If you took David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, and Elvis pushed them into a small room all kicking the shit out of Nine Inch Nail's Trent Reznor what would emerge from that room would be Louie Fontaine & The Beat Machine.

Fiery, retro punk, musically scientific madman Louie Fontaine now he sets his sites on US soil.

Armed with a pocket of CD's and a hand full of phone numbers Louie along with drummer Mike Fontaine, bass player Nick Tombstone and Dominatrix Bondage Queen, made their way to New Orleans where he met and teamed up with some of the Gothic City's most influential punk musicians. Ex-Machine Screw's John Marclay who pounds out industrial beats on the self made percussive drums and ex-Rick Slave and the Phantoms guitarist Terry Lagarde who style could easily be compared to Slash of the infamous "Guns and Roses.

After many late night rehearsals in Louie's French Quarter apartment, Louie and the band were anxious to perform. The word traveled through out the city's underground scene and a show was booked at the El Matador in New Orleans Artsy Merigny District.
Louie Fontaine played to a crowd of music fans, left over Jazz Festival wanderers, metal heads, cross-dressers, as well as Ray Davies of the Kinks, actor John Goodman, and New Orleans Blues man Rockie Charles.

When Invisible Records owner/drummer Martin Atkins (Killing Joke, Ministry, Public Image Limited) pulled the demo from his desk. The package was inviting especially for a drummer due to this monster size 1-ton drum machine that was used on the record.

Invented by Louie Fontaine The Beat Machine is air driven, takes two people to run and 4 hours to set up, is all mechanical, and delivers rock-and-roll shuffles in real time. It sounds and acts like a drummer but it's not.

Shortly after Martin Atkins signed Louie to a compilation deal that was released as "Notes From The Underground" but already doing this process Martin Atkins and staff offered Louie a record deal releasing Louie's new album Soul Satisfaction in march.2003 in the United States.

After returning to Europe from New Orleans Louie Fontaine's manager got contacted by a Russian Label CD-Maximum and a record deal was signed in territory of ex. Soviet Union & Israel.

Louie Fontaine is a refreshing dose of rock-and-roll. Not to be confused with fluffy indie rock Louie Fontaine is less like Green Day and more like Marilyn Manson meets the Rolling Stones. He works hard to stay miles ahead of other rock scenes, musically as well as theatrically. His shows are well planned and thought out to perfection. He drives his band hard and takes on no slackers in his organization. Some say he is pure genius while others say he's crazy. Not skitzo-crazy but Einstein crazy an inventive madman that is in constant search of the unknown, the on traveled, and unexplored.
Meeting Louie you instantly know that you are meeting greatness, the real deal, the stuff legends are made of, a conquer. Hail to the King!

Free low-bitrate tracks:
Louie Fontaine - The Fight
Louie Fontaine - Evil Force In My Panths
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