Yuksek is a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 electronic music producer, remixer and DJ

Disc jockey

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 born in 1977, native of Reims, France.
After playing the piano for ten years at a conservatoire, he took part in several bands such as Klanguage, whose first album was released in 2007.
He created his first tracks as Yuksek in 2006 and then started to perform successfully as a DJ all over the world. At the same time, his first EPs and remixes were released on labels such as Relish, I'm a cliché, Kitsuné, Xploited and Citizen.

His debut album, Away from the Sea

Away from the Sea

-Personnel:* Yuksek – mixing, vocals* Photography, Art Direction, Design – Anastasia Constantinescu, Laurent Fetis...

, was released on February 9, 2009. Including the singles Tonight and Extraball, this album received a lot of media attention (for instance he was interviewed on the famous french TV show Le Grand Journal de Canal+

Canal+

Canal+ is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984. It is 80% owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA. The channel broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted...

).

After touring for 2 years, Yuksek released his second album, Living on the Edge of Time,on June 13, 2011.
This album – like the debut single On a Train – took a pop direction but Yuksek’s electronic flow was still there.
Yuksek has also been involved in many other musical projects such as The Krays (with Brodinski) and Peter & The Magician (with Stephen Fasano, ex-Aeroplane).

December 2011 will see Yuksek play the renowned New Year festival Rhythm and Vines in Gisborne, New Zealand

Gisborne, New Zealand

-Economy:The harbour was host to many ships in the past and had developed as a river port to provide a more secure location for shipping compared with the open roadstead of Poverty Bay which can be exposed to southerly swells. A meat works was sited beside the harbour and meat and wool was shipped...

, before heading to Field Day music festival in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 on New Years Day 2012.

EP & singles

2005 = The Wax EP (Rise Recordings)
Face A

A – The Wax

Face B

B1 – Crosswords

B2 – Gresco

2006 = Everywhere In Town EP (I'm a Cliché)
Face A

A1 – Amerik (4:22)

A2 – Everywhere In Town (5:25)

Face B

B – Everywhere In Town (Cosmo Vitelli Remix) (7:12)

2006= Plastik EP (Relish Records)
Face A

A – Sorry (4:52)

Face B

B – Plastik (5:00)

2007 = Composer EP (Relish Records)
Face A

A1 – Composer (5:56)

A2 – Composer (Surkin

Surkin

Benoit Heitz , known by his stage name Surkin, is a French electro DJ and producer. He gained attention with his releases on the French Institubes music label as well as a remix for Teki Latex released on Virgin...

 Remix) (4:26)

Face B

B1 – Little Dirty Trip (4:28)

B2 – Little Dirty Trip (Vicarious Bliss

Vicarious Bliss

Vicarious Bliss is an electro artist signed to Ed Banger Records, known primarily for his "Theme from Vicarious Bliss" and several remixes. He collaborated with Ladytron on their 4th studio album, Velocifero. Additionally, he produced the debut album by I Love UFO. Vicarious Bliss is also featured...

 Remix)(6:59)

2007 = It Comes EP (UWe)
Face A

A1 – Kontraul (5:30)

A2 – Contact (3:27)

Face B

B1 – It Comes (3:44)

B2 – It Comes (Extended)(4:50)

2008 = Tonight Ep (UWe)
Face A

A – Tonight (4:15)

Face B

B1 – I Like To Play (5:25)

B2 – Deladeu 2 (4:46)

2009 = Extraball EP (Has Been / Sound of Barclay)
Face A

A1 – Extraball (Extended Version) (4:15)

A2 – Extraball (Burns Remix) (5:59)

A3 – Extraball (Pilooski Remix) (5:01)

Face B

B1 – Extraball (Breakbot Remix)

B2 – Dat's Right

B3 – Extraball (The Shoes cover)

2011 = On A Train EP (Savoir Faire/ Sound Of Barclay)
Face A

A1 – On A Train (4:02)

A2 – Dead Or Alive (5:08)

Face B

B1 – Mister Dangerous (5:23)

B2 – On A Train (Alb Cover) (3:34)

Extra
On A Train (Gucci Vump remix) (5:38)
On A Train (The Magician remix) (4:43)

Peter and The Magician

Since 2011, Yuksek has been collaborating with The Magician (aka Stephane Fassano, former member of Aeroplane) under the stage name Peter And The Magician. Their first song "Twist" has been recorded on a Kitsuné

Kitsune

is the Japanese word for fox. Foxes are a common subject of Japanese folklore; in English, kitsune refers to them in this context. Stories depict them as intelligent beings and as possessing magical abilities that increase with their age and wisdom. Foremost among these is the ability to assume...

 compilation (Kitsuné Maison Compilation 11: "The Indie Dance Issue") released on May 26, 2011.
A 3 titles EP also called "Twist" was released one month later on the Kitsuné

Kitsune

is the Japanese word for fox. Foxes are a common subject of Japanese folklore; in English, kitsune refers to them in this context. Stories depict them as intelligent beings and as possessing magical abilities that increase with their age and wisdom. Foremost among these is the ability to assume...

 label.

The Krays

The Krays is the musical collaboration between Yuksek and leading french electro star, Brodinski. Their first EP titled “We’re Ready When You Are” was released on May 17, 2010. (Abracada).

Remixes

• Adam Kesher – FYIMA (Disque primeur)
• Alb
  Alb
  The alb , one of the liturgical vestments of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and many Protestant churches, is an ample white garment coming down to the ankles and usually girdled with a cincture. It is simply the long linen tunic used by the Romans...
  
   – CV 209 (Rise)
• Alb
  Alb
  The alb , one of the liturgical vestments of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and many Protestant churches, is an ample white garment coming down to the ankles and usually girdled with a cincture. It is simply the long linen tunic used by the Romans...
  
   – Daveg (Rise)
• Anything Maria – Cook Him Up
• Autokratz
  AutoKratz
  autoKratz are a London based electronic duo composed of David Cox and Russell Crank. They are signed to the French electronic label Kitsuné Music....
  
   – Always More (Kitsuné)
• Birdy Nam Nam
  Birdy Nam Nam
  Birdy Nam Nam are a DJ crew from France whose members are Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need, and Little Mike. Birdy Nam Nam have won several prizes throughout their career including the DMC Technics 2002 World TEAM Championships. Birdy Nam Nam's goal is to use the turntable player as an actual musical...
  
   – TransBoulogneExpress (UWE)
• Booba
  Booba
  Elie Yaffa better known under his stage name Booba, is a French rapper from Paris. He is half Senegalese from his father's side and half French of Moroccan origin from his mother's side...
  
   – STO (Barclay)
• Bot'Ox – Rue de l'Arsenal
• Chromeo
  Chromeo
  Chromeo is an electrofunk duo formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2004.-History:Chromeo is composed of P-Thugg on keyboards, synthesizers, and talk box, and Dave 1 on guitar and lead vocals...
  
   – Bonafied Lovin (Backyard)
• Das Pop
  Das Pop
  Das Pop is a Belgian band founded in Ghent by schoolfriends Reinhard Vanbergen, Niek Meul, Lieven Moors and Bent Van Looy.-Biography:Das Pop was initially called Things to Come, but the band changed its name to Das Pop when Tom Kestens joined the band...
  
   – Fool for love (Prestel)
• Detect – Dance Division (Mental Groove)
• Fenech-Soler
  Fenech-Soler
  Fenech-Soler are a British electropop band from Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire that formed in 2006. It consists of four members: Ross Duffy, Ben Duffy, Daniel Soler and Andrew Lindsay. The name Fenech-Soler is taken from Daniel Soler's full surname, which is Maltese...
  
   – Demons
• Ghostface Killah
  Ghostface Killah
  Dennis Coles , better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and prominent member of the Wu-Tang Clan. After the group achieved breakthrough success in the aftermath of Enter the Wu-Tang , the members went on to pursue solo careers to varying levels of success...
  
   – Charlie Brown (Scion)
• Gorillaz
  Gorillaz
  Gorillaz is an English musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. This project consists of Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a "virtual band" of cartoon characters...
  
   – Stylo (Virgin)
• Gossip
  Gossip
  Gossip is idle talk or rumour, especially about the personal or private affairs of others, It is one of the oldest and most common means of sharing facts and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and variations into the information transmitted...
  
   – Heavy Cross (Columbia)
• Kaiser Chiefs
  Kaiser Chiefs
  Kaiser Chiefs are an English indie rock band from Leeds who formed in 1996. They were named after the South African football club Kaizer Chiefs....
  
   – Never miss a beat (Universal)
• Lady Gaga
  Lady GaGa
  Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta , better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to...
  
  - Paparazzi (Polydor)
• M83
  M83 (band)
  M83 is a musical act by French musician Anthony Gonzalez. It is named after a spiral galaxy, Messier 83. The band was founded in 2001 by Gonzalez and former member Nicolas Fromageau in Antibes, France...
  
   – Graveyard Girl
  Graveyard Girl
  "Graveyard Girl" is a song by French electronic/dream pop act M83. Written by Anthony Gonzalez with his brother Yann, it was released in April 2008 as the second single from M83's fifth studio album, Saturdays = Youth.-Background and composition:...
  
   (M83/Virgin)
• Mika
  Mika (singer)
  Mika is a British singer-songwriter.After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday EP, Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007. Life in Cartoon Motion sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit...
  
   – Lollipop (Barclay/Universal)
• Moby
  Moby
  Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...
  
   – Mistake (Yuksek Remix)
• Naast
  Naast
  Naast is a French rock band. They are part of the nouvelle vague du rock français , which includes other bands like Les Plastiscines and Pravda. Their track "Mauvais Garçon" was included in Guitar Hero III : Legends Of Rock....
  
   – Mauvais Garçon (Source etc)
• Naive New Beaters
  Naïve New Beaters
  Naïve New Beaters is a French pop band from Paris. Their style incorporates elements from rap, rock and electro house. The band was formed in 2005 and found initial internet fame on YouTube in 2007 with the music video for their first single "BANG BANG" eventually receiving over 100,000 views...
  
   – BangBang (NNB)
• Noah and the Whale
  Noah and the Whale
  Noah and the Whale are an English indie folk band from Twickenham, London, England formed in 2006. The band consists of Charlie Fink , Tom Hobden , Matt "Urby Whale" Owens , Fred Abbott , and Michael Petulla .-Early years and Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down...
  
   - Life Is Life (Young and Lost Club/Mercury/Co-Op)
• Oh Land
  Oh Land
  Nanna Øland Fabricius , better known by her stage name Oh Land, is a Danish singer-songwriter and record producer. She lives in Brooklyn, New York City.-Personal life:...
  
   – Sun Of A Gun
• Peaches
  Peaches (musician)
  Merrill Beth Nisker , better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics...
  
   – Lose You
  Lose You
  "Lose You" is an Italo-Disco song written by Peaches and Simian Mobile Disco, and produced by Simian Mobile Disco. It is the second single from the album I Feel Cream. Alternatively, the "Lose You " was released in Germany by International DeeJay Gigolo Records. The version "Lose You" "Lose...
  
   (Brodinski & Yuksek Remix)
• Phoenix
  Phoenix (band)
  Phoenix is a Grammy Award winning French indie rock band from Versailles, founded by Thomas Mars, Deck d'Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz.-Formation and early years:...
  
   – Lisztomania (Kitsuné)
• Plugs – That Number (PeopleinTheSky)
• Primary1 – Hold me down (Phantasy sound)
• The Prodigy
  The Prodigy
  The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s...
  
   – Invaders Must Die (Yuksek Remix)
• Shitdisco
  Shitdisco
  Shitdisco, was a Dance-punk band from Glasgow, Scotland. They were formed in 2003 while studying at the Glasgow School of Art. Their first single "Disco Blood"/"I Know Kung Fu" was released in December 2005 and sold out quickly. They are signed to record label Fierce Panda...
  
   – OK (Fierce panda)
• Siriusmo
  Siriusmo
  Siriusmo is a Berlin-based music producer. His tracks can be broadly defined as Techno or Electronic and are formulated with a variety of samples.- Biography :...
  
   – All the girls get down (Xploited)
• Tahiti80 – All around (Barclay/Universal)
• Teenage Bad Girl – Hands of a Stranger (Citizen)
• The Shoes – Keep That Control
• Tommy Sparks
  Tommy Sparks
  Tommy Sparks is a fusion/pop/alternative musician born in Stockholm, Sweden who currently lives in Kilburn, London, United Kingdom. He is known for his songs "She's Got Me Dancing" and "I'm a Rope". His self-titled album was released on 11 May 2009 in the United Kingdom. He co-wrote The Prodigy...
  
   – I'm a rope (Electric Eyeball)
• U-God
  U-God
  Lamont Hawkins , better known as U-God , is an American rapper and member of the hip hop collective, Wu-Tang Clan. He has been with the group since its inception, and is known for having a deep, rhythmic flow that can alternate between being gruff or smooth...
  
   – Dopium (Babygrande)
• Vandroid – Master & Slave
• Van She
  Van She
  Van She is an electropop band formed in 2005 in Sydney, Australia, with Matt Van Schie on bass guitar/vocals, Tomek Archer on drums/sequencer, Michael Di Francesco on synth/guitar and Nicholas Routledge on vocals/guitar...
  
   – Strangers (Modular)
• Zombie Nation
  Zombie Nation (band)
  Zombie Nation is a German techno and electro project of the Munich based DJ and producer Florian Senfter.-History:The first Zombie Nation five track EP was released in the spring of 1999 on DJ Hell's label, International DeeJay Gigolo Records...
  
   – Peace & Greed (UKW)

Trivia

• Yuksek played the piano at the Conservatoire of Music until the age of 17 – the time he decided to give up his studies.

• Yuksek is a longtime friend of Brodinski, a French DJ
  Disc jockey
  A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
  
   who also comes from Reims. They often mix together.

• Yuksek uses to play the bass in the band Klanguage.

• Yuksek means "high" in Turkish.

• Video clips have been produced for the following tracks : “Extraball”, “Tonight” and “On A Train”.

• Tonight was selected as the soundtrack of the show Le Grand Journal on Canal+
  Canal+
  Canal+ is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984. It is 80% owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA. The channel broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted...
  
   in January 2009.

• He produced “Manual for Successful Rioting” - Birdy Nam Nam
  Birdy Nam Nam
  Birdy Nam Nam are a DJ crew from France whose members are Crazy-B, DJ Pone, DJ Need, and Little Mike. Birdy Nam Nam have won several prizes throughout their career including the DMC Technics 2002 World TEAM Championships. Birdy Nam Nam's goal is to use the turntable player as an actual musical...
  
  ’s second album - (except track 11 produced by Justice).

• The hidden track of his album "Away From The Sea" was composed by The Bewitched Hands On The Top Of Our Heads . It consists in a rearranged and acoustic version of Tonight. This track is also used at the end of the video clip Tonight where Yuksek takes part of a choir.

• His track Extraball was the music of the Airness attraction‘s deodorant commercial as well as the Lacoste Red ! collection’s one in 2009.

• His track Tonight has been chosen for the Peugeot
  Peugeot
  Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...
  
  commercial “Alchemy” produced on the occasion of the brand revival. It was broadcasted on TV channels from january 2010.

• Recently, he broadcasted the song “On A Train” operating under the name of Mega Mystery Band. The song buzzed on the internet and was supposed to prepare the release of his upcoming solo album untitled Living on the Edge of time