MR OIZO / OIZBIO, Quentin DUPIEUX was born in 1974. At the age of 12, he found a camera and shot anything and everything. At 17, he began to play music to illustrate his images, and bought his first synthesiser. In 1997 he released his first long-player, on FCOM and invented the silly pseudo: MR […]
There is a new generation of French DJs/Producers with international fame, Mercer is one of them. Hardwell first sensed a massive record in “Welcome to the Jungle” and signed it on his label. Track produced with ALVARO featuring Lil Jon, that reached a Top 3 on Beatport and had 3 million views on YouTube. Renowned […]
“Our music is a bridge where people can meet, dance, love and create…” Célia Faussart – Les Nubians Grammy Nominated international recording artists Les Nubians have intrigued audiences for over a decade with their inventive and glamorous Afropean style. This distinctive sound embodies the timeless vibrations of Miriam Makeba, Ella Fitzgerald, Doudou N’diaye Rose, Fela […]
In April of 2013, Gilad released his fourth album, This Just In, under the JazzVillage label of Harmonia Mundi. Recorded and engineered in New York by Michael Cisneros Perez, the new album features Gilad Hekselman, Joe Martin, and Marcus Gilmore also showcases Mark Turner on three titles. Born in Israel in 1983, Gilad studied classical […]
Valentino Canzani aka French Fries’ story begins in 1975, when his parents escaped from Uruguay, which had just come under dictatorial rule, and fled first to Argentina, then to Paris. Once in Paris, his father reconstructed a fully-equipped studio complete with drums and various percussion instruments, which enabled Valentino and his sister (Piu Piu) to […]
Djedjotronic aka Jeremy Cottereau was 9 when he had the first contact to electronic music listening to Jean Michel Jarre’s “Equinox”, stolen from his brother’s discotheque. At this age he spent most of the day playing randomly with his Casio synthesizer composing naive melodies and exploring an enduring fascination for machines. A few years and a participation […]
A duo of French producers signed to OWLSA (the label of Skrillex), Alesia, delivers a somber techno without compromise, somewhere between Gesaffelstein and Boys Noize. Their single “Andrea” could be found in the playlists of many prominent DJs, such as Baauer, Skrillex, A Trak and Boys Noize. “Only a couple of years into their career, […]
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE has been one of the pioneering forces throughout the electronic music scene over the last four decades, having originally made his name in the 1970s for his critically acclaimed album OXYGENE.OXYGENE was unmistakably a catalyst that set electronic music well on its way to becoming the behemoth that it is today, with JEAN-MICHEL’s music and follow through […]
