Cassius

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• Genre: Funky House
• Hometown: Paris
• Cassius Website

About

Formed by two French producers known in the early 1990s as Mo' Wax abstract beatsters La Funk Mob, this Pop/House hybrid calls the Astralwerks label home. Before joining the legion of French House producers as Cassius in 1998, Hubert Blanc-Francard (aka Boombass) and Philippe Zdar contributed separately to the international music scene on a variety of projects, including production credit for MC Solaar's debut album and a collaboration with Etienne de Crecy known as Motorbass. Under the Cassius guise, these two hip-hop fiends filter tidbits of Techno, Funk and Disco through a House formula to create a style that's bass-heavy, pop-approved and patriotic.

- Melissa Piazza