Under the alias The Secret Handshake, Dubuc developed a cult-following with critical acclaim of his music while playing the guitar, synthesizer, piano, percussion and computer-generated sound effects from his computer including his 2009 and third studio album My Name Up in Lights.
He truly found his niche, however, in writing and recording electronica pop/rock songs with a laptop and Wurlitzer. I got a job at a record store in High School and I think that was the first time I really wanted to do music.”Īfter moving to Dallas, Dubuc started playing drums in a local metal band with friends called Thirty Called Arson. Eventually I got super into metal and hip-hop. In Toronto a lot of UK stuff gets played on the radio and so I was super into dance music almost straight away. “This was the first time I had ever really seen music videos at all and it blew me away. Raised in Caracas, Venezuela before moving to Toronto at eight years old, the 28-year old fluent, Spanish-speaking Dubuc found his own sound within the confines of beats, synths and grooves stemming from funk, R&B and pop music influences such as Prince, Otis Redding, Daft Punk, Roger & Zapp, the Gap Band, and Slayer. Mystery Skulls is the nom de plume of Los Angeles-based electronic DJ/producer/artist Luis Dubuc.