Cassius Background Research

In 1988 MC Solaar, a French hip-hop artist gained help from Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francart on producing his albums. The duo, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass, created their first project together in 1991, called La Funk Mob, and then the following year started expermenting with a more electronic sound.

In 1996, the pair under the name of Cassius, created their first self published house music track "Foxxy". The moderate success they had after their track lead them to remix songs for acts such as Air and Daft Punk. In January 1999, they released their first mainstream single "1999" which stamped their name in the music market going into the UK Singles chart at number 7. This was closely followed by their debut album also named "1999" which inluded the track "Feeling for You" which was also in the Top 20 Singles chart.

From then on Cassius has been working on and creating new singles and have always been on a constant rise since 1999 earning more and more popularity gaining a larger fanbase. However along with "1999" there most notible track is "I Love You So" which was only released earlier this year.