Philippe Eidel

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Philippe Eidel (Antananarivo, Madagascar, 22 December 1956 – 6 September 2018) was a French music producer, writer and film music composer. It’s not so much for the sake of chronology that I’ll begin by saying that I was born in Madagascar, of a father from Marseille and a Creole mother, rather, it’s because this diversity, this mixing of races has really influenced my music, and my life too. In truth, it was only well after my return to France that I first become aware of this racial mixing, and this awareness only really came about quite late on, if I can even say that it’s fully taken place. At the very least I can say that I didn’t grow up in the love of music, as this was something with which my parents were completely unacquainted. So it’s by self-study that I discovered it, again quite late on. I proceeded as many others did, by learning to play the guitar, then joining small passing bands, after which I gave up my studies and left to join Club Med for a few months to earn a mere pittance. It was on my return to Paris that I met someone who was a great synthesizer enthusiast, but not a musician. He let me use his instruments day and night, instruments that would leave anyone dreaming today (Moogs, Oberheim, Arp, Korg, etc…), so much so that I quickly became very familiar with a type of music that was only in its infancy, listening to the leading bands of the time for hours on end (Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze…). A producer called Maxime Schmitt hear

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