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-M


Exploration of Space (Spencer & Hill Remix) - Cosmic Gate (Golden Banana)
Big Electro House jam with a super German cheese buildup, complete with those detuned saws we all love.


Inside Out (Original Mix) - DBN & Patric La Funk (Silver Banana)
Progressive House on the Housier side.  Also has a sick acid bass that comes in.  Huge fan of this track.

The Music (Original Mix) - Electrixx
Electro House in all it's glory.

Kick Starts (Wideboys Remix Extended) - Example
If you need to drop a commercial Electro House track.

Fucking VIP Bitch (Original Mix) - Electrixx
Moar Electro House!

Wazabi (Original Mix) - DBN & Patric La Funk
Progressive/Tech House with some weird/cool sounds.  Unique, dissonant, and ravey.


Inside Out (Inpetto Remix) - DBN & Patric La Funk
Making the original more Proggy.

Hell Yeah! (Original Mix) - Electrixx
Electro House with a rap on it.  Also, +500 Bastille Love and Admiration Points for whoever names another song that used this same sample.

Diskout (Main Mix) - Deux (aka David Penn & Toni Bass) feat. Sheilah Cuffy
Progressive House

Tik Tok (Club Edit) - Bob Sinclar feat Sean Paul
For those who REALLY want to play pop stuff.

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French House Arrest X: Bob Sinclar - Paradise

In the height of the french house boom, around 1998, Bob Sinclar (Cristophe Le Friant), also known under his Breakbeat pseudonym the Mighty Bop, released his breakthrough album 'Paradise' which included the infamous Thomas Bangalter co-produced track 'Gym Tonic'. This is his most classic sounding album, coming before his careening into pop-stardom, reminiscent of early Daft Punk, Cassius, and I:Cube, good stuff, funky, disco-ey, jazzy, and cool as a cucumber. A must have for any French House fan. Enjoy>>>

-Jumpman

Bob Sinclar - Paradise

Happy Halloween!

*For new readers, this is a continuation of a little series we've been running on French House, which you can check out HERE
-M

Turn Up the Bass

What a disgusting and disturbing image.

Chuckie is someone who has risen extremely quickly in the house world. He's dutch, and it's very apparent when you listen to his stuff. At the same time he's very similar to Benny Benassi, but only in the sense that alot of the songs have the same sound (or a similar sound). It's pretty noticeable. While I admit he's definitely not anywhere near my favorite dutchmen, he definitely deserves an honorable mention. He made a huge hit with let the bass kick (I do love that song), and that alone makes him deserve this post.

Let the Bass Kick (Original Mix) by Chuckie, we all know and love it, his biggest song by far. The sample comes from a Carl Cox song (I can't remember which one), though Cox probably sampled that from somewhere too.

Aftershock (Can't fight the feeling) (Original Mix) by Chuckie, HELL YES! If you like Gartner, then you'll like this song. Sounds so similar, nothing more needs to be said.

Moombah (Original Mix) by Chuckie and Silvio Ecomo, his second biggest song (as far as my knowledge goes) but if you're going to play this song then go for this instead:

Moombah (Afrojack Remix) by Chuckie and Silvio Ecomo, it should be obvious why I would choose this. Turn up the bass.

Rides (Original Mix) by Chuckie, such a good song. Not like his other stuff but definitely worth getting.

Any Noise (Original Mix) by Chuckie, this is real techy, EXTREMELY different from his other stuff, but I really like the few times when he shows diversity.

Everytime We Touch ( Chuckie 2009 Remix) by David Guetta, the same sound again, but I really like what he's done with this song. Though Everytime we touch is an extremely catchy song, I'll admit to liking it. Great electro bass in this too.

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M's Additions:

Bring The Rock - Chuckie & Silvio Ecomo
Way more Electro than we usually get from him. I like it.

Love You No More (DJ Chuckie Remix) - Bob Sinclar
Very classic Chuckie sound, like J was talking about. J already uploaded this in 192, but mine's 320.

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French House Arrest Episode IX: Trouble In Paradise

Continuing along our journey, we're gonna stay in the year 1998 for one of the more interesting stories of a little feud between two of the biggest producers of the time. Also included is an early track from one of my favorite house producers. Short post today, I feel like I've been packing too much into these so this one's sort of a break.

Gym Tonic - Bob Sinclar

In 1998, Bob Sinclar released a track called Gym Tonic, an awesome French House groove with a great sample from a Jane Fonda workout. However, turns out the track was actually made by our hero Thomas Bangalter, and Mr. Sinclar released the track on his album Paradise without his permission. In fact, Bangalter would experience several problems just like this, due to his notoriety for finding the best samples. Bangalter wanted to hold on to this track himself and use it as a secret weapon to drop in his own sets, but it was clearly too big to be contained.

We Are - Sébastien Léger

Sébastien Léger rules, and has pretty much dominated every sub-genre of House music that he's taken a stab at producing, though it seems like his favorite is his own little brand of Progressive Tech House. This track, however, is his awesome French House jam from 1998. Cheers to Ilictronix for the track.

French House Arrest Episode VIII: Music Sounds Better With Roulé

Finally, we have moved on to 1998. While I still stand by my saying that the year previous was the most important/awesome year for French House, this year saw the release of THE French House track as well as more releases from the undeniable master of the genre. Also came the first release of one of my favorite french house acts.

-M

[Roulé 305] Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust

This is it. This is French House. This is the giant mega-hit that the genre produced. Eveyrone knows this song and can very easily sing along to it (its not like the lyrics are that difficult anyways). Stardust was born when Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe, and singer Benjamin Diamond were playing live together in the famous Rex Club in Paris. While Bangalter and Braxe looped a very short sample from Fate - Chaka Khan and turned it into a House groove, Diamond instinctively sung these infamous lyrics, and the track was born. It was clearly fate. And now for some remixes of the track you won't find on its official remix album:

Music Sounds Better With You (Dimitri From Paris Remix) - Stardust
Of all the tracks in this post, this is my favorite to play live. It's all about the second drop.

Music Sounds Better With You (Bob Sinclar Remix) - Stardust
Has the cooler, more lounge-y French sound.

[Roulé 306] Trax on Da Rocks Vol.2 - Thomas Bangalter

His second batch of original tracks for his label. Contains the colossal track, appropriately named Colossus. God is Thomas Bangalter.

[Scratché 701] Buffalo Club - The Buffalo Bunch

The first release from French House superstars The Buffalo Bunch. Possibly my favorite French House group, but its terribly difficult to make a certain call on that. Although this is certainly not my favorite release of theirs, it's their first and happened to fall in the year 1998. For ALL OF THEIR TRACKS, check out our previous post on them HERE.

Everyone should check out the blog Boards Of Electronica. They have so many awesome releases that you pretty much will not find anywhere else, except the few I've re posted in some of these episodes. Use the tags on the right side to help find what you're interested in.

French House Arrest Episode IV: Backtrack

I do still insist that 1997 is the biggest year for French House, but I realized that I left out some important/awesome developments that occurred in 1996.

-M

Venus (Sunshine People) - Cheek

Now I can't really speak for its significance in terms of the evolution of the genre, but this did predate '97 and is just awesome. The true winner is the remix from DJ Gregory (my favorite track in this post), but the I:Cube remix is also amazing. I:Cube is another important DJ in the creation on French House, and you'll be seeing his album in one of the upcoming '97 posts.

Le Voyage - The Mighty Bop

The Mighty Bop, more commonly known as Bob Sinclar, was another very important name during the foundations of French House. He even had a little incident with Thomas Bangalter over a certain track, to be posted eventually. This particular track that I posted is very Hip-hop/Breakbeat influenced along with the funk/space influences of the French Touch and, of course, is just as cool as everything else his peers were releasing at the time.

Sacrebleu - Dimitri From Paris

Dimitri From Paris is so cool, that he's become the Playboy Mansions resident DJ. His style is a mix of House, Disco, Hip-hop, and Lounge. This is not really French House, but very much in line with the whole French Touch scene, almost like Daft Punk and Air had a child that decided to move to Cancun. And nobody can deny that the man has style.

Also, everyone should check out the blog Ilictronix. Great source for French House, among other stuff.

I'm Back, Batch #1 Spencer & Hill

So I finally got my computer back up and fully running, though unfortunately I lost quite a bit of music, though at the same time it wasn't anything too important, but 40 GB gone can be kinda depressing. Here's my first out of a few batches that I'm gonna post in the next few days, most of which has already been posted by a variety of house blogs that I read. Spencer & Hill for our first batch.

-J

In case you missed these, don't pass these up:

Cool (Original Mix) by Spencer & Hill
M likes this one better saying it would explode live.

Cool (Cool Mix) by Spencer & Hill
But I still like this one better. More Electro.

Cool (AfroJack Mix) by Spencer & Hill
So Ravey!

La La Song (Spencer & Hill Remix) by Bob Sinclar
As M put it, not as good as the original, but it definitely has its place.

In other news:

Is this a really old TV Rock track? Pretty short too... I gotta say I both hate it and love it at the same time, such funny and yet amazing lyrics:
Flaunt It by TV Rock

The new Yelle if you havn't already gotten it, it's great:

Qui Est Cette Fille by Yelle

LaLaLaLaLa

Bob Sinclar has done it again and made a house jam that's going to be played on repeat everywhere. Is it as good as World, Hold On? No. But this song is so goddam catchy. He even enlisted the help of Sugar Hill Gang for this one. Yes, it's pure pop house, but you love it because it makes you feel so happy. Hopefully the Bob Sinclar Fairy (pictured) will place the link to this track in the comments, because I'm afraid the Web Sherrif's gonna be all over this one, since its not posted on ANY other blogs.

-M

More Dabruck & Klein

Yay. Dabruck & Klein are definitely one of my favorite producers at the moment. Thank god for SkipScreen Search, helped me find these tracks. They have such a polished style, everything they produce just sounds amazing. They really demonstrate what fantastic production is all about.

Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Dabruck & Klein Remix) - James Doman
This happens to be my favorite of this bunch. I just really like the bassline.

Open Up Your Arms (Original Mix) - Dabruck & Klein feat. Stafford Brothers

What a Wonderful World (Dabruck & Klein Remix) - Axwell & Bob Sinclar
The chopping of the vocals in this one reminds me of the Spencer & Hill remix of Cascada, which you can grab HERE.

The Music Got Me (Dabruck & Klein Remix) - Marc O Tool
It's got a fidget bass at one point, really cool.

Lover Lover (Dabruck And Klein Remix) - Tommy Trash

Its True (Dabruck & Klein Mix) - Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso

Cafe Del Mar (Dabruck & Klein Private Bootleg Mix) - Energy 52
This one's pretty trancey. Sounds a lot like Joachim Garraud.

Fired Up (Dabruck & Klein Remix) - Dennis The Menace & Big World