Cassius is a French duo consisting of Phillipe Zdar and Hubert Blanc-Francart. Together they have recorded as Boombass and La Funk Mob, releasing singles on the ultra-hip French label, Source including remixes for Neneh Cherry, Björk, Daft Punk, Air and Depeche Mode. Hubert grew up on the west side of Paris. His father was a top Parisian record producer, so it was natural he would want to follow in his footsteps. His first releases were under the name Boombass and producing for MC Solaar's first album. Philippe grew up in the Alps after his move to Paris he got job assisting Hubert's father and studied to become a studio engineer. He met Boombass in 1988 which turned into deep friendship and to become production partners. The music they both started with was Hip Hop. In between producing three hugely successful French albums for MC Solaar, including the minor UK hit "Bouge De La", they developed the abstract, proto-trip-hop grooves of La Funk Mob. By 1994 they were busy breaking boundaries and messing up heads with La Funk Mob's seminal hip hop/funk/electro/weirdo-freak-out EP "Ravers Suck Our Sound". Meanwhile Philippe had discovered a new obsession, House music, and the last piece of the Cassius puzzle was falling into place. Philippe had found an outlet for his new passion recording as Motorbass with Paris DJ Etienne de Crecy, the man behind 1997's Superdiscount. Together their Pansoul album remains one of the benchmarks of French house music's dynamic first wave, along with Daft Punk's "Homework" and Dimitri From Paris' "Sacrebleu". Philippe talked Hubert into making a house track as a laugh and Cassius was born combining their Hip Hop roots with their new fable for house music to indicate their wide production skills.