Cassius

The second half of the 1990s was marked in France by the French Touch, spearheaded by Cassius. This electronic phenomenon, which came out of nowhere, became the first musical movement to position France as a major player on the international music scene, and enabled two French DJs, Philippe Cerboneschi aka "Zdar" and Hubert Blanc-Francard aka "Boom Bass", to achieve real success in clubs the world over. Their debut album 1999 (released that year), remains a model of the genre, followed by Au Rêve (2002), 15 Again (2006) and seventeen years later, Ibifornia (2016). In 2019 follows the fifth album Dreems, released two days after the accidental death of Philippe Zdar. Aged 52, the DJ and producer fell from the 3rd floor of his Paris apartment building on June 19, 2019.