Zazou, Bikaye and CY1 has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 23 episodes and was first played on 28 September 2014.

An unsurpassed milestone in European/African fusion, Zazou Bikaye created a head-on collision between traditional Central African vocals and uncompromising analog electronics.

Resulting from a torrid encounter between Congolese singer Bony Bikaye, Algerian-born French composer Hector Zazou and mad scientists CY1, the first Zazou Bikaye album was acclaimed by the international music press (who immediately compared it to Byrne & Eno’s ‘Bush Of Ghosts’, or to an imaginary meeting between Fela Kuti and Kraftwerk.), has influenced scores of artists, and remains astonishingly fresh to this day.

"Noir & Blanc” was followed by a 12” single (“M’Pasi Ya M’Pamba” - 1984 - included in the CD version of the first album), and a mini-album (“Mr Manager” - 1986 - as yet unreleased on CD), through which Zazou Bikaye started shifting towards a kind of electronic afro-funk. These two records reached cult hit status in the US clubs, and the band played across Europe and the States.

Their last album, entitled “Guilty , comes out in 89.