Love Letters

Maxime Robillard produces house and techno under the Love Letters moniker, shifting between low-slung grooves and propulsive, bodily rhythms while updating foundational methods drawn from acid house and techno, deep house, ambient, and tribal house in ways that suit the project name. Based in New York, the producer and mixing engineer launched the primary alias in 2015 and placed material with respected imprints including Mister Saturday Night, the Bunker New York, and Interdimensional Transmissions, the last of which put out the Falling Star EP in 2024. Robillard co-composed the soundtrack to the short documentary From There to Here, serves as co-presenting DJ for Brooklyn’s monthly ambient event Hypnotic Spa, and runs Vague Heat, a mixing and production studio located in Queens.

Vermont-born Robillard began releasing as Love Letters in 2015 via Your Go, a four-track EP issued by Denmark’s Deep Recordings. Singles for Atlanta’s CGI and Amsterdam’s Yield came next, followed by the self-released 2018 cassette A Given World of Good Energy. Before the decade closed, the Cast Off EP appeared as the first output on the Bunker New York, the label extension of Brooklyn’s Bunker club night. Robillard and Milo McBride supplied the music for From There to Here, the documentary directed by Janique Robillard, Maxime’s sister.

Activity under Love Letters increased during the 2020s. In 2021 Robillard issued the four-volume 12" series On the Loose, the 17-minute ambient composition “Psychedelics Aren’t for Me,” and the EPs Beyond High Demand and Projecting, which came out on Allergy Season and Mister Saturday Night respectively. Additional tracks surfaced on Allergy Season and the Bunker New York in 2023. The following year brought Falling Star, an EP for BMG (aka Ectomorph)’s Interdimensional Transmissions that included remixes from close associate Mike Servito and BMG himself.