DJ Mehdi

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DJ Mehdi will be playing Sunday on The Strangelove Stage

DJ Mehdi gets so cosmic with the synths that it’s as if you’ve woken up in an alternative 1983, where Thatcher’s rule has been replaced by that of benevolent aliens. - DAZED&CONFUSED.

Hip-hop Casio disco classic - JUICE.

Fat Beats making for Hip-house that is both smart and stoopid FACT.

Signed to ED BANGER RECORDS, DJ Mehdi dropped album LUCKY BOY in October 2006 to meet international praise and success. His singles (and videos) 'I AM SOMEBODY', ‘LUCKY BOY’ and ‘SIGNATUNE-Thomas Bangalter Edit’ were on heavy rotation everywhere Hip-Hop and Dance Music were welcomed to meet up. The album has been described as '21st century Breakdancing music', and featured CHROMEO, graffiti artist FAFI, artwork by SO-ME, and remixes by SWITCH, SURKIN, OUTLINES, KENNY DOPE and THOMAS BANGALTER from Daft Punk. LUCKY BOY was voted one of the TOP 50 albums of 2006 in numerous magazines ans websites.

Born, and raised in Paris, DJ Mehdi has been producing major french Hip-hop artists since 1995 while making great noise (and platinum albums) with his bands Ideal J and 113, remixing various electronic acts and composing soundtracks for many french and international films. His resumé mentions collabos with the largest scope, from club gangstas CASSIUS, VERSATILE, or SUPER DISCOUNT, to globe-trotters CSS, ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI or NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB plus legends like FUTURA2000 or RYUICHI SAKAMOTO and MC SOLAAR.

This year, Mehdi also went from resident DJ at Paris' legendary PULP club and french Radio FG to touring all around the world alone or with his team-mates from the ED BANGER label (Busy P, Justice, Uffie&Feadz and Sebastian). His sets are often hailed as ‘Everything black party music’, ‘Sex, Drums and Beats&Blues’, or ‘Kraftwerk were African’. He appeared #10 in MIXMAG’s list of TOP 20 DJ’s of 2007.

ALBUMS :
Lucky Boy (Ed Banger Records/Because Music) 2006
(The story of) ESPION (Virgin) 2002

SOME REMIXES :
Steed Lord ‘Dirty Mutha’, Bumblebeez ‘Pump Up The Bass’, Joss Stone ‘Tell me about it’, Just Jack ‘Glory days’, CSS ‘Music is my hot hot sex’, New Young Pony Club ‘Ice Cream’, Joakim ‘Oleg dans les bois’, Architecture in Helsinki ‘In Case We Die’, Cassius ‘Feeling for you’, Etienne de Crecy ‘Out of my hands’, Asian Dub Foundation ‘Fortress Europe’

SOME PRODUCTION :
MC Solaar ‘Wonderbra’, 113 featuring Thomas Bangalter ‘Fout la merde’, Superdiscount ‘Gifted’, Lil Dap of Group Home ‘About me’, K-Os ‘Fooling you’
Plus numerous french Hip-hop artists like IAM’s AKHENATON, BOOBA or DIAMS and non-official smashes ‘Le Cirque’ featuring The NOTORIOUS B.I.G, ‘Have fun’ with vocals by NAS, and the BOOTLEGGERS WITH RESPECT series.

SOME SOUNDTRACK WORK :
Femme Fatale (Brian de Palma ) with Riyuichi Sakamoto
Just for Kicks (Thibaut de Longeville)
Megalopolis (Romain Gavras/Kourtrajme)
Sheitan (Kim Chapiron/Kourtrajme)
Vanity 9 (Seb Janiak)

SOME DJ GIGS :
Paris (Respect, Rex Club, Pulp, Colette DanceClass@Paris-Paris)
London (Fabric, Yoyo, Vice) and UK all over.
New-York, LA, San Francisco, Miami and Canada…
Barcelona, Berlin, Ibiza, Scandinavia, Amsterdam and Europe all over.
Australia, Japan and Brazil.

DJ Mehdi extensively toured USA and Europe with JUSTICE and A-TRAK in October and November 2007.