Joakim is hard to pin down: part club music, part jazz, part electronic
experimentalism.
One of France's foremost electronic musicians, Joakm has a background in
classical music, US & UK indie rock and jazz. He discovered electronic
music after a schoolfriend left his synthetiser in Joakim's room, later
latching onto indie and electronic labels such as Warp and Mo Wax. His
first album 'Tiger Sushi' was ambient electro-jazz, before he moved onto
electronics with 'Fantômes' [2003], and later 'Monsters and Silly Songs'
[2007], on which he combines post-rock, disco, electronics and, well, silly
songs. "Making a pure dance album would almost be like composing an album
entirely in F major," says Joakim. "I jump from one idea to the next. I
simply have to try everything and see where it leads."... Biografie | mehr lesen