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Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Maxime Cescau eventually overcame these handicaps to become a musician, a producer and a shaman.

Heading the Artizan Music label with production
partner Jafar, Maxime Cescau has been DJ’ing and producing since the
early 1990’s. Of French / German descent, Max grew up traveling the
world with his family, eventually landing in Chicago in the early 90’s
during the House and Rave culture explosion. Maxime cut his Djing teeth
on the Chicago Club and Underground scene, having been influenced by
the city’s vibrant House scene. Eventually the deeper west coast vibes
pulled him to California where he settled and started playing the San
Francisco circuit. To pay the bills, he honed his engineering skills in
various Hip Hop and Post-Production Studios, before finally committing
himself solely to his own creations and moving to London where he is
currently based. His writer aliases include Tonrausch, Waxjackers,
Ewok, Toastburglar and of course, Poussez.

An accomplished and dexterous sound engineer by trade, Maxime has over
50 releases and remixes under his belt, including 3 artist albums for
the likes of LoudEast, Dust Traxx, Microtone, Stilnovo, Friends of the
Family, Pesto, Shake & Pop, Huddtraxx, Pigeon Tracks and Artizan
Music, not to mentioned the numerous engineering credits on US and
European Labels. He has remixed Rithma, Rogiers, Pete Dafeet, Blacksoul
and even Bilal, whilst his string of hugely successful bootlegs and
disco re-edits are seen as staple DJ tools and are still doing the
rounds. Poussez also goes from strength to strength counting Atjazz,
Jordan Rivera, Roberto Rodriquez and Nacho Marco amongst the artists
interpreting them.

Before joining Artizan, Maxime ran the now defunct, but well remembered
4bit Art & Music together with Chicago-based fine artist Pete
Nawara. It was a concept project that fused art and music and helped
push undiscovered talent through its record label and many lavish
parties, both in London and Chicago.

With his and Jafar’s first Poussez Album dropping in 2009/10, their
label and ‘Uptownboogiedown’ rocking hard, a consistant flow of new
material out month on month and a recent publishing deal, things are
fresh as ever. Of his long career, the one constant has remained with
Maxime; A fastidious ear for the deep groove and an eye for the
dancefloor.

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maximecescau Maxime Cescau, London, Britain (UK)

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