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Producer : Reggae , Digital

Descended from a family of musicians, ManuDigital has begun bass at thirteen years old, backed by his two guitarist brothers.
He plays in his first reggae band in 1994 were he discovers the stage and the public. Joining others groups later on he does his first steps on the Yvelines's stages.
Since ever fancying the Jamaican culture and the amount of styles and forms, ManuDigital decides to build up, with few close friends, his own Sound System. As a selector, he prooves his abilities during more than four years in a weekly radio show dedicated to reggae.
At nineteen, his passion and desire to professionalise himself make him integrate a famous jazz school to improve his way to play. He leaves it up four years later enriched by theories and technics from every music styles. On the side of his cursus, ManuDigital backs in live, with his turnatables or instrument, any of the most famous french reggae names and sets himself up as profesional bassman. Also composer, he takes part in many albums recordings, singles, international and french 12inchs.
Music lover and changeable, evolving during his meetings with different music styles permiting him to rich the biggest french stages.
In 2010, he forms part of a higly renowned band as incumbent bassman, with who he still perfoms actually.

Welcome to the Official Pharcyde Channel

In the early 90’s, when gangsta’ rap consumed the airwaves, and the majority of West Coast rappers strapped on their Locs, Chuck Taylor’s & Ben Davis’, The Pharcyde decidedly maintained a willfully weird vision. 

Opting to stay true to themselves with their left field but still South-Central sensibility, rap had seen few groups so self-deprecating and so smart, a group of visionary rappers adroitly able to split the difference between helium-voiced and hard-core.

Listening to “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde” two full decades after its release, its sense of timeliness is unmistakable. Every song on the album inverts a hoary hip-hop cliché. With classics like “Oh Shit,” “Otha Fish”, “Ya’ Mama,” and hit single, “Passing Me By,” it is not surprising that it shipped over a million units, garnered comparisons to De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest, and everyone from Pitchfork Media to The Source has hailed it as one of the greatest albums ever made. 

Speaking on the passage of time, their second release “LabCabInCalifornia” has revealed exactly how far-reaching The Pharcyde’s vision was. From enlisting a young and then unknown James Yancey aka J DILLA to produce beats, the classic “Runnin” to collaborating with director Spike Jonze (“Being John Malkovich” “Adaptation”) on the video for “Drop,” it has consistently reinforced their steadfast refusal to tread familiar artistic grounds.

Today, The Pharcyde is still performing and touring the globe. They continue to hone their individual abilities yet carry on the name & legacy in its original fashion. They still seduce their audience with the same boyish charm that founded them at the beginning. Now, it’s combined with the knowledge that has been bestowed upon them as men who have taken on, and rose to the challenge of the rap game. 

The end result of all this hard work is a band that’s still influencing the hip hop artists and sounds crowding our radio waves today and will continue to for many years to come.

Experimental/progressive rock from Sweden.

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