Biography
Alex Attias started his Djing career in 1988, Lausanne - Switzerland, playing house, funk and disco classics, progressing later onto the "eclectic jazz thing".
Throughout the late 80's and early 90's, he established himself as one of Switzerland's top Dj's running his own successful weekly nights, being booked to play all over Europe, and in return booking top International Dj's to play in Switzerland. Alex was also long-time collaborator for the magazine Vibrations, writing reviews and compiling their series of albums.
By 1995, he was ready to break into Electronic music production, contributing a track to the "5 Star Galaxy" compilation in the company of producer Patrick "Rollercone" Duvoisin. The following year he set up the Bel - Air Project, and began attracting attention with their first release "Magik", which was featured on one of the famous Sourcelab compilations. Bel-Air Project's next two releases became minor underground cult classics "Jazz with Altitude" and "Dark Jazzor" were both championed by the likes of 4 Hero, Gilles Peterson and Stacey Pullen.
At the same time, Alex also set up his own record label Corn-Flex and was busy collaborating under different guises, with Paul Martin as Beatless and with his Bel-Air colleague as Funkanova.
1997 saw the demise of the Bel-Air Project and Alex moved to England to pursue new musical projects. Mustang and Beatless are currently the main sources of his creative output (plus a few sporadic collaborations: River Plate with his brother Stephane, and Plutonia with Dego from 4 Hero).
In 2000, Alex set up his new record label, Visions Inc., for which he's been busy recording with super keyboard whizzkid Jessica Lauren, producing tracks for soul singer Vanessa Freeman, and his own Mustang project.
The first Beatless album "Life Mirrors" was released in October 2001 on the American label Ubiquity, featuring tracks recorded in San Francisco with the Daughters from the 70's band the Sons and Daughters of Lite, with Stones Throw rapper Quasimoto, and the multitalented Colonel Red.
Around the same time, Irma Records from Italy released his "Quiet Moments" compilation, an assortment of chilled and space jazz tracks from the past to unwind to.
A selection of Visions single releases and exclusives have been released September 2002 on a compilation entitled " THE CHROMATIC UNIVERSE " featuring treats from Dego, I.G. Culture, Plutonia, Vanessa Freeman, Mustang and Domu to name but a few.
Alex has also started with Goya music a serie of Dj cd mixes. the first volume has been completed by the Mustang man himself, and the series will continue with Dego, Bugz in The Attic, IG Culture, Domu and some of the Djs worldwide who are into good music!
A soundtrack has been created by Alex and his crew for the French channel Arte to accompany " Anomalies Passageres ", a film directed by Nadia Fares . shown on TV in march 2003.
Alex has completed his first solo album under the Mustang moniker.Release date : November 2004 on Compost records ( Germany)
Now back home to Lausanne, Switzerland, Alex is preparing more stuff for his next MUSTANG lp, some new tunes for his label Visions inc. and also experimenting tecno and dancefloor tracks.
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