Jérôme Tissot (born 3 May 1976 in
Chambéry), better known by his stage name Muttonheads, is a French DJ and electronic music producer.
His music is described as French Touch (
French house
French house, also known as French touch, filter house and tekfunk, is a style of house music originally produced by French musicians in the 1990s. It is a form of Euro disco and a popular strand of the late 1990s and 2000s European dance m ...
music) with funk and
Italo disco.
Career
Tissot started very early experimenting with demo releases in the early 1990s and had his first show on 23 May 2001, at Divan du Monde in Paris. By 2004, he started releasing a series of EPs on Serial Records label with ''To You'' that gained popularity in European disco scene, followed by a second ''Smashing Music'' often played by well-known DJs and ''I'll Be There'' that actually found radio play.
In 2006, Muttonheads started his own
podcast
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s, proposing every two weeks electronic and house music titles and remixes. The podcasts were taken by a dozen stations and webradios in France and elsewhere. This led to a residency at
Radio FG
Radio FG (; since February 2013, formerly FG DJ Radio, acronym for Feel Good) is a French-language radio station that began broadcasting from Paris on 98.2 MHz in the FM band in 1981. It is France's first radio station that broadcasts deep ho ...
where he became "Artiste FG". He is also regularly invited to stations like
Contact FM
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,
Fun Radio and
NRJ
NRJ (NRJ is an acronym read as Nouvelle Radio Jeune, or ''énergie'' in French, pronounced , literally "energy") is a private French radio station created by Jean-Paul Baudecroux and Max Guazzini in June 1981, and was widely popularized than ...
.
Muttonheads has made dozens of remixes including for artists
Moby
Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, producer, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the ...
, Katerine, Joachim Garraud, Arno Cost, Laurent Wolf and Da Fresh, also encouraging younger artists in remixes and co-productions like Sven.K, Hard Rock Sofa, Steve Mac, Ilan Tenenbaum, JSR & Bassfly, Di Feno & Alls and Wize and even launched online remix contests to attract. His unofficial remix of
Daft Punk
Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Widely regarded as one of the most influential acts in dance music history, they achieved popularity in the late 1990s as p ...
's "
Around the World" gained popularity. In 2009, he also took part in ''RedKatz Immersion'' alongside many acts including
Avicii
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.
In 2009–2010 he worked on his first studio album ''Demomaker'' qui sort en 2010. He continues his long collaborations with Mathieu Bouthier and with vocalist Eden Martin.
Serial Crew
Muttonheads was involved in forming of the French electronic music group collaboration that included Mathieu Bouthier and Demon Ritchie under the collective name Serial Crew that launched him with the single "Need U"
LesCharts.com Serial Crew – "Need U" page
/ref> that was released by ULM (a sub-label affiliated with Universal Music). It crossed over to the UK becoming a "buzz" single, topped popular FG playlist charts for 10 weeks and was licensed to many European labels through Universal/ULM.
In 2007, Muttonheads also released "Make Your Own Kind of Music" that credited Muttonheads vs. Mathieu Bouthier.
Discography
Albums
*''Demomaker'' (2015)
EPs
*''To You'' (2004)
*''Smashing Music''
*''I'll Be There''
Singles
*Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.
References
External links
Official websiteFacebook
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French DJs
French record producers
1976 births
Living people