ARTIST INFO

 

Pedro Winter, ex-cap wearer and head of Ed Banger Records was once swimming in a demo ocean. His label, then brand new and already hip was dragging hundreds of thousands Cds, EPs, even cassettes and singing telephone messages, forcing Pedro to move to a 10.000 m2 office.Pedro, “fin connaisseur” when it comes to talent andstyle, picked up a demo labelled SebastiAn. He had already met the man behind it when SebastiAn (Sebastien Akchoté) was producing rap songs. The cd featured tracks of claustrophobic yet playful electro from a mysterious 24 years old Parisian. The prodigy got signed in a minute and 3 tracks were picked for the EP ‘Smoking Kills’, published in 2004. From the raw cut up Aphex Twin-esque ‘Smoking Kills’ to ‘Shoot’ (Bang! nothing to add), and the less fuzzy / more bleepy ‘Dolami’, the EP got very popular on every fresh dancefloor. The record was spun by best taste disc-jockeys around the world such as Erol Alkan and others. Some entertainers even bought it. Whereas those guys seldom pays a record. Come on. People went crazy at parties, some broke their knee caps while dancing and all others came

home exhausted. Following the success of ‘Smoking Kills’, SebastiAn was asked to remix Annie’s “Happy Without You”, Benjamin Theve’s “Texas” or Swedish electroclashers Revl9n’s “Walking Machine”, even Kelis “Bossy” and became Daft Punk’s favourite remixer after his work on his “Human after all” mix every time flipping the tune upside down and cigarette-burning the rhythms.

The limited split 7’ ‘H.A.L.’ came out in 2005, shared with Krazy Baldhead’s ‘Time.Period’, with a sleeve to be remembered. Another spanking session for friends only. Since then, The Editors, The Rapture, Klaxons and Uffie have all submitted their tracks to his talents. Then comes the last EP named  ‘Ross Ross Ross’ in late summer 2006. The staring white face on the cover becomes quickly one of the label’s faves, thanks to its back to back breathtaking samples cutting hits, “Ross Ross Ross” itself (those violins!) and paranoia acme “Walkman”, loved around the planet. The beatmaker produces tracks all day and night, wait for his album(s) to feature cut-up

techniques, funk detonations and break spasms. For SebastiAn kills.