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Joakim

Joakim is a major figure of French modern electronic music. Multi talented and well cultivated, he has released two audacious albums on Versatile Records (Tigersushi in 1999 and Fantomes in 2003) and founder of Label and Proteinic website Tigersushi. Joakim Bouazziz has always been involved in music. He learned piano at age six, with master concertist Abdel Rahman El Bacha. During his teenage years he discovers indie rock and appreciates labels such as Warp and Mo Wax. He discovers a passion for electronic sound after a school budy forgets his synthetiser in Joakim's room. Electronic gives him new possibilities of creation, and after a few months of prolific creation and sending demos to Gilb'R, the label manager decides to produce his album on Future Talk, a more experimental divison of Versatile