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Hey everyone - welcome back at the discotheque! For today's post - I wanted to do something a little bit different. A few days ago, I wrote about how I got into French house music (and a bunch of the adjacent genres which are also featured on the blog!) - and in that post, I only very briefly mentioned the greatest duo to ever grace French touch - and possibly electronic music - Daft Punk. They've been my heroes for several years now - and also my biggest inspiration musically - so, in today's post, I'd like to shine a light on how I found them, my favourite tracks and my (quite long) history with them. Without further ado - let's get started! Okay, so - a lot of you readers might think that I initially discovered Thomas and Guy-Man through all of the usual hits - One More Time, Harder Better Faster Stronger, Technologic, Robot Rock, you know the drill - but in fact. it was the opposite - as when I was around eight years old - in 2017, I discovered Crescendolls (the...

Released through his legendary underground label OMEAC in April 2018 - New York based producer, visual artist and DJ Mr. Hoosteen's debut album Anachronism is a cracking listen, which is riveting, exciting, daring and above all - very, very fun. Just like his sophomore record No Time 2 Lose - Anachronism is a seamless, epic journey from start to finish - however, instead of the smooth, nu disco influenced grooves present - this record shows a darker, slightly less polished side to his work - making it all the more interesting and quirky. If No Time 2 Lose was Mr. Hoosteen's equivalent to Discovery - then Anachronism is his Homework. Although, at heart, this is meant to be a French house record (and there is plenty of groove and funk to go around!) - as stated above, Anachronism is a much darker record in tone - as throughout the hour and a half this album lasts - listeners are treated to the usual disco and filter house - but also raw, uncompromising acid techno, sleek ...

Hey everyone - welcome back at the discotheque! We're now just about halfway through the blog's first anniversary week - and for today's post, I thought I'd shine a light on how I got into French house, future funk and disco - and talk about the artists, releases and labels that helped me discover all of this incredible music and the amazing scenes revolving around it. It's been an oddly long journey - and I hope you enjoy reading about my adventures in disco-led music so far! Without further ado, let's get started! THE BEGINNING: (2018-2020) Okay, so before we actually dig deep into how I found all of this great music - I think some context is needed. Let's go back to the summer of 2019. I had just turned ten years old, and at the time I was having my eyes opened to all sorts of fantastic electronic music - people such as The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx and The Chemical Brothers had dominated my listening habits for months by this point, and I was e...

Released through his label Ever After in December 2009 - Norwich-based producer, singer-songwriter and DJ Louis La Roche's third EP truly is such an incredible release - and although it's short - it packs a massive punch in around ten minutes with three supercharged filter house classics with just the right amount of groove, loose funk and slamming production. I've been listening to it heavily for the last six months, and just like his other major releases from his formative years as a French house producer, this EP oozes with magnificent quality. Super Soaker's opener Malfunction proves that excellently - it's a deep, heavy and slightly hypnotic club workout stuffed with fantastic vocal chops and light, airy synths which feels like an extremely welcome crossover between the work featured on Daft Punk's first two albums - while also calling on the work of various late 90s house legends such as Paul Johnson and Roy Davis with the thumping beats and superb product...

Hey everyone - welcome back at the discotheque! For today's post - I thought I'd bring back the Artist Lowdown series (not that it was ever dead...) - and this time around, I've decided to focus it on legendary Romanian-American DJ, producer, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist FIBRE - who, over the last decade has become a star in future funk, filter house and nu disco with his incredible original productions, releases for labels such as Business Casual, Neoncity, Savona and his own label Montaime and collaborations with those such as Aritus, Tendencies and Discoholic. Without further ado, let's get started! WHO IS HE? Alexandru Galetus - known to many under his stage name FIBRE - is a Romanian born, Baltimore based music producer, DJ, audio engineer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record label owner who initially began making music in early 2014 inspired by the wider French touch movement. Very quickly, he began to gain traction as future funk be...

Hey everyone - welcome back at the discotheque! It's been a hot minute since the last promotion post on the blog - and as always, over the last two weeks, a bunch of killer stuff has dropped from so many awesome artists. There's future funk, there's filter house, there's some sweet disco - and of course, some dope blog-era stuff - so without further ado - here's some of my top picks from the first half of the month! Let's get started! Mere Notilde - Stay With Me Released through FIBRE's legendary label Montaime on February 4th - the brand new single from Boston-based producer and DJ Mere Notilde - which is set to be the first track from his upcoming release SOUL SEEK, is super, super cool, bright and very quirky. It's a sugary sweet piece of future funk / house which is effortlessly joyous, warm and oddly cute at the same time, with some fantastic, shiny production and great vocal work from Mere himself - it's a bit like if you stuck vocaloid, disco...