Since dropping his debut LP ‘Born A Loser’ in 2021, French singer, songwriter, producer and DJ Myd has ridden a three-year high and taken his tunes global. The summery, indie electronica encapsulated by tracks like viral hit ‘The Sun’ rightfully earned him festival bookings the world over, including a quick stop at Glastonbury 2025 where the attitude of his upcoming project ‘Mydnight’ might have surprised existing fans.

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“The live stuff was already more clubby than the last album was,” he says of the evolving tone. “It was remixes and stuff like that. When I go on stage, I need people to dance – even if it’s on a folk ballad, I like to bring that vibe.” The catalyst taking this to a new level? Casual conversation amongst dance legends.

“There was this party in Paris, it was Armand Van Helden DJing at the Rex Club, and Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk was also there,” he recalls. “Everyone put lots of pressure on me around the new album, so I went to Thomas and asked for one piece of advice. He told me: be simple. Go with the flow, follow your inspiration and always make the music come from there. You will have material to work with rather than overthinking any concept.”

Simple advice, but it allowed him to capitalise on the world he’d inhabited while on the road: “I was coming back from three years of tour, all around the world and from Ibiza to Tokyo, so this automatic writing quickly became club music. It was not trying to conceptualize too much. It was more like, you’re coming back from the club and into the studio, so the BPM was 132 and the big beats were the first thing that came.”

Although the direction was obvious, the manifestation of any immediate output was not. As Myd openly admits, “making music is always a bit painful. Like a writer who starts a book, you start with a blank page and have to ask: what do I have to say? You have to dig really deeply into yourself and try to provoke inspiration, which is impossible to explain. It’s easy to be a bit disappointed about how inconsistent the inspiration is but little by little, you start to get the process and learn how to create the spark. Growing as an artist is being less stressed about not being inspired, it’s not always going to happen.”

Despite an innately French essence, his first sparks of inspiration came as a child while listening to British artists such as Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy, whose appeal has only grown in the modern era. “They are not only doing one style, they are not only in one genre, so they never get tied into a fashion or a trend,” Myd observes. “When you listen to albums from The Chemical Brothers, there are pop songs, club songs, acid songs, trance songs. They manage to bring their own style to each and they are making music that immediately becomes classic, so it talks to generation after generation. They play in raves, but also they were number one on radio. So maybe that’s why it never gets old, or why I as a kid was so excited about those projects.”

As he grew older, kindred spirits in the French music scene began to drift into his orbit — not just the disco-infused house of Daft Punk, but also the thunderous electro-rock of Justice, who would soon become his label mates at Ed Banger, a community in which Myd truly started to thrive. “It brought the liberty of doing whatever I want,” he praises. “We are maybe only 10 artists so Busy P [Pedro Winter, label owner] is able to trust each one in terms of music and artistic direction. He pushes me in a way of simplifying and sticking to who I am as a human being.”

“When you’re young, you sometimes think: I need to be subversive, I need to be cynical, I need to hide behind a character to look cool. Especially with other DJs around, you want to be cooler than the other one. You can see one dressing room after another on these gigantic line-ups and you want to be cool enough to fit in there. Pedro was the first one to tell me, don’t try to complicate yourself. It’s as simple as that, but sometimes you need someone to tell you, hey, stop hiding yourself from who you really are.”

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‘Born A Loser’ was an embrace of an eccentric, joyous personality and indeed life, but the body of ‘Mydnight’ was starting to document his growth in the years since – until he lost the hard drive containing the master files. “I had backups, of course, but backups are not finished and I wanted to start to release pretty soon.” The answer? Use your fan base to turn up the pressure.

“The end of a song is hard because you never know when it’s finished, in the middle you feel free, and starting a song is just complicated. I needed to find new energy, and for me that came from having a new input. So, let’s put five cameras in the studio and spend that time not by myself, but live on Twitch with 100,000 people on the internet. That was really intense – technically, no one else has done that, and also streaming 24/7 is not that easy.”

Electricity bills and broadcasting his sleeping patterns were a small price to pay for a tinder to his ambitions and, more importantly, a method to authentically reconnect with his audience and reach a broader online community, documenting the unfiltered life of a producer. Myd pauses: “There are big fantasies about someone working in studio, but really it’s just like being on your computer and searching for hours. There is more and more content on social media of producers giving the magic formula to make a hit, you know, make easy techno in five steps. It’s not like that, there is no formula. For good music, you have to dig, try, experiment. For me, it’s like weight watchers. If you want to lose weight, it’s not good to lose weight in like two weeks without eating. You have to take your time and go to the gym and improve your diet. It’s in your mind-set.”

It’s a headspace that others are embracing; beyond his virtual collaborators, several big hitters lend their vocal chops to his new tracks, including Calcutta and Carlita who respectively boast Italian and Turkish breakouts in their own right, but here blend their voices into Myd’s world.

“My studio is like my palette,” he says of maintaining his distinct sound. “I made it to sound the way I like it, so even when I produce other music, it still sounds like Myd. It’s important for me to have this palette because I bring people in that don’t do the same music as me. Channel Tres is definitely different. I already know how to do my music, so I need someone that will add their own vision or own prism to my songs.”

The four feature tracks bring extra colour, although the one central hue here is the mustard yellow to Charli XCX’s neon green, a tint that permeates the album campaign and it’s bright visual aesthetic led by Alice Moitié, to whom Myd is more than happy to hand the reigns: “for me, making music is the most important thing in life, that’s really what makes me happy. So if I can avoid thinking about something else, for example, my shirt colour… it’s chosen, it’s easy, it fits me well. It simplifies my life and so I can make more music.”

Speaking of, there are many standouts here: from the jittery distortion of ‘Our Home’ to the throbbing pulse of ‘The Wizard’, we detour through the multi-vocal topline of ‘All that Glitters is not Gold’, 80s throwback ‘Sweatin’’ and non-Kelly Clarkson tribute ‘Since You’ve Been Gone’. It’s the cheeky but heartfelt ‘Song For You’ which Myd reckons best encapsulates the album, though.

“I never thought I could make a disco sampled song without being cheesy as fuck,” he laughs. “I’m really happy that I managed to use that heritage and to make a song that is very me but also sounds like an instant classic. It’s like watching someone enter a room and thinking oh, this person is charismatic but I don’t know why. It’s not about wearing expensive clothes or whatever, there is just a vibe – it’s a club song, but romantic at the same time. I love that.”

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Myd’s new album ‘Mydnight’ is out now. Pre-order it now.

Words: Finlay Holden
Photography: Alice Moitié

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