SHAPESHIFTERS / DIMITRI FROM PARIS / D.C. LARUE - [V5] GLITTERBOX JAMS VOLUME 5

There is more than one artist with the name Shapeshifters: 1) A former British house music group consisting of producers Simon Marlin and Max Reich, featuring female vocalist Cookie. They first became popular in 2004 with their debut single "Lola's Theme". After several months on various high profile DJ playlists, the song was picked up by Positiva Records and topped the UK Charts and became a Top 10 hit across Europe. The following year they released "Back to Basics", a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. In March 2006 they released their debut LP "Sound Advice", along with a third successful single titled "Incredible". Marlin and Reich use the name Shape:UK for releases in the United States due to a name conflict with LA hip hop group The Shape Shifters. 2) The Los Angeles based underground collective of hip hop artists, found under the name The Shape Shifters. 3) An incorrect tag for Shapeshifter, a drum and bass act from New Zealand. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Dimitri from Paris (born Dimitri Yerasimos in October 1963) is a French producer and DJ. Contrary to his musical pseudonym, he was born not in Paris but in Istanbul, Turkey. He started out by DJ'ing at the French station Radio 7, before moving on to Skyrock and finally NRJ, one of the top radio groups in France, in 1986. There, he introduced the first ever house music show to be broadcast in France, while simultaneously producing runway soundtracks for fashion houses such as Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Hermès and Yves Saint-Laurent. He also released two solo EPs from 1993 to 1994, and contributed to the Yellow Productions compilation La Yellow 357. In 1996 Dimitri released his first full album, Sacrebleu. Subtly blending a variety of styles ranging from jazz to samba to house, Sacrebleu sold 300,000 copies worldwide and was named Album of the Year by Mixmag magazine. He followed this up with A Night at the Playboy Mansion and Disco Forever in 2000, My Salsoul in 2001, After the Playboy Mansion in 2002 and most recently Cruising Attitude in 2003. "Love Love Mode", from Sacrebleu, was the template from which "Neko Mimi Mode" and "Tsuku Yomi Mode", the opening themes to the anime "Tsukuyomi Moonphase", were created from. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.