INSIDER-OUTSIDER

For over three decades, Philippe Cohen Solal has made his mark as an architect of electronic music and a self-taught composer, working across various fields of music production—from A&R to film scores, DJing, and record production. He discovered Keziah Jones and introduced Zazie to Mercury before founding his own label, Ya Basta Records, in 1996, where he signed artists such as Féloche, David Walters, and El Hijo de la Cumbia.

He co-founded Gotan Project, an ambitious fusion of electronic music and tango. The group has sold over four million albums worldwide and performed more than 450 concerts from Rio to New York, London, and Tokyo, including some of the world’s most prestigious festivals.

In 2021, he released the album and transmedia project OUTSIDER, inspired by the American outsider artist Henry Darger, which was widely acclaimed by the international press. The following year, in 2022, he collaborated with Argentine maestro Gustavo Beytelmann on The Human Seasons, a series of piano improvisations.

After releasing the Class Of 89 EP with Keziah Jones in 2023 and composing the original score for the show TANGO y TANGO, he is set to release his new album, 75010, in 2024. With this project, his mission is to create global music with a hyper-local scene, inspired by his own neighborhood: the 10th arrondissement of Paris.