The Eternals

House / Electro trio from France, comprised of and [a=Monsieur Club].

The Eternals was a trio composed three French DJs/producers from Toulouse, brothers Ali & Farid Allalou (aka [a=Dirty Ali] & [a=Funky Farid]) and [a=Henning Specht] (aka [a=Monsieur Club]). Back in the days Ali & Farid hosted a show on a Toulouse radio station, FMR, whose studios were located beneath a nightclub, Le Bikini. It was there that the two brothers met [a=DJ Gilb'R] (Gilbert Cohen), head of the [l=Versatile Records] label, who wanted to create a dance-floor subdivision called [l=Discotheque]. Gilb'R then signed their first EP in mid-1999 under the name [a=Vinyl Fever]. Ali & Farid discovered the 12" of [a=Funk Legacy] (formed by [a=Romain Tranchart] of [a=Modjo] & [a=Davis Mouyal]) and decided to send some beats to the [l=Vertigo (2)] label. "Times & Places" was then released in 2000 and included the funky-house track "04H50 AM On The Floor". Ali & Farid then founded the project The Eternals with Specht (who was part of the electronic music group [a=Hypnolove] (along with [a=Thierry Moreira] and [a=Nicolas Sentenac]), which released tracks on the [l=Confusion (3)] label, as well as on [l=Record Makers], the former label of French group [a=AIR]) whom they met at a disco while hosting and DJing as Vinyl Fever during a house music themed party. Specht had composed a little house demo track with lots of funk and disco samples which the brothers opted to produce. Farid composed a hip hop house beat, Ali (who is a Marvel comics expert) wrote the lyrics, did lots of editing and finnaly, Specht recorded himself Zeus' deep voice. That track became the hit track "Wrath Of Zeus" released on [l=Crydamoure] (the label of [a=Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo], half of [a=Daft Punk], who later refused to release their full lenght album on the label). Later, Ali & Farid met [a=Alan Braxe] (who was living in Toulouse at the time) when he sold them a sampler. Alan introduced them to [a=Benjamin Diamond] (producer & singer of [a=Stardust]), who signed their projects Vinyl Fever & The Eternals to his own label [l=Diamond Traxx]. In 2002, Ali & Farid launched the project [a=The Altered Beast] with their friend & collaborator [a=Madji'K] signed on the [l=VOX] label (a subdivision of [l=Vertigo (2)] ) and released "Coney Island" on [l=20000st]. In 2003, The Eternals released their first and only album [m=63935] on Diamond Traxx / [a=Capitol Records], conceived as a soundtrack to a science fiction film they had imagined. This album navigates between electronic music and nods to [a=John Carpenter], with a few mysterious interludes. In 2004, they released the album on DVD, featuring short films shot specifically for the occasion.
In 2011, the brothers Allalou revived the project "The Eternals" as a duo (Henning Specht, now based in Berlin, was not part of the reunion) and released tracks on their new label [l=Night Force Records] & a new track called "Tribute To Snake Plissken" on [l=Champ'Caine Records].