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Gil du duo culte The Youngsters sera l'invité les Mardi 11 et Jeudi 13 Décembre 2007 de Daz Domingo dans l'émission "Guest on P1 Reverse". Rendez vous donc à 19h pour la diffusion exclusive du mix enregistré au Bar Rouge à Shangaï
GIL Le Gamin aka
THE YOUNGSTERS (F.COMMUNICATIONS/PIAS/2020 VISION)
BIOGRAPHYThe Youngsters came into existence in 1999 after Olivier Mateu went into Gil Escoffier’s record shop in Montpellier to play him some music he’d made. Gil liked it and suggested they team up; and the pair quickly embarked on a string of Detroit techno-influenced EPs for French labels G-Funk and Tekmic, before signing to Laurent Garnier’s F-Communication imprint in 2001. Intensely prolific, in the same year they managed to release four EPs and their debut long-player, ‘LemonOrange’, an awe-inspiring collection of electronic beats.
With suitably youthful energy given their name, they’ve never slowed down since, and have lately wowwed dance music with a heavyweight trilogy of singles, ‘Confidential Music’ volumes one to three (together another album’s worth of material).
The follow-up to ‘LemonOrange’, ‘The Army Of 1.0’, sees Gil and Olivier acknowledge their broad array of influences (Olivier remembers listening to The Beatles ‘Strawberry Fields’ at six-years-old – hence the track ‘Raspberry Fields’ – and being a fan of The Cure, Depeche Mode and Inner City; while Gil has been into everything at some point, from ’80s pop-funkers Shalamar to acid jazz and back). It’s a wide angle shot of the last 30 years of music that’s reflected in the diversity of the 12 tracks present. Sure, they’re all made with machines, but the term techno doesn’t do ‘The Army Of 1.0’ justice It’s an album that with the confidence to be varied: ‘Place, Race & Face’, a fierce dancefloor assault with a message, features Gil on vocals and is firmly in the new wave of French techno mould (The Hacker, Oxia, Agoria et al); ‘The Pink Sox’ is three minutes of swooping orchestral strings that leads into the similarly string swept piano house of ‘Café De La Poste’; and ‘Southern Sulfuric’ is short but sweet proof that The Youngsters can cut it when the tempo drops and the beats get blunted.
“It’s a deep exploration in the music that we love, with little bits of jazz, ambient, minimal and techno. But most importantly it’s a personnal vision of our techno universe. It's like if we’ve collected all our experiences on to one album.” Today, The Youngsters are working on a new album and a couple of singles to be released in 2007 exploring new sounds with a more modern, minimal and digital production still emotive and powerful.
EVENTS & PLACESThe End (UK), Fabric (UK), Arches (UK), T in The Park (UK), Homelands (UK), Slam Events (UK), Electric Voodoo (UK), Creamfields Andalucia (Spain), Fort Dance Festival (Russia), We Love Sound Festival (Australia), Roskilde (Danemark), Elysée Montmartre (France), Rex Club (France), Razzmatazz(Spain), Loft(Spain), Sonar Festival (Spain), Groove Parade (Spain), M2 Festival (Spain), I Love Techno (Belgium), 10 Days Off (Belgium), Melt Festival (Germany), Watergate (Germany), Zouk Club (Singapore), Centro(Indonesia), TwelveSi (Malaysia), C-Club(Hong Kong), Skol Beats (Brazil), Motomix (Brazil), Haoman(Israel), Koneisto (Finland), Forum (sydney) ...
DISCOGRAPHY
NEXT RELEASES :
PHOENIX EP on OVUM RECORDS (US)
MAXIS :
• Deep Inside EP ( G-Funk - 1999 )
• Sampler EP ( G-Funk - 1999 )
• In Charly We Trust EP ( G-Funk - 2000 )
• Three Hours In Barcelona EP ( Tekmics - 2000 )
• Different Theory EP ( G-Funk - 2001 )
• Spanish Harlem EP ( F-Communications - 2001 )
• Illogique EP ( F-Communications - 2001 )
• Abusive Melody EP ( F-Communications - 2001 )
• End EP ( F-Communications - 2001 )
• Smile - Remixes ( F-Communications - 2002 )
• Confidential Music Vol. 1 ( F-Communications - 2003 )
• Confidential Muisc Vol. 2 ( F-Communications - 2003 )
• Confidential Music Vol. 3 ( F -Communications - 2003 )
• Place, Race & Face EP ( F-Communications - 2004 )
• Confusion - Remixes ( F-Communications - 2004 )
• Dirty Life ( F-Communications - 2005 )
• There Came Une Musique ( F-Communications - 2006 )
• How To Kill The Idiot ( F-Communications - 2007 )
. The third knife ep (2020 Vision 2007)
ALBUMS :
• Lemonorange ( F-Communications - 2001 )
• The Army Of 1.0. - CD ( F-Communications - 2004 )
• The Army Of 1.0. - 2xLP ( F-Communications - 2004 )
REMIXES :
• Bolz Bolz “Take A Walk” ( Sodium - 2001 )
• G-Force “Back To” ( Kobayashi - 2002 )
• Slam “Virtuoso” ( Soma - 2002 )
• Ultracolor “Eventful” ( Scandium - 2002 )
• The Penelopes “Tube” ( A-Traction - 2002 )
• Agoria “I’m Simply Not There” ( Zebra 3 - 2002 )
• El Loco “Ibiza” ( Play’s Cool - 2002 )
• Erlend Oye “Sheltered Life” ( Source UK - 2003 )
• Frederic Galliano “Melou Melou” ( F-Communications - 2003 )
• Djinxx “Music In Jamaica” ( Mangusta - 2004 )
• Anja Schneider “Tonite” ( PIAS - 2004 )
• DK7 “Murder Was The Bass” ( DK7 - 2004 )
• Jori Hulkkonen “Dislocated” ( F-Communications - 2005 )
. ZWO Broken instants (Thump Electronik – 2007)
APPEARANCES (Compilations) :
Smile (Sasha Rmx) on Sasha-Involver,
Break’Em Up on Deep Dish-Global Underground25,
Illogique on Luke Slater-Fear and Loathing,
Abusive Melody on Sonar 2001 CD,
Spanish Harlem on Technasia-Plus, etc, ...
PRESS UK SELECTED CUTS
- DJ MAG - Russian edition - SUMMER 2006 ( 1 page )
- DJ MAG - MARCH 2004 - “The Youngsters - At the forefront of French techno.” ( ITW / 2 pages )
“Olivier Mateu and Gil Escoffier are The Youngsters, one of the finest act in France’s small but perfectly formed techno scene. DJmag travels to their recents Dublin gig to find ou more...” “[...] The Overall result is a powerful, melodic techno performance as growling sub-bass and jacking rythms are fused with melodic chords and lush strings. This is The Youngsters in action. [...]”
- INTERNATIONAL DJ - MARCH 2004 - “Place, Race & Face : Recommended” ( EP review ) “F Comm get their 10th anniversary celebrations off the ground with this firing release. [...]”
- DJ MAG - MARCH 2004 - “The Army Of 1.0. : Leading player - 4,5 / 5” ( Album review ) “More importantly, Gilles and partner Olivier Mateu’s ability to effortlessly flit between electronic style [...] so they’re the perfect choice to mark the label’s decadelong involvement in dance music. [...]“
- METRO LIFE - FEBRUARY 14 2002 - “DJ communicates a funky manifesto” ( ITW / 1 page )
- WAX - MARCH 2001 - “Spanish Harlem” ( EP review ) “[...] This is more than just a track, it is musical genius in the real sense of the word. [...] Very unusual and very innovative, you’ll be playing this for ages. Essential. 10.”
- 20.09.07 - 5 stars in DJ Mag for The Third Knife EP
Diverses pasts residencies :
VILLA ROUGE - MONTPELLIER (ELECTRO)
REX CLUB – PARIS (ELECTRO)
LOFT@ RAZZMATAZZ – BARCELONA (ELECTRO)
POP – MONTPELLIER (FUNK-ELECTRO-HOUSE)
HI HOTEL - NICE (ELECTRO-LOUNGE-FUNK-HOUSE)
SOULEIL - Montpellier (House)
THE YOUNGSTERS used to play @ …
FABRIC / LONDON
LOFT / LAUSANNE
LOFT / BARCELONA
ZOUK / SINGAPORE
C-CLUB / HONG KONG
CENTRO / SINGAPORE
TURNMILLS / LONDON
ARCHES / GLASGOW
REX CLUB, BATOPHAR, MIX, LOCOMOTIVE, ELYSEE MONTMARTRE, NOUVEAU CASINO / PARIS
HAOMAN 17 / TEL AVIV
MARIA / BERLIN
DANZOO MACUMBA / MADRID
LA SALA DEL CEL / GIRONA
POLAR TV / BERLIN
THE EDGE / SAO PAULO
... MORE THAN 200 CLUBS AROUND THE WORLD
+ d'infos sur leur MySpace : http://www.myspace.com/therealyoungsters
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