Chinese Man

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Chinese Man
Chinese Man
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Groove Sessions Vol. 2
  FR 75 04/04/2009 (9 weeks)
Racing with the Sun
  FR 20th 04/16/2011 (13 weeks)
Remix with the Sun
  FR 95 02/04/2012 (1 week)
Once Upon a Time
  FR 159 03/08/2014 (1 week)
The Groove Sessions Vol. 3
  FR 22nd 04/26/2014 (9 weeks)
  BE W 99 04/26/2014 (1 week)
Sho-Bro
  FR 116 04/11/2015 (1 week)
The Journey (with Tumi )
  FR 91 October 31, 2015 (2 weeks)
Shikantaza
  CH 71 02/12/2017 (1 week)
  FR 18th 02/11/2017 (13 weeks)
  BE W 103 02/11/2017 (9 weeks)
The Groove Sessions Vol. 5
  FR 167 02/28/2020 (1 week)
Singles
Once Upon A Time
  FR 133 03/08/2014 (1 week)
Scatter (There They Go)
  FR 178 04/26/2014 (1 week)

Chinese Man is a French hip-hop trio with borrowings from various musical genres from Marseille .

Band history

The three musicians Zé Mateo, Sly and High Ku began their careers in 2004 by founding their own vinyl label. They got the name Chinese Man from a saying from the film Ocean's Eleven , which they have already sampled and used for their music. Samples from various sources and the mixing of different musical styles from all over the world are also the trademark of the trio. Not much is known about their background except that they are originally from Aix-en-Provence and are based in Marseille .

They made their first release in 2005 with the EP The Pandi Groove, limited to 500 copies . It was followed in the following year by The Indi Groove and The Bunni Groove in double editions. The third EP also included I've Got That Tune . Its use in a Mercedes-Benz commercial made the band famous beyond the country's borders. This was followed in 2007 by the first album The Groove Sessions Volume 1 with recordings from the EPs and the bonus track Chinese Man , of which they sold over 10,000 copies. The following year, Sly, the group's beatmaker, released an instrumental album entitled Small City Music and the fourth joint EP, Hong Kong Dragon Speaking , was released.

The breakthrough came in 2009 with Volume 2 of the Groove Sessions . The album brought her to the French charts for the first time at number 75. The release was followed by her first major tour of France. Two years later the album Racing with the Sun was released (the title comes from a sample of the song by Ella Jenkins ). In April they made it to number 20 on the French charts. A remix version of the album also hit the charts the following year. Chinese Man's first live album , recorded at La Cigale in Paris, was released in 2013.

The next EP Once Upon a Time followed in 2014 and shortly afterwards The Groove Sessions Vol. 3 . The album was officially declared a label release and also contained several tracks by other label members. This not only brought them back close to the top 20 in France, but also made it into the charts for the first time in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium. Another EP with the title Sho-Bro and the album The Journey followed in 2015 . They then worked with the South African MC Boitumelo Molecane alias Tumi , who had already been a guest at Once Upon a Time . Both publications brought them further chart positions.

The sixth studio album Shikantaza was released on February 3, 2017. The title is a term from Zen Buddhism and is associated with sitting meditation. A number of guest musicians worked on the album, including the US rappers Dillon Cooper and RA the Rugged Man . In addition to the French charts, where the album reached number 18, it also entered the Belgian and, for the first time, the Swiss charts .

Members

  • Zé Mateo (actually Matthieu di Stefano)
  • Sly (also Sly Dee, actually Sylvain Langlet)
  • High Ku (actually Jonathan Busson)

Discography

Albums

  • The Groove Sessions Vol. 1 (2007)
  • The Groove Sessions Vol. 2 (2009)
  • Racing with the Sun (2011)
  • Remix with the Sun (2012)
  • Live à la Cigale (2013)
  • The Groove Sessions Vol. 3 (2014)
  • The Journey (Tumi & Chinese Man, 2015)
  • Shikantaza (2017)
  • Live: Zénith Paris, La Villette (2018)
  • The Groove Sessions Vol. 5 (with the Scratch Bandits Crew & Baja Frequencia, 2020)

EPs

  • The Pandi Groove (2005)
  • The Indi Groove (2006)
  • The Bunni Groove (2006)
  • Hong Kong Dragon Speaking (2008)
  • Miss Chang (2011)
  • Once Upon a Time (2014)
  • Sho-Bro (2015)

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Switzerland France Belgium (Wallonia)
  2. ↑ Chinese Man Records in the charts: France Belgium (Wallonia)
  3. ↑ Tumi & Chinese Man in the French charts
  4. ↑ a b Chinese Man (biography) at Infoconcert.com, accessed April 10, 2017
  5. ↑ Chinese Man - "Shikantaza," BM Radio, Jan. 14, 2017
  6. ↑ DJ Trio Chinese Man Closes French Festival , Natasha Gan, Jakarta Globe, accessed April 10, 2017

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