1998 : first 12 inches on
20000st, a dirty take on the original French Touch sound from 1996 which could be seen as a premonition of 2008 new French Touch. Collaborations with
Ark, remixes. 2002 : Krikor teams up with
Morando against villains of all kind, they found
France Copland, a weird ghetto techno project influenced by Detroit Booty as well as IRCAM's musical research (institut of musical and acoustic research).
2003 : Krikor is more and more interested by sound experiments, he attends Octavio Lopez course (a famous contemporary music composer) at the conservatory and explores electro-acoustic techniques that he will later incorporate in his productions. Meanwhile, he becomes a resident DJ at Crispin Dior's party at 333 in East London.
2006 : he creates his own label,
Omertà Registrazione and releases 12inches by
Pilooski,
France Copland... he also collaborates with various labels such as
Tigersushi,
Kill The DJ Records,
Dark & Lovely. 2008/2009 : Krikor and
Chloé start a new duo called
Plein Soleil. First release on
Resopal Red and the famous German club label
Live At Robert Johnson.
Today, Krikor's musical style has become more hybrid than ever, a personal synthesis of his musical obsessions : the fat groove and old drum machines of Chicago House, the abstract sounds of minimal techno, the urge and energy of Rock(abilly), the harshness of Industrial music, the dark romantism of Folk anti-heroes from the 60s and the forward thinking of GRM lab rats (Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry..).