Renard Queenston

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Renard Queenston (born 1988), is an agendered electronic musician and game designer. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

1 Music
- 1.1 Production Tools
2 Personas
3 PSURG Design
4 Gaming
5 Interests and hobbies
6 Gallery
7 External links

[edit] Music

Renard is a musician who produces a variety of primarily electronic music. He also occasionally produces Rock music, though this is also entirely electronically based with no recording from physical instruments. He is the founder and owner of the Canadian record company LapFox Trax (formerly VULPvibe), where he publishes his own work under a number of different aliases.

His musical style ranges from chiptunes to electronic, happy hardcore to speedcore, and many other similar genres. He has released various records via his online Bandcamp and CafePress stores.

[edit] Production Tools

Renard uses MODPlug for the majority of his producing and mastering, cepstral text to speech for vocoding, and ACID Pro 7.0 and Goldwave for additional mastering. The various VSTis (Virtual Studio Technology instruments) he uses include AskaAyum, Bassline, Cheeze Machine, GalactiX, Kontakt, Legacy, Miniogue, NEOkILLER-II, Nexus, PlasticCZ, Pro-53, Pterosaur, Purity, Silkworm, Supersaw, Synth1, The Shepherd, Ticky Clav, Vanguar, and Wavestation. VST effects are made with Anters AutoTuner, Antares AVOX 2 Suite, BJ LoFi, BJ Ringmod, Fruity 7 Band EQ, Fruity Bass Boost, Fruity Blood Overdrive, Fruity Phaser, Formant Filter, mda Stereo, mda SubSynth, OrangeVocoder, Puncher, RetroDelay, URS 1970 / 1975 / 1980 Compressor / Limiters, and standard DirectX echo and wavesreverb.

He uses many different sound formats, and has used hundreds of sound samples in his music.

[edit] Personas

Renard - A gender-null fox/raccoon hybrid with tentacle-like dreads, often portrayed as a nurse. Renard is sometimes nicknamed the "Voodoo Nurse". The genre of music that is most familiarized with Renard is Breakcore/Raggacore. Originally, Renard Queenston was a male anthropomorphic red, black, and white fox/raccoon with shoulder-length hair. This version was a closer representation to Renard, the artist, himself. In 2009, he was redesigned, with black hair, dreadlocks and a nurse outfit. Later on, it became a genderless being, as he felt it better represents what he does creatively. Renard and Jackal Queenston are often viewed as being related as brothers and together form the alias The Queenstons. Renard's design was assisted by Kamicheetah.
Adraen - A dragon and rhinoceros-like creature with black skin, green hair, and glowing green markings. He produces intense breakcore and hardcore digital rave music. Renard stated that this alias was retired on his official Tumblr, stating that his style had grown too much into what Kitcaliber now uses.
Aurastys - A silver female chozo with glowing blue eyes and features. She produces dark ambient, drone, and noise music with sci-fi influences.
Azrael - No animal is known to be associated with this persona. The music Queenston compose under this persona is a blend of hardcore techno and gabber music, very much in the same vein as the very popular Thunderdome festivals in the Netherlands.
Bandetto - Bandetto is an orange, canine pool toy who wears a magneto bandanna with a set of jaws on it. Bandetto produces happy hardcore with really strong Japanese influences. Although Renard stated that this specific alias isn't associated with the Lapfox label the lapfox community has widely accepted him as being part of it.
Darius - A gender-null black and white striped badger/skunk hybrid. Darius's first album, Ergosphere, is one of the most popular albums on the Lapfox Trax's Bandcamp site. Darius produces freeform and progressive fusion, having lots of spacey trance-esque and jazz influences.
D-Mode-D - A pair of crossdressing crows, one being white and green, while the other is black and green. D-Mode-D is also signed to Lapfox's affiliate record label Breakbit. Renard uses them as an experimental outlet, producing music such as retromodern leftfield, electronic dancehall and dance floor-type music.
Eugene - Eugene is an intersexed Hellhound who identifies as female. She is a long term friend of Truxton and produces harsh, aggressive hip hop and noise muic and has so far only released one album.
Furries in a Blender - Originally known as Emoticon, is an off-white, rainbow-striped feline usually wearing rave accessories who produces happy hardcore, breakcore, and synth-core music.
Jackal Queenston - A tan and brown jackal who is usually adorned in Nazi and other WWII uniforms. He is portrayed as war-mongering and produces drum & bass music, often with themes alluding to violence or power. His design was assisted by Elizabeth Sewell.
Kitcaliber - A male and female duo of white canines named Kit (female) and Caliber (male) who typically wear gas masks and goggles that obscure their faces. They produce digital punk rock, which often includes vocals (which are usually attributed to Kit. Caliber is considered the musician and Kit the vocalist.)
Kitsune² - A white, video game-loving rat who produces video game style chiptune and demotune music. He is often seen wearing shirts with references to video games such as Pac-man on them.
Klippa - A large orange horned lizard, similar to a dinosaur. He produces downtempo, skweee, dubstep, hip-hop, glitchhop, and other similar genres.
Mayhem - A keytar-playing shark with a cyber/punk style. She produces a multitude of music in different genres, mostly House and electro music with breakbeat influence. Her style of music is generally dancy and upbeat, and often aggressive in tone.
The Quick Brown Fox - A multi-colored, piñata-fox, often seen with a bat with the initials "TQBF" written on it. He produces speedcore music, in relation to its name. His early works were very harsh, aggressive and loud, however, over time his style evolved into something much more upbeat and happy.
Truxton - A white/teal/off-black intersexed hellhound (originally a ram). Truxton began as one of Renards' Second Life avatars. Originally Renard had no intentions of using Truxton as a musical persona. Truxton produces purely mash-up music which uses many samplings from different songs with little original content.
NegaRen - Not just an inverted version of Renard, but is seen as a sort of alternate version. NegaRen is often referred to as a "pumpkin fox". It is portrayed as a mischievous, yet fun-loving character. NegaRen's music is a Halloween-themed combination of happy hardcore, speed dance, and raggaeton. Albums under this alias are only released during the fall months of October and November, fitting with its overall Halloween theme.

[edit] PSURG Design

PSURG Design is the art and design team of Renard and SqueedgeMonster. The majority of art used through out LapFox Trax sites is draw and rendered by Squeedge, and the more design aspects added by Renard

[edit] Gaming

Renard is also the driving force behind the MungYoDance series of freeware PC games, which is similar in nature to DDR. Renard under PSURG Design created another game called Shark Attack, an 8-bit shooter featuring the aliases associated with PSURG, Mischief and Mayhem, as well as two other shark characters, Fracas and Malice.

[edit] Interests and hobbies

Renard is a gamer, though he primarily plays rhythm games that include dancing and music such as ThirdStyle, FlashFlashRevolution, Dance Dance Revolution, Pump It Up, Pop'n Music, and BeatMania IIDX. He also enjoys arcade-style fighting games such as the Vampire Savior 2 and Guilty Gear Accent Core, shooter such as Gradius V and Metal Slug 3, and side-scrollers including Mega Man 4 and Metroid. Renard is an avid fan of the classics Sinistar and Splatterhouse.

Along with video games, he is a fan of comic books and films such as Freddy's Dead, Evil Dead 2, Bride of Re-Animator, and We Are the Strange.

[edit] Gallery

Renard as of 2009 and onwards. Art by SqueedgeMonster
Jackal Queenston, art by Anjila.
Mayhem with her keytar, art by SqueedgeMonster.
Emoticon, who also releases music under "Furries in a Blender", art by by Fullmetal--Folfamist.
Kitsune^2, art by by Suguro.
Klippa, art by SqueedgeMonster.
Adraen, art by Lawlzy.
NegaRen, art by SqueedgeMonster.
Truxton, art by SqueedgeMonster.
The Quick Brown Fox or TQBF for short. Art by SqueedgeMonster.