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Breakbot
Breakbot in 2008
Background information
Birth name	Thibaut Jean-Marie Michel Berland
Born	(1981-10-05) October 5, 1981 (age 43) Corbeil-Essonnes, île-de-France, France
Genres	French house electro house disco house nu-disco indie electro-funk boogie synthpop
Occupations	Record producer musician DJ
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Ed Banger Because Moshi Moshi

Thibaut Jean-Marie Michel Berland (French pronunciation: [tibo ʒɑ̃ maʁi miʃɛl bɛʁlɑ̃]; born October 5, 1981), known professionally as Breakbot, is a French musician, record producer and a DJ who has been signed with Ed Banger Records since May 2009.

Career

Breakbot studied at Supinfocom, a computer graphics university. He co-directed the short film Overtime with Oury Atlan and Damien Ferrié. The short won the Ottawa International Animation Festival award for "Best Graduate Film" in 2005 and the Internationales Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart "Young Animation Award" in 2006. Thibaut Berland also prepared advertisements and videos.

In 2007, he participated in the graphic design of the spaceship present on the first album of the group Justice, Cross. Through his involvement with the design, he was introduced to Pedro Winter, founder of the label Ed Banger Records, who signed him.

Breakbot is most recognized for his remixes. His reworkings of songs by artists including Röyksopp, Digitalism, and Chromeo are among his most popular. The music video of "Baby I'm Yours" featuring Irfane was directed by Irina Dakeva and became a summer hit MTV Pulse, France. The music video was nominated for "Best budget pop/dance/urban video" and "Best animation in a video" during the UK Music Video Awards on October 12, 2010.

In February 2016, he released his second album, Still Waters, composed and produced with his frequent collaborator, Christopher Irfane Khan-Acito ("Irfane"). His track Star Tripper was included in Star Wars Headspace, a Star-Wars themed music album released by Disney.

In popular culture

His 2008 remix of Pnau's song "Baby" appears in the racing video game Gran Turismo 5. Another one of his songs, "Penelope Pitstop", also features in the game. The song "Get Lost" appears in the 2016 racing video game Forza Horizon 3.

Breakbot's position in popular culture is influenced by the similarities between "Baby I'm Yours" and 2012 chart hit "Treasure" by Bruno Mars. "Treasure" was re-registered in ASCAP with new writing credits, which included him and Irfane Khan-Acito, due to the similarities with the former song. In May 2013, during an interview in Tiny Mix Tapes, Breakbot explained that the head of Because Music had mentioned a year before that Mars wanted to cover "Baby I'm Yours". However, as Breakbot was busy finishing his album, "it did not happen". Breakbot called "Treasure" a "rip-off" of his and Irfane's song, in spite of the fact that he was "cool with it"; he explained that he also had many influences in his music "with lots of bits taken from here and there".

In late 2018, his single "Baby I'm Yours" became an Internet meme commonly paired with a voice clip of Paul Bremer announcing Saddam Hussein's capture, with his famous words: "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him."

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Singles

Songwriting and production credits

Remixes

Features and collaborations

Mixes

• Breakbot Summer mix @ Le Mouv' radio 2014
• Breakbot Beatport Live
• Breakbot MixTape: October 2012
• Disco Mini Mix: Dance on Glass
• BBC In New DJ we Trust Heroes Mix
• Valentine Mixtape
• Breakbot Le Mouv' radio 2012
• Annie Mac Minimix
• TILT! Megamix
• The Lazy Sunday Selecta Mixtape
• Ed Banger, part 3 avec Breakbot | Novaplanet Mix
• Bedtime Stories
• Another Mixtape 2018
• Lockdown Boogie
• "By Your Side" Anniversary Mixtape

Filmography

• 2005: Overtime (short) -- directed by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland and Damien Ferrie

Notes

1. Breakbot is part of the collective Ed Banger All-Stars, alongside So Me and Busy P. Breakbot remixed a part of this remix with a total length of about 10 minutes.

References

1. "Biographie/Discographie de Breakbot". Justice-edbanger.xooit.com. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
2. ^ "Treasure Credits – Ascap Work ID: 884665059". ASCAP. April 1, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
3. ^ "Breakbot Bio, Music, News & Shows". DJZ.com. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
4. "Overtime". IMDb.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
5. "Brain Magazine - Interviews - Breakbot - Le Brian Wilson de l'Electro". Brain Magazine. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
6. "Breakbot Announces New Album For Feb 2016". Stoney Roads. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
7. Dorof, Jakob (May 2013). "Breakbot: Interview". Tiny Mix Tapes. Mr. P. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
8. Zhou, Naaman (December 2018). "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him: the evolution of one of 2018's best memes". The Guardian. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
9. Will Sommer (December 10, 2018). "Paul Bremer, Former Iraq Czar, is Utterly Confused How He Became an Internet Meme". The Daily Beast. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
10. ^ Steffen Hung. "Discographie BreakBot". Lescharts.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
11. "BreakBot". ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
12. ^ "Baby I'm Yours (feat. Outlines) by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
13. "Baby I'm Yours (Remix) - EP by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
14. "Fantasy (feat. Ruckazoid) - EP by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
15. ^ "One Out of Two (feat. Irfane) - EP by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
16. "You Should Know (feat. Ruckazoid) [Remixes] - EP by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
17. Remedy - EP by Breakbot & Irfane, March 18, 2022, retrieved March 22, 2022
18. "Fantasy (feat. Ruckazoid) - Single by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
19. ^ "Album Cœur, Clara Luciani - Qobuz: download and streaming in high quality". Qobuz. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
20. "MGMT - Siberian Breaks (Ed Banger All Stars Remix) - HYPEBEAST". HYPEBEAST. December 15, 2010. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
21. "Reworking Is Not a Crime - EP by Busy P on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
22. "Panorama EP by Mind Enterprises on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
23. "Lightenup (Breakbot Remix) - Single by Parcels on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
24. "All I Know (Breakbot Remix) [feat. Octave Lissner] by GoldStone on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
25. "Lettre Infinix - EP by M on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
26. "Fireworks (feat. Moss Kena & The Knocks) [Remixes] - Single by Purple Disco Machine, Moss Kena & The Knocks on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
27. "Still Got It - EP by Alex Frankel on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
28. "datA (8) - Skywriter". Discogs.com. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
29. "Yuksek - Nosso Ritmo". Discogs.com. Retrieved August 23, 2020.

• 1981 births
• Living people
• French DJs
• French house musicians
• Electro musicians
• Boogie musicians
• Nu-disco musicians
• French remixers
• Because Music artists