Often referred to as “Future House”, Tchami’s style of music mixes the influences of deep house and EDM, later imitated by the likes of Oliver Heldens, Don Diablo, and Mike Williams. Tchami burst onto the music scene in 2013 after his remix of the Janet Jackson single “Go Deep” hit the blogosphere, greatly increasing the producer’s reputation by being played in clubs the world over. A subsequent remix of A Tribe Called Quest’s “Stressed Out” further exposed the DJ, after which Tchami issued his debut EP “Promesses” on Fool’s Gold Records. Proving hugely popular among dance circles and epitomised by its future house sound, the EP’s tracks “Shot Caller” and “Promesses” have both earned rereleases as singles by the Ministry of Sound. The rerelease of “Promesses” featuring vocalist Kaleem Taylor, peaked at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart catapulting the producer to UK notoriety.
A host of popular remixes followed included AlunaGeorge’s “You Know You Like It”, Marshall Jefferson’s “Move Your Body”, and Jack Ü’s “Take Ü There”. Tchami’s official debut single “Untrue” arrived in April 2014, followed the year after by “After Life” featuring Stacy Barthe. The result of this success has afforded Tchami the luxury of touring alongside some of the most respected DJs and producers in the current climate, including Skrillex, Diplo, and DJ Snake.
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The scene is at none other than Spring Awakening Music Festival as Tchami, a DJ/Producer by trade who is currently signed to Spinnin’ Records takes to the stage to perform a slew of some of his best material, laden with more hooks than a pirate museum; souvenirs that this ten-thousand strong audience will be taking home with them this evening, and probably singing until next week. Tchami has a very good way of compiling samples to create and atmosphere and cater to audiences. This French DJ knows how to read an audience and give them what they want so they are constantly catching a metaphoric wave throughout his set. “Untrue” is his biggest song this evening, where an audience member decides it would be ultimately fitting for him to get in side a zorbing ball and run across the audience, which I’m not going to lie, looks absolutely incredible and I am so jealous right now! This is just 4 mins into Tchami’s set too. His music takes the form of a bit of an old school garage kind of vibe, with some harmonic qualities that give it that kind of slant, either way, I can appreciate a good crossover in composition. I would also say that his music is very bass heavy with many memorable bass lines complimenting some four to the floor drumbeats.