Über uns | SKYLINE ARCHIVE

The turning point

There came a moment when defending the music was no longer enough.
It needed a home of its own.

Projects had found listeners, support and sometimes signatures. But their stories remained fragmented: sound in one place, image elsewhere, and timing too often set by others. Gradually, one truth became clear: to accompany a work with coherence, creation, narrative and transmission had to be brought together under one vision.

Skyline Archive was born from that passage — not as a refuge, but as a decision. The decision to give artists, records and the relationships that make them possible a space where the standard never stops at the master.

Not a reinvention. A decision.

Before Skyline Archive

Every story has a name
before it becomes a legacy.

To understand that decision, we must return to an earlier name: Wippe Roma.

Wippe Roma was never conceived as a marketing name. It grew from the meeting of William Marcoux and Philippe Rodriguez: two names, two sensibilities and one shared desire to create. Before there was a label, there was already this instinct to make music with identity and meaning.

Wippe Roma — Philippe Rodriguez and William Marcoux — WIPPE ROMA · PHILIPPE RODRIGUEZ + WILLIAM MARCOUX

The name within the names

The Wippe Roma construction

William Marcoux

Philippe Rodriguez

WIPPE ROMA

Fragments of both names become one identity: WIPPE ROMA.

Born from two names.

Driven by
a shared instinct.

The first major milestone

JD FAIRLIGHT

A project that transformed the idea into a responsibility.

JD Fairlight, the artistic name of Jean-Denis Catelan, co-founded Global Music Group with Philippe Rodriguez in 2005. Years later, his album project reconnected that shared history with the genesis of Skyline Archive. More than an isolated release, it called for a home capable of protecting a complete work and accompanying it over time.

Born from Jean-Denis’s many journeys and his deep love for Sweden, the album is personal rather than strategic. It carries places, distance and memory. Giving this work the time and future it deserves helped turn Skyline Archive from an idea into a responsibility.

Three decades of experience

Not a résumé.
A way of staying true.

Skyline Archive did not appear overnight. It carries more than thirty years of studio work, dancefloors, collaborations, remixes and label experience. None of that is displayed here as nostalgia or a list of credentials.

What remains is a way of working: listen before deciding, give each record the time it asks for, protect what makes it singular, and never confuse speed with direction.

Why Skyline Archive?

An independent home
for a living vision.

That decision took shape through the projects themselves. The feedback received for Saga through Reaktion, followed by the signing of Fashionable and Shadows to Diki Records, confirmed that music could find its audience without its story being accompanied in full continuity. Skyline Archive therefore chose to take responsibility for the entire gesture: sound, image, narrative, circulation and the long view. Independence is not a retreat; it is the responsibility to remain faithful to the work and to stand behind every choice.

01
One voice

A home where sound, image and words speak with the same artistic voice.
02
The freedom to take time

Letting every project find the pace, form and emotional truth it needs.
03
A catalogue built to endure

Treating records as connected works, not as content destined to disappear.
04
Transmission, not repetition

Carrying forward the values of landmark electronic music without imitating its past.

Sound & artistic philosophy

Emotion before trends.
Character before perfection.

A record can be perfectly produced and leave nothing behind. Skyline Archive searches for the opposite: music with depth, dynamics, space and texture, but above all with a human trace. Technology serves the intention. Impact never comes at the expense of emotion. The purpose is not to sound current for a moment, but to remain true over time.

WE ARE ON MISSION

Emotion Depth Space Dynamics Texture Time

Two identities. One archive.

The name changes.
The instinct remains.

The identities today

Two names for what one person
cannot express in a single voice.

Identity I

PHIL RODRIGUEZ

Photo: Loïc — Idole Studio

Intimate · Luminous · Instinctive

From a studio session with David Guetta in the early ’90s to founding SKYLINE ARCHIVE today — three decades of electronic music, a new chapter. His career spans A&R roles at Virgin France and Indépendance Records, original productions and remixes under several artistic identities.

Founded in 2026, SKYLINE ARCHIVE connects new music, selected archive works and collaborations: melodic and progressive club music through Phil Rodriguez, with a more direct acid and techno expression through Marc Henry.

Read the full biography ↗︎

Identity II

MARC HENRY

Photo: Loïc — Idole Studio

Introspective · Nocturnal · Free

Marc Henry is the necessary counterpoint: a more private, nocturnal space where instinct takes over and sound is allowed to become rougher, deeper and freer. It gives a voice to what melody alone cannot say.

The next chapter

The origin is not behind us.
It keeps the story moving.

Skyline Archive does not preserve the past by freezing it. It gives unfinished ideas, enduring bonds and new music the time and space to become what they need to be.

In development

JD FAIRLIGHT

Completing JD Fairlight’s album is not a nostalgic return. It is the continuation of a shared history, guided by the patience and care the work deserves.

Future works

WIPPE ROMA

Future Wippe Roma titles may bring William Marcoux and Philippe Rodriguez’s shared identity back into the active catalogue — not to repeat the first chapter, but to create again from its original energy.

The story is still being written — with independence, patience and purpose.

SKYLINE ARCHIVE

Continue through the archive

ABOUT