Born and raised in the north of France, Yannis Joly and Nassim Bouayadi met in 2017 through the high school talent night. After this meeting, the duo started to make psychedelic rock in Yannis' garage for almost a year with the ambition to make their first album. But the two started to get interested in electronic music and started to move away from rock music. In 2018 the duo Joly-Bouayadi created The Hofners