When it comes to electronic music, Paris is not only known for its diverse and internationalized club scene but also for its unique and highly influential musical output. The French capital might have been most commonly associated with filtered sample-house during the 90s, but these days Paris has the edge across a variety of hip music genres, be it nu rave, glitchy minimal or classic house.
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Multi-instrumentalist Sébastien Tellier released his first album 'L'incroyable Vertité', in 2001. The first album already contained the typical Sébastien Tellier sound which should three years later manifest in La Ritournelle, probably one of the best...
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Brought together by rather obscure family relations, Rumanian-born Nicolas Sfintescu and Frenchman Ezéchiel Pailhès started releasing music as Nôze in 2004 and since that time run the Circus Company label. Known for their off-beat sense of humour, Nôze...
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She knows how to please the crowd and when to play the right track at the right time. Jennifer is resident DJ at the Parisian Rex Club and tours the world with her beautiful DJ sets. And like all the greats she knows how to enhance the meaning of records with those which have the come before and those to follow.
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Known as the sonic terrorist of French minimal house, Ark has certainly found his own style, be it as a DJ, producer or live-act. Famously storing his records without any kind of protection sleeve, crackles and pops form an integral part of his DJ sets, which are usually performed with plenty of scratching, cutting and head-banging....
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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...
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From his start in the hardcore techno scene to his successful partnership with Miss Kittin, Michel Amato a.k.a. The Hacker is one of today's most respected and innovative French artists. Electro, New Wave and EBM serve as the musical background of his productions, e.g. on his albums 'Mélodies En Sous-Sol' (1999) and 'Reves...
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Multi-talented Carl 'Flash' Finlow has been successful with numerous projects for over ten years now, many of them in partnership with Ralph Lawson, whom he also set up 2020Vision with. Together they were Wolf and Flow, and solo he was releasing under his pseudonym Random Factor including remixes for aritsts from Josh Wink to Fatboy...
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Grenoble born Caroline Hervé, a.k.a. Miss Kittin, has in recent years firmly established herself in the top-star league of the electronic music scene. With first major successes as a vocalist for longtime collaborator The Hacker (think 'Frank Sinatra' for...
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Justice is Parisians Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay who formed in 2003. Their first collaboration paid tribute to The Buggles, after which they handed Pedro Winter from Ed Banger Records a bedroom-recorded reworking of Simian's 'Never Be Alone', that started a little fad for spreading across European clubs, but didn't win the...
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Like all prolific French producers Romain Turzi was born and raised in Versailles. He and his comrades, who not only share a common passion for beer but also for vintage synthesizers and Kraut-Rock, formed the band 'Reich IV', named after Steve Reich 'IV...
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Created by 3 French men at the turn of the century, I Love UFO is a powerful kraut punk mayhem driven by stage energy and psychedelic experiences. Their first Album 'Whish' was released on Record Makers and produced by Vicarious Bliss of EdBanger fame.
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One of the most distinct electronic music producers originating from Japan, Ryoji Ikeda began his career as a sound artist and DJ during the 90s, raising attention with his compositions for groundbreaking multimedia art group Dumb Type. Since 1995 he has...
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Parisian DJ, producer and remixer, Julien Auger began his musical career by learning guitar at the age of 14 and playing with various Parisian Jazz Funk bands. It was around this time that he began DJing with a few different Hip Hop bands and also started to produce his first tracks for them.
As raves became larger and more popular...
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Parisian star producer Alex Gopher entered the French music scene in a pop band called Orange together with his college mates Etienne de Crécy and both members of Air. While Gopher would continue to collaborate with the other band members on future...
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Arthur Pochon (a.k.a. Art Bleek) started studying piano at the age of 6. He enrolled in the conservatory at age 9 to study saxophone and music theory. He graduated from the prestigious institution 12 years later. During his years of study, Arthur played in various musical ensembles, ranging from chamber groups to full orchestras. He...
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Long before Nouvelle Vague enlighted the world with their bossa nova interpretations of classic new wave tunes, Antena have been around making their own blend of new wave bossa. Infected by Kraftwerk, Human League and Ultravoxx, Pascale and Sylvain moved...
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Impressively productive Parisian producer, DJ and man behind the Robsoul label, Phil Weeks is a house music purist, combining old school Chicago sounds with a nu-school French touch for his productions, which are mostly created on timeless analogue...
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Paris's D*I*R*T*Y Soundsystem label made a name for itself with a series of edits, reusing everything from 70s disco to synthpop. The label's first 'real' releases coming from Pilooski and Pentile a.k.a. Discodeine.
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Alter ego of Dial Records artist Hendrick Weber, Pantha Du Prince has become everybody's darling since his 2007 smash album 'This Bliss' and is possibly the only man who can join the dots between My Bloody Valentine, Detroit and minimal techno. Born in...
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With a background as a hip-hop turntablist, Feadz (or Fabien Pianta to his mom) hooked up with Mr. Oizo in 1999, contributing scratches to Oizo's 'Analog Worms Attack' album and commencing a partnership that has lasted to this day. Hooked on Chicago jacks and Miami bass, Feadz started producing his own flavour of digital yet uniquely...
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Originally trained as a jazz guitarist, Cabanne started producing his glitchy house tracks for Parisian label Telegraph in 2000. Gaining international recognition with his single 'Can't Stand' for Daniel Bell's legendary 7th City imprint, Cabanne...
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Should you bump into the guys from Nôze, chances are that their close friends dOP are not far behind - their tight affiliation with the Circus Company camp has brought the Parisian three-piece major attention lately, and the connection between the two...
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Parisian producer Erwan Castex a.k.a. Rone originally started out as a film-maker but soon devoted himself to music full-time after being discovered by Agoria and signed to his Infiné label. The young shooting star's seductive sound combines minimal...
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French producer Danton Eeprom has been first making waves in Berlin's raunchy Mitte clubs with enigmatic stage performances and raving neo-electro productions. Sometimes integrating guitars and singing into his tracks, sometimes toning it down to stripped Chicago-influenced house productions, Eeprom's work is tied together by a...
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Quentin Dupieux a.k.a. Mr. Oizo broke into the limelight when a track off his second EP 'Flat Beat' was surprisingly used for a Levis commercial in 1998. The clip, which featured a yellow stuffed animal going by the name of Flat Eric, became immensely successful and both Oizo and Eric became popular media figures over night. The hype...
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One of the world's most prominent electronic music artists, Laurent Garnier has come a long way since his early days in the late 80s, when he started DJing American house music in Manchester's underground clubs such as the Haçienda. Upon his return to...
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Nouvelle Vague, meaning 'new wave' in French, is a French musical collective led by producer/arranger duo Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux, and features the vocals of various sultry chanteuses from all over the world. Owing to their name and most all that...
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With influences running the gamut from Aphex Twin to Stevie Wonder, Joakim Bouaziz (or Jimi Bazzouka as his Myspace page would have you call him) is the man behind 2007's instant cult classic album 'Monsters & Silly Songs,' a funky mix of disco, post-punk...
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When People question the authenticity of a piece of work, in Black Devil Disco Club's case, the legitimacy of the group's claim that its rare (and futuristic sounding) 1978 debut album 'Disco Club' was truly produced at that time, not two decades later,...
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Having started his career in 1992, D'Julz is one of the most internationally respected proponents of Paris' sprawling techno and house scene today, producing for labels like Poker Flat or Ovum and running his own club night - and now label - Bass...
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Born and raised in Istanbul, studied in London, and relocated to Paris in 2005, cosmopolitan producer Tolga Fidan still considers himself Turkish above all else. At the age of 14, Tolga was playing bass and guitar in post rock bands. Always drawn to...
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A rising star on the French minimal house and techno scene, young DJ and producer Anthony Collins has consistently been releasing on cutting-edge labels like Curle, Resopal and Vakant over the past few years. Born to an American father and to a French mother, Anthony spent his early years in New York and the South of France before...
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Parisian multi-instrumentalist Etienne Jaumet has his hands in no less than four recording projects, including the hotly tipped krautrock-disco outfit Zombie Zombie. While his skills include mastery of the Theremine, saxophone and piano, his much-vaunted...
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Aufgang is the project of Francesco Tristano, fellow pianist Rami Khalifé and Cassius drummer Aymeric Westrich. Creating music mainly with two pianos and a set of drums, Aufgang's sound is highly unique, combining influences from electronic, classical and...
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Chloé Thevenin made a name for herself in the Parisian electronic music scene as a resident of the city's legendary Pulp club alongside Jennifer Cardini. Her first productions appeared through the Karat label, already displaying a playful attitude that...
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There are two kinds of DJs: those whose goal is to make a name for themselves and those whose goal is to make music - and let the rest follow. Parisian Chris Carrier is among the latter. For more than a dozen years he's been an underground icon, churning...
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As one of the most versatile producers in French electronic music, Nicolas Chaix truly lives up to his home label's name. Recording solo as I:Cube and together with Versatile Records label owner Gilb'R as Château Flight, Chaix has been responsible for...
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Over the course of just a a few years, Parisian beat-maker Onra has established himself as one of the greatest talents of the current futuristic R&B style. Combining abundant musicality - think P-Funk, Prince, and early electro - with a taste for...
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Oleg Poliakov is the alias of Parisian producer Frederic Aubourg, who also releases under the name of Skat. His productions of deep, grooving underground house have appeared on leading French labels Circus Company and Bass Culture, while his more...
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Franck Roger has be en a driving force behind the French house music boom during the 1990s and remained a major player in the scene ever since, both with his prolific production work - recently contributing to Planet E, Desolat and Circus Company - as...
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French electronic music producer Etienne De Crécy was born in Lyon but moved to Paris in the mid 1980s, attending the same college as Air and Alex Gopher, with whom he later created the (now defunct) Disques Solid label. His first album from 1998, 'Super...
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Parisian DJ and producer Mike Levy a.k.a. Gesaffelstein has been getting a lot of attention lately for crossing over old-school electro elements with slow, banging techno beats, arriving at a relentless Codeine-rave sound akin to classic Lory D and PCP...
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Growing up on the tranquil island of Reunion is unlikely to have prepared Alexis Benard a.k.a. Seuil for the busy Paris club life, yet he has established himself as one of the key players in the French capital's electronic music scene since his move...
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Born in southern France, and now located in Paris, Benoit Heitz a.k.a Surkin became famous at quite an early age with hits like 'Radio Fireworks', tracks that combined the rough energy of the booming new rave style with the cut-up drum programming of...
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