Mathieu Guillien

Biography

Mathieu Guillien discovered electronic dance music at the age of 10. Already following a classical music training to become a pianist, he eventually undertook academic studies about techno music, at a time when such a topic was unwelcome in the French academia. This led to the completion of his doctoral thesis in 2011, published three years later under the title La Techno minimale. He has been teaching the history of African-American music since 2004 in various universities.