Songs in the backround: 0:03 Le Knight Club - Boogie Shell 1:14 Le Knight Club - Coco Girlz 3:05 Le Knight Club - Hysteria 3:50 Le Knight Club - Coral Twist 5:38 Le Knight Club - Gator 6:04 United Tastes of Deelat - Wet Indiez 9:55 The Buffalo Bunch - Take it To The Streets 11:04 Sedat The Turkish Avenger - Feel Inside 12:52 Archigram - In Flight 20:08 Le Knight Club - Mirage 21:41 Le Knight Club - Cherie D'Amoure 22:16 The Eternals - The Wrath of Zues 22:45 Raw Man - Number Seven (Le Knight Club Remix)
I remember during middleschool, my friend introduced to me Daft Punk. We downloaded a crap ton of mp3s of their songs in class and talked about them for hours. Then I finally listened to Discovery, and I was hooked. This soon lead to my newfound in French House and soon EDM in general. It's just something about the repetitive yet smooth style always kept me coming back for more.
My boyfriend’s older brother is Deelat. Met him last year in Paris when visiting family. A very nice guy. I told him that there are still Crydamoure label fans that love the releases and his style. He was surprised but happy. I’ll send him this video! Thanks for mentioning him.
I almost exclusively hear people talk about Thomas. Nice to see that you tell us a bit about Guy-Man! 1993 - 2021 🤍💛 It’s a shame that I hadn’t discovered you back then 🙃
Holy shit! I would’ve never expected this! Just to provide some context from someone also obsessed with French Touch/House history. Paul Johnson was a pivotal figure in the Chicago house scene regarding that same sampled sound. He directly influenced Daft Punk’s sound as a whole the same way DJ Sneak did. It’s not necessary bitcrushing (in the modern context) and more so the result of artifacts from the SP-1200 that they used. It’s a common technique in house and hip-hop to record the sample at 45 rpm and -8 to use as little as the sample time as possible. Pitching the sample back down to the desired pitch (tempo essentially if you’re trying to match your project’s BPM) creates a gritty, aliased sound from the unit. Fun fact: The first release was done using the same presets that Guy and Thomas used on Around The World. (Confirmed from a conversation from Eric and Paul) If you would like any help and info with Roulé video, I’d be happy to offer any insight and rare digital masters!
thanks for the awesome info!!! hopefully this gets upvoted to the top of the comments, and of course id love some help! always appreciate people willing to lend a hand
I’m interested in the digital masters, I have the vinyls but can’t really rip them in HQ I use the PLX1000 but I’m still too much of a beginner to really get it right
AAAAAAA FINALLY, I'VE BEEN BLESSED. Pad you brought me to vaporwave but I didn't know you knew French house/ edm music in depth aaa. This was worth the wait
My older brother found daft punk around 2010 and introduced it to me and my younger bro. I still remember all our times just jamming in the living room not giving a care about the world. I still think they’re music gods compared to any other artists.
They ARE gods. Daft Punk compared to other artists is like Disney in the 1940's compared to the other animation studios at the time. Needless to say, there is no competition. Alive 1997 is pretty much their Fantasia.
You are the best for explaining all the rich amazing history behind the duo. i wish more people knew about some of these amazing songs outside of their classics from the daft punk platform.
Nice vid! I was always more into the Bangalter/Roulé Records side of things, but it’s nice to hear some of these tracks again. French house always had such a unique and interesting vibe, a mix of specific samples and production with an overall aesthetic that embraced the trash and sleaze of euro disco and Italo and added a layer of classiness. This shit still holds up!
I'm quite pleased to be able to say that I was part of two online communities during this period, Ux4 and Daft Crew. We used to await each Crydamoure release with baited breath, even down to what the graffiti-based sticker would be on the label. It was a sport to us to try and find the sample before anyone else!
@@PadChennington Oh, and my favourite Cryda releases are Play Paul - Spaced Out, Le Knight Club - Hysteria II, and Buffalo Bunch - T.IT.T.S.. All three were a sheer masterclass in how the French guys could literally sample ANYTHING (Valerie Dore - Get Closer, Change - Miracles, Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing), and flip it into a funky track. God, I miss French house. EDIT: Dude, your video is making me feel OLD! Just spotted the Daft Punk Rex Club set on there at the end. I was one of the first, if not the first, people to share that set out back on the old Audiogalaxy platform, in the late 90s/early 2000s.I think it would probably be true to say that every copy that exists out there has come from mine. And the reason the quality of it isn't fantastic is because the guy I originally got it from was someone who actually worked at the club, and he refused to release the master copy, which was CD quality. No amount of begging or pleading was able to make him part with it, so I shared out the copy I had.
Finally the well deserved recognition done so professionally and intuitively. Great job Pad. Middle school me in 05 would’ve loved to have this at the time.
thanks so much! besides explaining the samples of Crydamoure, I really didn't find much on a discussion video of the label, so I was more than excited to make it :)
Well Pad, didn't expect a House lesson int his, but it makes sense given how Future Funk is the offspring of that sound. Honestly, I can hear the influences of what you were speaking of with Crydamoure in even other artists that might be known outside of what's in the movement. especially when it comes to pop and the usage of of around 124 BPM to hit that proper 'dance' vibe. As for this, I wasn't a French House listener. My main exposure to the mega-genre and sound of electronica has always been more the Chemical Brothers, DJ Sasha, and then moving onto more stuff in the trance idea. That feeling of just floating in space, as if you're in a suit and watching the universe through a glass visor. Sounds like what we hear in French House though, remind me we could be living in a new-era 70's with the good AND the bad when it comes to culture, politics, views, and technology. We didn't get those robots, but we got something just as sci-fi with pocket super computers that respond by touch and voice, and the entire integration of a virtually-limitless data encapsulation of the entire world that we know now simply as the internet. Artists today aren't simply to copy the sounds of their mentors and idols, but they are to be the children. They are to evolve the sound, and perhaps at that point create their own new sounds and genres to show just how far we can push the idea of sampling, electronic sounds, and even distribution and production to new ways even we first-gens of the internet age can't even come up with. You think it's kinda crazy how we lept from hearing things on CDs at the turn of the millennium to digital distribution, I can't begin to imagine how nuts fifty years is going to look when it comes to that. We're all gonna look like our parents, but with kids of that age completely baffled when looking at an old Windows XP and going "How did you even function" thing. I think that's the point of what Crydamoure is doing. It's even in the name of the label. It's a cry for passion, of love. A desire to do what one loves and to make that into sound. They're taking an older idea and sound, and then making it new again because there's still so much more to show with older music and samples. That's where we need as artists is to make our own samples and music, so that the next gens have their seeds for their own music to grow. We're already seeing that with Future Funk taking international artists and samples and making the finest courses of pop culture music like it was the best dishes served up for an world-focused audience. Guess going back to that earlier topic, we're children of an age of internet. The world made open in digital dreams the likes of which only the imagination can be its limits. The future didn't pass us by exactly. It had come right under our noses. We can have our robots, city scapes, our retro asthetics. We just were expecting to live in it, when we were the ones who built it through music and visuals. Like ol' Arthur O'Shaughnessy said in his 1873 poem Ode, "We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers And sitting by desolate streams; World losers and world forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems."
OMG how did I only find out about this video now? So awesome to hear you branch out and talk about other types of electronic music. French House is my favorite!! Keep up the good work :)
I was introduced to french house by discovery by daft punk, cross by justice and the charlie ep by the phantoms revenge, I fell in love with it and wanted more of it but I never knew what the genre was called, cut to 2016 and I discover future funk, it brought me back to when I discovered french house and again, fell in love with it, I recently listened to waves 1 and 2 and I plan on picking up the cd for both, but I can't find the cd for waves 2 anywhere for a reasonable price :(( In 2016 I discovered more french house artists that are underrated like Pablo J and the Lobsterettes and His Majesty Andre which took the phantoms revenge's style and threw it out the window with somewhat crazy sampling. Great video pad! Also PS: fibre 810 deluxe cd arrived and it looks and sounds sick
FIBRE is a god send for the funky, underground side of electronic production . This kid is going places...and I know that waves cd is hella expensive :(
@@PadChennington I desperately want to see the old style come back actually, it would be cool to see it stick around outside the future funk genre, I've been tempting to as a month or so back I attempted to recreate a phantoms revenge track (I can't lose) can't wait for what fibre and barbwalters have in store, they're seriously good and deserve mainstream attention imo. what I find crazy about the cds is that it's only waves 2 that gets the treatment, waves 1 can go for like $10, $20, etc. I do know that a lot of the waves 2 discs are copy protected so that may have to do with its expensive price now.
Never is too late you discover the french house music! I discover french house with Daft Punk Homework. In my opinion change the way the create electronic music in all the world!
Thank you so much for your video- I’ve had a huge French house phase so long ago and remember hyperfixating on it for so years. Huge nostalgia hit for me right here and is inspiring me to feature more French house in my sets.
My family didnt have internet for a long time when i was younger, so i didnt get to experience much besides what was popular with my age group at the time, but one of dad's coworkers got me a bunch of music on one of those ancient giant usb-drives that younger me needed both hands to lift. On that Usb was most of the songs from "Discovery", "Human After All" and more. Ill never forget hearing "Robot Rock", "Television rules the nation", "Face to face", "technologic" and "harder, better, faster, stronger" for the first time. It's been my favorite band ever since!
Man, when I first got notified that you were making this video I was both excited and expecting a very brief but descriptive history on this label. And I was left satisfied at the end of the video. I’ve known Crydamoure and Roulé for the past two years along with many of the other French house artists you’ve mentioned in the video. Thanks to this video I now know a little more about this amazing record label. Great job on this and I can’t wait for whenever you give Roulé a try.
I love your channel and I’m beyond stoked you, let alone anyone, is talking about Crydamoure, Ed Banger, etc..! It would be cool to hear your take on Thomas’ label, Roulé. Big ups ❤️✌️
Finally an in depth video that goes deep into the history of French House! Can't wait to hear you talk about DJ Falcon and Roule. You have great taste in music!
this is a beautiful video man, thank you.... as someone who had the exact same late 2000s love for the whole resurgence of French Touch... i used to make my own tracks under the name DJ Happy.... it's awesome to see Guy Man's solo ventures get love! thank you for this video
Yes! I can vividly remember the experience of putting back tens of records just because they were sounding samey. Justice, Sebastian et all really revitalised the genre. It's the spices that keep the eatin' good. Amazing retrospective dude. I appreciate it!
This made my day, I stumbled across your video through the boys noize mix and OH MY GOODNESS! I've always had an affinity for house / funk but didn't really know how it was made or the history. Thank you for this thoughtful and informative video. People like you remind me why I love RUclips!!!!
Thanks so much Giulia! reading this made my day too, had a ton of fun making this video happy to bring it to ya! gonna be doing some more French house content in the future so stay tuned!
You took me down a memory chute with this one. Suddenly remembered this mix I had from that era and had to track it down. It's more techy and deep but there's a bit of French feel too to Timewriter's "Greetings from Plastic City" so I thought I'd recommend it to you as well.
The way Pad discovered french house was an extremely similar story of how I discovered vaporwave. Starting with the original 420 track by Vektroid, and falling into a whole rabbit hole of other artists and just being so attached. Now, I listen to it so much, I enjoy your videos, and I even make it myself!
4:23 Yeah I agree with that "treasure hunt" aspect of music exploration. Liking one track leads you to search for the source and then similar tracks that almost always surprises you with new discoveries and connects the dots on clues you didn't know you even had. Each rabbit hole is full of other rabbit holes. This has been true for vaporwave, which has a formulaic side to it but thankfully a strong spirit of experimentation, and my explorations of late 70s horror soundtracks and space/scifi themed disco.
@@PadChennington Sweet! I just started to dabble with house music production this year so I'm always looking forward to your stuff man. Thanks for getting back!
Cryda was nuts. When Le Knight Club came out, everyone wanted to crunch their tracks to make that sound. Everyone. The thing with their releases is that you could spot the sample, go get it, and remake the track and it still won't sound as good as those cuts on vinyl. The mix, the saturation, the musical filters, it was nuts. It's funny too - I've lived through three major disco house revivals, and even though it's the same formula, the majority of it just doesn't match Cryda (or artists in their periphery).
Been listening to French House since I heard the Discovery album by Daft Punk. Before that I was a big fan of Eiffel 65 and other such italodance. The same year that the Discovery album came out, Eiffel 65 released an album called "Contact". There was a song on the Contact album which was essentially Eiffel 65's very ambitious attempt at a French House track. The result of that was a flawless blend of high-energy italodance and french house titled "New Life". If you haven't heard it, you must. I've honestly never heard any other dance song quite like it because it captures the feel of both genres so well.
You've put my love for French House into words that I couldn't find myself. I wish it would come back. Pretty amazing that The Phantom's Revenge has been mentioned twice by name in the TV show "Letterkenny" though.
17:57 is interesting I figured the mixing was handled this type of way because both compilations have their own cohesiveness even with the different tracks sharing a similar feel
Amazing video man! Daft Punk, I feel, is the reason I even got into vaporwave/synthwave/future funk and other styles of music alike. I had no idea they launched their own record label though. The other type of thing I thought they did was the movie Interstella 5555. Now I got so much more music to listen to. Thanks for doing this :)
I loved discovering daft punk at age 10 with the Leiji matsumoto film and the album discovery, coincidentally I found this video just now when I’m getting back into listening to French House and artist like Mr Oizo, Justice, and Crydamoure lol
I listen to a lot of le knight club and crydemore stuff. it is the sound of french touch Edit: the fact that he brings up alexdaftpunk91 channels brings a tear to my eye
Yes! I actually released an album in February, one song is actually called CRYDA NIGHTS and is dedicated to my love for Crydamoure...I'll link you the album!: ruclips.net/video/ooNU0jhcfDA/видео.html Let me know what you think!
Hi, frenchboi here, really cool vid ! Daft Punk was really leading the first french touch scene, I also encourage you to check out the life of David Blot, the guy who threw all the french house club nights called "Respect". He never made music but was at the center of the scene. Today he casts a radio show called Le Nova Club, that has a particularly strong music selection, he still digging music as of today
French house was my shit for the longest time. I actually use to throw parties in Boston (had Fred Falke and Phantom’s Revenge as guests). This whole Vaporwave rolling into Future Funk thing is a little weird to me but ok I’ll take a resurgence. But let’s just call it what it is.
Both composed their own music with someone else and they eventually they encountered eachother and decided to compose music. Together is a dead trademark sadly and Le Knight Club is too. Perhaps Thomas and Guy-Man will bother to try and get them back to rerelease their songs (or finally release them like Call on Me)
Pad, You should check out an album called Cerise Records 2015 compilation. It has such a retro feel to classic French House music and such groovy melodies and rythms. Also one of the artists of the compilation, ShaderMader, has a youtube channel showing all the amazing mix sets from Daft Punk during their 1997-98 alive tour, and records from Crydamoure and Roule
Spot on ! I discovered ed rec in very early 2000s and it changed everything for me. I remember having a beer with pedro and his gf at the time. Trying to talk with justice and Sebastian was hard as i knew little french. Good times.
Pedro is the nicest guy ever. Met him in LA at Cinespace the night after seeing Daft at Coachella (2006). Then he brought some of the Ed Rec crew to NY for a showcase at this club called Element. He recognized me from LA and we talked for a bit. Every time he’d come through NY, he’s hit me up and invite me to whatever gig he was playing. He hooked it up BIG TIME when he invited me down to Miami to catch another Daft performance at a festival called Bang! After their performance, he invited my friend and I backstage to meet Thomas and Guy at their trailer. We all shared some Stellas, then they gave us cards to get us into their after party. Sickest night of my life.
Oh yeah, those days when Crydamour sounds were around. In parties organized in interesting venues (from fabrics with few dancefloors to poshy bars), in underground radio etc. Had few vinyls and a lot of blackouts back then. :) .
I fell down the CRYDA rabbit-hole myself as a radio station DJ in college, ~2010. I felt like I was in on some kind of special secret. So many people were Daft Punk fans, but for some reason never went looking for their delicious side projects. Speaking of "Soul Bells"--that was the track I got the most "What the hell is *this*?!" comments for playing. Still a favorite. Re: your comments about bringing the label back & recruiting new artists, one who has gone by seya (and 5eya) went criminally unnoticed during the Soundcloud French house revival wave in the early 2010s: soundcloud.com/5eya/seya-float I always felt like he could have done well on Crydamoure if he had been born a decade earlier.
House music and disco were one of the few music genres that I grew up with (besides Filipino music, metal, and jazz), since my parents had mixtapes that they’d play while we were house cleaning. When I first heard of future funk, I thought it was a resurgence in French house music, since a lot of future funk music absolutely reminded me French house. It’s really grooved with the funky vibes. Also, it’s because Pad’s channel, I started listening to future funk and French house again.
It wouldn’t surprise me if “Instant Crush” was Guy-Mans idea. That song sounds like what could be sampled into a Crydamoure release. That garage-lounge rock just amped up with that trademark hazy psychedelic filter work and it would be a Le Knight Club song.
doggystyle being the last release on crydamoure is almost symbolic. it signals the change from the sweet, romantic french house sound to the aggressive, hard sound of the sleazy french electronica that would follow with daft punk releasing human after all and the whole ed banger crew establishing themselves.
Crydamoure was highly influenced by Chicago Black House music DJ's / producers. Shout out to my man Paul Johnson for showing Guyman & Thomas how to set up their speakers and equipment.
Yes! I wanna pick up moon safari on vinyl, definitely an album that goes under the radar for many people hopefully this video spreads the word a little bit
@Pad Chennington I'd easily recommend the live 5 minute version of La Femme D'Argent as one of the best live versions of any French House Track. From Talisman to Sexy Boy and everything in between. Air was rocking 20 years ago and still bangin today. Keep doing what you do Pad. Lovin the content!
He is already doing something , heard nightcall by kavinsky , it was co-produced by Guy Manuel. He has been working behind the scenes on a lot of songs. Guy Manuel also worked on The Weeknd's hurt you with Gesaffelstein.
@@thebatman1482 I think he means that he keeps working on a lot stuff, sometimes getting credited, sometimes not. It's not like they released 4 albums and a couple lives and then played with Playstation for 20 years. They were always working on other stuff, mostly solo projects as producers.
so i think creating some new original material between fans as kind of a tribute or nod to the early french house scene would be cool cool just a thought.
The solidgoldberger blog was a godsend around the time these were released...I actually still listen to Crydamoure tracks daily were my love of Daft Punk waned with every release after Homework.
Crydamoure's basically my inspiration in making music in general. I too was into it when I was a freshman in high school. I'd dance to them nonstop. Til I got the courage to produce music of my own😁. Gotta love some french touch house music 👏😎
Songs in the backround:
0:03 Le Knight Club - Boogie Shell
1:14 Le Knight Club - Coco Girlz
3:05 Le Knight Club - Hysteria
3:50 Le Knight Club - Coral Twist
5:38 Le Knight Club - Gator
6:04 United Tastes of Deelat - Wet Indiez
9:55 The Buffalo Bunch - Take it To The Streets
11:04 Sedat The Turkish Avenger - Feel Inside
12:52 Archigram - In Flight
20:08 Le Knight Club - Mirage
21:41 Le Knight Club - Cherie D'Amoure
22:16 The Eternals - The Wrath of Zues
22:45 Raw Man - Number Seven (Le Knight Club Remix)
you're doing gods work fr
@@tu_nonna_emiliana listen to alot of Crydamoure music
I believe this is yours 👑
@@a7c777 thank you
You forgot soul bells 14:16
I remember during middleschool, my friend introduced to me Daft Punk. We downloaded a crap ton of mp3s of their songs in class and talked about them for hours. Then I finally listened to Discovery, and I was hooked. This soon lead to my newfound in French House and soon EDM in general. It's just something about the repetitive yet smooth style always kept me coming back for more.
ahhh, Discovery Discovery Discovery...the gateway drug for us all!
*Newfound interest
The same thing happened to me! I saw it on someone’s MySpace page in middle school and ever since then I’ve been a huge fan
DISCOVERY nao é um album EDM, mas boa house underground, quando o disco saiu, era bom se toda a EDM fosse como DISCOVERY
Discovery's tracks aren't repetitive tho. A lot of the tracks change after a few measures.
My boyfriend’s older brother is Deelat. Met him last year in Paris when visiting family. A very nice guy. I told him that there are still Crydamoure label fans that love the releases and his style. He was surprised but happy. I’ll send him this video! Thanks for mentioning him.
Hope you asked him to translate the French speech on his tracks? :-D
"Son nom est Deelat, le fondateur de la World Wide Wetness.." 😉
@@seb9690 It is indeed! ;-)
What's the bit after that though? Or on Wet Indiez, when he goes "Please!..."
that’s so cool
that is awesome
I almost exclusively hear people talk about Thomas. Nice to see that you tell us a bit about Guy-Man! 1993 - 2021 🤍💛 It’s a shame that I hadn’t discovered you back then 🙃
Bruh... YT recommended this to me NOW that they broke up while it could recommend it earlier since I was already subscribed.
lmao tell me bout it
Holy shit! I would’ve never expected this!
Just to provide some context from someone also obsessed with French Touch/House history.
Paul Johnson was a pivotal figure in the Chicago house scene regarding that same sampled sound. He directly influenced Daft Punk’s sound as a whole the same way DJ Sneak did.
It’s not necessary bitcrushing (in the modern context) and more so the result of artifacts from the SP-1200 that they used. It’s a common technique in house and hip-hop to record the sample at 45 rpm and -8 to use as little as the sample time as possible. Pitching the sample back down to the desired pitch (tempo essentially if you’re trying to match your project’s BPM) creates a gritty, aliased sound from the unit.
Fun fact: The first release was done using the same presets that Guy and Thomas used on Around The World. (Confirmed from a conversation from Eric and Paul)
If you would like any help and info with Roulé video, I’d be happy to offer any insight and rare digital masters!
thanks for the awesome info!!! hopefully this gets upvoted to the top of the comments, and of course id love some help! always appreciate people willing to lend a hand
I’m interested in the digital masters, I have the vinyls but can’t really rip them in HQ
I use the PLX1000 but I’m still too much of a beginner to really get it right
the SP1200's 12-bit sound is so unique and iconic. i would sell my kidney for one.
AAAAAAA FINALLY, I'VE BEEN BLESSED. Pad you brought me to vaporwave but I didn't know you knew French house/ edm music in depth aaa. This was worth the wait
Enjoy ! Can’t wait to do the roule label next
Correct pronounciation of the label's name is "Cree-dah-Moor"
From the phrase "Cri d'amour" which means "Love's Scream"
Scream of Love* ;)
@@GuillaumeRx Yeah, sounds better xD
Ive been living a lie
I cringe every time
*Cry of Love
I haven't seen too many channels give Cassius their due, good on you. RIP Philippe.
My dude reviewing one of my favorite labels of all time. Thank you so much.
mere baby I gotchu!!!
Pronounce it "Cree Dah Moor!"
Excellent video mate! Merci mec!
My older brother found daft punk around 2010 and introduced it to me and my younger bro. I still remember all our times just jamming in the living room not giving a care about the world. I still think they’re music gods compared to any other artists.
They ARE gods. Daft Punk compared to other artists is like Disney in the 1940's compared to the other animation studios at the time. Needless to say, there is no competition. Alive 1997 is pretty much their Fantasia.
Daft punk and Kanye
@@calebdonaldson8770 I'd say Discovery is more likely to be their Fantasia.
You are the best for explaining all the rich amazing history behind the duo. i wish more people knew about some of these amazing songs outside of their classics from the daft punk platform.
Thanks! and same, gotta spread the word about the good music!
Nice vid! I was always more into the Bangalter/Roulé Records side of things, but it’s nice to hear some of these tracks again. French house always had such a unique and interesting vibe, a mix of specific samples and production with an overall aesthetic that embraced the trash and sleaze of euro disco and Italo and added a layer of classiness. This shit still holds up!
so many bangers coming out on bangalters end!! yes everything aged so incredibly well, it all has so much charm and flavor.
nice description of the genre ;)
You should have a custom helmet designed for your live shows.
Robby baby...Ur 100% right
Pad Chennington If I was a little better with art and design I’d love to lend a hand.
But where can we build such helmet to create a character
@@DanielshowMY etsy
Commission an artist
I'm quite pleased to be able to say that I was part of two online communities during this period, Ux4 and Daft Crew. We used to await each Crydamoure release with baited breath, even down to what the graffiti-based sticker would be on the label. It was a sport to us to try and find the sample before anyone else!
thats so dope! sounds like such a fun time
@@PadChennington Oh, and my favourite Cryda releases are Play Paul - Spaced Out, Le Knight Club - Hysteria II, and Buffalo Bunch - T.IT.T.S.. All three were a sheer masterclass in how the French guys could literally sample ANYTHING (Valerie Dore - Get Closer, Change - Miracles, Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing), and flip it into a funky track.
God, I miss French house.
EDIT: Dude, your video is making me feel OLD! Just spotted the Daft Punk Rex Club set on there at the end.
I was one of the first, if not the first, people to share that set out back on the old Audiogalaxy platform, in the late 90s/early 2000s.I think it would probably be true to say that every copy that exists out there has come from mine.
And the reason the quality of it isn't fantastic is because the guy I originally got it from was someone who actually worked at the club, and he refused to release the master copy, which was CD quality. No amount of begging or pleading was able to make him part with it, so I shared out the copy I had.
Excellent job Pad! Well done 🙏
My man, thank you!
Finally the well deserved recognition done so professionally and intuitively. Great job Pad. Middle school me in 05 would’ve loved to have this at the time.
thanks so much! besides explaining the samples of Crydamoure, I really didn't find much on a discussion video of the label, so I was more than excited to make it :)
Well Pad, didn't expect a House lesson int his, but it makes sense given how Future Funk is the offspring of that sound. Honestly, I can hear the influences of what you were speaking of with Crydamoure in even other artists that might be known outside of what's in the movement. especially when it comes to pop and the usage of of around 124 BPM to hit that proper 'dance' vibe.
As for this, I wasn't a French House listener. My main exposure to the mega-genre and sound of electronica has always been more the Chemical Brothers, DJ Sasha, and then moving onto more stuff in the trance idea. That feeling of just floating in space, as if you're in a suit and watching the universe through a glass visor. Sounds like what we hear in French House though, remind me we could be living in a new-era 70's with the good AND the bad when it comes to culture, politics, views, and technology. We didn't get those robots, but we got something just as sci-fi with pocket super computers that respond by touch and voice, and the entire integration of a virtually-limitless data encapsulation of the entire world that we know now simply as the internet.
Artists today aren't simply to copy the sounds of their mentors and idols, but they are to be the children. They are to evolve the sound, and perhaps at that point create their own new sounds and genres to show just how far we can push the idea of sampling, electronic sounds, and even distribution and production to new ways even we first-gens of the internet age can't even come up with. You think it's kinda crazy how we lept from hearing things on CDs at the turn of the millennium to digital distribution, I can't begin to imagine how nuts fifty years is going to look when it comes to that. We're all gonna look like our parents, but with kids of that age completely baffled when looking at an old Windows XP and going "How did you even function" thing.
I think that's the point of what Crydamoure is doing. It's even in the name of the label. It's a cry for passion, of love. A desire to do what one loves and to make that into sound. They're taking an older idea and sound, and then making it new again because there's still so much more to show with older music and samples. That's where we need as artists is to make our own samples and music, so that the next gens have their seeds for their own music to grow. We're already seeing that with Future Funk taking international artists and samples and making the finest courses of pop culture music like it was the best dishes served up for an world-focused audience. Guess going back to that earlier topic, we're children of an age of internet. The world made open in digital dreams the likes of which only the imagination can be its limits. The future didn't pass us by exactly. It had come right under our noses. We can have our robots, city scapes, our retro asthetics. We just were expecting to live in it, when we were the ones who built it through music and visuals. Like ol' Arthur O'Shaughnessy said in his 1873 poem Ode,
"We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams;
World losers and world forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems."
Damn killa make this into an article!!
very nice written story
OMG how did I only find out about this video now? So awesome to hear you branch out and talk about other types of electronic music. French House is my favorite!! Keep up the good work :)
ahh thanks so much! I hope to make more videos like this, one on Roule as well! make sure ya stick around :)
This is probably your best video yet, Pad. My new favourite at least
Also Le Knight Club did a Technologic remix in 2016, in case you didn't know
Thank you! Had a blast Doing the research for making this one it was definitely fun and I’m excited to do Roule next !
I was introduced to french house by discovery by daft punk, cross by justice and the charlie ep by the phantoms revenge, I fell in love with it and wanted more of it but I never knew what the genre was called, cut to 2016 and I discover future funk, it brought me back to when I discovered french house and again, fell in love with it, I recently listened to waves 1 and 2 and I plan on picking up the cd for both, but I can't find the cd for waves 2 anywhere for a reasonable price :((
In 2016 I discovered more french house artists that are underrated like Pablo J and the Lobsterettes and His Majesty Andre which took the phantoms revenge's style and threw it out the window with somewhat crazy sampling.
Great video pad!
Also PS: fibre 810 deluxe cd arrived and it looks and sounds sick
FIBRE is a god send for the funky, underground side of electronic production . This kid is going places...and I know that waves cd is hella expensive :(
@@PadChennington I desperately want to see the old style come back actually, it would be cool to see it stick around outside the future funk genre, I've been tempting to as a month or so back I attempted to recreate a phantoms revenge track (I can't lose)
can't wait for what fibre and barbwalters have in store, they're seriously good and deserve mainstream attention imo.
what I find crazy about the cds is that it's only waves 2 that gets the treatment, waves 1 can go for like $10, $20, etc. I do know that a lot of the waves 2 discs are copy protected so that may have to do with its expensive price now.
justice isnt french house
there are a lot of awesome french house producers out there and we discover great tunes nearly every day ;)
Never is too late you discover the french house music! I discover french house with Daft Punk Homework. In my opinion change the way the create electronic music in all the world!
So much nostalgia in one video. Cheers mate
Thank you so much for your video- I’ve had a huge French house phase so long ago and remember hyperfixating on it for so years. Huge nostalgia hit for me right here and is inspiring me to feature more French house in my sets.
My family didnt have internet for a long time when i was younger, so i didnt get to experience much besides what was popular with my age group at the time, but one of dad's coworkers got me a bunch of music on one of those ancient giant usb-drives that younger me needed both hands to lift. On that Usb was most of the songs from "Discovery", "Human After All" and more. Ill never forget hearing "Robot Rock", "Television rules the nation", "Face to face", "technologic" and "harder, better, faster, stronger" for the first time. It's been my favorite band ever since!
You masterfully weaved the history of this genre. Thanks man!
Ahhh merci de faire une vidéo sur ce label un peu oublié malheureusement !
oui oui :)
...awesome narrative of the french touch history
Man, when I first got notified that you were making this video I was both excited and expecting a very brief but descriptive history on this label. And I was left satisfied at the end of the video. I’ve known Crydamoure and Roulé for the past two years along with many of the other French house artists you’ve mentioned in the video. Thanks to this video I now know a little more about this amazing record label. Great job on this and I can’t wait for whenever you give Roulé a try.
thanks! and yeah im excited to get to that roule video, that'll be a fun with all the releases Thomas put out over there
I love your channel and I’m beyond stoked you, let alone anyone, is talking about Crydamoure, Ed Banger, etc..! It would be cool to hear your take on Thomas’ label, Roulé. Big ups ❤️✌️
Oh wow, didn’t realize this video was 2 years old 😂🤦♂️
Finally an in depth video that goes deep into the history of French House! Can't wait to hear you talk about DJ Falcon and Roule. You have great taste in music!
Mr. Oizo litterally came out at the same time as Daft Punks Homework. Mr. Oizo wasn't just
influenced by the sound he was very much a part of it.
this is a beautiful video man, thank you....
as someone who had the exact same late 2000s love for the whole resurgence of French Touch... i used to make my own tracks under the name DJ Happy.... it's awesome to see Guy Man's solo ventures get love! thank you for this video
just found a gem of a channel, Subbed
Yes! I can vividly remember the experience of putting back tens of records just because they were sounding samey. Justice, Sebastian et all really revitalised the genre. It's the spices that keep the eatin' good. Amazing retrospective dude. I appreciate it!
Sebastian is a straight beast...arabest one of the hardest hittin tracks ever
This made my day, I stumbled across your video through the boys noize mix and OH MY GOODNESS!
I've always had an affinity for house / funk but didn't really know how it was made or the history.
Thank you for this thoughtful and informative video. People like you remind me why I love RUclips!!!!
Thanks so much Giulia! reading this made my day too, had a ton of fun making this video happy to bring it to ya! gonna be doing some more French house content in the future so stay tuned!
You took me down a memory chute with this one. Suddenly remembered this mix I had from that era and had to track it down. It's more techy and deep but there's a bit of French feel too to Timewriter's "Greetings from Plastic City" so I thought I'd recommend it to you as well.
I love daft punk with all my heart, also much love pad chennington, long time fan
The way Pad discovered french house was an extremely similar story of how I discovered vaporwave. Starting with the original 420 track by Vektroid, and falling into a whole rabbit hole of other artists and just being so attached. Now, I listen to it so much, I enjoy your videos, and I even make it myself!
WE OUT HERE. Been waiting on this one for a WHILE.
JOSE I GOT U HOMIE
Thank you for this video my guy, excellent work
Thanks for the video. Love how much you have gone into this genre. Great for people trying to understand its legacy and inspirations.
Seriously enjoyed this. I was playing these records at parties in the 90s and it was a magical time for sure.
4:23 Yeah I agree with that "treasure hunt" aspect of music exploration. Liking one track leads you to search for the source and then similar tracks that almost always surprises you with new discoveries and connects the dots on clues you didn't know you even had. Each rabbit hole is full of other rabbit holes.
This has been true for vaporwave, which has a formulaic side to it but thankfully a strong spirit of experimentation, and my explorations of late 70s horror soundtracks and space/scifi themed disco.
This was incredible! would you do a segment on Roule if you havent already?
Thank you! I always wanted to return to doing another video on French house and obviously Roule! I might try and maybe do one in 2025
@@PadChennington Sweet! I just started to dabble with house music production this year so I'm always looking forward to your stuff man. Thanks for getting back!
Cryda was nuts. When Le Knight Club came out, everyone wanted to crunch their tracks to make that sound. Everyone. The thing with their releases is that you could spot the sample, go get it, and remake the track and it still won't sound as good as those cuts on vinyl. The mix, the saturation, the musical filters, it was nuts. It's funny too - I've lived through three major disco house revivals, and even though it's the same formula, the majority of it just doesn't match Cryda (or artists in their periphery).
thats dope, gad damn im dyin for that cryda vinyl lol
really a class for itself
This was fantastic. Thank you for making it! :)
Been listening to French House since I heard the Discovery album by Daft Punk. Before that I was a big fan of Eiffel 65 and other such italodance. The same year that the Discovery album came out, Eiffel 65 released an album called "Contact". There was a song on the Contact album which was essentially Eiffel 65's very ambitious attempt at a French House track. The result of that was a flawless blend of high-energy italodance and french house titled "New Life". If you haven't heard it, you must. I've honestly never heard any other dance song quite like it because it captures the feel of both genres so well.
You've put my love for French House into words that I couldn't find myself.
I wish it would come back. Pretty amazing that The Phantom's Revenge has been mentioned twice by name in the TV show "Letterkenny" though.
My fav electronic genre, sick basslines, catchy and nostalgic vocal samples, and it's french
17:57 is interesting I figured the mixing was handled this type of way because both compilations have their own cohesiveness even with the different tracks sharing a similar feel
Recognising Thomas' duo Together with 'I got so much love to give'
Amazing video man! Daft Punk, I feel, is the reason I even got into vaporwave/synthwave/future funk and other styles of music alike. I had no idea they launched their own record label though. The other type of thing I thought they did was the movie Interstella 5555. Now I got so much more music to listen to. Thanks for doing this :)
thank you for the kind words! yep, I feel like for all of us it goes back to good ol daft punk. god bless em lol
@@PadChennington yeah DP start the fire and make it big
Lol feel really awkward being hyped about the vid and commenting soo late! But great vid Pad and doing my fave genre justice! Vive la France 🇲🇫🇲🇫🇲🇫🇲🇫
I loved discovering daft punk at age 10 with the Leiji matsumoto film and the album discovery, coincidentally I found this video just now when I’m getting back into listening to French House and artist like Mr Oizo, Justice, and Crydamoure lol
Yes, do an episode about Roulé Records PLS !
Will do :)
@@PadChennington :^D
very well put my friend 👏👏👏 ... I feel I'm on a low key lecture of French House. Keep them coming.
Great vídeo bro, love it
thank you! long live French house
I listen to a lot of le knight club and crydemore stuff. it is the sound of french touch
Edit: the fact that he brings up alexdaftpunk91 channels brings a tear to my eye
Very good video bro! From France!
Much love!!!!! thanks for watching
@@PadChennington Do you produce your own music?
Yes! I actually released an album in February, one song is actually called CRYDA NIGHTS and is dedicated to my love for Crydamoure...I'll link you the album!: ruclips.net/video/ooNU0jhcfDA/видео.html
Let me know what you think!
@@PadChennington C'est très très propre like we say in French!
Which VST, pack of samples did you use?
dude this video is incredibly good
The music you've played in the background is super groovy. I have to find those songs in particular
Hi, frenchboi here, really cool vid !
Daft Punk was really leading the first french touch scene, I also encourage you to check out the life of David Blot, the guy who threw all the french house club nights called "Respect". He never made music but was at the center of the scene. Today he casts a radio show called Le Nova Club, that has a particularly strong music selection, he still digging music as of today
Dude, you just made my day!
French house was my shit for the longest time. I actually use to throw parties in Boston (had Fred Falke and Phantom’s Revenge as guests). This whole Vaporwave rolling into Future Funk thing is a little weird to me but ok I’ll take a resurgence. But let’s just call it what it is.
that is amazing damn! I could do a whole video on the phantoms revenge alone, I listened to that player so much in my teens lol
Pad Chennington if you ever want to interview him let me know and maybe I can hook it up. He’s a super nice dude
dude if you could that would be amazing! let me know, message me on twitter!
Pad Chennington I unfortunately don’t have twitter so I messaged your fb page. Follow up whenever. Nbd
u da man
Let's not forget Les Rythmes Digitales/Jacque Lu Cont /Stuart Price.
A worthwhile wait for this gem of a video. Love Crydamoure to death.
Thank you!! Yep this was a long one to make lol
and the other half created one of the best french house songs ever (music sounds better with you)
listen to 552 by herzeloyde
Both composed their own music with someone else and they eventually they encountered eachother and decided to compose music. Together is a dead trademark sadly and Le Knight Club is too. Perhaps Thomas and Guy-Man will bother to try and get them back to rerelease their songs (or finally release them like Call on Me)
yeah
@@jesuschristimsoblueallthetime One of the best songs of all time
Pad, You should check out an album called Cerise Records 2015 compilation. It has such a retro feel to classic French House music and such groovy melodies and rythms.
Also one of the artists of the compilation, ShaderMader, has a youtube channel showing all the amazing mix sets from Daft Punk during their 1997-98 alive tour, and records from Crydamoure and Roule
damn okay I definitely will! thanks for the heads up
i love cerise records
thankx for the hint, we didn't know the comp till now ;) pretty nice track selection on it
Spot on ! I discovered ed rec in very early 2000s and it changed everything for me. I remember having a beer with pedro and his gf at the time. Trying to talk with justice and Sebastian was hard as i knew little french. Good times.
Pedro is the nicest guy ever. Met him in LA at Cinespace the night after seeing Daft at Coachella (2006). Then he brought some of the Ed Rec crew to NY for a showcase at this club called Element. He recognized me from LA and we talked for a bit. Every time he’d come through NY, he’s hit me up and invite me to whatever gig he was playing. He hooked it up BIG TIME when he invited me down to Miami to catch another Daft performance at a festival called Bang! After their performance, he invited my friend and I backstage to meet Thomas and Guy at their trailer. We all shared some Stellas, then they gave us cards to get us into their after party. Sickest night of my life.
@@eyespy3001 man that's a sick story :)
Once you go down the French House rabbit hole, you can't go back!
yep, ur screwed. tomorrow u gon wake up in paris
we never wanna get out of it :D
Oh yeah, those days when Crydamour sounds were around. In parties organized in interesting venues (from fabrics with few dancefloors to poshy bars), in underground radio etc. Had few vinyls and a lot of blackouts back then. :) .
thats insane
the good old days ;)
Thanks for this
I fell down the CRYDA rabbit-hole myself as a radio station DJ in college, ~2010. I felt like I was in on some kind of special secret. So many people were Daft Punk fans, but for some reason never went looking for their delicious side projects. Speaking of "Soul Bells"--that was the track I got the most "What the hell is *this*?!" comments for playing. Still a favorite.
Re: your comments about bringing the label back & recruiting new artists, one who has gone by seya (and 5eya) went criminally unnoticed during the Soundcloud French house revival wave in the early 2010s: soundcloud.com/5eya/seya-float
I always felt like he could have done well on Crydamoure if he had been born a decade earlier.
When is the roule video coming?
House music and disco were one of the few music genres that I grew up with (besides Filipino music, metal, and jazz), since my parents had mixtapes that they’d play while we were house cleaning.
When I first heard of future funk, I thought it was a resurgence in French house music, since a lot of future funk music absolutely reminded me French house. It’s really grooved with the funky vibes.
Also, it’s because Pad’s channel, I started listening to future funk and French house again.
I can groove so hard to Guy and Eric's Le Knight Club tracks
we too
Finally! someone made a video about one of the best French house labels!
:) they deserve it!
@@PadChennington fully deserved and a great work by you Pad
Earned yourself a subscriber.
Ayyyy thanks! Welcome to the family my dude.
It wouldn’t surprise me if “Instant Crush” was Guy-Mans idea. That song sounds like what could be sampled into a Crydamoure release. That garage-lounge rock just amped up with that trademark hazy psychedelic filter work and it would be a Le Knight Club song.
great video.
Thank you RUclips.com! Thank you Pad Chennington!
doggystyle being the last release on crydamoure is almost symbolic. it signals the change from the sweet, romantic french house sound to the aggressive, hard sound of the sleazy french electronica that would follow with daft punk releasing human after all and the whole ed banger crew establishing themselves.
Idk if this was your intention but thank you for getting me into daft punk!
I gotchu mean lingueen
Crydamoure was highly influenced by Chicago Black House music DJ's / producers. Shout out to my man Paul Johnson for showing Guyman & Thomas how to set up their speakers and equipment.
i love that they mention their influences in Teachers
Archigram grew on me it’s raw as hell “ but now I wanna, now I wanna , now I wanna, be your dawg”
Bro!!!! Alexdaftpunk91 yeeahhhh we basically started our French touch fix the same way pad!
lol yes! so many of us dude, its crazy if u go back to the channel you'll see his uploads are from over 10 years ago...crazy how time flies
he/she done a awesome work back in the days and bring the tunes to a huge audience
Great video I never new half of these albums
and the other half was a techno legend who loves rolling and spinal scratching
I was so happy to see AIR mentioned in this. I personally consider Moon Safari one of the best Albums of the entire French movement
Yes! I wanna pick up moon safari on vinyl, definitely an album that goes under the radar for many people hopefully this video spreads the word a little bit
@Pad Chennington I'd easily recommend the live 5 minute version of La Femme D'Argent as one of the best live versions of any French House Track. From Talisman to Sexy Boy and everything in between. Air was rocking 20 years ago and still bangin today. Keep doing what you do Pad. Lovin the content!
thank you!!
Hey pad
Pls make a roulé history video
Thank you!
my pleasure :)
One of my favorite labels!
Your pronunciation of cri d'amour is amusing, lol. Good video!
you think Guy-Manuel is going to do something since he's split from daft punk?
He is already doing something , heard nightcall by kavinsky , it was co-produced by Guy Manuel. He has been working behind the scenes on a lot of songs. Guy Manuel also worked on The Weeknd's hurt you with Gesaffelstein.
@@tech_report_0868 Nightcall is also ten years old
@@thebatman1482 I think he means that he keeps working on a lot stuff, sometimes getting credited, sometimes not. It's not like they released 4 albums and a couple lives and then played with Playstation for 20 years. They were always working on other stuff, mostly solo projects as producers.
@@Shendue oh yes I know they kept producing and writing stuff, that song is very old though. Thomas did some Gaspar Noé scores recently I think
All i know is Thomas released Riga Take 5 in 2018. Maybe Thomas will return to his french house root and continue his music career
“Wrath of Zeus” is a banger.
Very interesting, thanks ! :)
so i think creating some new original material between fans as kind of a tribute or nod to the early french house scene would be cool cool just a thought.
The solidgoldberger blog was a godsend around the time these were released...I actually still listen to Crydamoure tracks daily were my love of Daft Punk waned with every release after Homework.
Crydamoure's basically my inspiration in making music in general. I too was into it when I was a freshman in high school. I'd dance to them nonstop. Til I got the courage to produce music of my own😁. Gotta love some french touch house music 👏😎
and you do it well ;)