JOHNNY DAUPHIN AND HIS AMAZING "LE VOLUME ETAIT AU MAXIMUM"
No, this is not your typical pop band. Basically, we could say it’s “music no one listens to”. It’s way too juvenile for adults. Too intellectual for kids. It’s too serious for confused teenagers, but too full of rage for the cool ones. It’s obviously too wacky for the simple man, but too philosophical for the weirdo. Too futuristic for old-fashioned tastes but too melancholic for kids ahead-of-their-time. And while it seems too psycho for the average man, it enlightens the contemplative one looking for expanded awareness.
It’s definitely too logical for the disturbed, but too unsound for the visionary. It’s too pop for the punk rockers, they can’t stand the synthesizers. But it’s too punk for the electro kids, they can’t stand the down-stroked guitars.
Yep, it's true, LVEAM is a one-man band. I do it all alone, just like any good autistic kid would. I do everything from A to Z, including numbers and special characters. It's not that I enjoy doing it that way, I really wish I had some help from friends. Unfortunately, i don't have any. (friends)
-Johnny
As a kid, Johnny wanted to be an astronaut or a physician working for the NASA. Unfortunately for him, music ruined his life. He learned how to play everything by himself. He even wasted some time going to a recording school in his teenage years. Unfortunately again, he ended up the best student of the class, mostly due to the fact that he didn’t learn a single new thing during the whole year. He later founded PAF! Records because obviously, no one was interested in his avant-garde shit. Since 1995, he self-released 11 albums, 2 boxsets, 25 singles, 23 fanzines and a book.
Apart from being the-idiot-behind-the-project-called-LE-VOLUME-ETAIT-AU-MAXIMUM, Johnny is also a photographer, computer graphic designer, programmer, producer, editor, mixing and mastering engineer, sound man, lighting engineer, self builder, ecologist, lover, God worshiper, naturist, Taoist, philosopher, alpine and telemark skier, sexual artist, electrician and real estate agent.
He’s an occultist, an aspie, he has a borderline, schizoid and obsessive–compulsive personality and he owns a Mosrite.
He’s vegan, anarchist and unfortunately, alcoholic.