20 year-old Surkin comes from Southern France but lives and works in Paris. He dropped out of art school last year and never looked back.
A former four-to-the-floor hater (rap was his main interest until 2003), Surkin got into dance music through Detroit ghettotech and started to dig deeper into club music history, focusing on Miami Bass, Chicago ghetto (and non ghetto) house music. And
let’s not forget the glammer, girlier sound of Todd Edwards and French filter-house producers like Jess & Crabbe, and Daft Punk.
In May 2006, Institubes released not one but two Surkin records at once: GHETTO OBSESSION EP and RADIO FIREWORKS. The response has been tremendous. Played and playlisted by everybody, from the Ed Banger/Erol Alkan cabal to Boys Noize and Tiga. “Radio Fireworks” emerges as a genuine club hit, topping both Justice’s AND Mylo’s “Best tracks of 2006” list. Remix offers came in droves, from Boys Noize, DJ Mehdi,
Goose, Justine Electra, Kate Wax, Klaxons, Paul Johnson, Para One, Spencer Parker, Teki Latex, Chromeo... Institubes just dropped FIREWORKS REFIRED, a remix EP with new edits by Surkin and refixes by Tacteel, Aussie heavy-hitters Riot In Belgium and ghetto house legend DJ Slugo (!).
In June, High Powered Boys (the MSN-band Surkin has with up-and-coming electro wunderkind Bobmo) will release their first record: Sounds of Cain, on Institubes. A third Surkin single is in the works, soon followed by an album.
