The Record Machine launches new imprint Les Bonbons Electriques

Creative collaboration between label-owner Nathan Reusch and musician Mark Ronning began as a shared passion for synthesizers and has turned into an expansion of The Record Machine’s label. 

On September 20th, 2024, Bobcat Attack, the moniker of electronic artist Nathan Reusch, will release his first single. But it won’t be on The Record Machine, Reusch’s label of 21 years. At least, not exclusively. September 20th will mark the beginning of Les Bonbons Electriques, an imprint of The Record Machine, a collaboration between Reusch and electronic musician Mark Ronning (Pool Culture, Mr. Golden Sun). Les Bonbons Electriques (“electric candy” in French) is a new imprint that will focus on artistry, experimentation, and electronic music. For Reusch’s project Bobcat Attack, where his modular synthesizer is the center of his electronic, ambient, and dub techno-influenced music, Les Bonbons Electriques is the perfect label match.  

Les Bonbons Electriques began as a series of pop-up shows to feature Kansas City electronic artists, inspired by Ronning’s foray into modular synthesis during the pandemic.  When Reusch and Ronning connected in 2022 over a shared passion for modular synthesis, they formed a fast friendship and, from this, a creative collaboration was born. Now, the name “Les Bonbons Electriques” will be both a live performance series as well as a record label imprint of The Record Machine. 

The initiation of this new imprint comes with exciting new artists and releases. Bobcat Attack’s first single “Pallas” is releasing on September 20th, a pulsing track with a bouncing melody over ambient architecture. And, on October 4th, indie pop band, The House, will be releasing their single “Honey”, a soaring tune with electronic augmentation over chamber-pop arrangements. This first duo of releases serves as the perfect representation of the space that Les Bonbons Electriques can occupy: a spectrum of organic and inorganic sounds, from those fully distorted, filtered, and modulated by electronica to acoustic instruments wrapped up in swirling, synthesized ambience.