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imomusIt's always nice, trawling YouTube, to find someone's done their own video for one of your songs. Especially one as clever as this:
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I've no idea who anormalanormal -- the director of this "sing with your eyes" video -- is, but he appears to be based in Hungary. The song is "Stephanie Pappas" from my 1999 album Stars Forever. The disco kick drum is sampled from one of my favourite singles of that time, "Music Sounds Better With You" by Stardust:
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Watching that again, I'm transported back to the late 90s, and the kind of Superdiscount filtrage pop that was flooding the charts with denatured disco in the wake of the original success of Daft Punk. It certainly impacted my own music -- you can hear me copying the Daft Punk filter trick on tracks like "Shoestyle of the Angel" and "Professor Shaftenberg" off Ping Pong, for instance.
I loved the off-kilter (and yes, postmodern and ironic, alienated yet appetising) take the French producer-bands had on commercial pop ten years ago. I think Cassius' 1999 was my favourite record of 1999:
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Of course, we know what happened to this stuff. A vampy vampire called Madonna came along and plunged thirsty gold incisors into the sound for her 2000 album "Music". After that, Cassius, Stardust and even Daft Punk released disappointing records, and the sound faded.
But this year I've noticed a slight return of the French 90s sound. Bands like Hot Chip, CSS and Thieves Like Us are giving us slightly more plaintive readings of it. Have a listen to "Drugs in My Body" by Thieves Like Us (two Swedes and an American who met in Berlin):
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Isn't that a post-Hot Chip / CSS version of the Stardust / Cassius sound? It's got the disco kick, the flirty, flighty filtration, the funky but robotic and alienated guitar samples.
"Beat Vacation", the forthcoming album from my mate Digiki -- a Frenchy disco man who's relocated from Paris to Tokyo -- sounds like it was dipped in a magic cauldron of that 1999 attitude when it was little.
More than a slight return, then, to a missed hit sound. Set the filters to warp 99.
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I've no idea who anormalanormal -- the director of this "sing with your eyes" video -- is, but he appears to be based in Hungary. The song is "Stephanie Pappas" from my 1999 album Stars Forever. The disco kick drum is sampled from one of my favourite singles of that time, "Music Sounds Better With You" by Stardust:
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Watching that again, I'm transported back to the late 90s, and the kind of Superdiscount filtrage pop that was flooding the charts with denatured disco in the wake of the original success of Daft Punk. It certainly impacted my own music -- you can hear me copying the Daft Punk filter trick on tracks like "Shoestyle of the Angel" and "Professor Shaftenberg" off Ping Pong, for instance.
I loved the off-kilter (and yes, postmodern and ironic, alienated yet appetising) take the French producer-bands had on commercial pop ten years ago. I think Cassius' 1999 was my favourite record of 1999:
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Of course, we know what happened to this stuff. A vampy vampire called Madonna came along and plunged thirsty gold incisors into the sound for her 2000 album "Music". After that, Cassius, Stardust and even Daft Punk released disappointing records, and the sound faded.
But this year I've noticed a slight return of the French 90s sound. Bands like Hot Chip, CSS and Thieves Like Us are giving us slightly more plaintive readings of it. Have a listen to "Drugs in My Body" by Thieves Like Us (two Swedes and an American who met in Berlin):
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Isn't that a post-Hot Chip / CSS version of the Stardust / Cassius sound? It's got the disco kick, the flirty, flighty filtration, the funky but robotic and alienated guitar samples.
"Beat Vacation", the forthcoming album from my mate Digiki -- a Frenchy disco man who's relocated from Paris to Tokyo -- sounds like it was dipped in a magic cauldron of that 1999 attitude when it was little.
More than a slight return, then, to a missed hit sound. Set the filters to warp 99.
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Date: 2007-04-26 02:12 am (UTC)