Naming the project after the M83 galaxy, Gonzalez and Fromageau recorded their debut album on an eight-track recorder in 2000. When the label signed him, he added Fromageau to the lineup to help round out his music. In his late teens, Gonzalez added synths to his music and recorded a demo that he sent to several local labels, including the Parisian electronic imprint Gooom Records. After his parents gave him a guitar, he formed the band My Violent Wish with Nicolas Fromageau while in secondary school. During his childhood, he pursued the family's passion for football (his maternal grandfather, Laurent Robuschi, was a striker who played in France's national team at the 1966 FIFA World Cup), but an injury at age 14 led him to explore music instead.
Gonzalez and his brother, filmmaker and occasional M83 band member Yann, grew up in Antibes, France. Meanwhile, his mastery of mood made M83 a perfect fit for soundtracks ranging from blockbusters like 2013's Oblivion to art films such as 2019's Knife+Heart. Gonzalez's willingness to expand his music to epic proportions, as on 2011's Grammy-nominated Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, and revisit the less fashionable corners of vintage pop culture, as on 2016's Junk, set him apart from many of his contemporaries. Anthony Gonzalez's fascination with memories, melancholy, and the past helped set the era's musical trends, whether on the massive washes of sound of 2003's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts or the hazy love letters to '80s pop of 2008's Saturdays = Youth. Blending synth pop and shoegaze into lush music that makes the most of nostalgia's emotional impact, M83 became one of the more influential acts of the 2000s and 2010s.
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