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The scene takes place in January 1993 in a duplex on Avenue Junot, in Montmartre. She is founder for two teenagers and symbolizes an emancipation carrying a musical revolution. In the role of the father, Daniel Vangarde, variety producer for Sheila and Ringo or Joe Dassin, but also disco and West Indian music. The son is Thomas Bangalter, future Daft Punk. “Thomas had his bedroom on the lower floor, says the father. Mine being next door, I had soundproofed it with lead in the wall before it was born, in 1975, to make music there. When I get home, I realize that someone has touched the settings. It’s a bad moment between us, but I put myself in his shoes. I gave him 8,000 francs for his birthday – for others, it would have been a car or a motorbike – so that he could buy equipment. »
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With the money, the son acquires for his 18th birthday a Roland Juno-106 synthesizer and above all an Akai S01 sampler. Completed by a Minimoog keyboard donated by the father, a sequencer, a mixing console and a compressor. Methodical, the apprentice gets into the habit of reading each notice in its entirety. Then he connects all the equipment, placed on trestles, to a ghetto-blaster, these voluminous radiocassettes by their size and their sound power. From then on, his room will be a studio.
At the Even Further rave, on May 24, 1996, in the American state of Wisconsin, the first appearance of Daft Punk live in the United States. PHILIPPE LEVY At the Even Further rave, May 24, 1996. PHILIPPE LEVY Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter in Wisconsin, in May 1996. PHILIPPE LEVY At the Even Further rave, May 24, 1996. PHILIPPE LEVY
The addition of a sampler radically transforms the practice of Thomas Bangalter and his friend Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. This generalized tool in rap makes it possible to “sample”, that is to say to use pre-existing sound extracts for musical creation, transformed into an act of quotation and collage. In his book Sample! The origins of the hip-hop sound (The Word and the Rest, 2018), Brice Miclet singles out the New York hip-hop producer DJ Premier, renowned in the early 1990s “for his science of chopping, for his ability to turn a very short sample into a well thought out loop”. The chopping aims to make the loan unrecognizable – and therefore to escape possible legal proceedings.
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Daft Punk will excel in this playful activity. But without being locked into it. “From the moment we used the sampling technique, it meant for many that we were not composers, that we did not know how to write music, that we were only DJs with turntablescomments Thomas Bangalter today. But when you see the work of Steve Reich with tapes and with samples…” Referring to this American beacon of contemporary music, pioneer of the minimalist and repetitive current, is not insignificant. Bangalter draws this conviction from this: “Guy-Manuel and I were composers from the start, with more or less sophisticated forms and approaches. »
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