Etienne Jaumet

Along with his work as one-half of <a href="spotify:artist:0HVcyKnveIOLkJdAGsE1pk">Zombie Zombie</a>, French producer/multi-instrumentalist Etienne Jaumet pursues an adventurous solo career. With his EPs and albums for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Versatile+Records%22">Versatile Records</a>, he follows his bliss, delivering eerie techno with 2010's Night Music or reimagining jazz standards as cosmic electronic explorations on 2018's 8 Regards Obliques.

Jaumet studied saxophone and sound engineering at the Conservatoire in Paris and began collaborating with several likeminded artists in the 2000s. He joined the band <a href="spotify:artist:3CUNL7MWbfwcOFpYZRwhnb">the Married Monk</a> for their 2004 album The Belgian Kick and also worked with percussionist Francisco "Flóp" López. With drummer Cosmic Neman, Jaumet formed <a href="spotify:artist:0HVcyKnveIOLkJdAGsE1pk">Zombie Zombie</a>, and the pair released its self-titled EP on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Boomboomtchak+Records%22">Boomboomtchak Records</a> in 2006. The duo then moved to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Versatile+Records%22">Versatile Records</a> and released Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free (2007), a 12" single that preceded the release of the accompanying full-length A Land for Renegades (2008). In 2007, also on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Versatile+Records%22">Versatile Records</a>, Jaumet made his solo debut with Repeat Again After Me, a 12" release featuring a remix of the title track by <a href="spotify:artist:5muFO8VqYRCRW13EkvX564">Âme</a>. His first full-length, the <a href="spotify:artist:17dbJyUCrxh4I7iyUrjaHU">Carl Craig</a>-produced Night Music, arrived in 2009 and spawned that year's Entropy EP. Jaumet returned in 2011 with the tech-house single Satori, and kept busy with collaborations with artists including <a href="spotify:artist:5af6HkEomDP7dKLugVmMmk">Joakim</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7GHjippOuSVGrpB1VcPjx2">Richard Pinhas</a>. After spending some time working with <a href="spotify:artist:0HVcyKnveIOLkJdAGsE1pk">Zombie Zombie</a> -- including a tribute to <a href="spotify:artist:0hxQtmgWiPtEsDPeIuKxXq">John Carpenter</a>, the soundtrack Loubia Hamra, and their second album Rituels d'un Nouveau Monde -- Jaumet returned to his solo career. The single Metallik Cages arrived in late 2014, heralding the release of La Visite, a more dance-oriented set, in February 2015. Following a pair of <a href="spotify:artist:0HVcyKnveIOLkJdAGsE1pk">Zombie Zombie</a> releases (2016's Slow Futur EP and the following year's full-length Livity), Jaumet delivered 2018's 8 Regards Obliques, on which he transformed classic jazz compositions by <a href="spotify:artist:0tIODqvzGUoEaK26rK4pvX">Sun Ra</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0kbYTNQb4Pb1rPbbaF0pT4">Miles Davis</a>, and more into atmospheric synth and sax meditations. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi