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Villa Du Pré
3+ albums
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Philippe Certa, aka Villa du Pré, produces cool and chic electro music. His signature style consist of mixing Deep House, Jazz and Funk with melodic and hypnotic sounds; along with his passion of Hammond Organ, Rhodes piano and analog synthetisers. In the beginning of the 90's, Philippe discovered House music at rave parties thanks to his friend Jeremy Robin aka DJ WENDL and together decided to produce music buying a sampler, synths and a computer. They also collaborated with friends Antoine Bertola, James Audry, Julien Mazars and procuced all kinds of electro music with all their influences. While DJ Wendl and Antoine Bertola went on to be signed to Spacecraft Records in Bordeaux; Certa remained in Paris and worked as a sound engineer for live shows.He also continued to produce his music and then founded VILLA du Pré with the support and collaboration of the actor on-the-rise Scali Delpeyrat. Villa du pré 's debut album was released in 2004, distributed by EMI in North America thanks to the talented Lauren Coleman and her company Punch Media; and simultaneously Creamy Records was born. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
