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Saute le lapin. That's what we used to say about his music. You kind of get the feeling you're watching a dozen bunnies with headphones driving saws and 12gages to their heads, rainbows in stead of blood pouring out. I've known Guillaume for a long time now, spending endless hours of conversations way back when we were still on dialup modems on mirc and on msn creating our world of legendary angst. Guillaume is one of the rare individuals in the netlabel scene i can qualify as a rockstar ; his music lays premise to the Kaneel persona : a baguette wielding, cheese-eating, wine-abusing redhead frenchmen with a knack for critique, angst and IDM purism. But before and after Kaneel, Guillaume is first and foremost a nice guy from Rouen, France, who's love of music has granted him great knowledge in the inner machinations of pop music, and consequently how to tinker with it.
Could you please tell us a bit of your background and history.
Hello, my name is Guillaume Richard, I'm French, born the 9th of August of the year 1982 around Rouen, Normandy.
I've been living like a quiet child, the kind that listens a lot to adults when they are talking together, who enjoys sharing his ideas even when they could be seen as "childish" from the point of view of adults. It's also been sweet moments which finally gave me lots of great memories so I can think back about them when I feel I'm losing myself.
Apart for some years of heavy teenage angst, where I've been into urban sports and other things related, I'm your usual geek. When I was twelve or so I've followed some advices from my guitar teacher and started to read Lovecraft, Herbert or Bradbury, which definitely changed my view on people, humanity and society.
I've been following music lessons, got me bored a lot as it was about reading notes, rhythm and singing "mostly" in tune eh, but I had to do so as I was also following classical guitar lessons, that I liked a lot but I was quite stupid and decided to try out electric guitar… lessons were lame, it was all about practising and practising and no cool tunes were playable, I dropped and never came back to guitar, shamefully.
I started to change into a "loud" guy. I wasn't actually the proud guy of the school… it's hard to act this way when you're 165cm high and redhead, being loud was a good way to protect myself. I was into hardcore and post-hardcore music, going to gigs. Now i think I was really enjoying this BUT lying to myself a lot, I'm a guy who's more into romantism than anything else.
During summer 99, while I was "wasting" my time on the internet, I decided to download a soundtracker. I already knew about "modules" but never really tried, I just wanted to have some fun I guess and well, I sticked on it hard. It was like I found something I would do and a few could, like I found a super secret thing that was mine. "Everyone can be good at school" I thought ridiculously, "I'm gonna be good at that". Yeah, i told you… teenage angst 
Then well, I met people on irc who amazed me, got more and more interested into the scene, visited my first demoparty, got into my first crews (mepthik then camomille) and then then then then then then then then then, I'm still around. I've been around netlabels like Camomille and Ogredung and also have been acting as a musician of a demogroup named Bypass.
Please explain to us the concept behind your music.
At first there were no concepts or ideas, it came right after some people shouted "CATCH THAT RABBIT" at me when they were listening to my tunes. Years passed and I started to develop this "naive n cute" style, maybe because each time I was doing something, even when I thought it was not so CUTE, people were telling me it was indeed "veryveryvery cute".
Of course, I follow some lines, most of them are coming from the fact I've always has been using soundtrackers to make my music. As I started with DOS soundtrackers with no sound effects, I kept that idea that a good tune must be good with no super effects at all and that glitchies should be done "manually". Nowadays, everyone can download a super plug that will make it sound crazy on first listening, it's not so fun, everybody might be sounding the same in the end I guess. So, I prefer focusing on the melodies, the mood, the progression. I also force myself to make my own samples and presets and when I don't feel like making music, I spend my times creating new bleeps'n'clicks.
What is your relationship with music ? where has it taken you
Music.
There is two side of it in my life. The music I listen to and the music I'm composing.
My relation with the first is fine, I sing, dance, jump, chill on it, it's aaalll fine. The music i'm composing? Well. It's like love.. or hate… bitterness, anger… and sometimes it's sweet and fun. It's a weird relation actually. On the other side, music making helped me to concentrate. When I was younger, I was mostly unable to concentrate on something and worked with guidelines which of course led me to school failure.
"I've Sketched It A While Ago" for example is chaotic that way and its why I think this album is particular. When I started making music, I wasn't much trying complicated things and with this album released lately, I tried some things, I let my mind go and the result is here, natural somehow. Years passing by, I can control myself much more and try to give more sense to what I want to express… Somehow, it also helps me for daily discussions with people as before, I was jumping from one topic to an other, talking fast and now, it seems quieter though it's still too fast for some people but I'm working on it.
You're obviously connected with some online communities, please tell us a bit of your involvement with the demoscene, netlabel scene, renoise community etc.
As anybody related to soundtracking scene, I've been aware of the demoscene (wikipedia article). I've been attending my first party during the summer 2000. It has been a great moment of sharing ideas with people. It's always fun thinking about it again, when computer cases were huge, monitors were as well, all of the computer looking plastic-ish. I remember meeting willbe, djam/moonove (noerror), melvyl (hellven), slash and aymes there and we are still in touch since this day we met! I've been attending some other demoparties, just for the pleasure of meeting people you don't usually meet, watch good productions, share some beers, listen and make music with other musicians! I have this great memory of an "after evoke demoparty" in 2004 where I was chilling out with mentz, krii, dipswitch and ps. This year, Ps asked me if I wanted to be a part of the demoscene award jury and well, I've answered "yes, take some of my free hours so I can tell my girl I have good reasons to stay at home and watch demos". Then again, the netlabel scene coming from the soundtracking scene, it was quite obvious I would be interested in it. Nowadays, even with owning my own netlabel, I'm not so involved in this scene as there are way too much netlabels but, back in the early year 2000, it was great. It was always such an excitement to download a new release and back then, most of the files were modules and not mp3!
Do you remember back then? Noise, milk, hellven, tokyo dawn, kyoto… ?! trax?
And then, the early beginning of Camomille as well as Ogredung. Bam. Memories, here you are, i'm felling nostalgic!
And renoise… ah well. Right now you see I'm discussing on irc with some people about it eheh.
Renoise has been like salvation. I was searching for a new program I would use. A friend told me to try out renoise. It's been great at first to be able to use a tracker to compose and at the same time, use effects and automate them! I've been starting to get involved in the community. At a moment, I've noticed there were not any irc channels any longer, me and byte-smasher decided to do something about it. At first it's been quiet and we decided to set up a "one hour compo", it brought more and more people, the irc channel was finally relaunched. Then, there has been these video tutorials, at first made as a joke about all these weirdos doing tutorials, showing their faces more than patterns, I decided to do one about breakbeat slicing with stupid "amenslicing" examples and people found it funny!
All in all, I enjoy a lot being a part of some communities. Makes me able to listen to more and more music everyday, help people, being helpt, have fun in the end!
What would be the supreme Kaneel Project
AH! Thats a question. Egotrippin' at his max I got this little idea lately, to organise a wonderful musical involving veejaying and demostyle effects synchronized to its max, dancers, animals, ballons 'n kids, BUNNIES!… just imagine it a moment! And we would give free Depakin at the entrance of course…
What is your dream
Hmmm, apart being able to live healthier ?
Well, sometimes I just wish more people would be able to listen to my music, I wish I was a bit reknown though I'm not much searching for being famous. I think I'm searching for recognition of my work. That's so simple that for most people it's not really a dream but I'm simple like that.
Can you tell us about Petite&Jolie and the ideas behind it
Petite&jolie is a project I wanted to set up 4 years ago or so. Finally, two years ago, a friend of mine named Maxime Letellier told me this idea was great. He was in the same area of cuteness but visually oriented. It's how we finally decided to launch this project as a collective around music and illustration. The first compilation has been supported so much that it finally motivated us to keep on working on it, at the moment we are both busy with our real life jobs and projects and we wait for demos to ring at our doors but we are quite confident on the future of petite&jolie. We want to work on a graphic release and we are thinking about CDR releases for the future.
What's in store for you in the future ?
Ho well, I have something in mind but shhhhhhhh, I prefer keeping this secret in hope it will come for sure.