Benoît Franquet, better known as Pole Folder, is a Belgian

electronic musician Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

and live club performer, based in

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. A former protégée of British DJ

John Digweed Thomas John Digweed (born April 1967) is a British DJ and record producer. As well as achieving success as a solo act, he has collaborated with Sasha as Sasha & John Digweed, and with Nick Muir as Bedrock. Digweed was voted as No. 1 DJ in DJ ...

, Pole Folder entered the limelight in 2001 as a DJ and producer at the forefront of the European

progressive house Progressive house is a subgenre of house music that emerged in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. It is characterized by its evolving, melodic Musical form, structures, subtle Transition (music), transitions, and layered sound design.Gerard, ...

movement, and has since evolved into a multi-instrumentalist and live performer of melodic-driven techno,

tech house Tech house is a subgenre of house music that combines stylistic features of techno with house. The term ''tech house'' developed as a shorthand record store name for a category of electronic dance music that combined musical aspects of techno, ...

and

deep house Deep house is a subgenre of house music that originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with the lush chords of 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. Its origins are attributed to the early recordings of Larry Heard ...

. Pole Folder rose to prominence when his track "Apollo Vibes" was featured on John Digweed's

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retrospective in the Global Underground series on Boxed Records. This was followed over the course of the following year by the AA single ''Enter the Rhythm/Waxxx'' and a third single, "Dust" (which was again championed by Digweed). From there, EPs and single projects followed on such labels as Sunkissed Records and Mo-Do Records, whilst Pole Folder spent much of the next two years focusing on an artist album he had been commissioned to do by John Digweed, making him the first artist to produce an artist album for

Bedrock Records Bedrock Records is an English record label for trance, progressive house and techno started by John Digweed. Its name comes from a long running and successful club night held in Hastings and also at Heaven nightclub, London – both also call ...

. The album, ''Zero Gold'', featured collaborations with

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singer and songwriter

Shelley Harland Shelley Ann Harland-Wright (born as Shelley Ann Harland, Caterham, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter and producer. She started her music career in New York and performed mononymously as Harland. She then moved to Australia and released ma ...

, fellow Belgian Sandra Ferretti and

Kirsty Hawkshaw Kirsty Hawkshaw (born 29 March 1969) is an English electronic music vocalist and songwriter. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she is known as the lead vocalist of early 1990s dance group Opus III (band), Opus III, and her collaborative ...

. Several ''Zero Gold'' tracks such as "Faith on Me" and "Salvation on Slavery Sins" were featured on hit US TV shows, including ''

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'' and '' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''. Pole Folder and CP's "Apollo Vibes" cut was featured in the movie '' Stark Raving Mad''. In 2006, Pole Folder produced a series of projects and EPs for Mashtronic Records and Proton Music. Pole Folder has also performed as a DJ and live artist internationally. He also ran a digital record label called Reworck since 2010. The label is supported by the likes of John Digweed,

Hernán Cattáneo Hernán Cattáneo (; born 4 March 1965) is an Argentine house DJ. He produces electronic music, mostly progressive house. Musical career Cattáneo began his professional career playing in the early 1990s for FM Z95, a local radio station ...

, and Laurent Garnier.

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