{"id":487212,"date":"2019-06-19T22:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=850351"},"modified":"2019-06-19T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:52:56","slug":"phillippe-zdar-french-producer-and-cassius-member-dead-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/phillippe-zdar-french-producer-and-cassius-member-dead-at-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillippe Zdar, French Producer and Cassius Member, Dead at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phillippe Zdar, a member of French electronic duo Cassius and a prominent producer, has died, Pitchfork<\/em> reports<\/a>. He was 50. A representative for Zdar told Pitchfork<\/em> that the musician accidentally fell from \u201ca high floor of an old building in Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born Philippe Cerboneschi, he and Boom Bass (given name Hubert Blanc-Francard) first began releasing tracks under the moniker Cassius in the mid-Nineties, which led to remix projects with artists such as Air. Their debut album was titled after the year it was released, 1999<\/em>. In 2002, their sophomore album, Au R\u00eave<\/em>, included a track (\u201cThrilla\u201d) featuring Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s Ghostface Killah.<\/p>\n

Following the release of 2006\u2019s 15 Again<\/em>, Cassius didn\u2019t release another album until a decade later when they dropped 2016\u2019s Ibifornia<\/em>. In the interim between Cassius releases, Zdar, who also owned Paris recording studio Motorbass, worked as a producer, engineer and\/or mixer on a number of projects, including Chromeo\u2019s Fancy Footwork<\/em>, Phoenix\u2019s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix<\/em> and the Rapture\u2019s In the Grace of Your Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For Ibifornia<\/em>, the duo paired with Beastie Boys\u2019 Mike D and Cat Power for \u201cAction<\/a>,\u201d and Cat Power also appeared on Cassius\u2019 \u201cFeel Like Me<\/a>\u201d and \u201cGo Up<\/a>,\u201d which also features Pharrell Williams. Zdar had previously worked with Cat Power on her 2012 Sun<\/em> album.<\/p>\n

Cassius recently unveiled their new single, \u201cDon\u2019t Let Me Be<\/a>\u201d featuring Owlle. The track will appear on their forthcoming Dreems<\/em> album<\/a>, which is slated for release on Friday.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phillippe Zdar, a member of French electronic duo Cassius and a prominent producer, has died, Pitchfork reports. He was 50. A representative for Zdar told Pitchfork that the musician accidentally fell from \u201ca high floor of an old building in Paris.\u201d Born Philippe Cerboneschi, he and Boom Bass (given name Hubert Blanc-Francard) first began releasing tracks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 11:42:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}