French Flair

Electronic Music Festival @ Bed Supperclub

In partnership with Bed Supperclub, French Flair celebrates its fourth edition this year. The new generation of DJ’s and producers of the French electro scene lands in Bangkok on June 9th, 16th and 22nd 2007.

Joakim - June 9th @ 10:00pm
It is shortly after the release of his album "Fantômes” in 2003 that Joakim was spotted as one of the major figure of the French electronic music scene.  He owes his immediate success to his varied tastes, his collection of eclectic records and his original background: immersed in music since childhood , he learned to play the piano with the romantic master concertist, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, During his teens he was a fan of independent rock music and  he discovered the new sound of electronic music when a school friend forgot his synthesizer in his room. It took him only a few months to send his demos: his album "Tigersushi” and it was then produced by Future Talk, an experimental branch of the Versatile music label. This brilliant opus revisits the jazzy references of the 1960’s.  A year later, his tracks are already remixed by musicians such as 4 Hero, Evidence or DJ Mehdi.

In 2001 he founded his own label called "Tigersushi” and since then, he has produced projects such as "KLM, Panico”, "Principles of Geometry”, "Volga Select”, or "More god Dam Music”.  Joakim has become a reference in the French underground scene.  His multiples talents, piano at the conservatory, studies at a French Business School, and then performances on the techno dancefloors, gave birth to his latest album "Monsters and Silly Songs”.

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The Penelopes - June 16th @ 10:00pm
The encounter of two Parisians, gave birth to duet tHe pEneLOpe(s). As they share the same passions, they decided to drop their studies, law for one, medicine for the other, in order to devote themselves to music. They make up their first tracks on analogical instruments and vintage guitars. Deeply vindictive, their first production”Purity”
Makes them rejoin the universe of Nick Cave and Morissey, one of the figures of The Smiths. Their compilation "Together songs”, a lot more contemporary was filled with unprecedented rock energy and enabled them to go on a world tour. Distinguishing themselves from an electronic scene dominated by other sounds, their taste for spontaneous melodies, even naïve ones, enabled them to work with great names such as International deejay Gigolo and Vitalic. They composed for "Liquid Architecture”, the musical project of the director of the "Palais de Tokyo” (Tokyo Palace in Paris) and they have been supported financially by Agnès b.

Their latest album "The arrogance of simplicity” invites "guests” to sing on their bouncing tracks: Dierdre Dubois and DJ Morpheus.

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Missill - June 22nd & 23rd @ 10:00pm
The talented Missill is an independent self-made artist. At the same time a DJ, graphic designer, graffiti artist, she started mixing in 1999 and distinguished herself thanks to her energy and talent at the "Transmusicales de Rennes” festival in 2003. Since then, her hyperactivity has not stopped and her first album recorded in 2006 nicely kids around raga, hip-hop, electro and break beat.  The same year, she gave concerts  at the biggest French and European festivals before performing in the USA, Canada, Africa, South America, Australia and Asia.

Her stages mates are Carl Craig, Horace Andy, Jimmy Cliff, Laurent Garnier, Gang of four, Supergrass, Sinclair or La Rumeur. The professional press is unanimous: "Following the "Vieilles Charues” a music festival where 10,000 almost became collectively hysterical on hearing her electro-break selection, Missill has now reached the threshold of recognition, after having set on fire the French underground stages for five years” (Teaser Mag, September 2005)

Also playing at Fête de la Musique on June 23rd.

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