A ghostly yet permanent presence in the electronica and leftfield indie scene in Paris, Damien Mingus, co-head of the Evènement! collective (a label with an agenda) made himself known as one of the most boisterous activists of the scene, and as an insatiate experimentator in all fields of creative music (his music was once described as an unexplored territory between ambient, harsh noise, folk, funk and lullaby music for music boxes). He then threw himself in the p.o.p. solo adventure by rediscovering his own voice, and recorded the very dense and exuberant Sada Soul, and its somewhat briny counterpart, I Insist. Being two unique attempts at pounding the great experimental music of LaMonte Young or This Heat, the strata-built pop of the Beach Boys and a few milestones of unclassified cases (Moondog, Tom Zé or Mahmoud Ahmed) through what they share in suavity and intensity. An insatiable inventor, he also came up with a great number of open source concepts (Concertmate, an improvisation unit that uses only toy synthesizers, or the Endless Cover compilation, a virtually infinite cover compilation) and collective projects (Section Amour, Centenaire, Arafight), and about as many unpublished songs that are only waiting to be released in the inmost depths of his computer’s hard drive.