French Electro Artists
Here is a short list of France electro artists. The information written about each one are taken from several websites such as mondomix.com, frenchelectroconncetion.com, Wikipedia, and last.fm. Please go to these sites to read more about these artists and others not listed in this site.
AGORIA - Born from an artistic family living in the countryside of mountainous Lyon, southeast France, young Sebastien Devaud was always so keen on music. Inheriting the art genes from his architect father and his music-teacher mother, at his late teen he went on a search of real house music, buying loads of vinyls from Germany and America at the town's only record shop.
A few years later in 2003, Sebastien, now using the pseudonym Agoria, released his first maxi "La Onzieme Marche", followed by the album called "Blossom" which went to hit a big success in Europe. But the real global success came in 2006 with the release of "The Green Armchair", and soon Sebastien started traveling around the world, clutching his headphone in one hand and a suitcase full of vinyls in the other, from the most luxurious till the biggest underground clubs around France, Spain, Germany, Brazil, North America.
AIR - Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin are modernists. This doesn't mean that they walk around Parisian streets wearing parkas and listening to the Who. Air embrace the new. Each album is a move away from the last and a journey towards something else. Their music is intellectually stimulating and empty-headedly simple; eleqiac and triumphal; beyond pop and yet resolutely of it, too. Yet Air are no academically dry intellectuals either. If their music is full of French-style cliches about boy meeting girl, it's done so playfully, with a knowing wink. They know their way round a good joke and can deadpan for the Republic.
BUMCELLO - A French duo with multiple roots, Bumcello consists of percussionist Cyril Atef and cello player Vincent Segal. Berlin-born Atef has shared his electrifying playing and ribald humour with bands as diverse as Orchestre National de Barbes and the Illouz Quintet; while Segal wields his cello at the sides of Glenn Ferris, Susheela Raman and Vanessa Paradis. Since the two came together in 1999, however, they have enjoyed a prolific recording career and electrifying tours around the jazz-electro-world-rock world they have created with Bumcello
DAFT PUNK - Daft Punk is a multi Grammy Award-winning electronic music duo formed in 1994 at Paris, France, and consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born 8 February 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born 3 January 1975). The band is considered one of the most successful electronic music collaborations of all time, both in album sales and in critical acclaim.
MISS KITTEN - Grenoble born Caroline Herve, aka Miss Kittin,has in recent years established herself as one of the most inspiring DJs and voices to emerge within the electronic music scene. Her vocal collaborations have produced seminal moments of dancefloor heaven. Her tracks with longstanding production partner The Hacker, such as "Frank Sinatra" and "1982", propelled them both into the spotlight whilst further collaborations with Felix Da Housecat, "Silver Screen (Shower Scene)", Golden Boy "Rippin Kittin", Sven Vath "Je T'aime" and T.Raumschmiere "The Game Is Not Over" have confirmed Miss Kittin's star billing status. Read more at her website misskittin.com
JUSTICE - Justice is an electronic music duo from Paris, France, formed in 2003 and consisting of Gaspard Auge (born 21 May, 1979) and Xavier de Rosnay (born 2 July, 1982). They are mostly known for their remix of Simian's "Never Be Alone", later renamed "We Are Your Friends", as well as their "Waters of Nazareth" EP and their single release of D.A.N.C.E.. Their debut album is entitled "+" but is often spelled out "Cross". Justice are the most commercially successful act on the label of Pedro Winter (Busy P), Ed Banger.
MiSSiLL - DJ, graphic designer, graffiti writer, producer, terrorist of all kind and Missill, "the urban punk", is here to destroy all those readymade ideas you might have about DJing.Her style was described in the UK's M8 Magazine as a "sense-shredding orgy of hiphop, grime, ragga, dancehall, breaks and electro". Her passion for all things hip hop (she is a jack of all trades dabbling in graffiti, graphic designs, production, her own clothes designs and the list goes on) translated through her fingertips and energy fuels to an ever mesmerised crowd.