Breakbot

Thibaut Jean-Marie Michel Berland (born October 5, 1981), known by his stage name Breakbot,[1][2] is a French producer and a DJ who has been signed with Ed Banger Records since May 2009.[3]

Breakbot
Background information
Birth name	Thibaut Jean-Marie Michel Berland
Born	October 5, 1981
Origin	France
Genres	French house, electro house, disco house, nu-disco, electro-funk, boogie, synthpop
Occupation(s)	DJ, producer
Labels	Ed Banger, Because
Associated acts	Irfane

He studied at Supinfocom, a computer graphics university. He co-directed one short film Overtime with Oury Atlan and Damien Ferrié.[4] The short won the Ottawa International Animation Festival award for "Best Graduate Film" in 2005 and the Internationales Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart "Young Animation Award" in 2006. Thibaut Berland also prepared advertisements and videos.

Breakbot is most recognized for his remixes. His reworkings of songs by artists including Röyksopp, Digitalism, and Chromeo are among his most popular.[3] The music video of "Baby I'm Yours" featuring Irfane was directed by Irina Dakeva and became a summer hit MTV Pulse, France. The music video was nominated for "Best budget pop/dance/urban video" and "Best animation in a video" during the UK Music Video Awards on October 12, 2010.

In February 2016, he released his new album, Still Waters, produced with his frequent collaborator, Christopher Irfane Khan-Acito ("Irfane"). His track Star Tripper was included in Star Wars Headspace, a Star-Wars themed music album released by Disney.[5]

In popular culture

Breakbot at the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 2016

His 2008 remix of Pnau's song "Baby" appears in Gran Turismo 5, a racing video game. Also one of his songs, "Penelope Pitstop", features in the same version.

Another one of Breakbot's songs, "Get Lost", appears in the 2016 racing video game Forza Horizon 3.

Breakbot's position in popular culture is influenced by the similarities between "Baby I'm Yours" and 2012 chart hit "Treasure" by Bruno Mars. "Treasure" was re-registered in ASCAP with new writing credits, which included him and Irfane Khan-Acito, due to the similarities with the former song. In May 2013, during an interview in Tiny Mix Tapes, Breakbot explained that the boss of Because Music had mentioned, a year previously, that Mars wanted to cover "Baby I'm Yours". As Breakbot was busy finishing the album, however, "it did not happen". Breakbot called "Treasure" a "rip-off" of his song, however, he was "cool with it"; he explained that he also had many influences on his music "with lots of bits taken from here and there".[2][6]

In late 2018, his single “Baby I’m Yours” became an Internet meme commonly paired with a voice clip of Paul Bremer's announcing Saddam Hussein's capture with his famous words: "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him."[7][8]

Discography

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		FRA [9]	BEL (WA) [10]
By Your Side	Released: September 14, 2012 Label: Ed Banger, Because	19	160
Still Waters	Released: February 5, 2016 Label: Ed Banger, Because	41	—

EPs

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		FRA [9]
Happy Rabbit EP	Released: 2007	—
Baby I'm Yours	Released: February 25, 2010[11] Label: Ed Banger, Because	—
Baby I'm Yours Remix EP	Released: July 2, 2010[12] Label: Ed Banger, Because	—
Fantasy	Released: June 17, 2011[13] Label: Ed Banger, Because	—
One Out of Two	Released: June 15, 2012[14] Label: Ed Banger, Because	185
You Should Know (Remixes) (feat. Ruckazoid)	Released: June 28, 2013[15] Label: Ed Banger, Because	—
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Singles

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Album
		FRA [9]
"Baby I'm Yours" (featuring Irfane)[11]	2010	19	By Your Side
"Fantasy" (featuring Ruckazoid)[16]	2011	38
"One Out of Two" (featuring Irfane)[14]	2012	45
"Break of Dawn"		117
"Baby I'm Yours" (Remix)	2013	104
"You Should Know" (featuring Ruckazoid)		—	By Your Side
"Get Lost"	2015	66	Still Waters
"My Toy"	2016	152
"Another You" (featuring Ruckazoid)	2018	—
"Be Mine Tonight" (featuring Delafleur)	2020	—
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Remixes

Track	Year	Artist(s)	Title
"Let There Be Light"	2006	Justice	Breakbot Remix
"Aerius Light"	2007	DatA
"D.O.E.S"		ARROW!!!	Breakbot's French Pute Mix
"Runway to Elsewhere"	2008	Pacific!	Breakbot Remix
"Hold Me"
"A Thing for Me"		Metronomy
"Bathroom Gurgle"		Late of the Pier
"What's Up Fatlip?"		Fatlip	Breakbot RMX
"Sweet Sensation"		ALB	Breakbot Remix
"Apollo-Gize"		Digitalism	Breakbot 'Hypnotoad' Extended Remix
"Lion"		Zzz	Breakbot Remix
"They Live!"		Evil Nine
"Kelly"		Van She
"When We Were Young"		Sneaky Sound System
"Baby"		Pnau
"Extraball"	2009	Yuksek
"Happy Up Here"		Röyksopp
"Roche"		Sébastien Tellier
"The Edge of a Sunday"		Séverin
"That's the Reason"		The Rakes
"In My Spaceship"	2010	Jan Turkenburg
"So Light Is Her Footfall"		Air
"Nightcall"		Kavinsky
"I Think I Like U 2"		Jamaica
"Without Lies"		Aeroplane
"You Put a Smell On Me"		Matthew Dear
"Siberian Breaks"	2011	MGMT	Ed Banger All-Stars Remix[upper-alpha 1]
"When the Night Falls"		Chromeo	Breakbot Remix
"Heaven Can Wait"		Charlotte Gainsbourg
"When the Night" (featuring Jaw)	2012	Para One
"Defiant Order"	2013	Birdy Nam Nam
"Trying to Be Cool"		Phoenix
"Paint a Smile On Me"		Black Yaya
"Kiss to Kiss"		The Swiss
"This Song"[18] (featuring Andrew Woodhead)	2014	Busy P
"Love Invaders"	2016	Fatima Yamaha
"S.H.A.K.E"[19]	2018	Mind Enterprises
"Sylvia Says"		Charlotte Gainsbourg
"Lightenup"[20]		Parcels
"Juice"	2019	Lizzo	Breakbot Mix
"All I Know"[21] (featuring Octave Lissner)		GoldStone	Breakbot Remix
"Superchérie"[22]		-M-

Features and collaborations

Year	Artist	Song
2009	DatA	So Much In Love[23]
2020	Yuksek	The Only Reason[24]

Mixes

• Breakbot Summer mix @ Le Mouv' radio 2014
• Breakbot Beatport Live
• Breakbot MixTape: October 2012
• Disco Mini Mix: Dance on Glass
• BBC In New DJ we Trust Heroes Mix
• Valentine Mixtape
• Breakbot Le Mouv' radio 2012
• Annie Mac Minimix
• TILT! Megamix
• The Lazy Sunday Selecta Mixtape
• Ed Banger, part 3 avec Breakbot | Novaplanet Mix
• Bedtime Stories
• Another Mixtape 2018

Filmography

• 2005: Overtime (short) -- directed by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland and Damien Ferrie

Notes

1. Breakbot is part of the collective Ed Banger All-Stars, alongside So Me and Busy P. Breakbot remixed a part of this remix with a total length of about 10 minutes.[17]

References

1. "Biographie/Discographie de Breakbot". Justice-edbanger.xooit.com. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
2. "Treasure Credits – Ascap Work ID: 884665059". ASCAP. April 1, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
3. "Breakbot Bio, Music, News & Shows". DJZ.com. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
4. "Overtime". IMDb.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
5. "Breakbot Announces New Album For Feb 2016". Stoney Roads. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
6. Dorof, Jakob (May 2013). "Breakbot: Interview". Tiny Mix Tapes. Mr. P. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
7. Zhou, Naaman (December 2018). "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him: the evolution of one of 2018's best memes". The Guardian. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
8. Will Sommer (December 10, 2018). "Paul Bremer, Former Iraq Czar, is Utterly Confused How He Became an Internet Meme". The Daily Beast. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
9. Steffen Hung. "Discographie BreakBot". Lescharts.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
10. "BreakBot". ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
11. "Baby I'm Yours (feat. Outlines) by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
12. "Baby I'm Yours (Remix) - EP by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
13. "Fantasy (feat. Ruckazoid) - EP by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
14. "One Out of Two (feat. Irfane) - EP by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
15. "You Should Know (feat. Ruckazoid) [Remixes] - EP by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
16. "Fantasy (feat. Ruckazoid) - Single by Breakbot". iTunes. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
17. "MGMT - Siberian Breaks (Ed Banger All Stars Remix) - HYPEBEAST". HYPEBEAST. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
18. "Reworking Is Not a Crime - EP by Busy P on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
19. "Panorama EP by Mind Enterprises on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
20. "Lightenup (Breakbot Remix) - Single by Parcels on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
21. "All I Know (Breakbot Remix) [feat. Octave Lissner] by GoldStone on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
22. "Lettre Infinix - EP by M on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
23. "datA (8) - Skywriter". Discogs.com. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
24. "Yuksek - Nosso Ritmo". Discogs.com. Retrieved August 23, 2020.