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Daft Punk Break Up
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#342There used to be a real energy to French electronic music. Between Daft Punk, Justice, Something a la Mode, Madeon, David Guetta, C2C, Joris Delacroix, Birdy Nam Nam, etc. Now I feel like the scene is mostly American. Any modern French electronic artist?
* Flavien Berger (Mars balnéaire , Leviathan,888888 and many more )
* L'Impératrice - ( A View to a Kill, many others )
* Busy P ( Il fait chaud - Busy P Remix by Corine )
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#343Always remember going to clubs in the US around the turn of the century and this was so popular. “One More Time” was played at every club.
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#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure burial once tweeted a selfie to say he was taking a break from music to play diablo or something
It is hypothesized that Burial made a little guest appearance at a James Blake boiler room set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8idi7PcsbU It definitely looks like him, but who knows.
For reference, it's the guy in the black hoodie on the right side for the first third or so. Also his song plays at around 6m in, and you can see him rolling a join a bit later, hah.
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#345There used to be a real energy to French electronic music. Between Daft Punk, Justice, Something a la Mode, Madeon, David Guetta, C2C, Joris Delacroix, Birdy Nam Nam, etc. Now I feel like the scene is mostly American. Any modern French electronic artist?
> Any modern French electronic artist?
You mention Madeon which I think is more like "electro pop" or "nu disco" (I don't like that term but hey) so maybe you'll like the following if you don't know them...
Agar Agar:
or Kid Francescoli:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdixQDPA2h0
or, more on the chill side, L'Imperatrice...
"Erreur 404": https://youtu.be/eyk-Sliy8RU
and say "Parfum Theremine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ksp63RJuaU
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#346I always thought Daft Punk figured out the perfect solution to the how to be famous problem. Everyone recognizes their artist name and their artist costume, but virtually no one knows their real name or would accost them on the street.
Missing from this is 1) They are not handsome guys and that is a real factor (you don't have to be pretty, but it's hard to to be ugly) and 2) They are way to old looking to have inspired their most recent hits. Kids won't go for that.
I know this is some very hardcore marketing realpolitik but this is it.
Sia covers her face because she's not pretty, not because 'it's art'.
Adele's albums are closeups of her face not anything else, because she's attractive there, that said, she always wore herself well enough it didn't matter that much.
One of the few 'not good looking' is Ed Sheeran, but he's at least young, he's not going age well in front of the camera, it may not matter that much.
Google 'famous singers' and they are all quite attractive. Shawn Mendez and Justing Bieber are both one in at least 10 000 attractive. The ladies it's much harder to tell because of their makeup.
What would have made this much more interesting is if Daft Punk decided to actually 'replace themselves' and just let others take on the helmets. If they really wanted to milk it they could have gone for 'multiple versions' i.e. a standing show in Vegas, NY and Duabi or something with stand-ins. That's completely selling out but hey. There are possibly some legit ways to do that, like actually getting extremely talented producers and artists into the masks for a while to help kick of their career. They could make some really nice PR out of a culty thing like that.
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#347There used to be a real energy to French electronic music. Between Daft Punk, Justice, Something a la Mode, Madeon, David Guetta, C2C, Joris Delacroix, Birdy Nam Nam, etc. Now I feel like the scene is mostly American. Any modern French electronic artist?
Étienne de Crécy is one of my faves.
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
The word 'sheltered' is still misapplied here.
How so? Having never experienced things outside of your "comfort zone" or your upbringing seems like the culturally accepted definition of sheltered. Whether that was overbearing parents never allowing you to listen to music other than prescribed by religious beliefs or parental personal preference or just one's own personal preference all seems like sheltered to me. Being culturally unaware of events that occurred o…
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I mean people being drawn to the music, not the famous name (even if the famous name helped promote the band)
I wonder if this is a 2021 view of Gorillaz possibly being more famous than Blur at this point. Though, for sure there were plenty of contemporary Gorlillaz fans who didn't know anything about Blur.
Not necessarily. I got into Gorillaz when “Clint Eastwood” was popular here in the US. Had never heard of Blur. Didn’t even learn about Blur until years and years and years later, when I realized Damon Albarn had done something before Gorillaz and looked them up.
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#350I remember the electric atmosphere in the auditorium going to see the film the Epilogue video is taken from, Electroma [1], on screen. It was only playing in a single cinema in the world in Paris and only at midgnight. So glad I got to catch that. I am kind of glad to hear that Daft Pank is over and I say this as someone who their music means a lot to. The arc of their art is complete and there is nowhere left for th…
I really, really was looking forward to the new Daft Punk music video, "Tron 3"