France
Petit Biscuit
ESNS:
2017
Mehdi Benjelloun started making waves as Petit Biscuit by posting tracks on SoundCloud there were composed and recorded in his bedroom. The French Nils Frahm fan was spotlighted by Les Inrockuptibles, who judged him to be "already winning thanks to a few tracks of golden sand, which evoke the soft and languid psychedelics of Flume as well as the tenacious melancholy of The xx". The track Sunset Lover has had more than 60 millions streams an counting. His music consists solely of sampled voices of his friends, filtered and modulated into instruments, and his first LP arrives June 2017.
soundcloud.com/petitbiscuit