The French Touch..
 

What do you know about french music today? Most of us are familiar with the work of Daft Punk ,David Guetta ,AIR ,M83 ,Kavinsky ,Stromae ,Phoenix ,Bob Sinclar ,Christine And The Queen, St Germain , Jean Michel Jarre etc.
Let me introduce you to some of the coolest french bands , artist , which are unknown or simply has been forgotten. :)



https://www.last.fm/tag/french/artists?page=1


Feu! Chatterton ''La malinche'' 2015


La Femme '' Sur la plane '' 2013

Jain ''Come'' 2015


Noir Désir ''Le vent nous portera'' 2001


Télépopmusic '' Breathe'' 2001


Modjo ''Lady (Hear me tonight)'' 2001


Francis Cabrel ''Je t'aimais , je t'aime , je t'aimerai'' 1991


The Guardian
French touch – 10 of the best

Daft Punk, St Germain and others reinvented French music in the mid 90s, when they married old disco loops to house beats and made something beautiful. Here are the tracks with the most magical touch.

1. St Germain – Sentimental Mood
In the early 1990s, French music was something of a joke; an easy punchline for British exchange students who were otherwise intimidated by the sophistication of their hosts. St Germain (AKA Ludovic Navarre, whose first new album in 15 years came out in October) was the first sign that things were changing. His 1995 album Boulevard was a massive hit with British journalists and public alike, named album of the year in the dance music magazine Muzik and paving the way for the new generation of producers whose music would later be banded together as the French touch.
2. Motorbass – Ezio
Motorbass, the Parisian duo of Phillippe Zdar and Étienne de Crécy, were key players in the French touch, both together and individually. Zdar would go on to form Cassius, whose self-titled 1999 album is a French touch perennial, while De Crécy would produce the stunning Super Discount project. Motorbass’s lone studio album, Pansoul, arguably remains the highlight of their recording careers, though. Released in 1996, three years after the duo’s debut, Transphunk EP, Pansoul provided the second sign, after St Germain, that something was afoot in the French house underground
3.Fantom – Faithful
When people talk about the French touch sound they’re usually thinking of songs like Faithfull by Fantom, a one-off pseudonym of Parisian producer and DJ Gregory collaborator Julien Jabre. As with Venus, there’s very little to Faithfull: a sample from T-Connection’s At Midnight, a phasing effect, an angry bass drum, chattering hi-hats and train sounds taken from Telex’s Moskow Diskow. It could easily be boring. But so elegant is the result, so lush and nonchalantly funky, that it draws you in like the snake in The Jungle Book. Faithfull also earns French touch bonus points by being included on both Daft Punk’s 1997 Essential Mix and Paris Is Sleeping, Respect Is Burning, a key compilation of Paris house music from 1998, inspired by the Respect Is Burning club night.
4. Phoenix – Heatwave
In 2015, Phoenix are one of the biggest mainstream rock bands around, their yacht-rock-inspired guitar pop taking them to headline slots at the Pitchfork festival and the US top 10. In 1999, though, they were part of the French touch. There was the Daft Punk connection for a start, with Phoenix guitarist Laurent Brancowitz having played alongside Bangalter and De Homem-Christo in their pre-Daft Punk band Darlin’. And Phoenix also recorded for Source, a label indelibly linked to the French touch thanks to releases by Air and Étienne de Crécy and its Source Lab compilations. But the most obvious reason for the French touch tag was the sound of Heatwave, the band’s second single. It takes the French touch’s obsession with disco samples to its logical conclusion by being a full-on disco song: four minutes of chicken-scratch guitar, tight-trousered bass and metronomic drums, all driven by gorgeous, wistful chord changes straight out of the Air song book. It is a genuinely beautiful song.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/mu...main-motorbass

“I love great music – it has no color, it has no boundaries.” M.J

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_k_goMr5ZI

pffft IDK what do you know about French music back in the 60s? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anne Cherchait L'Amour, Jardin Botanique, Cellulose Sunshine are some of my ATF (all time favorite) French songs. They have aged like fine wine.

Elli et Jacno - Anne Cherchait L'Amour


Opera Multi Steel - Jardin Botanique


Stereolab - Cellulose Sunshine



I wish I knew more French bands & artists, but there is so much music and so little time. More recent bands, contemporaries of those you mentioned:
The Plasticines
Les Sirènes Débrouillardes
Jolie Cherie
Fabienne Delsol
Aline

Aline - "Je bois et puis je danse"


Fabienne Delsol - Your Queen

[QUOTE=Neapolitan;2074322]pffft IDK what do you know about French music back in the 60s? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anne Cherchait L'Amour, Jardin Botanique, Cellulose Sunshine are some of my ATF (all time favorite) French songs. They have aged like fine wine.

I wish I knew more French bands & artists, but there is so much music and so little time. More recent bands, contemporaries of those you mentioned:
The Plasticines
Les Sirènes Débrouillardes
Jolie Cherie
Fabienne Delsol
Aline

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Aline reminds me of French post-punk and cold wave ..: Martin Dupont , Norma Loy , Ruth , Opera Multi Steel ,Guerre Froide ,Elli&Jacno, Kas Product.
If you like this kind of music I suggest you a must have cds ''Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes'' Post Punk, Cold Wave et Culture novö en France 1978-1983.
Cold Waves + Minimal Electronics Volume One. New Wave, Synth-pop, Minimal 1981-1986.
Than Space '' Magic fly'', a kind of Space Disco style.

What do you think of Vitalic and Jolie Cherie?

Vitalic - Trahison


Jolie Cherie - Star

French 79 - Between the Buttons (2016)
(Simon Henner)

Great tune , I like it !:)
Check it out !

Stardust ,, Music sounds better with you''


The Supermenlovers ,,Starlight''

Here are some english-french lyrics songs and english songs by french artists !

The Beatles , Michelle'



Blondie , Denis '


Arcade Fire , Une année sans lumière '


Placebo ,Protège moi '


The Rockets ,Galactica'


Vanessa Paradis , Be my baby'


Malcolm Mc Laren & Françoise Hardy , Revenge of the flowers'


The Beautiful South , Les yeux ouverts'


Madeleine Peyroux


Charles Aznavour ,She'


Manhattan Transfer ,, Chanson d'amour'

More cool french musique ! :beer:

Um, yeah. Kraftwerk are, well, German? :confused:

How about Trust?


Delusion Squared are great too

Well it was a song in french lol

Vanessa Paradis 'Joe Le Taxi'
 

In 1988 Vanessa was only 15 years old , this song reached top 3 in U.K. !;)




https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/joe%20le%

Rone - Parade 2012
French producer of electronic music.
Working originally as a filmmaker, he composes his first music creations between two shoots.




Polo&Pan 2017
Cool French Electronic , Tropical House !?




Paradis 2016
A brilliant mixture of Electronic and Chansons.

Pépite , Juliette Armanet , Raphaël , Julien Doré
 

Raphaël : delicious , in a folk-guitar style , very sultry .



Juliette Armanet : original authentic with this touch of 80's madness.


Julien Doré : sublime , dark & melancholic


Pépite :oscillates between French song and melancholic synths .

The Avener, Phoebe Killdeer - Fade Out Lines
 

2014

The Avener



Klingande - Jubel

French music
 

French music, in my opinion, has lost its identity....

A selection of current "very" French pop bands or artists

Charline Mignot, aka Vendredi sur Mer is French-speaking Swiss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnAgD6J65Xc

Bleu Toucan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILP3KAVfKLs

Paradis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H4ekRWiW6U

Clio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9enP5t05wFU

Requin chagrin (The band singer is a woman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnYiAdr2tM

Videoclub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NjJLFI_oYs

Poom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2_iih1U2gk

Clara luciani A big hit two years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85m-Qgo9_nE

Therapie TAXI (very popular now)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpTLFchI8Zk

Hoshi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DipEiYAyKxY

Indila 646 802 673 views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5KAc5CoCuk

Fischbach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLp67q_9vx0

Chris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPjazi4mQSQ

If you're going to post so many videos in a single post,
you need to put them under a "spoiler" tag.

Some french artists that sing in english

Agar Agar

Jeanne Added

Hyphen Hyphen

Papooz

Her

Simon Carpentier, on keyboard here, is dead few months after that recording.

Ah ok, sorry.

When you're posting, highlight your YouTube text and then click on
"Show/Hide" to put a spoiler tag. That way, you can still have the videos
posted but they are hidden from view unless someone decides to open it.

Ok, thx a lot

*current

From their new album Anatomy of light

Yesterday I discovered this french duo The Limiñanas , they record hypnotic & driving beauty garage, psych and pop music.
They are supported by a variety of other players - notably Anton Newcombe and Peter Hook.

Hi Fantomas72
Lionel and Marie Limiñana, Anton Newcombe and the actress Emmanuelle Seigner have recently created a supergroup called L'Épée.

Hi ikvat , thanks for the news .., really good stuff !!:)

Bands , singers you didn't know were french..!??:love:

Bands , singers you didn't know were french..!??:love:

Soko new album, Feel Feelings

it's a pur coïncidence but the Liminanas released a new single yesterday. :p:

French Coldwave (Dark Wave), Minimal Synth . Post-Punk.
 

The Pirouettes
Electro pop

The Pirouettes - L'escalier live @ L'Olympia



Papooz's new track for a cool summer but with social distancing (and mask)



Kid Francescoli - "City Lights"

Yes, perhaps because they aren't ! :love:

Who do you think you are...?