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* 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 )

Busy P still making music? That's interesting, he's obvi as old as the members of Daft Punk.

And used to be their manager till 2008

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wait Lollapalooza is a real event? I honestly thought the simpsons episode made fun of the music event scene

Wow. You must be really young, or from a sheltered lifestyle. I remember skipping school to attend the first couple of shows, and then continued in college. Seems to my memory that the 'palooza festivals re-energized the whole music festival concept, as there were many more annual festivals that came through town after. I still have the t-shirts that I can't wear, but refuse to throw out.

I'm not even on the same continent

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There 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?

Forget modern. Electronic music peaked in the 90s and there's still loads you haven't listened to. A couple of suggestions:

Blue Planet Corporation - Blue Planet

Art of Noise - The Seduction of Claude Debussy

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What is it about Daft Punk that gets one of the largest threads I've seen on HN? I find them utterly unremarkable. There's an absolute wealth of electronic music, mostly from the 90s, that Daft Punk is derived from. If you like them then check out Ishkur's Guide and explore more!

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I saw Mr.T at a networking conference in the late 90s posing for pictures for attendees. He was a hero of mine as a kid. I was star struck and couldn't think of anything to say, but I did get a picture. He was in a variation of his A-Team outfit. I also saw Ed McMahon in an elevator a few months later at my shared office space. Something to the effect of, "Going up?" and I replied, "No down, thanks." Totally normal a…

You might run into him in your data center, if you have Hitachi storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1S2tsxVHg I got to sit next to Jamie and Adam on a plane from Phoenix to Atlanta once, everyone totally knew who they were because they were wearing their stage clothes and everyone kept bugging them (and by extension, me). They were understandably annoyed the whole time. I suspect if they had taken a minor effo…

Given their very characteristic facial hair, it would be extra hard for them to become unrecognisable.

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They were one of the bands that opened me up to electronic music. I was into metal and grunge, but electronic music just didn’t seem like music to me. If there weren’t music instruments I didn’t want to listen to it.

I saw them at a festival, I guess it must have been around ‘97. I got to the stage a bit late and made my way to the front. It was loud. Like really loud.

The speaker stacks each side of the stage were ridiculously big. I got to the front just as they started playing ‘Around the World’, they had a bunch of dancers on stage dressed up, maybe as robots, and when the beat dropped there was an invisible wall of sound that passed through my body from head to toe to the beat of the music. It’s one of the first beat drops I remember experiencing and thinking wow.

It’s difficult to describe in words. The air around me literally was shifting more than the depth of my body, so it felt like an invisible wall of air/sound passing through you. And of course the whole crowd started dancing like it was going out of fashion. I’d never experienced energy like that at a gig.

I was pretty much into electronic music after that.

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I went to a smashing pumpkins show and was so turned off that I stopped being a fan. I have met several others with the same experience

The Pumpkins were my absolute favorite band in the heyday of 90s alt rock/grunge. I saw them once in St. Paul during their Adore tour, and it was amazing. But something about their music just didn't seem to age well with me - which very well may have been my tastes changing versus the band. I don't know. Machina didn't click, and I never really got into Zeitgeist or Oceania. I did buy Rotten Apples and enjoyed it imm…

Smashing Pumpkins were the best in the early nineties. Gish and especially Siamese Dream are great albums. I saw them at some festivals around then. Amazing.

I still get chills when I hear the guitar intro on some of the tracks from those albums.

I saw them during some of their later tours and though they were great gigs, I think I had drifted away from their music and in fact the whole scene. I was getting into electronic music in the late 90s.

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post #342

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* 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 )

Busy P still making music? That's interesting, he's obvi as old as the members of Daft Punk.

I was at a club in Tokyo 2 years ago and Pedro played a set for a couple of hours there.

Later on that night, I saw him on the other room’s dancefloor soaking up an 8 hour set from Laurent Garnier. He’s in it for the music.

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Since I don't go to live shows, I tend to just have the disappointment of finding out that I only like some of my favorite bands' albums, because the arc of their own musical careers doesn't match my own tastes. Why can't performers just stay the same forever, producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct works?

> Why can't performers just stay the same forever, producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct works? Foo Fighters recently released another album.

I always thought Foo fighters were pretty great. I listened to them a lot in the 90s. I looked up their best hits a few years ago, and I was shocked by how many incredible songs they have.

They headlined Glasto a few years ago. It’s an amazing gig, I watched it on YouTube, really incredible interacting with the crowd, some really special moments.

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"I had to stay up another 2 or 3 hours until the entire segment repeated itself to catch who it actually was." Ah, the days when phones were on the wall with a cord too. At least MTV did still play music back then. And the record industry wonders why file sharing sites took off? I loved limewire because I could find songs I liked, then I would grab everything else that person had and I discovered so much new content…

It's crazy how Youtube is the MTV of our dreams. If I could have had access to just the music videos on Youtube in 1995, I would have thought it was the greatest invention in history.

I still remember when MTV started where I was living, it was a very big deal for teenage me.
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