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Coming from the Techno movement of the 90's and indisputable reference of the French Touch, Shazz has built up a special place on the French electronic scene, thanks to his crystal clear and melancolic melodies that are his trademarks.
Shazz was born in Dunkerque, on December 24th 1967 , where he spends his youth and teen years. On weekends, he crosses the border, spends nights in Belgian nightclubs and discovers a then emerging and very active electro culture. Music Lover, he takes an active interest in all these new sounds that are spreading on the dancefloors, and very quickly takes interest in groups such as New Order, Depeche Mode, Art of Noise... and then later Chicago House and Detroit Techno...
In the mid-80's Shazz settles down in Paris, and it doesn't take long before he becomes a regular of the Parisian underground nightlife. Although he doesn't have any musical education, he begins to compose tracks. In 1992, signs his first 12 inches « Moonflower » on Fnac Music Dance Division. A few ones will follow before moving his contract to mythic French label F-Com in 1994. During these Years at Fnac Music Dance Division and F-Com, he meets Laurent Garnier and Ludovic Navarre (aka St Germain) with whom he composes and collaborates on different projects under the monikers L'n'S, Nuages, Soofle, Choice (Acid Eiffel). In the meantime he releases his own EPs under the aliases of Shazz (Back in Manhattan), Orange or Aurora Borealis (The Milky Way).
1998 : SHAZZ
2001 : IN THE LIGHT
2002 : IN THE NIGHT
2004 : BEAUTIFUL
2005 : HUMAN ?
2009 : HERITAGE
2015 : BEAUTIFUL 10TH ANNIVERSARY DEFINITIVE EDITION
2016 : EPILOGUE
2018-2019 : SHAZZER PROJECT
2020 : HERITAGE 10TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTERED EDITION
2021 : TRANSITION TO DISORDER
Between the release of Heritage, his previous album and today, 10 years have passed just interspersed with the release of an EP (EPilogue in 2016) and remixes of the SHAZZer Project produced with his long time partner Jean-Marie K! There is no doubt that Shazz has the art of kindling desire. He’s finally back with his 5th studio album recorded at home», in Normandy, just like when he started off. For Shazz it all began in 1992 with Fnac Music Dance Division then with F.Communications and the historical epic of what we will later call the French Touch. Despite his collaborations with Laurent Garnier or Ludovic Navarre and his various more personal projects, Shazz has always stayed in the periphery, beyond the commercial limits of the genre. Eclectic, open to all genres of electronic music, Shazz has always known how to take us into his melancholic universe. His new solo album Transition To Disorder, conceived as a global sound work, is a real return to the sources of Shazz’s first productions but remains paradoxically well anchored in the current era. Mastered by Chab (Grammy Awards for Random Access Memory), TTD is a true electronic music producer album without the usual concessions imposed by the record industry. With powerful, almost physical songs, such as My Love or Our Kingdom, boosted by sequences of techno-influenced synthesizers, alternates the soft down-tempo tracks like Ondulatoires, Nexus, My Baby or Ryuichi, through the deep vibing Yeah! or the dreamlike and hypnotic side of Drive, The Line or Voyage. Order and disorder follow each other in this album in a subtle balancing act between strength and serenity. Transition To Disorder immerses us in a retro-future idealized universe tinged with a hint of pop that makes Shazz’s music so unique and recognizable. And in this transitioning world, facing an uncertain future, tempted by withdrawal into oneself and fear of the other, with We Are One Shazz reminds us that music knows no frontiers since it connects us all to one other.
Shazz was born in Dunkerque, on December 24th 1967 , where he spends his youth and teen years. On weekends, he crosses the border, spends nights in Belgian nightclubs and discovers a then emerging and very active electro culture. Music Lover, he takes an active interest in all these new sounds that are spreading on the dancefloors, and very quickly takes interest in groups such as New Order, Depeche Mode, Art of Noise... and then later Chicago House and Detroit Techno...
In the mid-80's Shazz settles down in Paris, and it doesn't take long before he becomes a regular of the Parisian underground nightlife. Although he doesn't have any musical education, he begins to compose tracks. In 1992, signs his first 12 inches « Moonflower » on Fnac Music Dance Division. A few ones will follow before moving his contract to mythic French label F-Com in 1994. During these Years at Fnac Music Dance Division and F-Com, he meets Laurent Garnier and Ludovic Navarre (aka St Germain) with whom he composes and collaborates on different projects under the monikers L'n'S, Nuages, Soofle, Choice (Acid Eiffel). In the meantime he releases his own EPs under the aliases of Shazz (Back in Manhattan), Orange or Aurora Borealis (The Milky Way).
1998 : SHAZZ
2001 : IN THE LIGHT
2002 : IN THE NIGHT
2004 : BEAUTIFUL
2005 : HUMAN ?
2009 : HERITAGE
2015 : BEAUTIFUL 10TH ANNIVERSARY DEFINITIVE EDITION
2016 : EPILOGUE
2018-2019 : SHAZZER PROJECT
2020 : HERITAGE 10TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTERED EDITION
2021 : TRANSITION TO DISORDER
Between the release of Heritage, his previous album and today, 10 years have passed just interspersed with the release of an EP (EPilogue in 2016) and remixes of the SHAZZer Project produced with his long time partner Jean-Marie K! There is no doubt that Shazz has the art of kindling desire. He’s finally back with his 5th studio album recorded at home», in Normandy, just like when he started off. For Shazz it all began in 1992 with Fnac Music Dance Division then with F.Communications and the historical epic of what we will later call the French Touch. Despite his collaborations with Laurent Garnier or Ludovic Navarre and his various more personal projects, Shazz has always stayed in the periphery, beyond the commercial limits of the genre. Eclectic, open to all genres of electronic music, Shazz has always known how to take us into his melancholic universe. His new solo album Transition To Disorder, conceived as a global sound work, is a real return to the sources of Shazz’s first productions but remains paradoxically well anchored in the current era. Mastered by Chab (Grammy Awards for Random Access Memory), TTD is a true electronic music producer album without the usual concessions imposed by the record industry. With powerful, almost physical songs, such as My Love or Our Kingdom, boosted by sequences of techno-influenced synthesizers, alternates the soft down-tempo tracks like Ondulatoires, Nexus, My Baby or Ryuichi, through the deep vibing Yeah! or the dreamlike and hypnotic side of Drive, The Line or Voyage. Order and disorder follow each other in this album in a subtle balancing act between strength and serenity. Transition To Disorder immerses us in a retro-future idealized universe tinged with a hint of pop that makes Shazz’s music so unique and recognizable. And in this transitioning world, facing an uncertain future, tempted by withdrawal into oneself and fear of the other, with We Are One Shazz reminds us that music knows no frontiers since it connects us all to one other.
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