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French electro pop garners proper attention…from male eyes

French house and electro pop has always been associated (to me) with new disco and filtered funk 4/4 beats. I think my first French house track I bought and loved was Daft Punk’s “Da Funk” – which I still love and would play today. Later their Homework album opened the door to a short disco house era blown up by Stardust’s “Music sounds better without you”.

Today, my French house bag holds more of the deep house, trip hop and laid back tunes coming from artists like St. Germain, Laurent Garnier, Modjo, Air and Stephane Pompougnac, but I still keep in rotation tracks from Dimitri from Paris, Sabastien Lager, Bob Sinclar, Justice, and Rinôçérôse.

I just watched the video for “Baby Baby Baby” by Make The Girl Dance, a new French Pop group sure to break out this year with at least attention paid from the male audiences. Since I don’t read French (and have the time to dig-translate-report), the best I can understand from them is that they like to “make music to make the girls dance”. I and many men (and women) can get behind that:

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The video is more entertaining than the track (check the lyrics below), but it has potential to cross over to the US clubs and I hope there’s some good remixes that come out from this (Justice?).

I want to have Sebastien Tellier on my Ipod; I want your Mom’s Black AMEX; I want your dad’s car; I want to go out with your friends; I will wear my cutest panties; I want a hot sex session; You can look but you can’t touch.

I want to be in Justice top friends; Gaspard’s hand on my thigh; I want to be able to count without my fingers; And I want yours in the right spot; I don’t want to take the stairs; Carry me in your arms then; I want to be the only person on pictures; And I want to model for Yves Saint Laurent; I want geniuses as children; And I want my dog to graduate; I want your head on a tray; I want mine on TV.

I dont want a piece of cake, I just want blow; I dont want Kate, I want Ethan Hawke; I want to jump off of big ladder; do as you can for the rainbow; i want chocolate and vanilla flavoured ice cream; i want your balls to be blueberry flavoured; I want to dance like Vanessa Paradis; I want to see her boyfriend at Ibiza; I want to be asleep when you wake up; and I want Yelle’s tshirt; I want to fit in all my jeans; and I want you to make me presents with your pay check; I want ice cubes in my glass; I want to make your grandma smoke weed; I saw your stupid ex blah blah blah

Ah yes. Perfect for the NY Club scene girls at Cain, Luxe, Eldridge, or Oak 1.

Daft Punk – “Da Funk”
[audio:https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/409697/348%20Da%20Funk.mp3]

Stardust (Still getting reworked 10 years later) – Music Sounds Better With You (2009 Dirty Bergeon Remix)
[audio:http://www.therealkylestewart.com/biscuits/may09/Bergeon_Stardust.mp3]

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Sampling for the future

As a technics mixologist and music lover, I have no problems with sampling per say. A DJ has no soul for creativity if he’s not hashing up two sounds or blending two tracks to create a new dancable or audible sound. Some of our modern artists wouldn’t be where they are today with out learning, practicing and playing from music they’ve heard before. Next generation electronic artists as well, wouldn’t be here today if earlier musicians didn’t pave the way with their great hooks, beats or tracks. The development of DJing has its roots from original hip hop artists that looped and sampled the best part of a track or break and rhymed, danced, breaked or rapped over the result.

I also see the need to license and pay your way for the use of samples if you’re going to profit off them yourself in your music, however, there needs to be a standardization and limit to this because there’s so much good shit out there, you can’t throw roadblocks up like paying for licensing for up and coming artists that can’t afford to pay such royalties.

In the case of Daft Punk, an electronic artist I’m familiar with and a fan, they have paid their licensing on sampled music and here’s a video mixing both the DP track with the original artist for you to get an idea of where the sample came from:

The samples were spotted by http://www.ishkur.com/samples/ and the music was collected by http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2007/02/. http://www.musicthing.co.uk did the video editing.

Here’s to more sampling in the future…