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NTS Guide to: French Touch House
"We give a French touch to house"
A two hour ride through the wave of French house music that captivated dancefloors around the world from the mid-90s into the early 2000s. Deeply indebted to Chicago house, French producers brought a louche sense of humour and a penchant for colourful maximalism to the genre.
The party-forward "filtered house" sound which was poorly imitated ad infinitum into the 2000s was but one aspect of French Touch. St Germain were faithful to the deeper shades of the Chicago source material, and producers like Pépé Bradock used samples to take listeners on intricately arranged and psychedelic dancefloor journeys.
Aspects of French Touch's history have been purposefully omitted from this two hour mix for the sake of brevity, namely the scene's origins in France's hip hop scene, (Philippe Zdar and DJ Mehdi both produced for legendary French rapper MC Solaar) and French Touch's "second wave" in the mid-2000s, spearheaded by Busy P's Ed Banger Records label, and artists such as Justice.
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Tracklist
- Dmitri From ParisPrologue
- MotorbassFlying Fingers
- DemonBlunted People
- Pépé BradockVermeille
- DJ GregoryPimp
- Alan Braxe & Fred FalkeIntro
- Jess & CrabbeF9'Riot Squad
- SuperfunkSugar Pop
- Le Knight ClubSanta Claus
- Sébastien LégerP.Y.T.
- Pépé BradockAtom Funk
- CassiusFeeling For You
- Le Knight ClubCoral Twist
- I:Cube (Daft Punk mix)Disco Cubizm (Daft Punk Remix)
- Daft PunkRevolution 909
- Cheek (DJ Gregory mix)Venus (Sunshine People) (DJ Gregory Remix)
- Thomas BangalterWhat To Do
- StardustMusic Sounds Better With You
- Roy Davis JrRock Shock (Roy's Original Mix)
- Ian Pooley (Daft Punk mix)Chord Memory (Daft Punk Mix)
- Pépé BradockLife
- Etienne De CrécyPrix Choc
- The EternalsWrath Of Zeus (Dub Mix)
- The Buffalo BunchTake It To The Street!
- Le Knight ClubChérie D'Amoure
- Mr. OizoFlat Beat
- AIR (Cassius mix)Sexy Boy (Cassius Remix)
- Together, DJ Falcon, Thomas BangalterTogether
- St. GermainThank U Mum (For Everything You Did)
- Julien JabreSun Is Back
- Daft PunkTeachers
- Daft PunkVoyager (Dominique Torti's Wild Style Edit)
- Daft PunkVoyager
- ChoiceAcid Eiffel