# Breakbot

Thibaut Jean-Marie Michel Berland (French pronunciation:; born October 5, 1981), known professionally as Breakbot, is a French musician, record producer and a DJ who has been signed with Ed Banger Records since May 2009.

## Career

Breakbot studied at Supinfocom, a computer graphics university. He co-directed the short film Overtime with Oury Atlan and Damien Ferrié. The short won the Ottawa International Animation Festival award for "Best Graduate Film" in 2005 and the Internationales Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart "Young Animation Award" in 2006. Thibaut Berland also prepared advertisements and videos.
In 2007, he participated in the graphic design of the spaceship present on the first album of the group Justice, Cross. Through his involvement with the design, he was introduced to Pedro Winter, founder of the label Ed Banger Records, who signed him.
Breakbot is most recognized for his remixes. His reworkings of songs by artists including Röyksopp, Digitalism, and Chromeo are among his most popular. The music video of "Baby I'm Yours" featuring Irfane was directed by Irina Dakeva and became a summer hit MTV Pulse, France. The music video was nominated for "Best budget pop/dance/urban video" and "Best animation in a video" during the UK Music Video Awards on October 12, 2010.
In February 2016, he released his second album, Still Waters, composed and produced with his frequent collaborator, Christopher Irfane Khan-Acito ("Irfane"). His track Star Tripper was included in Star Wars Headspace, a Star-Wars themed music album released by Disney.

## In popular culture

His 2008 remix of Pnau's song "Baby" appears in the racing video game Gran Turismo 5. Another one of his songs, "Penelope Pitstop", also features in the game. The song "Get Lost" appears in the 2016 racing video game Forza Horizon 3.
Breakbot's position in popular culture is influenced by the similarities between "Baby I'm Yours" and 2012 chart hit "Treasure" by Bruno Mars. "Treasure" was re-registered in ASCAP with new writing credits, which included him and Irfane Khan-Acito, due to the similarities with the former song. In May 2013, during an interview in Tiny Mix Tapes, Breakbot explained that the head of Because Music had mentioned a year before that Mars wanted to cover "Baby I'm Yours". However, as Breakbot was busy finishing his album, "it did not happen". Breakbot called "Treasure" a "rip-off" of his and Irfane's song, in spite of the fact that he was "cool with it"; he explained that he also had many influences in his music "with lots of bits taken from here and there".
In late 2018, his single "Baby I'm Yours" became an Internet meme commonly paired with a voice clip of Paul Bremer announcing Saddam Hussein's capture, with his famous words: "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him."

## Discography
### Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | FRA | BEL (WA) |
| By Your Side | Released: September 14, 2012 Label: Ed Banger, Because Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming | 19 | 160 |
| Still Waters | Released: February 5, 2016 Label: Ed Banger, Because Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming | 41 | — |

### EPs

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | FRA |
| Happy Rabbit EP | Released: 2007 | — |
| Baby I'm Yours | Released: February 25, 2010 Label: Ed Banger, Because | — |
| Baby I'm Yours Remix EP | Released: July 2, 2010 Label: Ed Banger, Because | — |
| Fantasy | Released: June 17, 2011 Label: Ed Banger, Because | — |
| One Out of Two | Released: June 15, 2012 Label: Ed Banger, Because | 185 |
| You Should Know (Remixes) (feat. Ruckazoid) | Released: June 28, 2013 Label: Ed Banger, Because | — |
| Remedy | Released: March 18, 2022 Label: Ed Banger, Because | — |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |||

### Singles

| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Title | Year | FRA | Album |
| "Fantasy" (featuring Ruckazoid) | 2011 | 38 | By Your Side |
| "Baby I'm Yours" (featuring Irfane) | 2011 | 28 | By Your Side |
| "One Out of Two" (featuring Irfane) | 2012 | 45 | By Your Side |
| "Break of Dawn" | 2012 | 117 | By Your Side |
| "You Should Know" (featuring Ruckazoid) | 2013 | — | By Your Side |
| "Get Lost" | 2015 | 66 | Still Waters |
| "My Toy" | 2016 | 108 | Still Waters |
| "Another You" (featuring Ruckazoid) | 2018 | — | Another You |
| "Be Mine Tonight" (featuring Delafleur) | 2020 | — | Non-album single |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart. ||||

### Songwriting and production credits

| Title | Year | Artist(s) | Album | Occupation(s) |
| "Cœur" | 2021 | Clara Luciani | Cœur | Co-producer |
| "Le reste" | 2021 | Clara Luciani | Cœur | Co-producer |
| "Le chanteur" | 2021 | Clara Luciani | Cœur | Co-producer |
| "Tout le monde (sauf toi)" | 2021 | Clara Luciani | Cœur | Co-producer |
| "Respire encore" | 2021 | Clara Luciani | Cœur | Co-producer |
| "Amour toujours" | 2021 | Clara Luciani | Cœur | Co-producer |
| "La place" | 2021 | Clara Luciani | Cœur | Co-producer |
| "Bandit" | 2021 | Clara Luciani | Cœur | Co-producer |

### Remixes

| Track | Year | Artist(s) | Title |
| "Let There Be Light" | 2006 | Justice | Breakbot Remix |
| "Aerius Light" | 2007 | DatA | Breakbot Remix |
| "D.O.E.S" | 2007 | ARROW!!! | Breakbot's French Pute Mix |
| "Runway to Elsewhere" | 2008 | Pacific! | Breakbot Remix |
| "Hold Me" | 2008 | Pacific! | Breakbot Remix |
| "A Thing for Me" | 2008 | Metronomy | Breakbot Remix |
| "Bathroom Gurgle" | 2008 | Late of the Pier | Breakbot Remix |
| "What's Up Fatlip?" | 2008 | Fatlip | Breakbot RMX |
| "Sweet Sensation" | 2008 | ALB | Breakbot Remix |
| "Apollo-Gize" | 2008 | Digitalism | Breakbot 'Hypnotoad' Extended Remix |
| "Lion" | 2008 | Zzz | Breakbot Remix |
| "They Live!" | 2008 | Evil Nine | Breakbot Remix |
| "Kelly" | 2008 | Van She | Breakbot Remix |
| "When We Were Young" | 2008 | Sneaky Sound System | Breakbot Remix |
| "Baby" | 2008 | Pnau | Breakbot Remix |
| "Extraball" | 2009 | Yuksek | Breakbot Remix |
| "Happy Up Here" | 2009 | Röyksopp | Breakbot Remix |
| "Roche" | 2009 | Sébastien Tellier | Breakbot Remix |
| "The Edge of a Sunday" | 2009 | Séverin | Breakbot Remix |
| "That's the Reason" | 2009 | The Rakes | Breakbot Remix |
| "In My Spaceship" | 2010 | Jan Turkenburg | Breakbot Remix |
| "So Light Is Her Footfall" | 2010 | Air | Breakbot Remix |
| "Nightcall" | 2010 | Kavinsky | Breakbot Remix |
| "I Think I Like U 2" | 2010 | Jamaica | Breakbot Remix |
| "Without Lies" | 2010 | Aeroplane | Breakbot Remix |
| "You Put a Smell On Me" | 2010 | Matthew Dear | Breakbot Remix |
| "Siberian Breaks" | 2011 | MGMT | Ed Banger All-Stars Remix |
| "When the Night Falls" | 2011 | Chromeo | Breakbot Remix |
| "Heaven Can Wait" | 2011 | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Breakbot Remix |
| "When the Night" (featuring Jaw) | 2012 | Para One | Breakbot Remix |
| "Defiant Order" | 2013 | Birdy Nam Nam | Breakbot Remix |
| "Trying to Be Cool" | 2013 | Phoenix | Breakbot Remix |
| "Paint a Smile On Me" | 2013 | Black Yaya | Breakbot Remix |
| "Kiss to Kiss" | 2013 | The Swiss | Breakbot Remix |
| "This Song" (featuring Andrew Woodhead) | 2014 | Busy P | Breakbot Remix |
| "Love Invaders" | 2016 | Fatima Yamaha | Breakbot Remix |
| "S.H.A.K.E" | 2018 | Mind Enterprises | Breakbot Remix |
| "Sylvia Says" | 2018 | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Breakbot Remix |
| "Lightenup" | 2018 | Parcels | Breakbot Remix |
| "Juice" | 2019 | Lizzo | Breakbot Mix |
| "All I Know" (featuring Octave Lissner) | 2019 | GoldStone | Breakbot Remix |
| "Superchérie" | 2019 | -M- | Breakbot Remix |
| "Fireworks" (featuring Moss Kena and The Knocks) | 2021 | Purple Disco Machine | Breakbot & Irfane Remix |
| "Still Got It" | 2021 | Alex Frankel | 2 remixes: Breakbot's La Fiesta Remix and Breakbot's Club des Vedettes Remix |

### Features and collaborations

| Year | Artist | Song |
| 2009 | DatA | So Much In Love |
| 2020 | Yuksek | The Only Reason |

### Mixes

* Breakbot Summer mix @ Le Mouv' radio 2014
* Breakbot Beatport Live
* Breakbot MixTape: October 2012
* Disco Mini Mix: Dance on Glass
* BBC In New DJ we Trust Heroes Mix
* Valentine Mixtape
* Breakbot Le Mouv' radio 2012
* Annie Mac Minimix
* TILT! Megamix
* The Lazy Sunday Selecta Mixtape
* Ed Banger, part 3 avec Breakbot | Novaplanet Mix
* Bedtime Stories
* Another Mixtape 2018
* Lockdown Boogie
* "By Your Side" Anniversary Mixtape

## Filmography

* 2005: Overtime (short) -- directed by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland and Damien Ferrie