"Daft Punk Daft Punk are a French electronic music duo formed in Paris in 1993 by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They achieved popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French house movement, and had success in the years following, combining elements of house music with funk, techno, disco, rock and synthpop. They have worn ornate helmets and gloves to assume robot personas in most public appearances since 1999 and rarely grant interviews or appear on television. The duo were managed from 1996 to 2008 by Pedro Winter (also known as Busy P), the head of Ed"
"Masked Avengers (duo) The Masked Avengers, or Les Justiciers Masqués, are a Canadian radio duo from Montreal, Quebec, made up of disc jockeys and comedians Sébastien Trudel and Marc-Antoine Audette, known for making prank calls to famous persons by pretending to be government officials or officers in charitable organizations. Working mostly in French, except for their international prank calls, they appear on the afternoon program ""Les Cerveaux de l'info"" on CKOI-FM in Montreal. Past victims of their pranks have included Gilles Duceppe, rock stars Bono and Mick Jagger, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve, U.S. business tycoon"
"La Caution La Caution is a French hip hop duo consisting of members Hi-Tekk and Nikkfurie of Moroccan descent. They are notable for creating the song ""Thé à la Menthe"" which is known for appearing (in instrumental form) in the 2004 American film ""Ocean's Twelve"". The phrase ""thé à la menthe"" is French for ""mint tea"". Their song ""Briques"" also appeared in the 5th Season, Episode 18 of the American TV Series ""How I Met Your Mother"". La Caution's first single ""Les rues électriques"" (""electric streets"") was released in 1999. They began to gain recognition participating in Assassin concerts. As"
"always dressed in a fedora hat and turned-up overcoat, usually depicted in contrasting shadows and light, and often in black and white. Vision Éternel Vision Éternel is a Canadian ambient and shoegaze band based in Montreal, Quebec. The band was formed in January 2007 by guitarist Alexandre Julien, while experimenting with various guitar effects during a studio recording session. Over the course of its first year, the band had several other members, before Julien ultimately decided to continue Vision Éternel alone. Some of the artists and musicians who have participated in or collaborated with Vision Éternel over the years include"
"Drixxxé etc. as well as extracts of live appearances and a documentary recalling their career. La Caution has its own radio show called ""Les Cautionneurs"" on the French radio station Le Mouv, featuring two hours of hip hop music every Saturday night. La Caution La Caution is a French hip hop duo consisting of members Hi-Tekk and Nikkfurie of Moroccan descent. They are notable for creating the song ""Thé à la Menthe"" which is known for appearing (in instrumental form) in the 2004 American film ""Ocean's Twelve"". The phrase ""thé à la menthe"" is French for ""mint tea"". Their song"
"Les Twins Professionally known as Les Twins, identical twin brothers Laurent Nicolas and Larry Nicolas Bourgeois (born December 6, 1988) are French dancers, choreographers, producers, and models and designers and creative directors of their brand ""Eleven Paris"". Additionally, Larry Nicolas sings and Laurent Nicolas raps, and together they have released two songs. Often referred to by their respective nicknames, ""Lil Beast"" and ""Ca Blaze"", they are recognized internationally for their talents in new style hip-hop dancing, and various dancing styles. Born and raised in Sarcelles, France, the self-taught dance duo became the darlings of the French audience in 2008 as"
"The Blaze (band) The Blaze are French music and video duo Guillaume Alric and Jonathan Alric. They are cousins based in Paris, France and known for their cinematographic videos. Guillaume Alric and Jonathan Alric began making music together when Jonathan, who was at film school in Brussels, asked Guillaume to work with him on a music video soundtrack. As a duo they took the name The Blaze. They have explained that in addition to the strength and warmth suggested by the name, it means ""name"" in French slang. Their distinctive integrative method involves producing sound and visuals at the same"
"DAT Politics DAT politics is a French electronic band created in 1999. Their energetic live shows explain the cult like enthusiasm that surrounds the French electronic combo as they’ve been touring the world extensively over the years. The two founders members (also known as Tone Rec and Skipp) are also involved in visuals and graphic design which leads them to create their own records covers, websites, T-shirts, videos etc. The music of the duo is often classified under the electropop genre and described as catchy, melodic and eminently danceable. For 10 years, they 've been influential for a lot of"
"Europe to Alfa Matrix. In 2008 the band played at the Kinetik Festival, and their single ""Lolife"" was included on a compilation CD, ""KINETIK FESTIVAL VOLUME 2"". Headscan Headscan is a Canadian music duo, composed of electronic musician Claude Charnier and singer Christian Pomerleau, based in Montreal, Quebec. The pair combines dark trance and industrial dancefloor-oriented electronic and acoustic music. Charnier and Pomerleau have been active in Montreal’s local alternative music scene, particularly within the techno industrial outfit Insurgent. Their first album, ""Shaper and Mechanist"", was released in 2001, and was a theme album based on work of novelist Bruce"
"Justice (band) Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. The duo's label is Ed Banger Records which is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter. Justice is known for incorporating a strong rock and indie influence into its music and image. The band's debut album ""Cross"" was released in June 2007 to critical acclaim. The album was later nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album and came in at number 15 on Pitchfork's ""Top 50 Albums of 2007"" and number 18 on Blender's ""25 Best Albums of 2007"" list. It"
"Music Video Awards The Shoes (French band) The Shoes are a French electro-rock duo originally from Reims created in 2007. It consists of Guillaume Brière and Benjamin Lebeau, who are both songwriters and producers. ""Scandal"" (2009, Green United Music) ""Crack My Bones"" (2011, Green United Music) ""Chemicals"" (2015, Green United Music) Knock Out (2008, 50 Bones) Stade de Reims (2008, Green United Music) Oh Lord (2009, 50 Bones) People Movin' (2009, Green United Music) Stay the Same (2010, Green United Music) Time to Dance (2012, Green United Music) Give It Away (2015) 1960's Horror ft. Dominic Lord (2016) Antville Music"
"Team Ghost Team Ghost is a French electronic music group created by Nicolas Fromageau, co-founder of M83, which he left in 2004. In Paris with the help of Jean-Philippe Talaga (who is the band A&R today) and bandmate Christophe Guérin, Nicolas Fromageau founded Team Ghost in 2007. the band released their first EP in April 2010 First act to be coined as “cold gaze” by the NME (for their mixture of Cold Wave and Shoegaze), Team Ghost released the EP ""You Never Did Anything Wrong to Me"", in 2010 through the English label Sonic Cathedral. In the fall of that"
"Paris & Simo Paris and Simo, previously known as Paris FZ and Simo T, are a Canadian electronic dance music duo, consisting of Paris Fotis and Simone Teti. Formed in 2010, they performed at Las Vegas' Electric Daisy Carnival, TomorrowWorld, Pier 94 and Guvernment among others. They also toured alongside David Guetta in Canada and frequently performed in various locations such as Japan, Bali, Malaysia, South America, Italy, Turkey and others. Paris and Simo were both studying in Montreal in their late teens when they met. Both have European backgrounds (Greek and Italian) and were avid instrumentalists. Musically-inclined from a"
"The Shoes (French band) The Shoes are a French electro-rock duo originally from Reims created in 2007. It consists of Guillaume Brière and Benjamin Lebeau, who are both songwriters and producers. ""Scandal"" (2009, Green United Music) ""Crack My Bones"" (2011, Green United Music) ""Chemicals"" (2015, Green United Music) Knock Out (2008, 50 Bones) Stade de Reims (2008, Green United Music) Oh Lord (2009, 50 Bones) People Movin' (2009, Green United Music) Stay the Same (2010, Green United Music) Time to Dance (2012, Green United Music) Give It Away (2015) 1960's Horror ft. Dominic Lord (2016) Antville Music Video Awards UK"
"In the ""DuckTales"" reboot episode ""McMystery at McDuck McManor!"", Dewey Duck adopts the persona of ""DJ Daft Duck"" and wears a helmet modeled after de Homem-Christo's. ""Baicalellia daftpunka"", a species of flatworm, was named after Daft Punk because part of the organism resembles a helmet. Daft Punk Daft Punk are a French electronic music duo formed in Paris in 1993 by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They achieved popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French house movement, and had success in the years following, combining elements of house music with funk, techno, disco, rock and synthpop."
"are not connected to. After several years of retreat and different musical projects, 21 June 2016, Dynamic Rockers announce their musical comeback on their different social media profiles. They talk about the rebirth of their label Dynamic Recordings ""abbr."" DYREC and their forthcoming projects. Dynamic Rockers Dynamic Rockers is a Franco-Canadian electronic music duo from Montreal formed in 2004 by two brothers, Olivier Sellier and Damien Sellier. Featuring a house music sound influenced by soul, funk and disco, the duo achieved significant popularity in the mid-2000s as part of the French touch house movement. They are also known for founding"
"Free release (2010) Freakz Me Out (2011) Om Records (2012) Dim Mak Records (2012) Dim Mak Records (2013) Free release (2013) StereoHeroes StereoHeroes is a French electronic music duo composed of Fabrice Delcambre and Sébastien Plé. StereoHeroes was formed in 2008 in the south of France. Quickly noticed by all the major international blogs, their first tracks, freely distributed, gave them an instant popularity around the world. They started then a never ending tour which took them in almost thirty countries until now. Their first official EP ""Boom Slang"" was released in 2009 on ""Leonizer Records"", the label founded by"
"of the video triptych that brought the duo the enormous notoriety they continue to enjoy. Their 2018 touring schedule included many of the biggest festivals in Europe and the U.S., including Coachella (festival), Primavera Sound, the Roskilde Festival, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork Paris, the Parklife (festival), the Lovebox Festival, and Reading & Leeds just to name a few. Their debut full-length album ""Dancehall"" will be released 7 September 2018 on Animal 63/Columbia RecordsRCA Records. Its 10 tracks include the single ""Heaven,"" along with the singles ""She"" and ""Faces"" which were released in summer 2018. The Blaze (band) The Blaze are French music"
"Coutu (bass) and Alain Tremblay (drums) of Les Chaizes Muzikales. They performed at Sudbury's Northern Lights Festival Boréal in 1998 and 2000, and at La Nuit sur l'étang in 2000 and 2001, before releasing their debut EP ""Hors d'œuvre dresse la table"" in 2001. The album's title track was released as a single in both English and French versions, with the French video receiving airplay on TFO and MusiquePlus, and the English video receiving airplay on MuchMusic. The video was filmed in the cavern at Science North. Berthiaume, Poulin and Tremblay continued with the band, which added Jason Richer on"
"Fauve (collective) Fauve collective, sometimes stylized as FAUVE, is a French arts collective of music and videography established in 2010 in Paris. The band also uses the not equal to sign ≠. The act depends mostly on story telling through acting, through spoken word and musical accompaniment. The collective has its own record label called FAUVE CORP. FAUVE presents itself as an open collective, containing at times more than twenty members (musicians, but also comedians, theatre technicians, visual artists... ). On stage, the collective is represented by five musicians (vocals, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards) and a video artist. During"
"Kap Bambino Kap Bambino is an electronic musical duo from Bordeaux, France. The group is known for Caroline Martial's wild vocals and Orion Bouvier's electronic . The group is also known for their exciting live performances, thus them being a part of the festivals ZXZW, Dot to Dot In 2001, Martial formed the group's own independent label, ""wwilko"". They have been featured in ""NME"", ""Another Magazine"", ""Dummy Mag"" and ""Dazed & Confused"". Additionally, the group was featured in Matt Irwin's 2007 film for Armani Exchange. Caroline was listed among the ""hottest young models .. in London and New York."" The"
"equipment included two Moog Sub Phattys, two Moog Voyagers (one XL), a Roland TB-3, an Akai LPD-8, among other miscellaneous effects pedals, MIDI keyboards, and control surfaces - some appearing to be custom-made. A Native Instruments Kontrol S-series keyboard was also seen used in the televised performance at AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France. Following the previous pattern of using Pioneer DJM series mixers, the ""Woman World Tour"" set also used four DJM900s. Studio albums Justice (band) Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. The duo's label is Ed Banger Records which is"
"one-hundred seventy on the French Albums Chart. Luke Vibert Luke Vibert (born 26 January 1973) is a British electronic musician and producer, best known for his work under several aliases such as Plug and Wagon Christ. Raised in Cornwall, Vibert began releasing projects in the 1990s across varied genres, including techno, drum 'n' bass, and trip hop. He has recorded on labels such as Rephlex, Ninja Tune, Planet Mu, and Warp. Vibert's first musical output was in a variety of bands, including a punk act called Five Minute Fashion and later a Beastie Boys-esque group called the Hate Brothers, but"
"DDamage dDamage is French duo from Paris, France considered by many as French Touch black sheep artists who makes atypic music that includes influences of hip hop and electronic music with a twist of punk rock and industrial techno music . The band currently consists of two brothers, Jean-Baptiste and Frédéric Hanak. They feature numerous artists on their albums, such as French rappers La Caution, Buck 65, TTC or Americans (Existereo, Crunc Tesla, Bigg jus, MF DOOM, Mike Ladd, Dose One...). On the ""Aeroplanes"" album, they collaborated with Tim Simenon from Bomb the Bass, the Serbian rapper Sin or Krazy"
"nearby European countries. The band lists their influences as ""Beat Assailant, The Roots, General Elektriks, Cannonball Adderley, Matthieu Chedid, Gainsbourg and many more..."" Their live performances are characterized by using many different instruments and working each one into the mix. ""Rhodes, guitar, bass, horns, you can expect a really complete live music experience when you see us on stage."" They have moustaches for a symbol - all the boys have moustaches and Liliboy usually wears a moustache-shaped skirt. Current Members Deluxe (musical group) Deluxe is a French band formed in 2007 in Aix-en-Provence. Deluxe was discovered by the group Chinese"
"Insane"", ""In Need"", and ""Malena"". ""By Pass"" was re-released with four bonus tracks: ""Scape"", ""Sweet & Sour"", ""Crash"" and ""Party"". All of the tracks on both CDs have been remastered. KaS Product KaS Product is a French electronic duo. Their music has been considered part of the French cold wave and electropunk movements. Formed in 1980, the duo consists of Spatsz on electronics and rhythm machines with Mona Soyoc on guitar, vocals and piano. Spatsz worked at a psychiatric hospital previously while Mona worked with a jazz band before meeting Spatsz. Their music is done in a similar minimal electronics"
"KaS Product KaS Product is a French electronic duo. Their music has been considered part of the French cold wave and electropunk movements. Formed in 1980, the duo consists of Spatsz on electronics and rhythm machines with Mona Soyoc on guitar, vocals and piano. Spatsz worked at a psychiatric hospital previously while Mona worked with a jazz band before meeting Spatsz. Their music is done in a similar minimal electronics and vocal style akin to Suicide and Soft Cell. Their first and second albums were re-released with bonus tracks. ""Try Out"" was re-released with five bonus tracks: ""Mind"", ""Seven"", ""Doctor"
"Dynamic Rockers Dynamic Rockers is a Franco-Canadian electronic music duo from Montreal formed in 2004 by two brothers, Olivier Sellier and Damien Sellier. Featuring a house music sound influenced by soul, funk and disco, the duo achieved significant popularity in the mid-2000s as part of the French touch house movement. They are also known for founding the labels Dynamic Recordings and Stamina Recordings. Damien and Olivier Sellier start producing records under different monikers during their teenage years for VOX, a label based in Paris, side-label of Vertigo. Vertigo/Vox is known for releasing artists like Romain Tranchart of Modjo, Daft Punk's"
"C2C (group) C2C (also known as Coups2Cross) is a French musical group formed in 1998 in the city of Nantes. The collaboration group consists of 4 French DJs: Atom and pFeL from Beat Torrent and 20Syl and Greem from Hocus Pocus. Each member of the group uses his turntable as an instrument, recreating in turn drums, bass guitars, scratching a guitar riff, or simulating a brass instrument. They met during their high school years and as teens they were fascinated by the work of DJ Qbert and DJ Shadow, innovators in the art of turntablism. They set off to make"
"less double-bass drumming and expanding Sotto's vocal range. They opened for Scorpions during their 2007 French tour. In December 2009, they released their fifth album ""Carpe Diem"". Heavenly (French band) Heavenly, a power metal band based in Marseille, France, was formed in 1993 in Paris by vocalist Benjamin Sotto and drummer Max Pilo, originally as a cover band under the name of Satan's Lawyer. In 1994, they changed their name to ""Heavenly"" and evolved into a full-fledged Helloween-influenced power metal outfit. In 1998, they released a three-track demo with new guitarist Anthony Parker. However, Parker's time with the band was"
"French Horn Rebellion French Horn Rebellion is a Brooklyn electronic dance band formed in 2007 by Wisconsin-bred brothers Robert Perlick-Molinari and David Perlick Molinari. Robert Perlick-Molinari is a classically trained French horn player, who decided to start playing dance music while still attending the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University because he didn't feel like he fit into the rigid world of classical music. The band released their debut self-titled demo in 2007, and ""The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion"" in 2011. Their second record, ""Next Jack Swing Pt. 1"", was released in 2014. Their EP, ""Foolin' Around"","
"to the Situation Room, they were asked to call back in 15 to 20 minutes—the operator even gave the pranksters the direct phone number. The censored recording of the prank was not made public until April Fool's Day 2009, when CKOI aired the stunt. The delay was due to an agreement with the US government to wait until Bush has left office, due to security concerns. Masked Avengers (duo) The Masked Avengers, or Les Justiciers Masqués, are a Canadian radio duo from Montreal, Quebec, made up of disc jockeys and comedians Sébastien Trudel and Marc-Antoine Audette, known for making prank"
"Penumbra (band) Penumbra is a gothic metal band from Paris, France and formed in 1996. Their music is characterized by using a classical mixture of female and male voices, Gregorian chants, bagpipes and other unconventional elements. ""Penumbra"" refers to the part of the shadow where the light source is only partially blocked. Part of the light passes through the edges of the object causing a partial shadow. Jarlaath (Maxime Meheust) and Dorian are the original founders of the group, who meet at a concert in 1996. Both share a similar vision of music: they are indeed there too many bands"