Dax Riders is a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

 synth-funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 band

Band (music)

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 founded in 1994

1994 in music

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 by Oliver Dax (also known as "Daxman") and Cédric Azencoth ("Bad Ced"). In 1998

1998 in music

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, their duo became a trio, when Nicolas Berger Vachon ("Erman") joined them after a successful joint concert tour as the lead singer and keyboard. Dax Riders are considered a part of the French house

French house

French house is a catch-all term for house music by many French artists, a popular strand of the late 1990s and 2000s European dance music scene and a form of Euro disco. The genre has also been referred to as "neu-disco" , "French touch", "filter house" and "tekfunk" over the years...

 movement.

Discography

• Faster than a Dax (EP, 1994)
• Insert coins (EP, 1995)
• Dax (1998)
• Back in Town (2001)
• Hot (2005)
• Dax 4 Ever (2011)

Trivia

• One of Dax Riders' works, People, has been used to replace the original opening song of The Vision of Escaflowne
  The Vision of Escaflowne
  is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise Studios and directed by Kazuki Akane. It premiered in Japan on April 2, 1996 on TV Tokyo, with the final episode airing on September 24, 1996. Sony's anime satellite channel, Animax also aired the series, both in Japan and on its...
  
  (Yakusoku wa Iranai
  Yakusoku wa Iranai
  is the first single by singer Maaya Sakamoto and was released on April 24, 1996. This was her debut single under composer Yoko Kanno. The songs were used in her debut anime, The Vision of Escaflowne.-Track listing:####-Charts:...
  
  ) for the official German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
   translation of the series.
• Another song by the band, Real Fonky Time, has been included into EA Sports
  EA Sports
  EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John...
  
  ' FIFA 2003 soundtrack.