Producer spotlight: Notre Dame
Notre Dame is a Paris-born electronic music DJ and producer known for his emotional, cinematic melodic house sound. Ahead of his Gray Area show on October 17th, we take a closer look at what makes this artist stand out, and what you can expect from his performance.
Who is Notre Dame?
He is a born and raised Parisian DJ and producer, known for melodic and deep house. He named himself after the school he went to, which is also where his music taste developed. He spent his teen hood deep in Paris’s subterranean underground, immersed in the sounds of Daft Punk, Justice, the Ed Banger imprint, Breakbot and many other artists from the French Touch movement.
Notre Dame started DJing and producing while he was at secondary school. He was the only DJ at his school, and began playing at school events while simultaneously making his first productions. Gradually, he developed a sound that moved way beyond those early French Touch influences.
Today, he combines its melodic sensibility with deep, atmospheric production, creating tracks that work just as well on a dancefloor as they do through the headphones.
Early career
Notre Dame began releasing music in the mid-2010s, gradually establishing himself within the European electronic scene. His early productions demonstrated an instinct for melody and texture, while his DJ sets showed a similarly broad approach to dance music. Despite working at his music for close to a decade, his first official release was “Yumi”, which came out on Solomun's Diynamic in 2022.
Before that, he was working a corporate job and making music on the side. “Yumi” changed everything for Notre Dame. Solomun heavily supported the track throughout the summer of 2022, often using it to close his sets. That’s how it for picked up by Pete Tong as his BBC Radio 1 Essential New Tune by Pete Tong, and its success opened the door to a global audience, major clubs and festivals, and releases on some of the scene’s most respected labels.
Notre Dame himself describes the track as a “game-changer” that opened up opportunities around the world.
From Paris to the global dancefloor
After “Yumi”, the momentum continued into 2023 when Tiësto put his own spin on the track, releasing a remix in July. The collaboration introduced Notre Dame’s breakout track to an even wider dance audience, with Tiësto taking the remix into his major festival sets, including Tomorrowland.
From there, Notre Dame quickly established himself beyond Diynamic, releasing remixes for RY X on Cercle Records and Jimi Jules on Innervisions, while collaborating with AMÉMÉ on Armada and releasing music through labels including Human By Default, Renaissance and Siamese. He returned to Dynamic with "Citizen 99" in 2024 and "Nobody Told Me" in 2025.
And his rise behind the decks has been just as rapid, taking him to major clubs and festivals around the world, including WOMB in Tokyo, Space Miami, KOKO London and Het Sieraad in Amsterdam.
His momentum continued into 2025, when Notre Dame launched his own label, Paranormal Society, with “Do for Your Love” as its first release. The track quickly gained support from Keinemusik, Adriatique and RÜFÜS DU SOL.
As his profile has grown, Notre Dame has moved from the Parisian scene onto international stages, developing a following well beyond France. His music has found an audience among listeners drawn to electronic music that is emotional without sacrificing its dancefloor appeal.
His rise is also part of a wider movement within European electronic music, where melodic house and indie dance have increasingly become spaces for artists to experiment with atmosphere, songwriting and live instrumentation.
For Notre Dame, that balance between club functionality and emotional storytelling has become something of a calling card. His tracks can build slowly before opening into huge melodic moments, giving them a cinematic quality that translates particularly well to a large sound system.
What to expect at his headline show on October 17th
For his October 17th Gray Area show, from 3 - 10pm, Notre Dame heads up a carefully curated bill at Refuge alongside FALYN, Ramyen and Papyon. Expect an immersive night built around melodic, atmospheric house and deeper club sounds, with Notre Dame bringing his trademark balance of emotion and energy to the dancefloor.
Refuge’s custom four-point sound system is central to the experience, with four 10-foot speaker stacks surrounding the dancefloor to create a powerful, enveloping sound, an ideal setting for Notre Dame’s cinematic productions.
This is also an opportunity to hear some exciting new artists about to break. The lineup brings a strong Afro-house and melodic edge, with rising US DJ and producer FALYN, known for her trance-like, emotionally rich take on Afro-house. She’s going B2B with Ramyen, a French DJ and producer whose warm, groove-led house draws from a broad spectrum of styles and has taken him from Paris and the French Riviera to dancefloors around the world. Papyon, a New York-based DJ, completes the bill.
than artist whose sound may be rooted in Paris and the legacy of French Touch, but has evolved through years of experimentation, touring and musical discovery.
For anyone drawn to the more melodic and emotionally driven side of electronic music, this is a chance to experience what makes Notre Dame stand out: music that feels nostalgic without being retro, polished without losing its warmth, and club-focused without sacrificing emotion. Ultimately, he understands that electronic music doesn't have to choose between making you dance and making you feel something.
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