Ivan Smagghe is a French DJ and producer. He was originally known as Ivan Rough Trade, after his job in the Rough Trade record store in Paris. His musical style has been described as

electro house Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 130 beats per minute. The term has been used to describe the music of many ''DJ Mag'' Top 100 DJs, including Benny Benassi, Skrillex, Steve Aoki ...

and "minimal electro." Smagghe's ''Death Disco'' compilation was a key release in the

electroclash Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) ...

genre. He formed Black Strobe in 1997 with

Arnaud Rebotini Arnaud Rebotini is a French musician. He is a member of the band Black Strobe, which released their debut album ''Burn Your Own Church'' in 2007. He has previously been a member of the death metal band Post Mortum, which later became Swamp. ...

, but left in 2006. Black Strobe describe their dark electronic sound as "frozen balearic gay biker house".Mix of 11 November 2004 on BBC Radio One
/ref> Smagghe is also a member of the Volga Select project, with

Marc Collin Marc Collin is a French musician, film music composer and record producer. He is best known as the founder, with Olivier Libaux, of the project Nouvelle Vague, a cover band that covers new wave songs in a bossa nova style. Collin also released ...

Compilation discography

As Ivan Rough Trade

* ''French Fried Funk'' (Slip 'n' Slide Records, 1997).

As Ivan Smagghe

* ''How To Kill The DJ (Part One)'' (

Tigersushi Records Tigersushi Records is an independent record label based in Paris, France. They have released music by MU, Ivan Smagghe, Poni Hoax, Pierre Bastien, DyE, The Faulty Shotgun, John Tejada, among others. See also * List of record labels File:Alv ...

, 2003) * ''Bugged Out! Presents Suck My Deck'' (React, 2004) * ''Death Disco'' (Eskimo, 2004) * ''

Fabric 23 From November 2001 to November 2018, the London nightclub fabric ran a monthly mix compilation series. Mixed by a variety of emerging and established DJs, the two series were entitled ''fabric'' and ''FABRICLIVE'' respectively. The compilation ...

'' ( Fabric London, 2005) * ''Kill The DJ Introducing The Dysfunctional Family - A Mixed Up Compilation By Chloé Et Ivan Smagghe'' (Kill The DJ Records, 2006) * ''Cocoricò 03'' (Mantra Vibes, 2008)

References

External links

Ivan Smagghe biographyInterview with Ivan in LeftLion Magazine 2007
French house musicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) French DJs French record producers {{DJ-stub