French Disko
The type of person I am, no doubt you can imagine me having fitful sleep, wondering about the issues of the day: war, corporate greed, pestilence, famine, how many French house albums are allowed in a record collection.
Needless to say, there isn't a lot I can do about the first few, but French House albums, I do know. In fact, I'm not *just* going to look at French House but the whole Air thing too.
Daft Punk - Two classic albums have been released by Monsieurs Bangalter & de Homem-Christo. Homework is a classic that, I am so embarrassed, I do not own, though in my defence I do own the original CD release of "Da Funk/Musique". The other classic is Discovery, which is much housier, and one should not be put off by the sports highlight favourite "One More Time".
Air - Are great. I have a bit of an aversion to 10,000 Hz Legend but generally, the rule with Air is: the entire Source back catalogue is fine, but not Air Barrico: City Reading or Premieres Symptoms. If either of these are present, one Source album must be removed. The Virgin Suicides score still counts as a Source album. Remix albums do not, and in fact Everybody Hertz is a waste of time.
Etienne De Crecy - a.k.a. Super Discount. Only one album.
Alex Gopher - unnecessary.
Phoenix - are not all that and so the Alex Gopher rule applies.
That's everybody in the whole Orange scene and Daft Punk taken care of.
F-Communications is a massive force in techno/house and Laurent Garnier is quite rightly revered. But that is the dance floor. At home, really, how many Laurent Garnier albums do you need? I would limit this to a generous three. And though Mr. Oizo (he of "Flat Beat" fame) released Analog Worms Attack on F-Comm. I would say that this is spurious at best.
*Addition* And nobody needs a whole Modjo album either.
Needless to say, there isn't a lot I can do about the first few, but French House albums, I do know. In fact, I'm not *just* going to look at French House but the whole Air thing too.
Daft Punk - Two classic albums have been released by Monsieurs Bangalter & de Homem-Christo. Homework is a classic that, I am so embarrassed, I do not own, though in my defence I do own the original CD release of "Da Funk/Musique". The other classic is Discovery, which is much housier, and one should not be put off by the sports highlight favourite "One More Time".
Air - Are great. I have a bit of an aversion to 10,000 Hz Legend but generally, the rule with Air is: the entire Source back catalogue is fine, but not Air Barrico: City Reading or Premieres Symptoms. If either of these are present, one Source album must be removed. The Virgin Suicides score still counts as a Source album. Remix albums do not, and in fact Everybody Hertz is a waste of time.
Etienne De Crecy - a.k.a. Super Discount. Only one album.
Alex Gopher - unnecessary.
Phoenix - are not all that and so the Alex Gopher rule applies.
That's everybody in the whole Orange scene and Daft Punk taken care of.
F-Communications is a massive force in techno/house and Laurent Garnier is quite rightly revered. But that is the dance floor. At home, really, how many Laurent Garnier albums do you need? I would limit this to a generous three. And though Mr. Oizo (he of "Flat Beat" fame) released Analog Worms Attack on F-Comm. I would say that this is spurious at best.
*Addition* And nobody needs a whole Modjo album either.
posted by Marc at
6:57 PM
5 Comments:
yeah good breakdown marc, would have to say i agree on almost every count, but i would limit laurent garnier to just one, although owning a cafe might be an escape clause of some kind, in which case two.
air... yes... i don't know about air. i wouldn't allow the whole source back catalogue, as i feel the virgin suicides is more appropriate in an mp3 list. i never really gave 10,000 Hz legend much of a chance, but does one need to?
moon safari is great, but it does fall under the chill out rule.
Re: French Hip-Hop
There's MC Solaar (1LP, pref Nouveau Western), who was produced by La Funk Mob (I don't think they have any LPs, just some Mo'Wax EPs)who are ace, but who turned into Cassius (not ace=no LP). Also, IAM are quite cool if you can actually find anything by them as are Saian Supa Crew (1LP), who did a collabo with The Avalanches on one track on Since I Left You.
You left out Cassius! The Sound of Violence is one of the best house tracks of the last five years. Also - have you seen Interstella 555, the animated feature film that uses Discovery as its soundtrack? Highly recommended. As for Mc Solaar - check out Qui Seme Le Vent Recolte Le Tempo for some fab 90s French hip hop. The last one I heard from him, Cinquieme As, never lived up to it.
Oh and also - in total agreement about Modjo. Lady and Chillin' were great tracks, but the album? Ba-BOWWWWW... (like the noise on Family Feud)
Absolute pants down shocker.
Seriously disagree with Cassius. Cassius 1999 was only OK, no matter how much I liked La Funk Mob. Also, I only found out about Cuizinier recently. Check out this post from Aurgasm here.
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