Known in his homeland France for the better part of two decades, Mirwais Ahmadzai was a guitarist in the seminal punk group Taxi Girl for 8 years before forming acoustic outfit Juliette et les independants with his girlfriend Juliette.

The evolution to electronic music happened in 1994, when Mirwais became inspired by the energy of house and jungle, and wanted to get in on the act. He wrote "Disco Science" three years ago - a twisted and mutated groover of a track.

"He gave her the record and the video and she loved them both. He called me back to ask me if I wanted to work with her on one or two tracks… in the end we finished six tracks!" he chuckles.

One of the tracks appears on Mirwais’ forthcoming album, while the rest will end up on Madonna’s. Mirwais is in awe of his collaborator.

"She is more talented than you’d expect, because she doesn’t make it known that she’s really talented in the studio," he pipes. "Working with her was exactly like working with Juliette or Taxi Girl – it was a really good relationship. I think to be honest the only thing that is important in her professional life is music.. I’m sure of that."

Mirwais’s record label Naive is currently in negotiations with Maverick to release his album, and meanwhile Mirwais is experiencing censorship, Madonna-style, for his raunchy "Disco Science" video - not that it seems to bother him at all. Having survived the ordeal of a drug death in Taxi Girl, and now the responsible father of two, it doesn’t seem to be an issue whether his art offends others or not.

I ask him who else he’d like to work with in the future?

"Bjork… I love her, she’s really talented," he quips without hesitation. "I like to work with people from a different side. I’m really intrigued to meet exceptional people."