Born in Marseille, South of France, Philippe started Djing, animating radio shows and editing zines in the 80s. In the 90s he contributed articles (under the pseudonym Candy Apple Grey and Filth Simpson ) for such magazines as Ruta 66 (Spain), Merlin’s Music Box (Greece), Maximum R&R (USA), What Wave, Cryptic Tymes (Canada), and French-written Taktik, Rage, Rocksound, Best, 491, Abus Dangereux, and many many more.
In those days, he had interviews w/ such bands as Nirvana, Fugazi, L7, Neurosis, Fuzztones, Babes In Toyland, Mudhoney, Pixies, Cynics, Dum Dum Boys, Alice Donut, Brood, Grotus, Fleshtones, Buzzcocks, Nick Cave, Sting Rays, Poison Idea, Jon Spencer, Soft Machine, Lydia Lunch, No Means No, Godflesh, Steve Albini, Gallon Drunk, Melvins, New Bomb Turks, and many other “noisy-rock” luminaries.
In 1991, Philippe started Kinetic Vibes Music, a Garage Punk zine and label releasing music by: Willie Loco Alexander, Pleasure Fuckers, Dead Moon, Bevis Frond, Lust-o-Rama, Ultra 5, Overcoat, Cryptones, Devil Dogs, La Secta, Dirteez, Tommyknockers and many more.
In 1993 he founded the experimental label Pandemonium Rdz. Working with the likes of Guapo, Zeni Geva, Ground Zero, Condense, Cows, Headcleaner, Drive Blind, Double Nelson, Alboth!, Melt Banana, God Is My Co-Pilot, Samiam, Burning Heads, Cerberus Shoal, Flying Luttenbachers, Unsane, Bästard, Kepone, Ron Anderson, Ruins, Hint, Andy's Car Crash, and Spaceheads.
This well documented and there and many releases are still in print:
41 records later, Philippe needed to rejuvenate and started a new label: BiP_HOp was physically born in 2000 and will document avant electro for the century to come... A webzine, a radio show, organizing live events, and above all a label documenting the state of electronic art and sound design, unconventional sound adventures, modern ambient, contemporary alliances between acoustica vs. digitalia.
Musics challenging the ears and the mind.
In 2000 Philippe Petit became Dj/ip@bip-hop.com choosing to use his e-mail address to keep contact with the listeners. Under this moniker he has been invited to play festivals and some of the best venues in Europe, Northern America, and recently Mexico.
According to Philippe a DJ is not only an instrument for dancing but as a living musical library "I should also take the audience to a new cultural trip / discovery. I want to entertain listeners and to open new "doors of perception", to create a virtual world to enable them to forget about their own existence for a short while."
He also started the duo Ear_Thrillerz and the now defunct group Deviationists.These days he plays with the international collective : Strings Of Consciousness.
www.stringsofconsciousness.info
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Today I still animate a radio show for Radio Grenouille which is the biggest non-commercial local radio
I still write in Noise Magazine. A bi-monthly mag, printing 25 000 which can be found in newsstands all around France and is the best one dealing with Rock, indie rock, metal, post rock, punk, stoner doom, industrial, experimental, prog, Noisy music. Also a website (3000-3500 unique visitors/day)
Tour
Jul 4
Faust @ Avant-Garde festival Schiphorst, DE
Jul 7
Faust @ MiMi festival Marseille / Frioul island, FR
Aug 28
ISI festival - Salle Petrarque Montpellier, Sud, FRANCE