2024-08-28 22:15:25
From Mr. Oizo to Myd, French Touch artists were widely featured during the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games on Thursday evening.
After the Olympic ceremonies which gave pride of place to the French Touch with Cerrone, Phoenix, Kavinsky and Air, and before a special concert to close the Paralympics, French electricity shone during the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
Mr. Oizo, l’éclectique
At 50, Quentin Dupieux continues to cultivate his two passions: behind the camera, where he established himself as one of the French references in bad humor with 13 feature films in 17 years, including Rubber, Unbelievable but true or even Yes!but also behind the decks under the pseudonym Mr Oizo. Your title Flat beatreleased in 1999, played from the first minutes of the opening ceremony by the Matheus Group.
It shows the link between the first French wave, made in particular by Daft Punk and Air, and the French Touch 2.0, which appeared in the 2000s with artists like Justice or Kavinsky (Night callsoundtrack to the movie “Drive”).
As Justice, Global and SebastiAn, he is part of the Ed Banger team, led by Pedro Winter, former manager of Daft Punk, which hosts French electronic big names with international influence.
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Mid, the sun
Myd will remember it: the new head of the French Touch turned into a DJ, at the foot of the Concorde obelisk, a famous Parisian monument. When the athletes were going down the Champs-Élysées, the young man took care of the back of the cars, a blue-white roof, the color of the French flag, on his shoulders, and ended in a long train at down the street.
He played seriously SunHis flagship song was released in 2017, which made him known on a global level. The title has almost 95 million streams on the music streaming platform Spotify.
In his thirties, the artist made pieces that combined the sun / melancholy and the baroque look in the middle of the turntables: a mustache or a small fallow beard, a Parisian tourist t-shirt and other different clothing ensembles. Born in the north of France, Myd began tinkering on his father’s computer as a child, hypnotized by Fatboy Slim, Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers. A career in audiovisual after high school led him to Fémis, the famous French film school, in the audio engineering department.
Chilly Gonzales, piano player
In a bathing suit and black charentaises over a white dress, Chilly Gonzales, the undistinguished Canadian and collaborator of Daft Punk, performed MathematicsPiano piece written by Victor Le Masne, curator of the musical signature of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Emerging in the early 2000s with his DIY hip-hop/electro, the fifty-year-old later became known for his solo piano recitals in tights and slippers. This did not prevent him from continuing to work for important clients, such as the singer Drake. “Gonzo”, one of his nicknames, also collaborated on Random access memories (2013), the triumphant album by Daft Punk, a helmeted duo now separated.
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