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Placebo Years 1971 - 1974

7.8M streams

7,798,058

Bestof Restof

3.3M streams

3,285,885

Top Secret

3.2M streams

3,203,653

I am you

1.2M streams

1,205,638

Boxof

1.1M streams

1,088,080

Entertainment

385.7K streams

385,690

Sam' Suffy

286.7K streams

286,747

Mæssage

139.5K streams

139,491

Bestof

80.2K streams

80,191

Organ

15.3K streams

15,331

Biography

Belgian keyboardist Marc Moulin has been a jazz craftsman for more than three decades. A leader in the field of acid jazz, he began his career by playing the piano in the '60s throughout Europe. During the following decade, he established a band known as Placebo. By 1974, he had made a trio of albums, influenced by such masters of jazz as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. One of those early releases, Sam Suffy, has withstood the test of time and is still popular decades later with aficionados. Before the '70s had passed, Moulin switched gears; working with the band Telex, his style shifted to electro pop. With bandmates Michel Moers on vocals and Dan Lacksman on synthesizer, he put out five albums that spawned hit singles like "Rock Around the Clock," an electro pop version of the song originally made famous by Bill Haley & the Comets, and "Moscow Diskow," which won fans in discos as far away as Australia and Brazil. By 1992, Moulin again pulled a switch, this time turning to a sound that was more ambient with the release of Maessage. As the calendar flipped forward to a new millennium, Moulin flipped back in time to the place where he'd started: jazz. He signed with Blue Note, a label fond of pushing boundaries, which allowed him to freely combine his proclivity for the electronic sound with his jazz roots. ~ Linda Seida, Rovi