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"Tim's comment about it going dark is interesting, definitely check out "Outrage" by Bangalter Tim.

I'll look out for it. One track I can think of which vaguely fits the description is a quite full-on mix of Cassius's "Sound of Violence", and a few Crydamoure tracks are pretty overpowering as well. I pretty much mean tracks where the slightly druggy daze that characterises French House slips into menacing delerium. With its raspy chords and acid wig-out "Am I Wrong" seemed at the time (2000?) to suggest a pretty dark vibe, even though it's not actually what I would describe as "punishing".

"Are the likes of Hatiras and those endless pleasant but not so original whack you round the head french house/techno records darker french house? The sort of stuff Justin Robertson plays perhaps?"

I'm only really familiar w/ "Spaced Invader" in the form of the jungle mix by J Majick - although that was pretty much sped-up french house anyway and it certainly fits what I mean (and is one of the best tracks for dancing ever ever ever - thought i was gonna spontaneously combust when I first heard it out)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

These three are in da French stylee, superfunky-to-the-max and relatively new:

Geyster - Bye Bye Superman
Spiller - Sola
Bootsy Collins - Play With Bootsy (Galleon Remix)
Bob Sinclar - Beat The Clock
Bob Sinclar - Sexy Dancer

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

These five are in da French stylee, superfunky-to-the-max and relatively new:

Geyster - Bye Bye Superman
Spiller - Sola
Bootsy Collins - Play With Bootsy (Galleon Remix)
Bob Sinclar - Beat The Clock
Bob Sinclar - Sexy Dancer

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(shit)

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Bangalter's 'Outside' is absolute genius. Gritty, tunnel vision damage, "oh the night is never going to end" stuff.

For another take on that dark French sound check 'Organic' by Agoria (it's on his album Blossom out next month...nice album btw which actually makes a good case for that Frenchy <> U.R. interface Ronan talks about...'La Onzieme Marche' is on it too...monster track).

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"dark French sound" = surely "Da Funk", non?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

sex-o-sonique's 'thought it was you' is great! it has just been put up on gabba with a crap comment next to it, ignore the comment and dl the song.

― minna (minna), Friday, 1 August 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno if it's really french but who cares

― minna (minna), Friday, 1 August 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, it's also quite old.

― minna (minna), Friday, 1 August 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

earlier in the thread when tim said "the emotions are too obvious and uncomplicated, both within each song and across the style generally, when it's clear that emotions represent an area that it could in fact excel at."

this does not apply to 'thought it was you'

― minna (minna), Friday, 1 August 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i find it odd that french house should lend itself so well to jungle remixes but the dj hype remix of scratched by etienne de crecy is beautiful.

― minna (minna), Friday, 1 August 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

possibly because it ends up sounding like c.2000 ukg

― minna (minna), Friday, 1 August 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The way the French make love, talk, dance, write filter disco - it's a total picture. It's... it's... the difference between an email and a courriel. I can't bear French filter disco, but geez, you gotta admire Michel Serres, one of the great philosophers of our time and very, very French. And Da Funk, of course, the only good track Daft Punk ever wrote. La creme de la creme.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 1 August 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, weighing in on noir french house ... my revelation of the year has been hearing the "rarities" disc on the reissue of motorbass' "pansoul" album. now, this stuff was always SORTA dark, being a favorite of weatherall in his '96 minimal deep house days, but i've never heard anything like "Doix Trente Troix".

it starts out with rolling house breaks and, um, a bassline and an ARP, i think. but then, out of nowhere, some dude starts screaming, over a megaphone i think, and it could be black french (or not), and a police siren kicks in, and then faux scratching over the break and oh shit we're at an out-of-control rave in marseilles.

unfortunately the only people i've heard follow up on this (this is from 94 mind you) are these guys Jess & Crabbe on Fiat Lux. their track "bad trooperz" starts out with an "apocalypse now" sample over horny dancehall and ends up at kms-style hoover bass farts over helicopter beats under an actual helicopter. mad stuff, unfortunately nothing else on Fiat Lux sounds like these guys.

we're quite overdue for (this style of) jungle/house soundclash.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 2 August 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

so yeah, just wait until those north africans get a hold of mixtapes with ukg on one side and crydamoure on the other and then we'll see some REAL shit happen. (i'm not feeling "Le Flow")

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 2 August 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

vahid dude have you been away?

I want the old pansoul thing, I actually never have but it reminds me that Trax On Da Rocks 1 by Thomas Bangalter on Roule is a fantastically banging and darkish french house/techno record.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 2 August 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

bangalter = the french house Dave Clarke likes (for better or worse). trax on da rocks roxx - where is the Roule "best of"? it's not the "irreversible" OST because it doesn't have that one track that goes: "I don't KNOW-WHY, we-do-it TONITE, I DON'T know" over and over again until the 909s get fed up and try to smash the sampler.

ronan i've been lurking but when the new kompakt mixes get to san diego that'll all change.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 2 August 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

OH WOW. look what i found...

http://datraxer.free.fr/daftcrew/samples/

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 2 August 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Vahid when I saw DJ Falcon play he did this amazing shit with that "I don't KNOW-WHY, we do it TONITE, I DON'T know" track. If you put it over Love Lost by Alan Braxe and Fred Falke it's like a whole new track, pitch it up a bit and it just sounds amazing.

My friend said it was the first time in about 4 years he'd seen a DJ do something that he just had to copy, he plays it all the time now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 2 August 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

http://datraxer.free.fr/daftcrew/samples/
-- vahid (vfoz...), August 2nd, 2003 4:33 AM.

Altered Beast's "Release" is insane! Love it!

But, dammit, my dream to produce the first filtered-disco track from the ghost of Earth, Wind & Fire's barnburning "Can't Let Go" is now for naught.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 14 November 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Has anyone heard about or read this book?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1860744494/qid=1076953694//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-7240186-3600654?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.posterboys.net/homer-drool.gif

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

that good, eh?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 16 February 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew it existed but who knows how good it could be.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 February 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

i need some good new french house songs or filter disco

― Nato, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

shapeshifters - lola's theme

i don't know that it's french, and it's not even really super-filtered and chopped compared to most of the stuff on thread but it's waaay disco and killer too.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Even enfant terrible of the film world Quentin Tarantino grabbed his 15 seconds of disco delight with the 1998 movie Boogie Nights" (from the first page of the book linked above)

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

These are all fairly recent tunes:

Prawler - Disco
The Heartbreakers - Heartbreaker (Patric La Funk Remix)
Mylo - Otto's Journey
Mylo - Drop The Pressure
Junior Jack - Stupidisco
Savier - Sometimes
Sweet Coffee - Don't Need You
Benjamin Bates - Morning Glory
Bob Sinclar ft Jocelyn Brown - You Could Be My Lover
DJ Gregory - The Joburg Theme
Richard F ft Samantha Stock - Let The Sunshine Through
Kid Creme - Doing My Own Thing

and

Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme

seconded, of course.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

junior jack is pretty interesting right now, he's doing the filter-disco thing but using italo-disco samples. his big track with robert smith uses the very first tiny snippet of the hook from moroder's "from here to eternity". it's kind of "...meh" overall but i can see there being potential for this.

are a lot of other producers doing this?? i know the eternals and jess&crabbe and some other underground guys were fooling around with john carpenter bits for a while but that didn't seem to go anywhere...

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to second "heartbreaker". That track is brilliant, especially in the Pop vocal mix, which is reminiscent of Linus Loves' "The terrace"...

Also very nice: Olav Basoski - Fire water love EP

― Rudolf (Rudolf), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Wow - 'Lola's Theme' is straight in at No.1.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 18 July 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

But it's got all these weird extra vocals on it!

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 18 July 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, I can't fucking believe they did that to it! What's the point? It's catchy enough minus compression and a crap vocal, grrrr!

I actually don't believe people need vocals that much do they?

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Feed me vocals. They were done by their mate, so I suppose it's nice. Not a Cosmos 'Take Me With You' experience, for you then?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

no not at all! haha, what was I thinking, that vocal's rubbish in hindsight. I guess it's good in its total cheesiness lyrically but it should have been Phil Collins singing it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Basically, all house should have Phil Collins singing on it.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

seems a sensible idea.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

For the radio versions, anyway. It would bring some much needed coherence to Radio 1 playlists.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Lola's Theme Alternate Mix (B-side) has a cool synth-bassline. I love those strings. They are cheesy and beautiful. And the 12" is clear vinyl! I don't like the vocal single on the radio. The non-radio club athem has a timelessness to it that I really like.

Pepe Braddock has a Candi Staton remix 12" out that is mindblowing. That man is my favorite French house remixer. Bob Sinclar is still ace.

― Star Hustler, Monday, 19 July 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

as I keep saying, aloud-sex and sun (romain tranchart remix). second only to Rubicon this year as far as French house goes.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 19 July 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

heard 'Horizon' yet btw? it's like 'Arena' remixed by Steve Winwood after not being able to get 'Running In The Family' by Level 42 out of his head for the 24 hours prior to hitting the studio. Uh oh!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 19 July 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I only have a 2 minute version but I'm searching for a proper one regularly.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 19 July 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and everyone go out and BUY Winters In The City by Hystereo on Soma because (a) both tracks on it are ace and (b) they're sound. Always an important factor.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 19 July 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

omg Ronan in being correct non-shocker. 'Winters In The City' just made my eyes well up, just brilliant.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Another slice of discohouse to seek?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

gareth's description of Lady is really nice; i love that song

― dave k, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

new Cassius? got something called 'Losing North' earlier - typical them i guess, not bad but not really goin anywhere - a bit harder and clubbier than the magnifico 'Sound Of Violence' et al tho

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Luka - Tô Nem Ai (Shaved Legs Club Mix)

lovely filtered discohouse...

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hystereo - Winters In The City - best thing in this vein i've heard since 'Rubicon' - tho i don't get out much

a cute if rather pointless reversion of Daft Punk's 'teachers' namechecking the whole French dance massive

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

just wait until those north africans get a hold of mixtapes with ukg on one side and crydamoure on the other and then we'll see some REAL shit happen

did this happen yet?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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― boxedjoy, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:39 (fourteen years ago)

The two mixes I've been listening to most the past two weeks or so are Daft Punk's Essential Selection from New Years Day 1999, and Jess & Crabbe Live at The Rex 2001.

Essential Selection Tracklist:

Daft Punk – ‘Wdpk 199 Greetings’ (Daft Trax)
Bassment Jaxx – ‘Rendez Vu’ (Xl Recordings)
Mike Delgado – ‘Upstairs Lounge’ (Henry Street)
Daddy’s Favourite – ‘I Feel Good Things For You’ (Go Beat)
Bassment Jaxx – ‘Dreamzdub’ (Xl Recordings)
Whirlpool Productions – ‘Disco To Disco (Original Album Mix)’ (Sum)
Lonnie Liston Smith – ‘Garden Of Peace’ (White Label)
Artist Unknown – ‘The Death Of Jack (Accapella)’ (Dj Essentials)
Artist Unknown – ‘In The Beginning (Accapella)’ (Dj Essentials)
Joe Smooth – ‘The Promised Land’ (Dj International)
First Choice Vs Johnnick – ‘Player’ (White Label)
Todd Edwards – ‘Mantra’ (Ultra)
Brandi & Monica – ‘The Boy Is Mine (Remix)’ (White Label)
Forget About The World – ‘Gabrielle (Daft Punk Mix)’ (Go Beat)
First Choice Vs Johnnick – ‘Player (Remix)’ (White Label)
Joe Smooth – ‘The Promised Land (Radio Mix)’ (Dj International)
R&B Accapellas – ‘Is It Good To You’ (White Label)
Stardust – ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ (Roule)
Stardust – ‘Music Sounds Better With You (Bibi & Dimitri’s Mix)’ (Roule)
Scott Grooves – ‘Mothership Reconnection (Daft Punk Mix)’ (Soma)
Alan Braxe – ‘Vertigo (Thomas Bangalter’s Virgo Edit)’ (Roule)
Beastie Boys – ‘Intergalactic (Alan Braxe Mix)’ (White Label)
Bassment Jaxx – ‘Red Alert’ (Xl Recordings)
Green Velvet – ‘Preacherman’s Accapella’ (Relief)
The Bucketheads – ‘The Bomb’ (Henry Street)
Artist Unknown – ‘Got Myself Together’ (White Label)
Nick Holder – ‘Greatest Dancer (Remix)’ (K7)
Daddy’s Favourite – ‘I Feel Good Things For You (Alan Braxe Mix 2)’ (Go Beat)
Spiller – ‘Batacuda’ (Peppermint Jam)
Cheek Venus – ‘Sunshine People (Dj Gregory’s Mix)’ (Versatile)
Victor Simonelli – ‘Another Seven’ (West Side Records)
Classic Accapellas – ‘My Loletta’ (White Label)
Cassius – ’1999′ (Virgin)
Marshall Jefferson – ‘Move Your Body’ (Trax)
Stevie Wonder – ‘Isn’t She Lovely’ (Motown)
Armand Van Helden – ‘You Don’t Know Me’ (Ffrr)
Nu Yorican Soul – ‘Runaway (Accapella)’ (Talkin Loud/Giant Step)
Daft Punk – ‘Revolution 909′ (Virgin)
Nu Yorican Soul – ‘Runaway (Armand Van Helden Mix)’ (Talkin Loud/Giant Step)
Edie Amador – ‘House Music’ (Yooshi)
Cunnie Williams – ‘Saturday’ (Peppermint Jam)

Not all French House but in some ways the mix captures the vibe perfectly precisely because it ranges so widely.

― Tim F, Thursday, 26 April 2012 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

Jess&Crabbe-Live @ Rex 04-25-01.mp3 <- is this it, tim?

― the late great, Friday, 27 April 2012 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

Yes.

― Tim F, Friday, 27 April 2012 02:19 (fourteen years ago)

here's the tracklist fyi

jess & crabbe - warlords
daft punk - crescendolls
?? - ??
da mongoloids - spark da meth (bangin like a benzi mix)
jess & crabbe - jonny clash
jess & crabbe - council
jess & crabbe - the big booya
dj sneak & armand van helden - psychic bounty killaz pt 1
jess & crabbe - ruff inna jungle
jess & crabbe - monkey soca
jess & crabbe - can't tekkit
UH HUH I LIKE IT UH HUH I LIKE IT
basement jaxx, i think

― the late great, Friday, 27 April 2012 04:07 (fourteen years ago)

is the daft punk mix going to make me smile as much as the tracklist does?

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 27 April 2012 06:52 (fourteen years ago)

YES.

― Tim F, Friday, 27 April 2012 07:25 (fourteen years ago)

I'm very excited to play it over the speakers at work. Should cheer everyone up on a miserable Friday.

This mix may have already been mentioned upthread, but it's still an all time fave:

http://www.feelmybicep.com/2009/08/28/nik-muzka-french-house-mix/

Sebastian Leger – Victory (Lifelike Flashing Victory Vision)
Daft Punk – Around the World (KILLDAHYPE Remix)
Roy Davis Jr. – Rock Shock (Thomas Bangalter’s Start-Stop Mix)
The Eternals – Wrath of Zeus
Stars On 33 – I Feel Music In Your Heart (7 Inch Mix)
Cassius – Feeling For You (Les Rh D Mix)
Daft Punk – Crescendolls
Cosmos – Take Me With You (Extended Club Mix)
Daft Punk – High Life
Together – Together
Jamiroquai – Runaway (Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Remix)
Etienne De Crecy – Am I Wrong
For The Floorz -Time Limited
Hystereo – Gly
Automatic & Silk – Always Be There
Raw Man – Number Seven (Le Knight Club Remix)
Kelis – Bossy (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix)
Cassius – La Mouche (Dj Falcon vs Choo Choo Romero Mix)
Aloud – Sex & Sun Part III
Daft Punk – Fresh
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Horizon
K.I.M. – Wet ‘N Wild (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)
Sedat – The Turkish Avenger
Phoenix – If I Ever Feel Better (Buffalo Bunch Remix)
Raw Man – Across The Universe
Raw Man – Warning
Le Knight Club – Soul Bells
DJ Falcon – Honeymoon
Alan Braxe vs Bob Sinclair – Running Into I Feel For You
For The Floorz – Body Angel
Armand Van Helden – I Want Your Soul (Fake Blood Remix)
Daft Mafia – Superstar
Le Knight Club – Hysteria
Midnight Juggernauts – 45 And Rising
Daft Punk – Revolution 909
Jess and Crabbe – In Your Ear
Deelat – Wetness Anthem
Patrick Alavi – The End
Archigram – Carnaval (Bring Back The Rave Mix)
Daft Punk – Superheroes
Le Knight Club – Rhumba (T-West’s For The Floorz Edit)
Together – So Much Love To Give (Daft Mafia Rework)
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Love Lost
Matt Hughes – You’re One Of Us (Daft Mafia Edit)
Pete Heller – Big Love
Demon VS Heartbreaker – You Are My High
Jungle Brothers – Freakin’ You Baby (Buffalo Bunch Remix)
JJ Flores & Steve Smooth – Time For Love
Hystereo – Resistance
Daddy’s Favorite – I Feel Good Things For You
Hystereo – Winters In The City
Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Alyoa – It’s Been Too Long (Lifelike Top Gun Mix)
Superfunk – The Young MC
Daft Punk – One More Time
Hystereo – Deale
Boys Noize – Shine Shine
Cassius – 1999
Alan Braxe – Rubicon (Feat. Fred Falke)
Benjamin Diamond – We Gonna Make It (Alan Braxe Mix)
Fred Falke & Savage – Wait For Love
Daft Punk – Around The World
Scuola Furano – CRY-DA-MAGIC
Aloud Feat. Raw Man – Los Angeles Resurrection
Daft Mafia – I Feel So
The Bucketheads – The Bomb (Armand Van Helden Remix)
DJ Mehdi – Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Edit)
Mylo – Peach Melba
Paraone – Midnight Swim (Surkin Drowning Mix)
Daft Punk – Phoenix
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
Armand Van Helden – You Don’t Even Know Me
Lifelike – Adventure
Plus Move – Boss
Lifelike & Kris Menace – Discopolis
Daft Punk – Face to Face
Fred Falke & Savage – Omega Man
Justice – Stress

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 27 April 2012 08:12 (fourteen years ago)

is there a good rip of the essential mix floating around?

― Crackle Box, Friday, 27 April 2012 08:58 (fourteen years ago)

That Muzka mix may not be perfectly assembled but it sounded amazing on the bus to work as the sun was shining this morning. I live in hope of re-issues of everything from Crydamoure, Roule and We Rock Music, sometimes this stuff is just the greatest stuff in the world.

― boxedjoy, Friday, 27 April 2012 22:40 (fourteen years ago)

all the crydamoure stuff is available digitally

― the late great, Friday, 27 April 2012 22:51 (fourteen years ago)

wait, a second, no it's not. did i dream that?

― the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 06:03 (fourteen years ago)

― boxedjoy, Saturday, 28 April 2012 07:05 (fourteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RAzoGy_bQ

― donna rouge, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 17:33 (one month ago)

Reading this thread is like watching a 7 Up style documentary series of me being OTM

― Tim F, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 00:15 (one month ago)

Wild to think that when this thread started Discovery was 8 months old

― ed.b, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 01:53 (one month ago)

Discovery now older than most of the records that it sampled were at the time.

In addition to all of the nice records (most of which were new to me), there is some fun inside baseball in that Blind Test episode!

― secret ride, Thursday, 7 May 2026 00:50 (one month ago)

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