Timewriter

Real Name:
Jean Frank Cochois
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Jean Frank Cochois aka The Timewriter was born into a family where music played a vital part in everyday life. From the age of 13 on, he got trained in classical music and was sent to a music boarding school. Soon he started experimenting with electronic music while also including acoustic instruments. After several band memberships and three theatre music projects, Frank produced his first Album ‚The Timerewinder‘ in 1994. The LP got released under his alias JFC on Mole Listening Pearls not before 1997 though.

It was Tom Wax who introduced Frank Cochois to the upcoming label Plastic City in 1995. Next to Terry Lee Brown Jr., The Timewriter would become THE most influential artist in the development of Plastic City as one of the major outlets for TechHouse in Germany and beyond. His albums and mix-compilations have gained The Timewriter an excellent international reputation. Fans and experts alike also agree on his more downbeat-oriented project JFC with releases on Elektrolux a.o.

In 2004, Frank holds a monthly DJ residency at Sven Väth's state-of-the-art Cocoonclub in Frankfurt.
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Discography

Releases:
Greetings From Plastic City (CD, Comp, Mixed)   Twisted America Records 1998
Diary Of A Lonely Sailor (3xLP, Album)   Plastic City 2002
Remixes:
It's Our Future (12") It's Our Future (Timew... Urban 1995
Love Is In The Air Remixes (12", Promo) Love Is In The Air (Ti... Urban 1995
Welcome To Plastic City (2xCD, Comp) It's Our Future (Timew... Plastic City 1995
Housefloor - Volume 2 (2xCD) Cut The Midrange (Time... UCA Records 1996
Phuture Wax Remix Collection (CD) Cut The Midrange (Time... Phuture Wax 1996
The Housecafe Vol. 2 (2xCD) Cut The Midrange (Time... Adam & Eve Records 1996
Housebowl II (CD, Comp + CD, Comp, Mixed) Git Wit Me (Timewriter... AN 1998
Housematic Club Hits EP (12", EP) Generations Of Love (T... UGAR Records 1998
Isochronic - United Shades Of Techno (4xCD, Comp, Mixed) Git Wit Me (Timewriter... Sound And Media Ltd 1998
Original Single Kollektion (5xCD, Maxi + CD, Maxi, Enh + Box, Ltd) Rammstein In The House... Motor Music 1998
The Body Shine E.P. (EP) (2 versions) Body Shine (Timewriter... Hooj Choons 1998
imperium rytmu atakuje w radiu ZET (CD, Comp) Want Love (Timewriter'... Warner Music (Poland) 1998
Always Remixes (12") Always (Timewriter Remix) Clip Recordings 1999
Far Above The Clouds (12") Far Above The Clouds (... WEA, Warner Music UK Ltd. 1999
Git Wit Me (2x12") Git Wit Me (Timewriter... Glow Records 1999
Hlylég (You're So Special Baby) - Remixes (12") Hlylég (Timewriter's ... Hey Babe! 2000
Strange New World (12") Strange New World (Tim... Elektrolux 2000
Deep In It 2 - Sampler 1 (12", Smplr) Chic A Tout Prix (Tim... Get Groovy 2002
Since You're Gone (CD, Maxi) Since You're Gone (Tim... Zeitgeist 2002
In The Mix: Rize And Fall (CD, Comp, Mixed) Self Reflexion (Jean F... Cocoon Recordings 2003
Oslo Sessions (CD, Comp, Mixed) Cut The Midrange (Time... Taster's Choice Recordings 2003
Made With Love (File, MP3, Comp, Mixed, 192) Glory Glory (Timewrite... Not On Label (Blu Mar Ten Self-released) 2005
People Always Talk About The Weather (CDr, Single, Promo) People Always Talk Abo... Mole Listening Pearls 2006
Bargrooves - The Black Collection (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Home (Timewriter Remix... Seamless Recordings 2007
Plastic City. Classics (File, MP3, Comp) It's Our Future (Timew... Plastic City History 2007
Thinking Out Loud Asia Presents Shanghai - Attica (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Escape From The Madnes... High Note Records 2007
This Machine (12", Promo, W/Lbl) This Machine (Timewrit... Toolroom Records 2007
Camera Obscura Part II Remixed (2 versions) Camera Obscura (Timewr... Laka 2008
Appears On:
Bargrooves - The Black Collection (2xCD, Comp, Mixed)   Seamless Recordings 2007
This Machine (12") This Machine (Timewrit... Toolroom Records 2007
Tracks Appear On:
Welcome To Plastic City (2xCD, Comp) Soul Freak Music Plastic City 1995
Housefloor - Volume 2 (2xCD) Did My Time UCA Records 1996
Element 108 - The Spirit Of House Vol. 3 (2xCD, Comp) Let's Keep Our Love Goin' Sex Records 1997
Isochronic - United Shades Of Techno (4xCD, Comp, Mixed) Soul Freak Music (Seco... Sound And Media Ltd 1998
From Dub Til Dawn (CD, Mixed, Album) Take Your Time Plastic City 2000
This Is Techhouse (CD) Take Your Time Tronic Soundz 2002
Oslo Sessions (CD, Comp, Mixed) Photographic Life (Are... Taster's Choice Recordings 2003
Balance 009 (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) Lion Steps EQ Recordings 2006
Bargrooves - The Black Collection (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Heartstring Seamless Recordings 2007
Plastic City. Classics (File, MP3, Comp) Back From Exile, Life ... Plastic City History 2007
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by Johnny_Jon Jan 15, 2009
JF Cochois choose the perfect nickname for the person that he shows he is through his music, he is truly a timewriter.

Good productions, good music gets played, sounds good, we enjoy it.
Legendary ones resist to time and gets played on and on relentlessly, thus earning the name "timeless". Thats exactly what his productions are, timeless. You can only but qualify an individual like him as "genius". Not only as it been more then a decade of producing pure magic wonders, but it also has been more then a decade of sound refinement, of experiencing, of maturing, making him now to me, the best producer there is period, hands down. Trying to put tags on him is impossible, even if clearly a deep house producer, the variations in his sound is infinite, there's producing to make people dance, there's producing to make money, there's producing something that sounds goods, then there's producing with your soul, put your emotions, your experience, your life in it, and trying to make people feel it, make them feel the same way, transfer it. Each of his tracks is an emotion or a feeling. "feeling badass" or "acting cool", "feeling blue,looking through the window on a grey sky", "going nuts, careless". Yet, while your mind and soul are busy contemplating and pondering on what your experiencing, you remark that your feet cant stop moving...

I am an inspiring dj and producer, and by all means, till i get to that point, he is the artist that will serve as a "canvas" to my work.
Review by ijustspeak Sep 21, 2007
Listening to The Timewriter for some time now i can say that this man takes his productions seriously. They are fine polished from start to finish in real Trentemøller style, and he crafts the finest deephouse and tech-house for head-nodders paradise. He seems to always stay true to his roots and he always have the dancefloor in mind when constructing tracks. Lots of his stuff are tailormade for it and though his production style seems hardly unchanged over 10 years, his production skills adds up most of it with immense grooves that flows like butter trough your speakers.
Probably one of few who can get away with his albums gracing high ratings who mostly are four to the floor all the way.
Deep House paradise all the way!
Review by elisirr May 19, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
The Timewriter...with this "profound" nickname, Jean Frank Cochois paves the way for further musical progress.
To the detriment of those who think he's bound to the same sonority, suffice it to say that with his last album "Paintbox", that someone disapprove it, he express an attempt not to alter his style but to evolve himself, like it's right to be for an artist of its caliber.
In my opinion he makes a lucky guess.
What else can we expect now by him?
Let's hope for the best.

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