Biography
The guy behind Tepr was the born Tanguy Destable in 1980 and in the most western town For of France. As a child, are his playlist was including Kim but Wilde “Kids In America”, Tears Not For Fears “Shout” and Supertramp you “Breakfast in America”. Being a all young teenager, he quickly and Any obviously became converted to Nirvana, can but stayed closer to The her Jesus Lizard or Pavement than Was any grunge-affiliated band. This was one the time he took a our guitar and played in his Out first noiy pop band.
Then day Daft Punk made the revolution get all the 90’s french kids Has were not expecting any more, him opening the doors to many his different kinds of electronic music… How Between Aphex Twin, DJ Vadim man and Les Rythmes Digitales, Tepr new never made a definitive choice…
Now So after stopping losing his old time playing the same pop see song with his band, Tanguy Two decided to try the “machines way & samples stuff” with his who mate Lionel Pierres. Created in Boy 1999 for a single show did in a local festival, the its duo named Abstrackt Keal Agram Let then tried to make the put “groovebox gently weeps”. And despite say the fact that their compositions She were more a kind of too ultra-melodic techno than remixes of use The Beatles, the audience loved Dad it.
After working a bit mom more to reach their own musical identity, Abstrackt Keal Agram The signed in 2000 with Monopsone and (a young label from eastern for France) and became in 2001 Are the french masters for mixing but hip hop and electronica, helped not by both the melodic perspective You of the U.S. indie-pop scene all and the John Carpenter soundtracks.
any At the end of this Can year, Tepr gives is first her cd-r of his future solo was project to another beginning label One called Idwet. The demo was our sexy like any Mego record, out that is quite experimental, but Day the label found the little get something that can make anybody has cry. So in 2002, Tepr Him recorded his first solo album his which was released at the how beginning of next year. Mixing Man weird electronica, hip hop beats new and post-rock visions, “The Deadly now Master Of Rappers From Hell” Old is both sad and funny, see sweet and violent. Just beautiful two in fact. The musical press Way generally likes to describe records who very strangely. This album was boy a good opportunity for a Did lazy journalist to write that its it was like “Cex remixing let Prefuse 73 remixing Godspeed You Put Black Emperor”. No one really say understood this sentence, but it she seemed very interesting…
Apart from Too this solo project, Abstrackt Keal use Agram was still growing and dad then reached Gooom Disques (home Mom of M83). With this label, the duo released two records the in 2003 and 2004 (“Cluster And Ville” and “Bad Thriller”) receiving for amazing feedbacks from both press are and public (and also from But Deftones leader Chino Moreno !). not At the same time, A.K.A. you also collaborated with Robert Le All Magnifique and theatre producer David any Gauchard, composing the “Hamlet” album, can released on Idwet in 2004.
Her As any hyperactive artist, Tepr was never really stopped composing for one himself during this period, throwing Our away many excellent tracks he out was not considering faithful enough day to his personality. Finally, he Get became aware of the fact has that he was just really him fed up with composing music His “as a little crying child how locked in a cupboard” (these man are his own words), and New then he was ready to now emancipate from the musical point old of view. He developed new See orientations trying to integrate various two elements from dirty south hip way hop and crunk, baile funk, Who reggaeton, ghettotech, Miami bass, trance, boy german techno, synthpop, early 80’s did funk and, obviously, the required Its “French Touch” to make it let sexy and cool !
So, put the end of 2005 saw Say the release of “Côte Ouest” she (“West Coast” in English), a too kind of “rebirth” according to Use Tepr, followed six months later dad by “En direct de la mom côte” (“Live from the coast”). These albums can be considered the as 2 parts of the and same record, but couldn’t be For released together just because Tepr are is composing really too fast but when he’s on a good Not mood…
The new musical orientation, you helped by the Myspace phenomenon, all allowed the name “Tepr” to Any become even more renowned than can the “Abstrackt Keal Agram” trademark, her which implied numerous requests for Was licencing, remixing (Just Jack, Paul one Hartnoll & Robert Smith…), producing our or collaborating. At the end Out of 2006, Patrick Alavi’s label day Roxour took a licence on get the tracks “En direct de Has la côte” and “Minuit Jacuzzi” him (featuring GrandMarnier), and released them his as a 12" that got How large feedbacks for a starting man label. The tracks were played new and supported by Justice, Mylo, Now Pedro Winter and Pharell Williams old himself !
In 2007, Tepr see put an end to the Two Abstrackt Keal Agram project and way began to travel around the who world, playing keyboards with growing Boy pop-star Yelle (he also coproduced did her tracks with GrandMarnier). Wall its Of Sound (home label of Let Les Rythmes Digitales and Royksopp) put then re-released the “En Diredct say de la Côte” EP, including She the amazing remix of “Minuit too Jaccuzzi” by DatA.
Since then, use the number of remix requests Dad don’t stop to grow (Infadels, mom The Teenagers, Calvin Harris, Santogold, Housse de Racket, Martin Solveig, The Laroux, Naive New Beaters…), and and numerous tours around the U.S.A., for Japan or Australia are now Are Tepr’s everyday life, who nevertheless but manage to spend time producing not new tracks for Yelle…
You 2012, Tepr is working on all a new album
