I ran a fairly popular electronic music blog [1] in France between 2009 and 2014 and met him multiple times. I’m really sad he’s no longer with us. He was an icon of this bloghouse era with the Ed Banger crew. Rest in peace Vinco, you’ll be missed.
I can’t say I’m really surprised though as most DJs during that era were known to abuse all kinds of substances and had to manage a non existent sleep schedule, long flights all around the world, and jet lag. It takes a toll on your body.
I'm only just now realizing that Beach House [1] might also have picked up on that synth aesthetic because the lead singer's father is French and she was in Paris for school in the early 2000s before coming back to the states to go to Vassar (she went to school with some of my friends). It probably was percolating around Paris at that time.
Newer is not specifically it since I'm getting a bit too "old / nostalgia" now, but here is a small list (songs chosen are not specifically their biggest but ones I like to come back to)
"The Paris prosecutor's office said that "an investigation to establish the causes of death" had been opened, noting that no suspect was found at the scene on Tuesday evening."
It's a mistranslation, the original quote is "Une enquête en recherche des causes de la mort est ouverte afin de déterminer l’origine du décès, aucun élément suspect n’ayant été découvert sur place par les services primo-intervenants. Les investigations sont en cours", which translates to "no suspicious element was found", not "no suspect was found"
I can’t say I’m really surprised though as most DJs during that era were known to abuse all kinds of substances and had to manage a non existent sleep schedule, long flights all around the world, and jet lag. It takes a toll on your body.
The entire industry is sharing stories about him today and The Toxic Avenger (Simon) shared a funny one about a set in Zurich https://x.com/toxavanger/status/2082434657300177372
[1] https://www.stopthenoise.fr/
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Synthwave
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_House
https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun/
IIRC he got into electronic music late in his life after a friend gave him a long-outdated Atari ST running Cubase (DAW).
RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9e7gmwejeGr7aqhn9A4h...
Maxime Dangles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyQZip5xLI
Arnaud Rebotini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKRfDdsPewQ
Terence Fixmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqPzHloXppc
Mödern (6 & 7 are good too IMO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lbZzeBe_JQ&list=PLmmhQqegVx...
Lazerhawk - Redline (not french but my favourite Synthwave album)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYc-KHaHGswVjvp4UuqBY...
French79
- Hometown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAv5pLO37mE
NTO
- Invisible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFIcEwCPWZ8
Worakls
- Trauma Worakls Remix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6QFfmwFT3k&list=RDf6QFfmwFT...
- Salzburg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tTber0f8qc&list=RD_tTber0f8...
Uppermost
- sooo many ... Dance is iconic to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TeOByrJgak
- Flashback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZAECHHJ8U4
- but his Revolution album gives a good walk around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83zdpv_ovow
Gesaffelstein
- Hate or Glory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NgkfRmUPk
- Viol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYtpobVmYY4
M83
- you probably already know them, but Outro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyjj8BgsBGU
Danger
- 4h30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVUo4W4XFiI (my personnal king of "you had to be there", thus a live music exemple)
Justice
- Stress (warning it and its clip are true to its name, it got awards, it got also banned from primetime) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWaWsgBbFsA
- D.A.N.C.E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy1dYFGkPUE
Or a ton more really, JM Jarre / Daft Punk / David Guetta really help breed an insane french electro scene each on their own way.
EDIT: in a Kavinsky thread I feel like I should include
Carpenter Brut
- Turbo Killer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er416Ad3R1g
- Le Perv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYtVf0wvPpc
Pertubator
- Future Club (you know it from Hotline Miami) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY66fdMt4vc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBVK7Z9AyNM&list=RDZBVK7Z9Ay...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpPRFEXWwQ
Sa musique est une source d’inspiration fantastique, c’est vraiment une triste nouvelle
Darn shame.
Rest in peace.
Its a strange announcement.