Marc Nguyen Tan (born 1974), known professionally as Colder, is a French

dance music Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded danc ...

ian and

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscipli ...

er who is also a DJ and

remixer A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ...

who remains actively involved in dance music and other projects. Colder's sound is rooted in the

post-punk Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-roc ...

and

post-disco Post-disco (also called boogie, synth-funk, or electro-funk) is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa 1979–1985, imprecisely beginning with an unprecedented backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to c ...

of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Colder is also influenced by dub and

krautrock Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments ...

Biography

After studying film at university, Tan started to work as junior art director in 1995 for Grolier Interactive, then became art director at the Shaman design studio. He worked as art director for TV on-air design, then directed promos and title sequences as a

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for Eurosport cable channel. He co-founded "Le Cabinet. Paris." with Benoit Emery in May 2000. To date, Tan has released five studio albums under the Colder moniker: ''

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'' in July 2003, ''

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'' in July 2005, ''Many Colours'' in November 2015, and ''Goodbye'' and ''The Rain'', both released simultaneously in June 2016. As Colder, Tan provided a remix for

Depeche Mode Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex, in 1980. The band currently consists of Dave Gahan (lead vocals and co-songwriting) and Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, co-lead vocals and main songwriting). Depeche ...

's song "Clean" for their 2004 ''

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'' album.

Discography

Albums

* ''

'' (7 July 2003) * ''

'' (4 July 2005) * ''Many Colours'' (6 November 2015) * ''The Rain'' (24 June 2016) * ''Goodbye'' (24 June 2016)

Singles & EPs

* "Shiny Star" (28 April 2003) * "Crazy Love" (10 November 2003) * "Wrong Baby" (27 June 2005) * "To the Music" (6 February 2006) * "Turn Your Back" (25 May 2015) * "Midnight Fever" (22 June 2015) * "Your Kind" (18 December 2015) * ''Some Lost Tapes'' EP (16 April 2016) * ''Black Magic'' EP (collaboration with

Kasper Bjørke Kasper Bjørke is a Danish DJ, record producer and remixer from Copenhagen. History Filur Kasper Bjørke started making music in the disco house duo Filur with Tomas Barfod in 1999. Filur released four studio albums: Exciting Comfort (2000), De ...

) (15 September 2017)

References

External links

Colder Interview by Alexander Laurence

Discogs biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Colder French electronic musicians French dance musicians 1974 births Living people Remixers Trip hop musicians