We knew Yan Wagner as a singer and composer of New Wave & Synth Pop oriented records (Forty Eight Hours in 2012 produced by Arnaud Rebotini, This Never Happened produced by Yan himself in 2017 and a new one to be released in early 2020). But in the midst of touring with his band he started The Populists in 2014 by releasing the Soft Power EP on David Carretta’s imprint SPACE FACTORY, a new club oriented alias inspired by Detroit Electro and Techno, and New Beat and European synthetic Disco, genres that form the DNA of his versatile but cutting edge DJ sets. The Populists started out as a satyrical side project picturing the rise of populism in a world about to witness ground breaking events such as Brexit or the election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States of America. The Populists is also and above all a way for Yan to return to his first musical love born on the dancefloors of his native Paris. In this particularly favorable dynamic, The Populists will release their fourth EP at ZONE, the infamous French label founded by Alexandre Reynaud and The Hacker, which released material by artists such as Gesaffelstein, Der Zyklus, Djedjotronic, Maelstrom or Arnaud Rebotini, forming an extended family brought together by the love of old school electro, Electronic Body Music and a certain idea of darkness; and fun.