The record that changed Mickael Jeanneret's life was Mr. Fingers' "Can You Feel It." For the teenager who would go on to produce and DJ as Janeret, it was a lesson in what electronic music could do with patience — how feeling and repetition could become one and the same. He bought St. Germain's Boulevard the following week. Years later, he still traced everything back to that fortnight. What came after was a slow education in which listening preceded making.
Grenoble tends to go unmentioned in discussions of European club culture, but it shaped Jeanneret in profound ways. From around 2009, he worked his way through bars and small rooms before settling into weekends at Vertigo, a club that pulled in Laurent Garnier and Jeff Mills at various points. Watching how those sets were constructed and how energy was managed over hours left an indelible mark that no amount of studio time alone could have.
Paris arrived in 2010, and with it a different sense of scale. He had already begun producing, but the first piece of his own work that he later pointed to as genuinely his was "Skyward," released through Chez Damier's Courtesy of Balance. It took another few years before the Heat EP on Rutilance Recordings pushed his name beyond the local scene.
2015 drew him into the Yoyaku world. The shop and its surrounding label infrastructure gave him a position inside one of the more quietly significant nodes of the French minimal and deep house underground.
In 2016, the Bright EP arrived as the first release on Joule, the imprint most directly shaped by Jeanneret's own thinking. Yoyaku describes the label as artist-directed by Janeret, and what began as a vehicle for his own output has since grown to sixteen releases, drawing in Roger Gerressen, Teluric, Kicks, and Octal Industries with Ohm among others. Joule was where Janeret became a curator and producer.
Further imprints followed that same instinct outward. OMIKE, launched with the Critical EP, gave breakbeat structures and more restless rhythmic thinking somewhere to live. Orizon, introduced with the Mantrax EP in 2025, brought house and atmospheric drum and bass under one roof. Each label grew from a genuine preoccupation.
Beyond LP, put out by Rutilance Recordings in September 2022, remains the only long-player in the catalogue. Nine tracks shifting between ambient pressure, low-tempo weight, deep house, and something approaching jungle, all with a clear internal sense of direction. It confirmed that his sound had enough logic to sustain a full-length on its own terms.
The releases at this time spread the work further across the European underground. Difference on Up The Stuss in 2021. Quasar for FUSE London in March 2023. Then Joy & Happiness EP and Passion EP, both on Shall Not Fade, within two months of each other in late 2023. Each landing in a different corner of the same broad scene.
The ongoing collaboration with Miroloja has been its own thread through this period. Bridge of Spirit on Joule in 2021, Expoz on the same label in 2024, and the self-released JMR001 and JMR002 pair in 2025.
A Certain Era, his debut for 20/20 Vision, came out in March 2026, placing him on one of British house music's longest-standing imprints and marking another measured step in a career that has always moved that way.
His DJ work has run in parallel. Mixes for Circoloco Radio, Up The Stuss, FUSE, Berg Audio, and Trommel have shown how his sets move between house, minimal, breaks, and dub. Space Conquest for Berg Audio was an early signal that his productions could hold up in other contexts, and the run of EPs through Yoyaku-affiliated channels steadily extended that reach.
That arc brings him to Bucharest on April 17, when GAAP hosts him at Control Club. He comes with a position built over a long stretch of releases, label decisions, and accumulated credibility across shops and record collections. Now based in Barcelona, with Paris still central to how his story is told, Janeret represents the kind of staying power that comes from knowing what you think and holding to it.
