Evil Needle is a French producer with no sense of boundary. His work constantly wonders among the many realms of contemporary music with hints of downtempo, Hip-hop, electro, organic, you name it. \r \r Evil Needle was born in the city of Berlin, Germany. Having parents from France and Germany, he started learning both languages early and even attended a multilingual school as a child. He then moved to France in '98, where he still resides.\r \r Heavily influenced by 90’s hip-hop, he was particularly attracted to the music of the Wu-Tang Clan, which constituted the soundtrack of his childhood. After discovering such underground artists on an Internet radio that was pretty popular at the time, he started listening to them on a daily basis. He was also inspired by artists like Mr Lif, Pharcyde, Bicasso, Hieroglyphics and many others, who created laid-back tracks that were pleasant to his ears. From then on, Evil Needle hardly ever listened to mainstream music and was influenced by a great number of meaningful and honest underground artists.\r \r The transition from music lover and hip-hop appreciator to beatmaker was quite a natural one. When he was still a child, he was first introduced to beat making by a friend who owned a music software called "Hip Hop eJay". This wasn’t much, but at the time it was fascinating and playing around with the loops was pretty fun and entertaining. After a while though, the young man grew bored with simply making beats and invested in two turntables and a mixer, which allowed him to start practising his DJ skills. He started learning his trade in 2000 but wasn't very talented (as he himself admits) and YouTube was not as widespread as it is today, which made it more difficult to find online video tutorials.