Dimitri from Paris

Dimitrios Yerasimos (, ; born 27 October 1963), better known as Dimitri from Paris, is a French music producer, DJ and composer of Greek descent. Yerasimos fused these sounds with electro and block party hip hop he discovered in the 1980s.

Life and career Contrary to his musical pseudonym, Yerasimos was born not in Paris but in Istanbul, Turkey. His family relocated to France where he discovered DJing at home, using whatever he could find to "cut and paste" samples from disco hits or in to montages heard on the radio, blending them together to make tapes. This early experimentation helped him launch his DJ career.

In the 1990s, Yerasimos provided soundtracks for advertising campaigns, haute couture events and runway shows in collaboration with fashion houses including Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier and Yves Saint Laurent. He has remixed hundreds of artists as diverse as Björk, The Cardigans, James Brown, Michael Jackson, New Order and Quincy Jones.

2007 saw the release of the Cocktail Disco project with label BBE. Yerasimos described in the notes to the project that he arrived to the material through a "kind of evolution in music collecting [where] the more you complete one genre, the more you move to a sub genre, a sub, sub genre, eventually branching out to different musical paths, to avoid being stuck in dead ends. It turns out records I would overlook a few years back, are the ones I feverishly hunt now. One of many such sub genres I grew up to love over the years, is a type of Disco that I could best describe as Cocktail Disco."

Yerasimos described the Cocktail Disco sub-genre as having "that ubiquitous 4/4 beat and flying open high hat, complemented by rich orchestrations, campy over the top vocals, and an often tropical latin vibe. Something that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Broadway musical."

2009 saw the release of the Night Dubbin''', a post-disco R&B compilation remix album.

Discography Studio albums Sacrebleu, 1996 Cruising Attitude, 2003

Compilation albums Monsieur Dimitri's De-Luxe House of Funk, 1997 A Night at the Playboy Mansion, 2000 Disco Forever, 2000 My Salsoul, 2001 After the Playboy Mansion, 2002 In the House, 2004 Neko Mimi Mode, 2004 The Kings of Disco, 2004 compiled by Dimitri from Paris and Joey Negro TV Tokyo Animation Tsukuyomi–Moon Phase– Best Collection "Zenbu, Kikitakunacchatta…", 2005 Super Disco Friends, 2005 compiled by Dimitri from Paris and DJ Muro Southport Weekender, 2005 compiled by Dimitri from Paris, Jazzie B, and Quentin Harris In the House of Love, 2006 Cocktail Disco, 2007 Return to the Playboy Mansion, 2008 Night Dubbin', 2009 compiled by Dimitri from Paris & The Idjut Boys Get Down With The Philly Sound, 2010 Knights of the Playboy Mansion, 2011 The Remix Files, 2011 Back In The House, 2012 In the House of Disco, 2014 Dimitri From Paris Presents Le CHIC Remix, 2018

Remixes Gérard Blanc - Une Autre Histoire Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You Mark Ronson - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart Jackson 5 - I Want You Back Daft Punk - Get Lucky Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy Bananarama - Dimitri's Megamix