On August 15th 1977, Elvis collapsed at his home and never regained consciousness. It was – literally, many say – the death of rock and roll. Two weeks later, many thousands of kilometres from Memphis, Bruno Schmitt– alias Zorg - was born. Simple coincidence you might say. And you'd be right. Nevertheless, music was never the same again, and many years later, Zorg was to play his part. The real revolution starts when Zorg hits 17. Warmest thanks got to his best friend Alex whose love of electronic music was soon to rub off on Zorg, big time. Listening to "The Milky Way", an early track on F Com, and trance 12"s from Eye Q, Zorg and Alex decided they they'd quite like to try their hand at that too. Pooling the little money they had, they bought a sampler and a Groovebox and started frenetic knob-twiddling that was more exploration than creation.
And so it continued for a couple of years. The rise of French Touch stars Etienne de Crecy and Daft Punk showed Zorg that – gasp – you could be French and make good music for everyone to hear, and yet he wasn't inspired. He still hadn't got to grips with the sampler, pal Alex had it for half the week… things were going nowhere fast, you might say.
Alex and Zorg decided that it would take more than a silly sampler to stop them making great music, so they locked themselves in a room with a large pile of sandwiches, the stubborn machine and its manual, vowing not to leave until they knew exactly how to get it to do what they wanted it to do. 12 hours later they emerged, sweaty sampling-masters of the universe. Time to make that music. The tracks showed immense promise but still needed work. Rather reserved in general, Zorg became great friends with Flush, bouncing ideas back and forth. Flush's technical wizardry was the perfect complement to Zorg's creative inspiration. Magical indeed. Seven weeks of work and seven tracks. Summer was over, and Zorg had to go to back to college. Flush moved to Paris. The demands of studying and the physical distance between the two made extended recorded sessions impossible. As both were happy with what the results, Zorg and Flush decided that the collaboration had reached a natural end. Zorg's Private Life was finally out in the open, ready for all to hear.