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DJ Mehdi
fühlt sich selber als Lucky Boy. Wer heute von Ed Banger Records unter der Obhut von Daft Punk Manager Pedro Winter produziert wird, muss sich schliesslich glücklich schätzen. Seine Anfänge machte er in den Pariser Vororten, stiess nach fünf Jahren zu „Idéal Junior“, später „Idéale J“, und sicherte sich so seinen Ruf in der Rapszene. 1997 gründete er sein eigenes Label „Espionnage“ und räumte für ein Remixalbum gleich zwei französische Grammys ab. Auch beim jüngsten Werk in Zusammenarbeit mit Chromeo, bleibt er seinem „Electronic flavoured Rap“ treu.

„Lucky Boy“ erschien auf Ed Banger Records.

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Which song do you listen to when...

you wake up?
Public Enemy - Fight the Power. It gets the party started.

you drive a car late at night?
Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordrome. It really ges the party started.

you make love?
The entire Ella Fitzgerald catalogue.

you prepare a candle light dinner?
The entire Ella Fitzgerald catalogue, again.

you sit in the subway?
Anything by Maurice Fulton. Really goes places.

you sit in a plane?
Anything by Nina Simone. Seems to make time shrink or even suspend.

you have to spend a night in a spooky hotel?
See above.

you go to a club?
Justice - Let There Be Light (DJ Funk Remix)

you are in a depressive mood?
Again, sorry, Nina Simone - Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood. Or '"This Boy" by the Beatles. Or "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys.

you are love sick?
Any of Bob Dylan's magnificient break-up songs. "It Ain't Me, Babe", "Don't Think Twice", "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" etc...

you prepare for a real important date?
Any of Bob Dylan's magnificient love songs. "I Want You", "Tomorrow Is A Long Time", "The Man In Me" etc...

you relax on a beach?
The 5th Dimension - Let The Sunshine In

you feel like 1982?
Anything by Prince, Michael Jackson or Madonna, of course! What else???

you run naked through a cornfield?

Stevie Wonder - Free

you want to disturb you neighbors?
Jay-Z - Heart Of The City. Where's the love?

you jump out of a plane with a parachute?
Sly & The Family Stone - I Want To Take You Higher

you take a bubble bath?
Marvin Gaye made the best bathroom music. No competition.

you go jogging?
I just don't jogg.



first record you remember?
James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine). Huge hit at home for some reason.

a song that reminds you of school?
Gang Starr's very first album ("No More Mr. Nice Guy"). Given to me by a school friend who wasn't even into Hiphop, but Jazz.

a record you fell in love to?
It's a cheesy one. "If I Ain't Got You" by Alicia Keys. But it's so good.

your ultimate heartbreak song?
Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me, Babe

a record that evokes the greatest summer of your life?
Kanye West - Addiction. That was last summer.

first record you bought?
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. From 1988.

your liberation anthem?
"I Shall Be Released", "When I Paint My Masterpiece", "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall". Bob Dylan rules this game.

a song you wish you wrote yourself?
DJ Mehdi - Lucky Boy. My wife did.

record it took you the longest time to find?
Haven't found it yet.

song that reminds your friends of you?
I guess "Boys Don't Cry" by The Cure, or "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen.

a record that will make you dance?
Be more specific man, there are so many!

best concert you ever attended?
So many, again. Prince, Public Enemy, The Roots at their heyday, french singer M, Mary J Blige, etc...

a song guaranteed to make you feel depressed?
Anything by Kate Bush. Brings back things I don't want to remember.

best Kraftwerk song?
The Model. Cause it's my friend Pedro "Busy P" Winter's favourite. He's the real Kraftwerk fan.

the perfect anthem for Paris?
Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle. He's the real french genius of our time.

the song to be played at your funeral?
Stevie Wonder - They Won't Go When I Go


Annie
Anni Rossi
Au Revoir Simone
Bosque Brown
C.Gibbs
Cherrystones
Chris & Cosey
Chromeo
Cornelius
Daniel Wang
DJ Mehdi
Eagles Of Death Metal
Efterklang
The Emperor Machine
Empire Of The Sun
Erol Alkan
Gang Of Four
George Duke
Gilbert Cohen
The Gossip
Heidi
Holger Czukay
Interpol
Invisible
James Jarvis
James Murphy
Jay-Jay Johanson
Jimmy Edgar
Joakim
Kalabrese
Lindstrom
Manuel Goetsching
Morningwood
My Morning Jacket
Ora Cogan
Polly Scattergood
Shawn Lee
Steve Mason
Suzanne Vega
Theo Parrish
Tracey Thorn
Trus'me
Uwe Schmidt
Wolfmother
Wolf People
Wooden Shjips
Young Knives


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