LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ Mercury Records) 4 French DJ's
4 time World DMC Turntable Champions
Debut album out in the UK early 2013
#1 on iTunes France
They play in London at The Garage on October 2nd. If you would like tickets to the show and would like interview time with them on the same day, please let us know.
You can watch their video for F.U.Y.A here, Down The Road here, and The Beat here, all from their debut EP 'Down The Road', out now!
The three-lettername is legendary in the world of "turntablism", a highly technical yet intensely musical discipline, with performers using turntables as a bona fide musical instrument.
The four members of C2C met in high school during their teenage years, and soon started developing their own unique performing style. Their achievements in the competition circuit come second to none. The quartet ranked #1 in the DMC World Competition four times in a row (2003-2006), thanks to their unique blend of breathtaking technical dexterity and innate musical sensitivity. The audience was astonished by their highly playful yet incredibly precise and spectacular routines, and the intoxicating jazzy tunes they managed to create through their deceptively simple contraptions. To this day, their live performances remain extremely popular, totalling more than 7 million views on Youtube alone, and continue to spread through online and social media.
Aside from their adventures within C2C, the four members have been very active on the French musical scene. 20Syl and Greem founded Hocus Pocus and released a gold certified album on Motown. The band is now widely considered to be one the classiest and most accomplished hip-hop acts of Europe. Atom and Pfel created on their side Beat Torrent, one of the most popular formations on the dynamic French electronic scene. Collectively, they can boast more than a thousand live performances. They never stopped working together, featuring on each other's albums, but 2011 is the year when they finally reunited to produce C2C's first album.
"We had to close the loop", they say with a single voice. C2C's true purpose, beyond competition, has always been to produce music, or rather to devise a brand new way to create and perform music. Now in their thirties, and freed from the constraints of the competition circuit, the quartet has matured, without losing any of its enthusiasm and energy. Rather than relying on borrowed samples and scratches, C2C has recorded an extensive palette of instruments: strings, brass, guitar, bass, keys, etc., often played on vintage instruments and equipment to capture the elusive "seventies sound" they so cherish. The same goes for the voice tracks, featuring talented vocalists such as Olivier Daysoul, Gush or Pigeon John. The result is an acrobatic yet deeply melodic and atmospheric series of pieces, a uniquely electrifying blend of electro, soul and hip-hop moods.
C2C's first EP « Down The Road » was released on the 23rd of January 2012. Since then, The EP has received great critical acclaim and success from both audience and media. The 2012 live tour, including a London show on 2nd October at The Garage, will feature all the skills that made the quartet an instant success on stage, all the while introducing a plethora of innovative musical and visual elements.
