Marc Collin is a French musician,

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composer and record producer. He is best known as the founder, with

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, of the project

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, a

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that covers new wave songs in a

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style. Collin also released a side-project album in 2008 under his own name, titled ''Hollywood, mon amour'', consisting of covers, on the Nouvelle Vague formula, of songs from 1980s film soundtracks. Collin stated that he did not embark on the project out of nostalgia for the films, but because he was drawn to the challenge of transforming extremely well-known hits into intimate tracks. Collin has worked on several film soundtracks, notably that of 1998's '' Les Kidnappeurs'', directed by

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. The main theme of Collin's score was included in collections such as '' Café del Mar Volume 6''. He collaborated with the Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan as a co-writer and producer on her album ''

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'' (2012). Collin cited as influences, "The post-punk bands like

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, New Order, and also the labels like

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, Crammed, Les Disques du Crépuscule. All these people that have created an attitude that makes other people discover artwork other than music." He cited Radiohead's ''

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'' (2000) as a favourite album.

Original movie soundtracks

* 1998: ''Les Kidnappeurs'', dir.

* 2002: ''Les pétroleuses'', project for an imaginary film * 2003: ''

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'' for the 1929 silent film by

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* 2005: ''

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'', dir.

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* 2006: '' J'aurais voulu etre un danseur'' dir.

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* 2010: '' White Wall'' dir.

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* 2011: '' Kyss mig'', Swedish film directed by Alexandra Therese Keining

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Collin, Marc Living people Year of birth missing (living people) French composers French male composers