Gaspard Royant: Citroen C4 Rip Curl advert

A surprise appearance by Gaspard Royant as the music behind the new advert campaign for Citroen cars.

The track Marty McFly is soundtracking the new ads for the C4 Cactus Rip Cury, an appropriately sharp tune for one of Citroen's more stylish offerings. I have my doubts about the advert, not really my thing, but there's no disputing quality of the tune.

The track comes from Gaspard's Ten Track Wonder debut album, originally released in 2014. We've been fans of Gaspard since then, so it's nice to see him get this kind of exposure in the UK.

Gaspard's most reccent album Have You Met Gaspard Royant was released in April this year, a fine follow up which was produced by Scottish music legend Edwyn Collins.

Great to see a French artist getting played on prime time television, and hopefully more people in the UK and beyond will get to know the king of the Haute Savoie Doo-Wop Garage and Roll scene.

He's just released the track Sevcen Inch Club as a single and Gaspard's got live dates scheduled across France, and plays Paris on October 12 during the MAMA Festival.

Jérôme Echenoz: Le Chrome et le Coton

A track that's been getting some attention recently, Le Chrome et le Coton by Jérôme Echenoz.

There are both English language and French versions of the track, which is being used on an advert for the Citroen DS3 car.

Echenoz regularly works under the name Tacteel. He was formerly a mamber of hip hop collective ATK, producing their 1998 album Heptagone.

His solo career began in 2000 wit the Butter for the Fat instrumental EP and since then he has worked as part of collectives  L'Atelier - whose  Buffet des anciens élèves album came out in 2003 - and as part of TTC including their 2002 album  Ceci n'est pas un disque and 2004's Bâtards sensibles.

He also worked on Alizée's fouth album, 2010's Une enfant du siècle and on Yelle's Completement Fou.

Since 2012 he's been signed to Disques Enterprise under his real name as a solo artist, and it was this label that released Le Chrome et le Coton in 2012.