Découverts en 2008 aprés leur premier maxi “Don't Panic” sorti chez l'hyperactif label lyonnais Gourmet recordingz, WAT impose un style sans concession où electro et distorsion font saigner les oreilles. En utilisant les guitares comme des claviers et vice-versa leur son est gras, et projette des ondes hurlantes et de la sueur digitale là où il résonne.

Relayés dans un premier temps par de nombreux blogs, puis par la presse spécialisée, les tracks du groupe se retrouvent rapidement sélectionnés dans de nombreuses compilations (Ever Better chez EMI, sampleur Trax, French Attack chez Idol...) et playlistés par dj et radios.

Les WAT continuent dans la foulée à faire parler en sortant chez Boxon “Don't Panic Remixes EP” où ils invitent plusieurs artistes émergeants de la nouvelle scène electro française à remixer les titres de leur premier EP pour un résultat trés dancefloor.

WAT réalise également plusieurs remixes pour Revolte, Make The Girl Dance, Cyberpunkers et No Kiss With Gloss.

En 2010, le groupe remet le couvert avec avec deux nouveaux EP : "UU80" chez Absolut Freak Records aux accents electro-hiphop et "Try Before Buy" chez Motivo, un disque plus rock. Ces deux nouvelles sorties marquent un nouvel élan artistique avec une production plus léchée et des compositions plus pop. On y retrouve un featuring de CS Rucker, rappeur américain d'Albuquerque, ainsi que des remix de Daroc, Aylak, We Are Enfant Terrible et Nicolas Chenard.

Il est aujourd'hui difficile de cataloguer leur musique... Si l'on doit tout de même s'y risquer, on pourrait dire qu'il s'agit d' electro-newwave-discoteca-withahiphoptwist....

La réponse à cette question sera sans doute apportée par la sortie de leur premier album “WONDER” en Septembre 2010 chez Boxon Records. Wonder est une odyssée electro-rock, mélange de 20 ans d'influences musicales. Wonder est un album qui s'écoute autant bien qu'il se danse.

En live, le groupe propose un set électro-rock aux accents hip-hop et aux mélodies percutantes. Claviers, guitare, batterie, chant, ils insufflent une puissance rock à leur univers électronique. Sélectionné par le Réseau Printemps de Bourges pour les découvertes Il-de-France, tournant régulièrement sur de gros plateaux en France ou en Suisse, le groupe a développé véritable une puissance de feu scénique.

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WAT is born in 2007. Creating a tasty music recipe somewhere between Paris and Lyon, using keyboards as guitars producing a kind of trashy space disco music.

First day, first sound, june 2007. Creating a tasty music recipe somewhere between Paris and Lyon. A trashy space disco music.

WAT is born where Moroder meets RATM.

Recording dirty songs in caves somewhere in France between Paris and Lyon, WAT is a screaming wave, a digital sweat, a dynamite sound.

Using keyboards as guitars and guitars as keyboards, it feels like fire and ice.

After two noticeable EPs in 2008, WAT is coming back with a new one « UU80 » on the french parisian label Absolut Freak Records, and another one « Try Before Buy » on Motivo.

Taking into consideration those last releases, it's even harder to classify their music... If we had to risk it, we would have to say that they are playing a kind of « positive electrorock, new wave discoteca, with a hip-hop twist »… (To be short).

In live, the band offers us a set with keyboards, guitars, drum kits, and vocals… Their rock power and energy on stage are always linked to the electronic universe.

More pragmatically, WAT is a big smile on your face, or a big punch on your head. Their first album "Wonder" is planned for the year 2010 on Boxon Records. 

Dj Booking & inquiries : costelloprod@gmail.com

Costello is an electronic music disc-jockey & producer whose sound blends rhythmic power with immersive textures. His work, combining sonic exploration and raw instinct, has led him to release on influential labels such as Cod3 QR (Laurent Garnier) and Diynamic (Solomun). Played by top international DJs, his productions make an impact both on the dancefloor and in more introspective listening experiences.

BOXON RECORDS : music label created in 2007 by Julien Minet alias DCFTD. Based in Bordeaux, France.
For booking, please contact us : contact@boxonrecords.com

/// artists : AERT PROG, FRANÇOIS IER, JOHN LORD FONDA, DEBORAH AIME LA BAGARRE, ANELLI, SPAAM, COSTELLO, SOVNGER, LOÏS PLUGGED & FRUCKIE, SKINLIPS, DCFTD, T.RAUMSCHMIERE, TOM DELUXX, WAT, GOOSEFLESH, THE ZOMBIE KIDS, ECLIER, DILEMN, VALY MO, DEAD C∆T BOUNCE, DAROC, GRS CLUB, KIGMA, AEROTRONIC, BLACKTOYS.

/// remixers : The Toxic Avenger, Will Bailey, Electrixx, Black Noise (Aquasky), Les Petits Pilous, Tepr, Thomas Brinkmann, Cyberpunkers, Blatta & Inesha, Far Too Loud, Loo & Placido, Electrosexual, Just A Band, Xinobi, Fils Unique, Beataucue, Sexual Earthquake In Kobe, Digikid84, Dinamics, Farace, Saint Pauli, Dubsidia.

Oblast was founded in Ostkreuz, in the heart of east Berlin, with the aim of combining powerful and profound sounds inspired by the local techno scene and the industrial of their urban surroundings. Distorted sounds and deep beats tell a harmonious story, bringing a fascinating world to life in just a few minutes. And more than anything, it’s the kind of experience that needs to be loud.

Music dominates Oblast’s multidimensional artistic world. To them, it’s not just a source of inspiration, but also a way to communicate with the crowd. Many of Oblast’s live performances are true multisensory experiences, as they are complemented with powerful visuals. The distorted logic and dark aesthetics of the music come to life in the form of rich black-and-white pictures, videos and graphics. We all like the light of the day, but the most mysterious and fascinating things happen in the quiet of the night. 

Hailing from Toulouse,  Dilemn has come a long way in becoming the prominent figure in the French underground electronic scene he is today. Having been brought up surrounded by classical music and its influences, Dilemn engaged himself with a wide range of music from the aggression of Hip-Hop and Drum & Bass to the synthesised qualities of Techno before finding his comfort zone in Electro at the age of 22. Exposing and condensing all of these influences in creating his signature sound, Dilemn’s music combines crunchy beats and slick warm electro lines into pumping melodies that take inspiration from and evolve the French House sound popularised by acts such as Daft Punk and Justice.

Dilemn’s career as a producer began with the release of the ‘Phyzicall / Check My Beat’ 12” in 2007, which was followed up immediately by two more supreme releases, ‘Daylight’ / ‘Time To Sing’ and The Baguette EP with Les Petits Pilous later that year. All three releases were prime examples of Dilemn’s technically assured and confident sound, showing off the serious talent that this young, promising producer had to offer the scene.

2010 was a huge year for Dilemn as the producer unleashed his first full-length album, Better Worlds on Bordeaux-based imprint Boxon. Thirteen tracks-full featuring a plethora of France’s foremost underground talent including Youthstar, Blake & Wonderkat, Miss Trouble and Kloe, Better Worlds was given outstanding reviews that drew obvious comparisons to the works of the aforementioned Daft Punk. In the following months, not one to rest on his laurels, Dilemn released another EP on Burn The Fire with the stomping ‘Audio Control’ / ‘Got U’ which paired the producer with The Clamps (aka Imprintz). He continued to flex his production muscle having been approached to remix Porter Robinson’s and Lazy Rich’s Hello for Big Fish as the standout track on Part 2 of the remix EP, whilst Boxon continued to promote DIlemn’s emphatic debut LP with a 7-track remix package that garnered radio support from luminaries such as Annie Nightingale, Kissy Sell Out and Far Too Loud.

2012 is set to cement Dilemn’s glowing domestic reputation on our shores as the artist moves forward in experimenting with unfamiliar tempo territories. After causing damage in the underground Electro scene for over a decade this young producer is about to take the international stage, presenting his debut release on AudioPorn with a monster 5-track multi-genre EP that pushes tempo boundaries: the Talk About Us EP. Featuring the embellished hybrid arrangements of ‘Watts Of Funkin’, ‘Two Points’, ‘Kill The Nation’ and ‘Afraid Of Change’, plus the vocal talents of songstress de jour Ayah Marar on the titular ‘Talk About Us’, the EP sees the producer retain the slick production qualities and accomplished melodic arrangements he has built his career on whilst offering something resoundingly different to the previous Dilemn back-catalogue. A colourful and painstakingly detailed layer of sounds that waver on the brink of perplexed amalgamation without losing sense of that all important funk, the EP offers a simultaneous danger and optimism that flirts with classic French House vibes. A producer with a commitment to sound excellence and an astonishing comfort in variety and tempo progression, Dilemn is sure to stake his claim as one of the most promising electronic artists worldwide.

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