With the recent explosion of bands like Justice, Digitalism and labels like Kitsune and Ed Banger, dance floors can’t seem to get enough of the French electro nouvelle vague - and no one’s complaining! Get ready for the newest sensation ready to rock America’s dance floors: Teenage Bad Girl. The duo’s two brains, Guillaume Manbell and Greg Kazubski, grew up in Paris with Daft Punk in their ears as the French touch started its worldwide invasion. “Daft Punk was definitely a big shift in my way of seeing music, and that’s when I started doing electronic music, wanting to make people dance,” Guillaume recalls. Since then the two never stopped producing music in their respective bedrooms, until as luck would have it they happened to meet online. At that point, they decided to team up and Teenage Bad Girl was born.

Even today, the band still works on their tracks seperately, both adding their sound progressively, “the good thing about working on our own side is that we are more objective about what the other one does since we’re not here at the moment of creation and that let’s us produce quickly and well.” It didn’t take long for them to get noticed, and well established French act Vitalic contacted them and signed them to their independent label Citizen Records. Since the release of their first album, Cocotte, in March of last year, Teenage Bad Girl has been hitting the best clubs and festivals from Europe to Japan. They were also nominated for the Qwartz International Electronic Music Awards which will take place in Paris this coming April. “This year has been amazing, we have been touring so much! We are proud to be a part of this new French positive energy, but what remains most important to us is making people dance as much as possible either at our live gigs or DJ sets.” Until their imminent North American promotional tour, which should start in New York, you can order the newest pressing of Cocotte that features 8 exclusive remixes by the likes of European sensation Boyz Noise and the Scissor Sisters.