Shunning the 'French Touch 2.0' label, Mondkopf has been producing varied electronica, linked to the Fluokids posse in Paris and the Fool House label. Having remixed Wolf Gang, Golden Filter and The Teenagers and playing alongside the likes of Four Tet, he has transgressed the typical French electro sound that his peers back in '06 are still making, instead embracing a new experimental take on classic electronica. 

Dazed Digital: You've been producing for a while now, what about your sound has changed? How do you feel you have progressed?
Mondkopf: I don't know if I have progressed, it's up to the people who listen to tell me, but my sound is changing for sure. For Galaxy of Nowhere it became clearer I think. Now it is becoming more dark and urgent. My melodies are strengthening, evolving toward something darker as well. I let go out of my mind a new range of notes. Since Galaxy of Nowhere has been finished, for each song I've worked on I've been telling myself it might be the last one. This thing of wanting to give everything is key to the new album I'm working on. But I'm still using the same software since I discovered music production with a computer.
 
DD: What was your album inspired by?
Mondkopf: For Galaxy of Nowhere, let's say I have had a wide range of influences. Each song had its own existence and wasn't destined to be in an album in the first place, so I had to create a universe that would correspond to them and combine them well. There is a naive touch so the childhood theme came pretty easily, as well as the teenage years and the bubble you create for yourself in this age of doubts. I wanted the listener to be able to shape himself in his own bubble.
 
DD: You've often been placed amongst 'French Touch' artists but your sound seems far from it. Why do you think this is? And what does 'French Touch' mean to you?
Mondkopf: To me, the French Touch was this movement of frenchies in the 90s, early '00s, with maybe Daft Punk, Motorbass, Jackson, Demon, I:Cube etc. All this artists had a similar sound, funk samples cut-up and put over good greasy basslines with a little twist of fantasy and urge, something that was specific to France, and for the first time the foreign countries were paying attention to France for the dance music. I find it pretty ridiculous that I've been categorised under a brand such as 'French Touch 2.0' because my sound has nothing to do with all this, I did listen to some French touch music but I'm not trying to go in this direction. To me the last French Touch album was Jackson's Smash, where he was making it explode by putting it into the IDM machine.
 
DD: Where do you hope to take electronica?
Mondkopf: I don't want my music to be categorised, so I'd rather leave electronica where it is, and even if it's a genre I  like a lot, I'm trying to go beyond it. I believe it's a lost cause though, because we all need categorisation, and I'm no exception. But just by trying to avoid it, I'm allowing my music to progress.

Tracklist
Modeselektor - Das Claudia Woelky Massaker
Clipse - So Fly (Now We've Had Her)
AOKI Takamasa - Rn4-09
Scroobius Pip - Astronaut feat. Yila (Clark Remix)
Jackson and his Computer Band - Utopia
Egyptian Lover -  What is a DJ if He Can't Scratch
Venturi - Lovesong (Hello Kurt Remix)
AFX - I'm Self Employed
Clark - Dead Shark Eyes
Julianna Barwick - Cloudbank