Les Tambours du Bronx

Les Tambours du Bronx, (lit. 'The Drums from The Bronx') are a French industrial percussion band formed in 1987. Les Tambours du Bronx stage show features 18 musicians surrounded by synthetic sounds, samples, and vocals, with heavy use of rhythm. The group play a percussion-focused combination of industrial music, afrobeat, drum and bass, hip hop, rock, metal, hardcore and techno. Les Tambours du Bronx formed in 1987 in Varennes-Vauzelles, a suburb of Nevers, Nièvre, France. Their name is taken from a Varennes-Vauzelles district named "The Bronx" because of its square-patterned streets and rows of identical dark houses. At the time, the district was inhabited by workers from SNCF, where the first drums used by the band were from. The band's first performance was intended as a one-off event as part of the Nevers a Vif festival in 1987. In 1992, under the direction of Philippe Poustis, the band recorded an album, Grand Mix, with a philharmonic orchestra and Bulgarian voice choir. In 2008, they worked with Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke on three tracks, yet unreleased. The band has performed in the United States, Brazil, the Middle East, Morocco, Tunisia, Greece, Reunion Island, Djibouti, Slovenia and across western Europe, and at events including the bicentenary of the French Revolution on the Champs-Élysées in 1989, Johnny Hallyday's 40-year anniversary concert under the Eiffel Tower, a six-week tour of the United States in 2000, the Sziget Festival in Budapest in 2005, and t…