Christophe Claudel, V-Synth, Virus Indigo, Microkorg, Electribe, and some dancing angels
Influences
'God', Yeshouah, Buddha, Lao Tse, Rumi, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nietzsche, Michelangelo, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, Perceval, Ulysses, Yoda, Neo...
Frankie Knuckles, Kraftwerk, Larry Heard, Lil Louis, Todd Terry, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Marshall Jefferson, Junior Vasquez, Armand Van Helden, Robert Owens, Armando, Edwards & Armani, DJ Pierre, Adonis, Maurice Joshua, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Rolando, Doug Lazy, Fast Eddie, Frank De Wulf, KLF, The Orb, LFO, Westbam, Mark Moore, Moby, Aphex Twin, Masters at Work, Ludovic Navarre, Mirwais, Robbie Riviera, Vico C, DJ Chus, Panjabi MC, Vikter Duplaix, Pierre Henry, Laurie Anderson, The Residents, Hector Zazou, Prince, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, D Train, Zapp, Gap Band, Roy Ayers, Steevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Marvin Gaye, Bar Kays, KC, James Brown, Temptations, Diana Ross, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, MFSB, Rufus, Chaka Khan, Isley Brothers, Trammps, Barry White, Bill Laswell, Brian Eno, Level 42, Ike & Tina Turner, Giorgio Moroder, Cerronne, Donna Summer, Nile Rodgers, Jocelyn Brown, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Theolonius Monk, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Edwin Hawkin' Singers, Golden Gate Quartet, Take 6, Hezekiah Walker, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Ry Cooder, Afrika Bambaataa, Malcom Mc Laren, Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash, Whodini, Eric B & Rakim, Pharell Williams, Neptunes, Timbaland, Dr Dre, Ja Rule, Jay Z, Xzibit, Kanye West, Ludacris, Nelly, Mary J Blidge, Sidney, Dee Nasty, NTM, Booba, Kery James, Elephant Man, Sean Paul, Lord Kossity, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Gladiators, Depeche Mode, Human League, Heaven 17, Yazoo, Art of Noise, Cabaret Voltaire, DAF, Midge Ure, Telex, Fad Gadget, New Order, Front 242, The Cure, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Eurythmics, Soft Cell, Tears for Fears, B52s, Nina Hagen, Simple Minds, U2, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Madness, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, The Who, Van Halen, AC/DC, Nirvana, Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Queen, Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Robert Fripp, David Bowie, Santana, Peter Gabriel, Compay Segundo, Tito Puente, Orishas, Don Dinero, Wisin y Yandel, Trebol Clan, Lhassa, Oum Kalthoum, Fairuz, Natacha Atlas, Said Mrad, Amr Diab, Gokhan Özen, Tan Tasci, Mercan Dede, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Vangelis, Kitaro, Jean-Michel Jarre, David Hykes, Wally Badarou, Enya, Cheb Mami, Oum Kaltoum, Natacha Atlas, Nusfat Fateh Ali Khan, Ravi Shankar, Goran Bregovic, Serge Gainsgourg, Michel Polnareff, Etienne Daho, Maria Callas, Regine Crespin, Mozart, Bach, Rameau, Haendel, Purcell, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Satie, Faure, Bizet, Schubert, Wagner, Mahler, Philipp Glass, Steve Reich, Mychael Nyman, Jean-Francois Zygel... And so many others.
Medication without
prescription
Tune in parties without
turning on smarties
Classification
WOBI*
sorcerer
* White Outside Black Inside
Indications and effects
Spiritual revelator
Conscience expander
Soul painkiller
Body softener
Energy booster
Sexual enhancer
Time binder
Space transborder
Dosage
Slight energy drop: 2 tracks am, 2
tracks pm
Strong energy drop: 3 tracks at
breakfast or during shower, 3 tracks at lunchtime, 3 tracks during happy
hours, 3 tracks during afters.
Strong depression: Use every hour
without tracks limitation
Side effects
Altered states of
consciousness
Transpersonal
experiences
Unexplained changes in
the physical, psychological and emotional balance
Addiction
CAUTION: Once you taste
it, you’ll never quit!
Audience
The Universe is
infinite
The World is my oyster
The People are my
brothers
This is the real Witch Doctor
Why Witch Doctor?
Because I’m not a musician, nor a DJ, nor a composer, but a sorcerer.
To me, Music is a bridge between two worlds.
A real DJ has to be a shaman, not a star.
The feeling that guides a good artist is similar to telepathy.
I really consider House music as a true spiritual thing.
House was made to awake, exhort, raise, fill with enthusiasm, as much as make people cum.
It is concentrated mescaline on wax.
Mexican shamans use mescaline during initiation rituals. Western DJs have invented House music as an antidote against contemporary ataraxy.
Musicians or DJs have a high degree of responsibility.
Because one single night or record can change your life for ever.
Vinyls are not simply innocent things to hop up on the dancefloor on Saturday nights. They are vibratory philters, which spread energies, sensations, emotions and feelings, like subliminal messages, onto a very receptive crowd.
This conception of music is deeply connected with another activity I have been practicing and teaching for 20 years: Tai chi chuan and martial arts.
Music, as well as tai chi, helps people become more receptive to their environment, to their body, their sensations and to other people. It is a means of communication, a language based on vibration and energy, as much as a culture.
House music and tai chi share the same essential principle: loosening one's grip, letting it go.
Release yourself!
For all theses reasons, I consider music making as a way to doctor bodies, minds and souls.
One should not go into making music if he is not ready and willing to give his best with enthusiasm and generosity.
I started up when I was a teenager, DJing during private parties, making my own mixtapes, remixes and jingles.
Then experienced in the early 80s radio broadcasting with the creation of the first French student free radio and a daily session devoted to funk.
1988/89 was a turning point in my life.
I discovered Acid house and New beat, later Techno music, together with a totally different manner of experimenting sound and clubbing: festive, intensely close, sensitive, extreme, and overall less elitist, on the opposite side from those uptight 80s clubs for VIPs.
I met that year my friend Sal Russo - aka Doctor Beat - the boss of BPM, the first record store devoted to House and Techno in Paris. A gathering spot for a whole tribe of fans and young DJs with names unknown: Jerome Pacman, Olivier le Castor, Guillaume la Tortue, Manu Casana.
Among this small community, I took part in the organization of Trax, the first resident party of a young, passionate, talented and gold fated DJ: Laurent Garnier. Heard about him?...
At that time I started composing analogue synthesizers tracks which were still deeply influenced by the dark sound of the late 80s: New wave and New beat.
Today my music is focused on American House, with strong Techno, Electro, Hip hop or Latin influences.
I don’t DJ anymore but my music moves on Gospel House and Spiritual future musics, Sound design, OST and show soundtrack.
I regularly collaborate with Hip hop artists, as well as other House and Electro composers, DJs and musicians from different styles: Jazz, Cuban, R&B...
