- Dimitri Tikovoi
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Dimitri Tikovoi is a French record producer and DJ who has worked with bands such as Placebo, The Horrors, John Cale (The Velvet Underground), Hope Of The States, Goldfrapp, etc.
Before in left France in 1998 he produced Peter Kingsbery's third solo album as well as Guesch Patti's album Blonde for which he wrote songs, played different instruments (drums, percussions, electric guitar and bass) and was as well responsible for the programming. In 2002, Tikovoi released an album under the name "Trash Palace" (Positions, featuring Brian Molko, John Cale, Asia Argento and others).
Earlier in his U.K career he worked on some Placebo remixes and Placebo's cover of Kate Bush's "Running Up that Hill" (found on the special edition of Placebo's 2003 album Sleeping with Ghosts), and impressed the band so much that they asked him to produce their 5th album Meds who went on to sale over a million copies worldwide.
He has since worked with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Horrors, The Dykeenies, Ed Harcourt and numerous U.K based acts.
In parallel Dimitri has been writing for movies such as the award-winning (Sundance 2008) movie by Samuel Benchetrit "I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster" and Kevin McDonald movie "State Of Play".
He is also currently working on Girls Aloud's Nicola Roberts' solo album both as co-writer and producer, as well as a new album by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Irrepressibles, Trash Palace, Sohodolls and up and coming young artist Charli XcX.
Albums worked on by Dimitri Tikovoi
- Blonde - Guesch Patti (1995)
- The Pillow Book - Soundtrack for the Peter Greenaway Film (1996)
- Wandatta - Lio (1996)
- Pretty Ballerina - Peter Kingsbery (1997)
- " http.musique.net.lou" - Lou ( 1999)
- Stranger Blues - Dream City Film Club (1999)
- Black Market Music - Placebo (2000) - String programming
- Sweet Blue Gene - Michael J. Sheehy (2000)
- "Des hauts et des bas" - Lou ( 2001)
- Driving In The Sun Re-mix - The Cranes (2001)
- Ill Gotten Gains - Michael J. Sheehy (2001)
- Swett Water Kill - Soft Kill Remix - Rasputina (2002)
- No Longer My Concern - Michael J. Sheehy (2002)
- A Kind Of Closure - Tram (2002)
- Hybrid - Gary Numan (2002)
- Positions - Trash Palace (2002)
- Driving in the Sun Re-mix - The Cranes (2002)
- 5 Tracks E.P - John Cale (2003)
- Running Up that Hill - Placebo (2003)
- English Summer Rain - Single - Placebo (2003)
- Twist Re-Mix - Goldfrapp (2004)
- Trouble In Paradise - BJ Cole (2004)
- Divinity - Single - Future Sound Of London (2004)
- That Great Love Sound - The Raveonettes (2004)
- The Servant - The Servant (2005)
- La Folie Douce - Elista (2006)
- Kill The Young - Kill The Young (2006)
- Sane - Archive (2006)
- Sing It Out - Hope Of The States (2006)
- Molecule - Sharko (2006)
- Baby I'm Bored - Neat People (2006)
- Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited - Serge Gainsbourg (2006)
- Meds - Placebo (2006)
- The Horrors - The Horrors (2006)
- We Are Not The Enemy - Fear Of Music (2007)
- Soulève-Moi - Elli Medeiros (2007)
- A l'Ouest - Pravda (2007)
- New Ideas - The Dykeenies (2007)
- Trip the Light Fantastic - Sophie Ellis-Bextor (2007)
- Clean Up Your Eyes - The Dykeenies (2007)
- Proud Sponsors Of Boredom - Kill The Young (2007)
- Communiqueur d'Amour Re-Mix - Les Ritas Mitsouko (2007)
- I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster soundtrack for the Samuel Benchetrit movie (2007)
- Nothing Means Everything - The Dykeenies (2007)
- Strange House - The Horrors (2007)
- Extended Play 07 - Placebo (2007)
- Beautiful Lie - Ed Harcourt (2007)
- Never Before - The Ghost Frequency (2007)
- Actor/Actress - Fear Of Music (2008)
- You're In The Painting You Saw - Lily Electric (2008)
- E.P - Medallist (2008)
- Honeybunny - Ladydoll (2009)
- Girl On The Radio - Hip Parade (2009)
- Mirror/Mirror - Ghinzu (2009)
- Dance On The Beast - Sharko (2009)
- State Of Play soundtrack for the Kevin Macdonald movie (2009)
- Battle For The Sun - Placebo (2009)
- See The Light - The Hours (2009)
- My Way - Ian Brown (2009)
- Say Something - Thyrd Eye (2010)
- Mirror Mirror - The Irrepressibles (2010)
- Ex-Corazón - Lantana_(cantante) (2010)
- Make a Scene - Sophie Ellis-Bextor (2011)
- Cinderella's Eyes - Nicola Roberts (2011)
External links
Categories:- French record producers
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