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Philippe Zdar

real name Philippe Cerboneschi

founder of the Motorbass studio, half of Cassius

France · 1967-01-28 – 2019-06-19

Philippe Zdar is credited on 269 albums across 594 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1990–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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269

Albums

594

Pressings

Decades active

441

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Biography

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French electronic producer, sound engineer, and studio owner.
Born: 28 January 1967 in Aix-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Died: 19 June 2019 in Paris, France (aged 52).
Philippe Cerboneschi, professionally known as Philippe Zdar or just Zdar, was a producer, sound engineer and the owner of Motorbass Studio. He was a key figure of the 'French Touch' (aka Filter House) scene, first as member of Motorbass, then La Funk Mob and Cassius with Hubert Blanc-Francard. Zdar and Hubert Blanc-Francard met when Zdar was the assistant of Hubert's father Dominique Blanc-Francard at.
His nickname Zdar is in reference to the actor Robert J. Zdarsky, also called Z'dar.
On 19 June 2019, two days before the release of Cassius's fifth album Dreems, Zdar died after accidentally falling from a window of his Parisian appartement. He was 52 years old. On the release day of Dreems, Boombass announced that it was Cassius' final album.

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