Cassius can be a French music duet that captures and launches music in the synthpop, house and indie dance categories. The team includes producers Hubert Blanc-Francart and Philippe Cerboneschi, best known as Boom Bass and Philippe Zdar.
Boom Bass and Zdar began working jointly in ’88, creating records for those French hip hop musician MC Solaar. In ’91, they produced their very first endeavor, referred to as “La Funk Mob”, as well as the subsequent year, they began to progressively try out digital tones. Zdar’s expertise with digital songs was powerful in his own participation alongside Etienne de Crecy inside the job Motorbass.
Once ’96 arrived, Boom Bass and Zdar produced “Foxxy”, their very first self-released house tune, underneath the title Cassius, along with the average success that adopted cause them remixing songs for groups including Daft Punk and Air.
In January of ’99, they launched their very first single to be a popular triumph entitled, “Cassius 1999”. It had been released by Virgin Records, and joined the United Kingdom Singles Chart at number seven. This was shortly pursued by their own introduction record entitled, “1999”, that had 2 additional tracks launched from it called, “La Mouche” and “Feeling For You”. The accompanying videos for “Feeling for You” and “Cassius 1999” depicted the fictional character known as “Deadman” from the DC Comic series as a super-hero DJ.
The year 2002 witnessed their 2nd record launch which was entitled, “Au Reve”. This highlighted the “empowered feminine disco” tune “I Am a Woman”, together with Jocelyn Brown singing, and the hit song “The Sound of Violence”, showcasing Steve Edwards on singing. This record additionally had co-operations with Wu-Tang members Leroy Burgess and the Ghostface Killah.
After a brief hiatus, Cassius went back to the recording studio in the year 2006, for the much more trial and error track called “Toop Toop”. However, their subsequent record, called “15 Again”, showcased more sung co-operations than the duet tried with Au Reve.
While practicing the “15 Again” record tour, Cassius supplied the city with an a cappella version of their track “Toop Toop” and motivated supporters and buddies to begin remixing the tune. It grew to become an instant victory. As a result, the group began what grew to be known as the Cassius Workshop and unveiled even more a cappellas for intentions of remixing. To this day, the duo claims to have acquired in excess of four-hundred remixes.