In 1985 Champion hired its first employee, an 18 year old named Paul Oakenfold who had been working as messenger boy in New York. Champion Records aimed at releasing underground club tunes, Hip Hop, Rare Grooves, Jazz & Soul tracks as well as uplifting House tunes on 12” vinyl originally found and licensed from the USA. Tunes like Spank ‘Oh Baby’, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince ‘Girls Ain’t Nothin’ But Trouble’, Salt ‘N Pepa ‘Push it’ & Rene & Angela ‘Secret Rendezvous’.

As musical taste evolved Champion aligned itself with the early house and garage movement. It produced iconic tracks including Raze’s ‘Break 4 Love’, Robin S ‘Show Me Love’, Sandy B ‘Make The World Go Round’, Kristine W ‘Feel What You Want’ & Sybil ‘Don’t Make me Over’. These then turned into some of the most famous & credible artists in the world along with DJ’s like Todd Terry, Kerri Chandler, Junior Vasquez and Stonebridge.

Producer/DJ

Taking elements of sound often foreign in relation to each other and blending their worlds and making something beautiful..

Next gig :
w/ Quartier Rouge & Citizens @ Miroiterie, Paris, 14-12-2011
w/ Good Morning Bleeding City & Shock Option @ Cantine de Belleville, Paris, 15-12-2011
w/ Henchman, Hwi Noree & John Makay (Anorak &Aphrodite's baby à confirmer) @ Miroiterie, Paris, 28-01-2012
Depuis 2008, (platane) propose un metal-post-hardcore velu et techniquequi puise ses références dans les univers de Botch, Condense, Converge et autre Snapcase. Avec "Akènes", leur premier EP(2010), ces écorcés vifs vous tronçonnent les membres avec un son copieux et une volupté désarmante. Sur scène le (platane) montre volontiers ses racine punk et noise. Ils ont joué avec des groupes tels Electric Electric, Liturgy, Washington Dead Cats, Manimal, Revok, Poino, Gods &amp; Queens,Nesseria, Anorak... 

True landscapers of rock, (platane) run through woodmen riffs and melodies of hummingbirds, preferably in rooms that smell of decomposing fern... In short, music of men with large trunks that still can be moved staring at dead leaves...
 booking : hello@platane.org



My main project is call "Dark Paradise", it's black metal music genre (2015 - present)
My side project [A] is call "Faith is Dead", it's blackgaze music genre (2018 - present)
I will upload everything from "Dark Paradise" & "Faith is Dead" music here.

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