Ofenbach (DJ duo)

Ofenbach
Logo of the DJ duo
De Rummel (left) and Lauduique (right) (2016)
General information
origin	Paris
Genre (s)	Electro-pop , deep house
founding	2014
Website	weareofenbach.com
Current occupation
Producer, DJ	Dorian Lauduique
Producer, DJ	César Laurent de Rummel

Ofenbach is a French deep house - duo from Paris consisting de from the two DJs and producers César Laurent hype and Dorian Lauduique. The musicians had their first commercial success in 2017 with the song Be Mine .

history

César Laurent de Rummel and Dorian Lauduique are childhood friends and have been making music together since the mid-2000s. Her roots are in rock and blues. From 2014 they became known as an electro-pop and house duo under the name of Ofenbach as a music producer and remixer for Bob Sinclar , Hyphen Hyphen and James Bay , among others .

They also did their own releases and had an international hit with the single Be Mine , released by Warner Music in 2016 . DJs like Robin Schulz and Tiësto drew attention to the song, and it entered the French download charts in late 2016. Abroad it was first successful in Eastern Europe and Russia, in the Czech Republic it reached number 1. In spring 2017, it also reached the official single charts of various countries in Western Europe. In Germany and Switzerland, among others, it achieved gold status with several hundred thousand units sold . The official YouTube video recorded around 77 million views in October 2017. They were nominated by DJ Mag for an award as Best New Talent . On September 29, 2017, the single Katchi was released, which was created in cooperation with Nick Waterhouse .

On April 12th, 2019 they released their first EP called Ofenbach , which collaborates with artists like The Bamboos, Tim Rogers, Portugal. The Man , Alexandre Joseph and Tyler Sjöström, as well as the already released single Paradise , which was produced with Benjamin Ingrosso .

Discography

Chart placements (preliminary) Explanation of the data

Albums

Ofenbach   FR 85 April 19, 2019 (21 weeks)

Singles

Be mine   DE 11  platinum 04/28/2017 (33 weeks)   AT 4th  platinum March 31, 2017 (32 weeks)   CH 6th  × 2 Double platinum 02/05/2017 (51 weeks)   FR 5  diamond 11/25/2016 (79 weeks) Katchi (vs. Nick Waterhouse)   DE 9  platinum 03/11/2017 (29 weeks)   AT 5  platinum 11/10/2017 (24 weeks)   CH 6th  platinum 09/17/2017 (39 weeks)   FR 1  diamond 09/08/2017 (49 weeks) Party (vs. Lack Of Afro feat. Wax & Herbal T)   FR 60 04/07/2018 (18 weeks) Paradise ( feat.Benjamin Ingrosso )   FR 36  gold 11/02/2018 (23 weeks) Rock it   FR 117 05/17/2019 (14 weeks) Head Shoulders Knees & Toes (with Quarterhead feat. Norma Jean Martine )   DE 45 08/07/2020 (...  where.)   AT 41 08/21/2020 (...  where.)   CH 44 08/16/2020 (...  where.)   FR 20th 06/19/2020 (...  where.)

EPs

• 2019: Ofenbach

Singles

• 2014: What I Want (with KarlK)
• 2015: Around the Fire
• 2015: You Don't Know Me (feat.Brodie Barclay)
• 2016: Be Mine
• 2017: Katchi (vs. Nick Waterhouse)
• 2018: Party (vs. Lack of Afro feat. Wax & Herbal T)
• 2018: Paradise ( feat.Benjamin Ingrosso )
• 2019: Rock It
• 2019: Insane
• 2020: We Can Hide Out (Mozambo Remix) (with Portugal. The Man )
• 2020: Head Shoulders Knees & Toes (with Quarterhead feat. Norma Jean Martine )

Remixes

• 2014: Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata (Ofenbach Remix)
• 2014: Andreas Moe - Under the Sun (Ofenbach Remix)
• 2014: James Bay - Hold Back the River (Ofenbach Remix)
• 2015: Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy (Henri Pfr & Ofenbach Remix)
• 2015: Stylo G feat. Gyptian - My Number 1 (Ofenbach Remix)
• 2015: Lily & Madeleine - Come to Me (Ofenbach Remix)
• 2015: Katy Perry - Dark Horse (Ofenbach Remix feat. Allison)
• 2016: Shem Thomas - We Just Need a Little (Ofenbach Remix)
• 2017: James Blunt - Love Me Better (Ofenbach Remix)
• 2017: Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still (Ofenbach Remix)
• 2017: Rudimental feat. James Arthur - Sun Comes Up (Ofenbach Remix)
• 2018: Clean Bandit feat. Demi Lovato - Solo (Ofenbach Remix)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 2017: for the single Be Mine  Canada 2017: for the single Be Mine 2018: for the single Katchi  Poland 2018: for the single Katchi

2 × platinum record  Italy 2018: for the single Katchi  Poland 2018: for the single Be Mine 4 × platinum record  Italy 2019: for the single Be Mine

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	gold1	-	-	15,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	-	2 × platinum2	-	800,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	gold1	-	2 × diamond2	600,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	6 × platinum6th	-	300,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	2 × gold2	-	-	80,000	musiccanada.com
Austria (IFPI)	-	2 × platinum2	-	60,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	gold1	2 × platinum2	-	50,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	3 × platinum3	-	60,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	5 × gold5	15 × platinum15th	2 × diamond2

swell

1. ↑ Ofenbach , entry at Radio Fritz, accessed on May 3, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b} OFENBACH - World Hit "Be Mine" , PBA Agency News, April 1, 2017
3. ↑ Ofenbach - Be Mine , Trendcharts.de, December 2, 2016
4. ↑ Ofenbach - "Be Mine" , Rebekka Endler, 1live / WDR, April 27, 2017
5. ↑ [1] accessed on April 26, 2019
6. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland - France
7. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE AT CH FR

Web links

• Official Homepage (French)
• Ofenbach at SoundCloud