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Stardust

 
Artist: Stardust
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Similar Artists:

Dimitri from Paris, Simian Mobile Disco

Performed Songs By:

Thomas Bangalter, Ben Cohen

Formal Connection With:

Daft Punk, Benjamin Diamond
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  • Formed: 1998, Paris, France
  • Genres: Electronica
  • Representative Songs: "Music Sounds Better With You

Biography

On temporary hiatus from injecting the spirit of acid house into the French dance scene as half of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter crafted one of the catchiest dance anthems of the late '90s, Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You." A warm, breezy, endlessly catchy mid-tempo anthem that launched hundreds of similar filter-disco tracks over the next few years, the single was recorded quickly by Bangalter with co-producer Alan Braxe and released on his own Roulé label in June 1998. After ruling the roosts at Ibiza that summer -- along with another Bangalter co-production, Bob Sinclar's "Gym Tonic" -- the track was licensed by Virgin and hit number two on the British charts that fall. Though the label offered Bangalter three million dollars to produce a Stardust LP, he decided instead to make it a one-shot project. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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Stardust

Background information
Origin Paris, France
Genres House
Years active 1998
Labels Roulé
Former members
Thomas Bangalter
Alan Braxe
Benjamin Diamond

Stardust was a one-time musical collaborative effort consisting of producers Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe, and vocalist Benjamin Diamond.

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History

The project released the popular club track titled "Music Sounds Better with You" in 1998. The song, which is based around a sample from the 1981 song "Fate" by Chaka Khan,[1] was recorded in Paris by Daft House productions, where Bangalter, one half of the popular French house duo Daft Punk, is based. The song was conceived in Rex Club, Paris, where the trio were playing a live set[citation needed]. Bangalter and Braxe created the instrumental, which Diamond instinctively sang the title words over. The next day they laid down the track in the studio, adding the Chaka Khan sample. The song reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart[2] and spent two weeks at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart[1] in August 1998.

Bangalter, Braxe and Diamond have not worked together since. Diamond and Braxe resumed their ongoing solo careers, and Bangalter, along with his usual partner Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, went on to release the second Daft Punk album, Discovery, as well as releasing other house music tracks solo or with other partners.

The video for "Music Sounds Better with You" was directed by Michel Gondry. It features a boy who had just purchased a toy plane. Back at home, while he builds his plane, he switches the TV and features top 5 songs. Some of the music videos have Stardust themselves singing their new song and others which has a resemblance of 80s music videos including Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love".

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, (Record Research Inc.), page 244.
  2. ^ UK Singles Chart info Chartstats.com. Retrieved 7 July 2009.

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