Eric Chapus who performs as Endorphin was born in ca. 1962 and raised in Saint-Tropez , France . His parents separated when he was ten and at 13 he went to live with his father in Goa , India . He later recalled " I thought he was the coolest thing ... he introduced me to lots of drugs at 13 . We were living in the streets , living like beggars . It was really an eye-opener . We buried our passports and lived for one year like total vagrants . We took a lot of drugs , smoked a lot of hash and I had a bad experience with LSD . " In 1984 Chapus moved to Australia and settled in Kuranda where he started his music career . From mid-1980s to early 1990s he was in a variety of avant-garde groups including Godzila in the Mist , an industrial music band , which used " the noise of chainsaws and angle grinders . " From 1996 he performed as a solo artist , Endorphin , and recorded two tracks , " Pacific " and " Relapse " . The latter track was entered in the '' Unearthed '' talent competition run by national radio station , Triple J . He signed with Sony Records and worked on his debut album , '' Embrace '' which was released early in 1998 . David Peter Wesolowski of AllMusic described it as " chilled out " and noticed that it " grabbed plenty of critical praise but was also a commercial success in Australia . " At the ARIA Music Awards of 1998 it was nominated for Best Dance Release
ARIA Music Awards of 1998
ARIA Music Awards of 1998
Endorphin (Australian band)