At the beginning of 2024, Grand Corps Malade launch a challenge at the Franco-Swiss DJ Mosimann: marry, in a song, Barbara and Emimen, a “good big funk from the 80s” and aznavour-style strings. Result: 2 million views and the birth of a housing concept.
Since then, every Monday, hundreds of thousands of subscribers have rushed to the new “track of your dreams” that this ex-winner of the Star Academy makes by complying with the requests of artists (Craig David, Pierre Garnier … ), sportsmen (Florent Manaudou …) or TV figures (Karine Le Marchand, Melissa Theuriau …).
The laughter of a loved one coupled to a trap beat, a riff from MGMT or animal noises … Everything seems possible for Mosimann, 36, who hacks these hybrid sounds from the basement of his Parisian Home Studio , Pop sanctuary where you penetrate by pushing a fridge door.
“The only rule is not to be afraid of dreaming,” said the DJ-batteur-pianist-singer, even if the magic of assembly and Instagram aesthetics mask the difficulty of the task.
Three days are thus necessary for each “Dream Track” … when they succeed. “For 50 published songs, there are as much as I throw,” he says.
The one with the singer Ben Mazué remained in the harbor and even the artificial intelligence did nothing. “Sometimes you have to accept to break your face”, he philosophizes.
– “Not in the right place” –
In his previous life, Quentin Mosimann did not really “broke his face” but approached the abyss.
Young DJ mowed in Ibiza, he landed by chance with his angel mouth at the Star AC 2008 with the hope of helping his mother financially.
“Me the little petty who loved the underground techno, I spot in a super mainstream program,” recalls this self -taught musician, who finds himself at 20 years old singing in duet with Johnny Hallyday and wins the competition. “I didn’t think I was going to love it as much,” he adds.
The real test then arrives. Considering a first double gold album of gold, Mosimann meets at the Olympia in 2010 against his audience and a huge vertigo. “I saw all the people who were happy but I remember being on stage by telling myself that I was not at all in the right place.”
-He decides to tackle everything as we put an end to a love story “when you do not assume that you do not feel well with the person and that you dare not say it”.
Then begins a more uncertain career of electro DJs, where the Star AC label can be a burden.
“I needed recognition in electronic music. I had to constantly question yourself and ask yourself: +I deserve my place?” He rewinds.
The dates are linked in the clubs of Europe and Asia where Mosimann arrives without stopped idea but with his turntables, keyboards and, sometimes, his battery, in search of the perfect moment.
“This is what we are looking for when we are DJ, the climax, the time of dropping out when people will let go of their phone and let go. The best thing in the world,” said the one who has been several times in the prestigious Top 100 of DJ Mag.
The covid breaks the momentum a little but, in 2020, Grand Corps Malade entrusted him with the composition of almost all of his album “Ladies”. Nearly a million copies have passed and a diamond disc adorns the Parisian lair of Mosimann, next to a statue of and a Flipper Stranger Things.
“It was a new life,” said the thirties, wrung out by his existence as a producer DJ but aware of his luck. “I only dreamed of one thing when I was young, it was to make music.”
Today, his DJ agenda is full and he is preparing to find out of artists for a next album 100% “Dream Tracks”, with the obsession not to be “artistically”.
“It must have been very time that I can look at myself in the mirror and say to me: +ok, I like what I do +,” he concludes.
