Flash releases Santa Cruz, an imaginary soundtrack album in very limited quantities which is also the first official Heartbreakers record.

He worked full-time as a key grip on music videos, commercials, short films, and movies.

Eight years later, he joined Delabel (a Virgin Records sub-label) as a DA Music Assistant, meeting several musicians from the French Touch movement, including Motorbass and Air.

During his free time he mentioned to have kept his musical passion alive doing simple demo for his own pleasure using an Akai sampler without any specific purposes or goals.

Flash met the French Hip-Hop band TTC and produced their first independent single "Game Over '99" and brought them to the interest of Bid Dada (Ninja Tune HipHop sub-label) whom then release their album « Ceci N’est Pas Un Disque » for which he produced and recorded 7 tracks.

[9] Key tracks like "Motorcycle Boy," "Disco Dynamite," "Flesh," "Midnight Blue," "T.R.O.Y.," "Couscous," "Domino Part A/B," and "Sonic Crusader" highlight his genre-blending style.