Sonar Sessions 2008 - Pt 1

Blackjoy

Lucien Entertainment, Paris

Is Blackjoy a band? Yes and no. Jrme Caron is the brain and the grain. He plays drums and some keys, does arrangements, the editing and producing, but the instrumentalist parts of the music couldn't exist without the team: the incredible keyboard player Franois Faure, outstanding guitarist Thomas Nam from Yellow's Tom & Joyce and last but not least Guillaume Farley, "the" bassman. Born in a small town, raised in a just a lil bigger one, Caron had no clue of what "growing with the commercial radios" was. The head of Blackjoy was trained under the influence of Bernard Lenoir on France Inter (the French John Peel), and got the feeling he could go further. So Jrme went heavy into Jazz, Soul, House, Techno, Rare Grooves, got his first radio show on Radio Campus Dijon and played early French touch artists such as Alex Gopher, La Funk Mob, Daft Punk and Mighty Bop. e A job possible at Yellow Productions in 1998 followed as well as DJ-gigs around Europe and Canada before a mpc2000, 2 turntables and a zip disk opened the Blackjoy studio. The first EP, "Untitled" was released in 2002 and got heavy plays from specialists and legends such as Kenny Dope, Phil Asher, Lil' Louis, Kerri Chandler, Benji B and DJ Deep. "Moustache", a proper hit single for Yellow, was up next and remixes for DFA's Holy Ghost or Crusho complete the picture. You'll love the sound of Blackjoy.