Emmanuel Top

Emmanuel Top (born 25 October 1971) is a French acid techno music producer. He was popular in the 1990s for his releases on his own record label, Attack Records, he began his career at the end of the 1980s in full wave New beat on the Belgian label DIKI Records, his first track was The drop deal released in 1988 under the pseudonym Bazz.

Emmanuel Top
Born (1971-10-25) 25 October 1971
OriginLille, France
GenresDream trance, acid techno, chill-out
Occupation(s)Composer, record producer, musician, DJ
Years active1993–present

His most famous track is titled "Turkish Bazar", released in 1994, which contains warped, looping vocal lyrics, originally performed by Jim Morrison in the song "Black Polished Chrome" by The Doors: "The music was new black polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night." The track contains a sweeping acid bass line using the Roland TB-303 synthesizer and punchy TR-909 kicks.

In 1996, as part of the group B.B.E., he charted two top 5 hits in the United Kingdom with "Seven Days and One Week" and "Flash".

Album discography
  • This Is A...? / Acid Phase (1994)
  • Release (1995) ◊
  • Asteroid (1996)
  • Specials "Phase One" (2011) ◊
  • Fondamental (2011) ◊
  • Spacetime (2011) ◊
  • Specials "Phase Two" (2011) ◊ (Remixes)
  • Backcatalog 1991-1993 (2013) ◊
  • Soundtrack I (2013)
  • Soundtrack II (2013)
  • Soundtrack III (2013)
  • Soundtrack IV (2013)
  • Soundtrack V (2013)
  • Soundtrack VI (2013)
  • Soundtrack VII (2013)
  • Soundtrack VIII (2013)
  • Soundtrack IX (2013)
  • Soundtrack X (2013)
  • Soundtrack XI (2013)
  • Soundtrack XII (2013) ◊
  • Musiques pour ascenseur (2013)
  • Perceptions (2013)
  • Origin (2014)

Albums marked with a ◊ denotes compilations of previously released singles.


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