Deep Forest

France

Formed: 1992

Years Active: 90, 2000

Genres: Electronic, Pop/Rock, New Age, International

Styles: Dance-Pop, Dance, Club/Dance, Ambient House, Electronica, House, Ambient

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Innovatively fusing traditional ethnic musics with state-of-the-art rhythms, the work of Deep Forest was best typified by their 1993 smash "Sweet Lullaby," which brought together the contemporary sounds of ambient techno with the haunting voices of the Pygmies of the central African rain forest. The project was primarily the work of the French keyboardists and programmers Eric Mouquet and Michael Sanchez; after the latter returned from Africa with boxes of records he'd picked up across the continent, he and Mouquet began sampling the native sou...

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