with ‘The Best Music of the Year 2012’. After the success of the game, Kent followed up with an EP entitled ‘Sexualizer’ that paid tribute to the game with songs such as ‘Miami Disco’ and ‘Angel Dust’. His newest album entitled ‘Dangerous Days’ is set to be released sometime in 2014 and some of his contributions will be on the soundtrack to ‘Miami Hotline 2’ which is set to be released very soon.You can listen to a sample of the song ‘Miami Disco’ from the ‘Hotline Miami’ soundtrack in the media player below.

Thanks to https://www.facebook.com/Perturbator for some biographical information.

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