Sebastian - A Fine Selection Of Remixes
SebastiAn releases A Fine Selection Of Remixes on Ed Banger on September 22, 2008.
You only have to meet French DJ and producer SebastiAn once to understand that he is a difficult character to describe. Try summing him up, and he will instantaneously slip through your fingers. We nonetheless managed to learn these few facts about him: He was born Sebastian Akchoté, in Boulogne, France. His family comes from the former Yugoslavia.
He started producing music with machines at the age of 15, with two members of the Rap band Cercle Vicieux. He met Jean-Louis Costes at around the same time. Costes is a radical figure in the Parisian underground scene. A performer, musician, film director and writer, he respects no limits, and it is always best to take an umbrella to one of his happenings. Sebastian made his debut on Coste’s album “Nik Ta Race”, which was an explosive encounter between indie rock and rap.
That same year, Daft Punk released “Homework” and rocked the world with their own special brand of House Music. Sebastian’s destiny is linked to these two extremes: the underground and the overground, mixing before Costes’ obscure shows one day and opening for Daft Punk in stadiums across the planet the next day.
In 2004, Sebastian gave his demos to Pedro Winter, who signed him on Ed Banger Records straight away. A real stakhanovite – he is said to produce one track a day - Sebastian has released three EPs to date ( “Smoking Kills” in 2004, “Ross, Ross, Ross” in 2006 and the “Motor EP” in spring 2008), which make him one of the most intriguing personalities on the French electronic scene. His incredibly effective style is very hard to describe. Only his friend Kavinsky has managed to pin it down: “cigarette coughing rhythms, little washing-machine noises and meters that go into overload all of a sudden”. Well said.
After acting as an extra in films by John B. Root, he was seen in “Steak” by Quentin Dupieux (Mr Oizo), with whom he composed the soundtrack alongside Sebastien Tellier. He has also been doing an of remixes (Daft Punk, Klaxons, Kelis, The Rapture, etc).
But what interests us today is his enormous quantity of remixes he produced since 2005 (Daft Punk, Klaxons, Kelis, The Rapture ...) “SebastiAn: Remixes” focuses on 16 tracks (plus an intro) displaying his various styles: Rock (The Rapture, The Kills, Das Pop, The Rakes, Editors, Bloc Party), Dance (Mylo, Daft Punk, Benjamin Theves, Klaxons, Kavinsky) and even RnB (Nadiya).
“SebastiAn: Remixes” seems to act as a teaser to the 1st artist album by SebastiAn, expected for 2009.
TRACKLISTING:
01 Intro
02 Revl9n - Walkin Machines
03 Daft Punk - Human After All
04 Mylo - Paris Four Hundred
05 The Rapture - Get Myself Into It
06 Editors - Camera
07 The Rakes - We Danced Together
08 Kelis - Bossy
09 The Kills - Cheap And Chearfull
10 Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive
11 Benjamin Theves - Texas
12 Das Pop - Fool For Love
13 Bloc Party - I Still Remember
14 Sebastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear
15 Klaxons - Golden Skans
16 Annie - Happy Without you
17 Nadiya - Tous Ces Mots
