General Elektriks Wikipedia. General Elektriks is the brainchild of Hervé Salters, a French national and vintage keyboard player. Salters was playing keys for his bands and for various artists in Paris (Femi Kuti, -M-, Vercoquin, DJ Mehdi, etc.) before he moved to San Francisco in 1999.He started working on funk collages as he was moving to the US, using his favorite keyboards, a computer and ...