29 year old Cesar Merveille's recipe for great music involves specialist ingredients. The rapidly rising producer mixes the traditional dance influences of house and techno with his love of art, jazz, wine and the occasional fishing trip to Brittany. The result is a sound you won't hear anywhere else and has caused quite a stir at one of the worlds most in-inform, in-demand, well-respected and musically exceptional musical outfits - Luciano’s forward thinking Cadenza imprint. His superb productions include Chocopop Jazz (Remake Music) and Descarga (Cadenza) which has been a staple of Luciano's recent sets.

The road to fulfilling his creative ambitions took Cesar from his native Paris to London, where he did a degree in graphic and media design. After university Cesar founded his own graphic design company, Hijackstudio but was increasingly drawn to making records. After early releases on the illustrious Safari Electronique label he hit a new high with Chocopop Jazz - "that's when I knew I wanted to do this full time," he says. Cesar made the decision to put the very successful Hijackstudio on hold and devote himself 100% to music. The results of his decision are clear to see: a burst of creativity that fuelled Descarga and promises a string of exciting new releases including another solo project on Cadenza and a collaboration with Ryan Crosson (Wagon Repair, M_nus) due out on Circus Records.

Cesar knows how work a crowd like the best of the best, never failing to give spectacular performances every time he plays, as he has proved at his last couple of outings at the Cadenza Warehouse Project (alongside Luciano, Rhadoo, Pedro) and the Cadenza Records Showcase in London (with Reboot, Robert Dietz). His increasingly busy tour schedule takes in some of the hottest clubs in the UK and the continent, including Cable and T-Bar (London), Kamakama (Pisa) and the Warehouse Project (Manchester). We couldn't think of a more fitting guest to kick off Teknicolor in 2010 and we proudly welcome him to the Mint Club, Leeds.