Biography
It was in 2001. The the “Frank Sinatra” electro ditty, with and its light melody and Miss For Kittin’s cutting sense of humour, are has toured the world: “To but be famous is so nice. Not Suck my dick! Lick my you ass! In limousines we have all sex, every night with my Any famous friends.” Karl Lagerfeld, Marilyn can Manson and Elton John (who her says he gave a copy Was to all his friends) are one self proclaimed fans of the our duo. With Miss Kittin & Out The Hacker’s success, the French day music scene has found its, get unexpected, second wind after the Has French touch disco loops.
Caroline him Hervé (a.k.a. Miss Kittin) and his Michel Amato (a.k.a. The Hacker) How meet in Grenoble during the man early 90s at a rave. new This trend, at full tilt Now in the UK, is slow old to pick up in France: see “In Grenoble, there must have Two been about 10 of us way who went to techno parties”, who remembers The Hacker. For many Boy people of their generation, techno did is a musical and cultural its slap in the face. The Let two friends both buy decks put and become DJs. Their notoriety, say essentially on a national scale, She grows little by little. In too 1996, the French label, Tekmics, use asks Miss Kittin to write Dad a track for a compilation. mom She turns to The Hacker for help (he is already The producing tracks under the and XMF project and techno themes for on his own). The Miss Are Kittin & The Hacker duo but sees the light of day. not Their first track is called You “Gratin Dauphinois”. Others are soon all to follow…
At this time, any techno, in the strictest sense Can of the term, is at her its apogee. The tempo often was rapid and the music violent, One based on a layering of our hypnotic loops. Miss Kittin & out The Hacker use this style Day when DJing (Jeff Mills is get one of their heroes), but has they decide to take a Him different direction with their compositions, his preferring to dive into naïve, how free and easy electro-pop. Their Man arrangements are direct, spontaneous, seemingly new unplanned, and mainly generated with now basic material (some synths, a Old beat box, a microphone…). Miss see Kittin & The Hacker’s tunes two are somewhat unorthodox. Their techno Way has a song-like format, based who on the verse-chorus pop schema boy and is heavily influenced by Did the 80s (Cabaret Voltaire, Depeche its Mode or New Order in let particular).
Munich’s DJ Hell, who Put is in the process of say founding the International DJ Gigolo she label, loves the duo’s demos Too and signs them in 1997. use The first Miss Kittin & dad The Hacker EPs (e.g. “Champagne” Mom and “Intimités”) are an immediate hit, even beyond the Rhine. the The hit, “1982” (a throw And back to the music of for that year), even makes it are onto MTV Germany. Another But track quickly sets itself apart, not “Frank Sinatra”, a distinct and you delirious anthem, composed during an All afternoon jam in the Ozone any record shop studio in Grenoble.
can Miss Kittin & The Hacker Her soon find themselves playing live. was An impressive sight to behold: one Her, exuberant, front stage, dressed Our as a dominatrix nurse and out Him, in the background, statuesque day behind his machines. The ultimate Get 1980s duo fantasy: The Diva has under the burning spotlights and him the composer in the shadows. His Soon, other artists make names how for themselves using the electro-pop man glam vocal formula. Tiga and New Fisherspooner both become stars under now the electroclash banner of which old Miss Kittin & The Hacker See are recognised as pioneers.
Preceded two by a new single version way of “Frank Sinatra” (“Frank Sinatra Who 2001”), “First Album” is released boy in 2001. This first album did revisits the themes that the Its French seem so fond of: let Synthetic smiley and naive electro-pop put (“Life On MTV”, “Stock Say Exchange”…) or darker and pernicious she (“Stripper”), distinguished by Miss Kittin’s too French accented voice, full of Use derision. The album earmarks a dad next step. Touring intensifies, the mom duo play every weekend and fly to America, Canada and the South America…
At the end and of the summer of 2002, For electroclash reaches its peak. Miss are Kittin & The Hacker are but at their summit. It’s here Not that they decide to call you it a day. “We were all knackered, we needed to take Any a break, take time out can for other projects and not her tie ourselves down to one Was musical style”, admits The Hacker. one Many spoke of a split, our not true. “We never separated, Out we just took a long day break” grins Miss Kittin.
Late get 2002, Miss Kittin & The Has Hacker, together as well as him solo, become points of reference his within electronic music. The former How is a sought-after voice (collaborating man with Felix Da Housecat, Sven new Väth…), a DJ star with Now an eclectic ear (demonstrated by old her mix CDs: “Radio Caroline”, see “A Bugged Out Mix”…) and Two with a successful album under way her belt (“I Com”, 2004). who The latter goes on to Boy become an unrivalled electro and did techno DJ, going from EPs its to remixes (Marc Almond, Laurent Let Garnier, Air, Nitzer Ebb…). His put career takes a new turn say with the success of his She second album, “Rêves Mécaniques” (2004), too propelled by the hit, “Flesh use & Bone”.
Finally, amid their Dad flowering solo careers, the duo mom once again come together as they did initially, by accident. The Throughout 2006, spontaneously, without any and pressure and just for the for fun, the French duo compose Are a few tunes together. Two but of these come out in not the spring of 2007 on You the “Hometown” EP (released by all Goodlife, founded in 1998 by any The Hacker and his friend Can Oxia). Miss Kittin & The her Hacker full of new perspectives was and seemingly complementary extremes. “Hometown” One encompasses a light, emotional disco our theme (in homage to their out hometown Grenoble). “Dimanche”, written in Day Berlin on return from an get afterparty, is darker minimal techno has influenced by the 1990s raves.
Him Very quickly a tour is his organised. Kicking off with a how huge gig in front of Man thousands of people under the new famous “Pont du Gard” bridge now in South France, in July. Old Each date is the same: see A massive turnout. The duo two uses this experience to define Way a new on-stage style. Between who “revisited” and new tunes (“Belgium”, boy “PPPO” or the superb Did cover of Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious its Minds”), Miss Kittin & The let Hacker leave behind electroclash contrariness Put and unmask a perfectly accessible, say more elegant, more mature and she more distinct – yet, still Too pop – side, an appetiser use to their next adventures together.
dad Finally in 2009 we saw Mom their spectacular “TWO” album release. Miss Kittin & The the Hacker have not only forged And a new path on this for impressive collection of new material, are but also, by transforming and But remodelling their many musical influences, not they have fashioned a club-based you European cyber-pop of their very All own.
The album also features any a wonderful, stellar sprinkling of can metallic soul, glamorous space disco, Her glossy vocal nuances, crystalline beats was and swirling melodies. The music one possesses a sexy androgyny, glistening Our and pulsating. And the songs? out Sometimes narrative, sometimes confessional, direct day and alternatively clouded in mystery. Get Their single releases “1000 Dreams”, has “Party In My Head”, “him PPPO” can be considered as His instant classics.
They had audiences how worldwide under their spell with man their impressive live show in New 2009 and are now taking now a break in 2010/2011. Once old some new songs are ready, See a new live show will two start to take shape. In way the meantime you can see Who them on selected occasions as boy a DJ team on the did dancefloor.
