Recloose

His professional career began in 1997 when he met techno artist Carl Craig via a demo tape slipped into a sandwich while working at Detroit's Russell Street Deli.{{cite web|last=Craig|first=Carl|title=15 Questions With Carl Craig|url=http://www.carlcraig.net/press/0803_BigShot.pdf|publisher=Big Shot Magazine|accessdate=January 15, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121060915/http://www.carlcraig.net/press/0803_BigShot.pdf|archivedate=November 21, 2011}}{{cite web|last=Craig|first=Carl|title=Unedited Carl Craig Jukebox|url=http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/p=9939|publisher=The Wire Magazine|accessdate=24 January 2013}} He released his debut EP So This Is The Dining Room EP in 1998 and follow up Spelunking EP in 1999 on Planet E recordings, which were both re-issued via Rush Hour Recordings in 2010.{{cite web|title=Rush Hour compiles Recloose|url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=13016|publisher=Resident Advisor|accessdate=24 January 2013}} His debut album Cardiology on Planet E/Studio !k7 came out in 2002, a critically acclaimed release that featured Detroit area artists Dwele, Genevieve Marentette, Colin Stetson, Rayse Biggs of Was (Not Was), Jeremy Ellis, Paul Randolph, Jerry The Cat, Amp Fiddler, John Arnold and Malik Alston.{{cite web|title=Recloose- Cardiology|url=http://www.discogs.com/Recloose-Cardiology/release/811834|publisher=Discogs.com|accessdate=January 15, 2013}}{{cite web|title=Recloose- Cardiology|url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/recloose-cardiology|publisher=Tiny Mix Tapes|accessdate=24 January 2013}}{{cite magazine|last=Palmer|first=Tamara|title=Recloose Emerges on Planet E|magazine=Billboard|date=May 2002|volume=114|issue=20|page=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mg8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Recloose+Emerges+on+Planet+E%22&pg=PA49}}

In late 2001 he re-located to New Zealand where he began working with local musicians Dallas Tamaira of Fat Freddy's Drop, Hollie Smith, Jonathan Crayford, and members of Trinity Roots, also forming the touring group "The Recloose Live Band," a group that performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival,{{cite web|title=Kindred Spirits|url=http://www.family-affair.it/querypress.asp?IDPress=110|publisher=Family Affair|accessdate=24 January 2013}} and London's renowned clubs Fabric{{cite web|title=Recloose Live Band Return From Europe|url=http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/newsitem/pi_newsitemid/1646|publisher=NZ Musician|accessdate=24 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222183748/http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/newsitem/pi_newsitemid/1646|archivedate=22 February 2013}} and The Jazz Cafe.{{cite web|title=Recloose at Jazz Cafe|url=http://www.songkick.com/concerts/3992026-recloose-at-jazz-cafe|publisher=Songkick}} He was awarded the Best Dance/Electronica Album Tui for his album Perfect Timing LP at the New Zealand Music Awards in late 2008.{{cite web|title=Recloose|url=http://nzmusic.org.nz/artists/housetechno/recloose/|publisher=New Zealand Music Commission|accessdate=January 15, 2013}}{{cite news|last=Hill|first=Rebecca Barry|title=Recloose: Perfect Timing|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/music/news/article.cfm?c_id=264&objectid=10495094|publisher=New Zealand Herald|accessdate=24 January 2013|date=1 March 2008}} Chicoine completed a master's degree at the University of Auckland in 2014.{{Cite thesis|title="The Detroit Way": Creative Exchange in Music Production, 1950–2000|last=Chicoine|first=Matthew|type=Master's thesis|publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2292/24159|date=2014|hdl=2292/24159 }}

In 2008 he founded the Hit It & Quit It radio show on Auckland, New Zealand's George FM,{{cite web|title=Recloose joins the George FM Whanau!|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0712/S00211.htm|publisher=Scoop.co.nz|accessdate=24 January 2013}} co-hosted with local producer and DJ Frank Booker, releasing a radio-themed compilation CD "Hit It & Quit It Radio Revue Vol. I" with accompanying Serato vinyl pressing in 2011.{{cite web|title=Serato Pressings|url=http://serato.com/pressings|publisher=Serato|accessdate=24 January 2013}} In 2009 he undertook full-time work as programme leader and tutor at Auckland's Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand, helping to create and implement the DJ and Electronic Music Production program.{{cite web|title=Staff Profiles|url=http://www.mainz.ac.nz/people.php?Prog=227|publisher=MAINZ|accessdate=January 15, 2013}}

;Studio albums

• Cardiology (2002)
• Hiatus on the Horizon (2004)
• Perfect Timing (2008)

;Compilation albums

• Early Works (2010)

;Live albums

• Backwards and Sideways (2007)

;EPs

• So This Is the Dining Room (1998)
• Spelunking (1999)
• Deeper Waters (2008)
• Saturday Night Manifesto E.P. (2011)
• Magic (2012)
• Don't Get Me Wrong EP (2012)
• It's Too Late EP (2013)

;Singles

• "Can't Take It" (2000)
• "Ain't Changin'" (2002)
• "Us vs. Us" (2003)
• "Dust" (2005)
• "Mana's Bounce" b/w "Time Is on Your Side" (2005)
• "Maui's Lament" (2008)

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