Dance Up-And-Comer of the Month: Tatyana Jane Has Played the Olympics & Gotten Lessons From Skrillex, Now She’s Forging a New Genre
Categoria: Musica
The French-Cameroonian producer recently released her latest EP, Discordia, on Ed Banger Records.
Por Billboard | 31/07/2026
Most producers learn about music-making from online tutorials and bedroom trial and error. Tatyana Jane got private lessons from Skrillex . “I was at his house every morning at 7:00, and I’d stay until 10:00 p.m.,” she says. “When you have the chance to be alongside a very talented person like Sonny, you don’t want to miss one second.” Jane, in Los Angeles from Paris where she resides, had loads of prior production experience, but during these sessions learned the foundations of how to make bangers. “He told me, ‘I know you are very good producer, but sometimes we have to start at the at the beginning, so we’re going to learn how to build a track step by step, because every step is very important.’” There were lessons in programming, in designing sound with Serum, in arrangement and other various pro tips about building percussion and bass. These sessions happened in late 2024, and when Jane returned to Paris “I felt so much creativity,” she says. “He unlocked something in my music.” She arrived home and made 50 new tracks. Some of these can be heard on Jane’s latest EP Discordia , released last month by Paris’ cult of cool label Ed Banger Records. The project arrives after slots opening for Justice in Paris in 2024, an appearance during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, a buzzy b2b with Skrillex at Berghain in Berlin and a major run of shows this summer that have included Paris’ We Love Green and this month’s influential Kappa Futurfestival in Turin, Italy. A French Touch acolyte since she was a child growing up in her native Cameroon, releasing music on Ed Banger had been a dream that became more real when Jane crossed paths with label founder Pedro Winter while she was out DJing in Paris. She told Winter that she also produced music and asked for his contact info, thinking she’d send him some of her stuff. He gave her his number and email, but “I didn’t contact him for like, two years,” Jane recalls, “because I was like, ‘Pedro is a very big guy in Paris, in France, in the world, and I have to improve my music and my skills before I send him anything.” While also balancing her life the mom of a now-three-year-old boy (who appears on camera several times to say hello while Jane chats with Billboard over Zoom) she started working on productions every day, creating discipline around her process in the hopes of making something that slapped hard enough to send. In a way, Jane had been working towards this opportunity since she started making music at age 17, having by this time moved from Cameroon to Montpellier, in the South of France. As a kid, her first exposure to music was via the sounds of West Africa, and she built her ears on the region’s rich percussions and polyrhythm. When she started producing as a teenager, she mostly made trap and rap beats, which she’d sing and rap over with friends. Over time, her sound drifted towards electronic music, which she’d been a major fan of since childhood, growing up on