Biography of Maxime Cescau | | | Moniker(s) / | Poussez, Toast Burglar, Tonrausch |
Heading the Artizan Music label with production partner Jafar, Maxime Cescau has been DJ’ing and producing since the early 1990's. Of French / German descent, Max grew up traveling the world with his family, eventually landing in Chicago in the early 90's during the House and Rave culture explosion. Maxime cut his Djing teeth on the Chicago Club and Underground scene, having been influenced by the city's vibrant House scene. Eventually the deeper west coast vibes pulled him to California where he settled and started playing the San Francisco circuit. To pay the bills, he honed his engineering skills in various Hip Hop and Post-Production Studios, before finally committing himself solely to his own creations and moving to London where he is currently based. His writer aliases include Tonrausch, Waxjackers, Ewok, Toastburglar and of course, Poussez.
An accomplished and dexterous sound engineer by trade, Maxime has over 50 releases and remixes under his belt, including 3 artist albums for the likes of LoudEast, Dust Traxx, Microtone, Stilnovo, Friends of the Family, Pesto, Shake & Pop, Huddtraxx, Pigeon Tracks and Artizan Music, not to mentioned the numerous engineering credits on US and European Labels. He has remixed Rithma, Rogiers, Pete Dafeet, Blacksoul and even Bilal, whilst his string of hugely successful bootlegs and disco re-edits are seen as staple DJ tools and are still doing the rounds. Poussez also goes from strength to strength counting Atjazz, Jordan Rivera, Roberto Rodriquez and Nacho Marco amongst the artists interpreting them.
Before joining Artizan, Maxime ran the now defunct, but well remembered 4bit Art & Music together with Chicago-based fine artist Pete Nawara. It was a concept project that fused art and music and helped push undiscovered talent through its record label and many lavish parties, both in London and Chicago.
These days, much of his time is spent on material for Poussez and DJ'ing. | 
