Pioneering French producer Philippe ‘Zdar’ Cerboneschi dead at 52
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June 20, 2019Pioneering French producer Philippe ‘Zdar’ Cerboneschi dead at 52
The Cassius cofounder accidentally fell out of the window of a high-rise building in Paris.
Philippe “Zdar” Cerboneschi has died.
The influential French producer accidentally fell through the window of a Parisian building on the evening of June 19th, his agent Sebastien Farran told the Agence France-Presse.
Though he was perhaps best known for Cassius, his duo with Hubert Blanc-Francard, Zdar’s recording history reads like a who’s who of French pop music. He worked with Serge Gainsbourg, MC Solaar, Phoenix and countless others over the course of his career. After he and Blanc-Francard established themselves as hip-hop and downtempo producers with La Funk Mob, he went on to pioneer the French Touch sound as one-half of Motorbass (with Etienne De Crécy) as well as Cassius.
Active since the ’80s, Zdar was increasingly known as a super-producer in recent years. He received a Grammy for mixing and producing Phoenix’s 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and everyone from Franz Ferdinand to Robyn worked out of Zdar’s Motorbass Studio. He also worked with Beastie Boys.
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