While working with a hip-hop band in 2005, Sebastian was given the phone number for
Ed Banger Records by one of the band's members, who had found it in a newspaper. After a
cold call to label owner
Pedro Winter, Sebastian was signed, and they released the
EPs
H.A.L. and
Smoking Kills (?) later that year. A video for Sebastian's new song "Embody" was also released, along with the song's release as a
single. The album
Total itself was subsequently released on 30 May 2011 in Europe and 7 June 2011 in North America. It was followed by releases of singles "C.T.F.O." and "Love In Motion" from the album. 2011 was also the year of Sebastian's "Primary Tour", a tour visually themed as a political campaign and spanning Europe,
Australasia, and North America from August to December. Three remixes done by him were also released that year, including his remix for the
Beastie Boys. 2012 saw Sebastian's remixes for bands
Nero, The Shoes,
Van She, and
Woodkid. That year also saw the release of
The EP Collection, a box set of vinyl
Total singles along with tracks "Organia" and previously unreleased "Holloback". A Sebastian remix of
Justice's "New Lands" was released on 25 June 2012.
2013–2019: Production for other artists In 2013, Kavinsky released his first album,
OutRun, of which Sebastian produced 9 tracks and mixed the entire album. In February 2014, the album has been awarded to
Victoires de la Musique in the category "Electronic/Groove/Dance Album of the Year". The same year, he composed, produced and arranged the track "Stabat Mater", performed by
Woodkid, which features on his album,
The Golden Age. In 2014, Sebastian composed and produced the title track "
American Beauty/American Psycho" for the band
Fall Out Boy on their
album of the same name. The same year, he composed, produced and mixed
Philippe Katerine's album
Magnum. It was Katerine who offered to work with him, because he appreciates, as he quoted, the "sexual tension" of his compositions. Sebastian proposed instrumental parts, on which Katerine placed his voice and wrote the texts afterwards. The album released on 7 April 2014 by
Barclay. In 2015, Ed Banger owner
Pedro Winter announced that Sebastian had finished producing a few songs for
Frank Ocean, allowing him to work on his next album. Sebastian appears on the track "Facebook Story" and has also participated as an instrumentalist on "White Ferrari" and "Godspeed" on Frank Ocean's album,
Blonde, released in 2016. Sebastian and
Charlotte Gainsbourg worked together for the album
Rest in 2017. Before working with her, he remixed her cover of "
Hey Joe", released in 2014. When they first met, he told Gainsbourg that he would like to work with her but that he wanted the project to be done in French, but she refused to do so. A year later, Gainsbourg, after the death of her sister
Kate Barry, contacted him again and told him that she would like to express certain things and that she could only say them in French. Thus, they started working on
Rest in New York. This album, which he produced and composed, was released on 17 November 2017. Gainsbourg received a
Victoire de la Musique in the "Female Artist of the Year" category in 2018 for
Rest. The next year, he composed and produced 3 new tracks, which featured on her EP
Take 2. In 2019, Gainsbourg appears on Sebastian's second album,
Thirst, on the track "Pleasant". Sebastian created the soundtrack for the
Yves Saint Laurent Winter 18 Collection campaign, which was held on 27 February 2018 in Paris, France. The same year, he co-composed the soundtrack for the film
The World Is Yours (original title:
Le Monde est à toi), directed by
Romain Gavras, starring
Karim Leklou,
Isabelle Adjani and
Vincent Cassel.
2019–present: Thirst In May 2019, SebastiAn released two new tracks, "Thirst" (with his music video directed by
Gaspar Noé) and "Run for Me", featuring the American singer
Gallant, to promote his new album
Thirst. On 9 July 2019, SebastiAn released a third single titled "Beograd". The fourth single "Better Now", featuring
Mayer Hawthorne, released on 5 September 2019. The fifth and final single, "Sober", featuring
Bakar, released on 8 October 2019. The album released on 8 November 2019 by Ed Banger Records, with, among others,
Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Sparks,
Sevdaliza and
Syd as guests. On 10 September 2020, he released "Hysterias", which is the soundtrack of the Yves Saint-Laurent Men Spring Summer 2021 Collection. SebastiAn contributed a track titled "Don't Tread on Else Matters" to the charity tribute album
The Metallica Blacklist, released in September 2021; the track combines remixes of the Metallica songs "
Don't Tread on Me" and "
Nothing Else Matters". SebastiAn co-produced "Once", a track by
Kid Cudi released on 28 September 2025. Described by Kid Cudi as a letter to his fans, the song marks his announcement to step away from music to focus on his "other dreams". == Discography ==