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 Joakim
Sunday November 23rd
Live and Exclusive to Sugar
Joakim Bio
Dubbed the Godfather of French Electro by I-D
magazine, Joakim is heading to Australia for the
first time in November.
With a background in classical
piano, it took a school-friend leaving a synthesiser
in Joakim’s bedroom to lead him astray into
the world of electronic music. As a result, the
Parisian is hard to pin down - part club, part
jazz, part indie, and part experimentalism, with
DJ sets that explode!
Joakim’s solo works are
some of the most extraordinarily forward-thinking
in dance music - from his debut Tiger Sushi (Future
Talk), to the sleeper modern classic Fantômes
(Versatile), to last year’s Monsters and
Silly Songs (Versatile/!K7), an album recorded
with his live band which garnered praise from
taste-makers around the world. He’s also
had tracks featured on compilations including
‘Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered’ (Rapster
Records), Kitsuné Maison Compilation 2
and Groove Armada’s ‘Late Night Tales’.
Joakim is a major figure on
the modern global music scene. Founding the Tigersushi
label in 2003, he has emerged as the French producer
du jour, both for his own work and the likes of
Poni Hoax, My Sister Klaus and Panico.
In between all this he still
finds time to remix everyone from chart darlings
Simian Mobile Disco, Annie, Dj Mehdi, Tiga and
Air to Australia’s own Cut Copy and Severed
Heads, mix for the hugely popular NYC radio program
Beats In Space, as well as curating a compilation
for Parisian boutique Colette. A man of many talents,
he even does the artwork for his own releases!
Of course, there has been no
shortage of those wanting to lend their touch
to his work, with Tim Goldsworthy (DFA) and MANDY
(Get Physical) among those contributing remixes.
Some essential listening to
familiarise yourself with Joakim’s brilliance
would have to include his original tracks Lonely
Hearts and I Wish You Were Gone (Versatile), as
well as his reworks of Antena’s ‘Camino
Del Sol’ (Permanent Vacation), Gucci Soundsystem’s
‘A Carpenter’ (DFA), and Principles
of Geometry & Sébastien Tellier’s
‘A Mountain for President’ (Tigersushi),
a must-have which featured in many DJs’ top
releases of last year.
With a brand new remix album
around the corner and his next artist album due
in 2009, this is your chance to catch France's
electro-jazz-mutant disco hero.
Tracklist Joakim Remix compilation :
1 Alter Ego / Why Not?
2 Seventeen Evergreen / Music is The Wine
3 Cut Copy / Hearts On Fire
4 Gucci Soundsystem / A Carpenter
5 Poni Hoax / Involutive Star
6 Antena / Camino Del Sol
7 Lionel Hampton / Vibramatic
8 Grand Popo Football Club / My Territory
9 Annie / Always Too Late
10 Max Berlin / Elle Et Moi
11 Clashing Egos / Aminjig Nebere (I Trusted You)
12 Simian Mobile Disco / Hustler
13 Zombie Zombie / Driving this road until death
sets you free
http://www.tigersushi.com/site/download/joakim-djset-sundaybest-brooklyn-24082008.MP3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeSyy_cvc7U
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