Julien Lourau made his début in the group Trash Corporation with guitarist Noël Akchoté and pianist Bojan Zulfikarpasic.

He also founded the group Olympic Gramofon with Sébastien Martel, Vincent Ségal, Eric Löhrer, Cyril Atef, and DJ Shalom.

[1] In 1999, he experimented with electronic music for his album Gambit which attracted a following from young French people and led to a number of successful concerts.

Julien Lourau also collaborated with the hip hop dance collectif le Groove Gang in a show untitled « Come fly with us ».

By doing so, he encountered the French hip hop dance pioneer Bintou Demébélé, who was at the moment a member of the Groove Gang.