Stardust ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ | The Making of a Dance Classic
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- Опубліковано 9 сер 2023
- Alan Braxe, one third of Stardust, dives into the story behind one of dance music’s most recognisable and celebrated tracks, created by one of the genre's most mysterious outfits.
Braxe speaks of meeting Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter and how 'Music Sounds Better With You' itself was initially an improvised set filler, as well as discovering its famous Chaka Khan sample, and provides insight into its iconic video directed by Michel Gondry.
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What are your memories of this track? 👇
Switching on the radio in my car during summer and hearing this masterpiece (and so many others).
What a lucky boy I was to live the golden era of french house in my 20's in France :-)
Also playing it as a DJ on so many gigs as a warmup uptempo track mixing it with house or funk/disco during YEARS.
Even today in 2023 this song works like charms to smoothly heat a dancefloor.
Timeless Classic
Respect Mr Braxe et Bangalter 🇫🇷
Cruising in GTA Online 🤪
Stardust VS (insert song here)
Ibiza summer 98 it was awesome!
My time - one year in the army in 1998-1999
This song is probably one of the only songs I can play on repeat and I wouldn't get bored of it.
Because the grooves are always changing
Modjo - Lady
🧀
@@Bran_Flakesx7 nah
@@osirisofthesouth2853 wrong answer. try again for half credit.
This track has such soul. 25 years from now people will still be enjoying it as they did 25 years ago. It’s timeless.
Such soul. It’s kind of astounding.
Wait a minute, it's been 25 years ..CAN WE SLOW DOWN PLEASE
Yea they sampled Chaka Khan. Ofc it’s gonna have soul lol
In the UK, this came out at a time when there was SO MUCH good music going on around the club scene. Dance music had matured and was regularly getting played on mainstream stations, because so many people were loving these tracks. Not a saturated scene, but seriously, there were so many stellar tracks around this time. And this one STILL stood out. Immediately somehow one of the best tracks of that moment, and has managed to stand the test of time.
Agreed.
Was really getting into house at this sort of time - would of been 15 or so at the time, and started buying Ministry magazine / getting as many compilations as I could - have such a nostalgic love of the old Annuals / Ibiza Annuals and Pete Tongs Essential Selections around the late 90s / start of the 00s.
Judge Jules, Tall Paul, Pete Tong, Carl Cox - loved all their mixes at the time.
Started falling out of love with it when the Ministry of Sound Annuals started replacing the DJs with computer mixing - completely lost what made those albums so special.
Still…great memories.
What time frame would this have been , like very early 2000s ?
@@blairwilliams136 1998
It was the French house era
You got some playlists?
I spent 6 months in Ibiza, summer of 2001 and I heard this song on the beach, in restaurants and in the clubs. Still gives me chills to this day. Amazing track.
Fuck that comment just gave me chills. Summer of 2001 was special.
wow you are lucky
Not only chills but tears to my eyes. Very often this song moves me to tears. Im not even sure why most of the time. I guess house music is powerful for many reasons. Stirring the deepest emotions in ones soul is very obviously one of those.
"It was my first track, ‘Vertigo’" 🤯.
Dude really said his first demo track was Vertigo. Makes me never want to make music again lol.
Alan Braxe, you're a legend. Thank you for sharing your music with the world.
This song means so much to so many people, i play it quite literally every set i possibly can and have done for the better part of my DJ career.
We love this!
It’s such a simple track but it really resonates with people.
I just got a first pressing vinyl copy, cost me a fortune. I’m playing it next week during a set.
@@slammerbar Spin that thing til it can't no more!
We’re two, brother. 🖤
Alan Braxe does not take the credits but is a master in his studio. Always making the sounds big and fat with his legacy equipment ❤
Vertigo is still very nice exsample of simple sampling but clever and funky idea that makes people dance. He is great producer, indeed.
So gentle and humble in this video too. Comes across as a thoroughly lovely fella.
Intro is an unbelievable track with a continuous, simple sample
@@roberthull1593Yessss Intro is truly incredible piece of timeless classic dance music. Will be forever a favourite of mine
The Upper Cuts is one of my favourite house releases of all time
To me, it's the greatest french house track ever. So timeless.
1. Lady - Modjo
2. Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust
3. One More Time - Daft Punk
Alan Braxe - Intro
@@RC.13Nah.
1. This
2. Another chance - Rgr Sanchez
3. Turn around - Phats & Small
@@user-Red5hield-exp0ser good choices too but Lady is objectively top 3
Lady de Modjo, All That Mattered de De-Nuit , One More time de Daft Punk, Music Sounds Better WIth You de Stardust, 1999 de Cassius, Little Scare de Benjamin Diamond, Balmes de Ian Pooley = Mi infancia, mi niñez, lo que más amo!
Obras maestras de la música electrónica universal ✨
I would just add You are my High - Demon
Gracias por presentarme All that Mattered! ;)
My Friend - Groove Armada, Days Go By - Dirty Vegas
@@gnooy13mdfkPoint Of View by DB Boulevard (a.k.a. Heatwave by Phoenix)
You don’t know me- Armand Van Helden 😮💨🔥🔥
@@moskva-kassiopeyaamazing track
Few things in life feel better than sharing music with people you love
AGREED!
sharing it on napster.
Thank you. This is a perfect description of how I feel.
finding the sample is the first genius step...but adding that bassline that changes every 4th bar, then changing completely in the chorus and then going back to the first bassline while the chorus is still happening is just out of this world. It's so satisfying to your ears. Not to forget the vocals that couldn't be more simple, yet so special in the way they sound. A masterpiece!
The nostalgia drawn from this track is so deep and rich for me. It’s amazing how music can do that. It snaps me right back to that time - The lifestyle I was living, the friends that were in my life, all the late nights, amazing interactions, but also how much I’ve changed over the 20+ years since it came out, all the people that are no longer here.
My best friend died in 2000 and his family played this at his funeral. It was such a beautiful moment. Celebrating his (very short unfortunately) life. All the 90’s rave kids in attendance (me included) were crying even more deeply, but with smiles on our faces.
I never write comments on UA-cam! This track still moves moves my soul.
"The nostalgia drawn from this track is so deep and rich for me. It’s amazing how music can do that. It snaps me right back to that time."
Absolutely 100% accurate.
This song was played at my friend's funeral - he was an amateur DJ who died far too young - it helps me hold the memories of the good times we shared together. The words are simple but have so much meaning ❤✨
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I'm so sorry for your loss.
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This song is just the epitome of the feeling of good times. That’s why everyone loves it.
How Could The whole human population love It? when around 8 billion have never heard It.
They produced probably the best house track of all time in a week. Nothing but respect !
It’s decent but essentially it’s a remix of an old track. No where near the best house track produced of all time though. 😆😆
@@BarkingLondon and what is then ?
@@RK-es1lmBlue Monday
@@RK-es1lm Frankie Knuckles 'your love' is a pretty strong contender.
The best French House track. Yes. The best House track? All of Chicago would like to have a word with you.
This song is the definition of infectious.
FACTS!
This song is simply legendary and legendarily simple. A masterpiece.
One rare case of a track that does not age! It still sounds fresh after so many years.
Perfect example how a song based on a "few second loop" can just hypnotize people and make them loose the track of time. The chords, the guitar, the vocal all make you just feel good. One of my favourite songs ever and im not even that into 4/4 beat music! True classic!
this and 'intro' from alan brax/fred falke are two ginormous house tracks that still sound fresh today!
I want this track to play at my funeral, as we people will not be sad. This track gives me an energy
Love the idea!
Alan Braxe and Thomas Bangalter changed my life. Vertigo (especially the Virgo edit) still gives me goosebumps. And I genuinely think I could listen to Music Sounds Better With You forever. It just never gets old. And the video for it is just *perfect* 👌🏻
I was 11 when song came out but even then I knew it was special. It sounded retro and nostalgic, but fresh and modern at the same time. The way the vocals came in and out and the processing used on them made them sound futuristic to me. 25 years later and I still love the track
I remember the first time I heard this song, it was between '99 and 2000. I was just a teen boy then. Such a good memories and good vibes. MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU
Iconic track that stands the test of time, simple effective & always goes down a storm!
I remember seeing the music video on MTV & was hooked from the first 10 seconds
Probably the best song in vocal house music
It’s simple and yet brings so much emotion. Absolute classic from the day it was released and still now I enjoy listening to it.
I still drop this track into sets today and there is NEVER someone who doesn't know who and what it is. Definitively a quintessential classic, legend, and whatever else can describe an absolute beautiful piece of music. If one says that one is "into house music" of ANY genre & sub genre and doesn't know this track, then one is not into electronic/house music.
One of the 1st house track that ripped that sound across the radio stations and that was the start of it.
I remember when this track dropped. It was MASSIVE!
Reminds me of hot summer evenings, blasting it in my car, cruising around the countryside with my best mate while the sun was going down. Still listen to it so so often and love it every time as if I would be listening to it for the first time ♥️ What an absolute masterpiece of music!
In 2000, I was driving from LA to Vegas and this was the only track I played the whole time ❤ timeless dance legacy
This song has been my ringtone for the past 15 years or so. 🤩😍
What an amazingly humble guy for having such talent and being the driving force behind one of the most timeless tracks of all time.
It's still one of the greatest tracks ever made. I just love it, and I never get tired of listening to.
Couldnt agree more, without fail this song still makes me smile. every. single. time.
They were the kings of "simple" tracks. But they were absolute bangers and still slays today. Almost 30 years later.
First time I heard it...98 Smithfield's Farringdon, London, wandering down the stairs into one of the basement rooms to find some house music and discovering 50 or so folk absolutely having it to this. The energy in the room was off the charts, and it must have been fresh to many of us that night. The track became our anthem for the next year or two. Will never tire of it and the memories it created.
I remember hearing this at MOS in London and the "pumping" of the side chain on the track almost made me feel sick! So much push and pull in the sound it was unlike every other track I hear that night. This is more than a track it was a sonic event and become my first introduction to sampling and side-chain as a very young club enthusiast. Amazing times.
I have a blurry memory, more than two decades ago I've seen it on TV (without remote control, yeah), and I can feel the aura of my childhood home. This track is one of my earliest memories related to music, and it follows me during my life. ❤ It's always in my Playlist, it was always saved on pc and cd or dvd.
I had a notebook, and I wrote inside the titles of the favorite songs. The notebook has gone, but this one was never forgotten.
And today I have this song on vinyl after 25 years.Its one sided with roulette on the B side 😊❤
Roulette is incredible as well!
I remember when this song came out and hearing it for the first time. It was massive. It still is. Timeless.
*_This_* and *_Lady by Modjo_* are the epitome of House music! It doesn't get any better
Don't forget KING OF MY CASTLE - WAMDUE PROJECT
Also: ROGER SANCHEZ - ANOTHER CHANCE
No, they're not. The epitome of french house, maybe...
@@Weathermane79 Exactly.
French House is ok but it's a cheap, MacDonalds happy meal style of dance music.
The best House music by far is the mid 80's original stuff.
Most modern day clubbers don't even know where the term 'House' music even comes from.
@@Weathermane79 Word... the epitome of the commercial French Touch sound that reigned during the early 2000s scene in most European clubs. For many of us the nostalgia factor plays a huge factor, since we grew listening to this music in the club and have so much memories from those years. But the music can't be compared with the classic Garage sound and the whole House and jackin movement. House music is a feeling.
As a kid of the 90’s, I remember how this track was on heavy rotation in MTV. I still listen to it from time to time on UA-cam, a simple loop, some drums and a rollercoaster of emotions, memories and nostalgia!
Usually repetitive songs aren't my thing and get boring fast, but that continuous guitar-like riff is so catchy. The bass groove behind it is so great!
You play the same bar in a rock track for 5 minutes, singing the same verse over it, everyone gets bored. You loop the perfect sample with perfect processing and you could listen for hours. The magic of french house.
Timeless legendary track!!! 🔥🔥🔥
🤝
I heard this song first time in winter 98/99 and immediately I bought a single. I started playing it at parties. It's an easy track to strech, looping a section. It wasn't hard to make a 10 minute or longer version and the people on the dancefloor loved it. Very often I mixed this track with Dj Tonka "She knows you" and Daft Punk "One more time" not knowing then about Daft Punk's connections with Stardust. Great times.
When DP dropped this as the closer for the 2007 alive tour. One of the greatest moments in music history..
One of the best vibration ever made in the universe.
I remember finding this song like 2-3 years ago, and instantly feeling in love with it. I would play it every day I woke up, and I'd crave for the moment my local radio station played this (and lady from Modjo), which surprisingly they're still being played. Whenever it sounds on a party I immediately get dancing. This is one of the few songs that really got me into Disco House, both the old, and the newer recent releases. Thanks Stardust!
one of the best songs ever made
I remember I was in Bucharest for the summer and we used to get MTV France on the telly, and the song (just like in the video) started climbing the charts and ultimately hit number one. Fast forward 24-25 years later I still spin the song when I'm dj'ing and the reaction every time is the same from the crowd. Timeless.
I remember payin £12 for this as a promo on vinyl. I was late getting to the club and lots of people were already at the club waiting. I put this on as the first track and it erupted.Years later I played it at a beach party in tenerife and again it was perfect as the sun set. The best music is sometimes the most simple and this is just perfection
I'm 35, and this track brings so much nostalgia ❤ truly a masterpiece!!!
I'm 52 and it does for me also 😊
I'm 61 and I bloody love it... and why not, it's pretty much disco and I was a teenager when that kicked off 😅
Considering it's simplicity this track is arguably one of the greatest dance records of all time. I still get goosebumps when I hear it, twenty odd years later. Big ups Alan Braxe & the rest of Stardust 🖤🤍
Grew up in Paris in the late 90s / early 2000s. This song was the soundtrack of that era for me. That kid making the orange plane, the lyrics... brings such a joy of innocence. Always memories of summer when I hear this
Man this song right here memories!! Teenage years going out every weekend dancing your heart, no worries!! I ran across a video and this song was in it!! I’m 56 man jumped up 5am dancing in my room!!! It moves your soul!!!!! If you’re in a mood this right here brings you out of it!!!!!! Thanks Stardust memories!!!!!
Amazing memories!
I love this song
Still to this day
As a DJ ( vinyl- no laptop)
I play this song 3 times a day
Do Touch Me by Rui da Silva!
I was a 7 yo boy in 98' in France when this came out and already crazy about music in general. I remember hearing that song a bit everywhere on radio and obviously the music video on MTV (back when they were playing music) or other french music program late at night. Since it came out in summer there's a lot of warm, fun, holidays, summer vibes a 7yo kid could have :)
My older sister which was like 13-14 yo was playing it a lot too with her friends (I was secretly in love with one of her friends) and they were dancing at home music loud asf when our parents wouldn't be here ahah. I mean how cannot you dance on this song right?
And of course not to forget to mention that France won the World Cup that year so there was just a super great vibe and really good atmosphere in my life of a 7yo kid at that time. I am grateful for this and to this day talking about it just makes me feel happy and smile 😀
I remember listening to this every morning as a kid on MTV.
Would then play the song at parties / warmups as I got older.
Then the song released on GTA5.
Tune has been with me almost my entire life.
Love it.
I don’t even typically play this style of music, but I have a vinyl copy of this just in case, because I will drop it whenever I get the chance, it’s that good.
Stone cold classic. Timeless. It’s so well produced and mastered, it sounds massive anywhere to this day.
Very humble honest person seeing him speaking
I love that the most replayed part of the video is when he speaks about the Chaka Khan "fate" sampling. Some of the best house music has its roots deeply seated in disco. This song was my jam right out of the gate when it came out in 98'. They captured lightning in a bottle here and I'm not sure that'll ever be repeated. It's timeless.
one of the greatest tracks. an absolute masterpiece period
The fact they only made 1 single song as a group is a tragedy
Raving in the mid-west in the late 90's OMG, this song was played for the entire summer every party, every city. I still play this. Turned my girl onto it in 2008, she was like where has this song been all my life?
Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond all in the same studio; how could you expect this NOT to be magical. What's even crazier, is to think that there was a time when they were just music lovers who casually went to parties, and spoke about ideas. SURROUND YOURSELF WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE AND YOU CAN DO ANYTHING.
There is just something about this song that makes you want to get up and GROOVE!
This is one of my favourite songs of all time, I hope he knows the joy it brings
Met Alan at the 1979 club in Paris back in 2010 , and he was just like on the video, super humble, shy and easy going. I chatted for maybe 5 or 10 minutes with him and he was super nice. This guy sold millions but is still pretty down to Earth. Great human being
My first trip to Ibiza was that summer. I remember all the tracks from that year, this was one of them.
A timeless classic. Still remember the first time I played it out. I'm even lucky enough to have a copy on 12".
Such an iconic song! This arrived in my music collection 25 years ago and i still listen to it often, it always makes me happy!
I was 9-years-old growing up in Kansas when I first heard this song on the radio. It was otherworldly, yet warm and resonated so much! I’m so grateful to the local dj that played it and brought such a magical gem into my life. I was hooked from the start and it’s influenced me as a musician and artist to this day as a lot of times: it’s best to keep it simple. ⚡️✨
please take me back in time. This spirit will never come again 🥺
This song marks an difficult time of my life, and was so important because it bring joy in very dark times! Unfortunately i couldn't experienced the song on the dance floor when it came out, only a year later, but it remains as one of the most emotional positive dance song for me!
I am roughly as old as this song, but I still love it to this day.
I am currently in the process of getting all the Roulé and Crydamoure vinyls and i love them too.
I love the organic nature of the birth of songs like this. Spontaneous collaborations always produce things that stand the test of time. Reminds me very much of how "I'm Blue" came to be.
I watched half way - so inspired - I am going to the park with my drum machine in the sun -Its 11.33am August 16 and a hot day in Clapham Common.🧡
It went into my top 5 house songs the moment I heard it ❤
And never left.
I was 15 years old and this song changed my life.
Thank you Stardust.
How did it change your life? Would love to hear the details.
In those days I only listened to rock (especially grunge), one day I was flipping through the channels and came across the Stardust video whose sound and visual style immediately caught my attention... there was something magical about those silver beings, plus I guess it must be a sub effect since my mother listened to disco music all the time at home.
Little by little I left rock music aside and I kept digging about Stardust and who were their members until I found out that one of them was Thomas from Daft Punk, with this my passion for the french touch started... then, digging I found out that all these musicians used samples (mostly disco music) to make their songs and I fell in love with them completely. It all made sense, the disco music that surrounded me since I was a kid was always ingrained in me.
That's why I always say that "Stardust changed my life".
@@davidjaggard
Its crazy how this is the one and only song Stardust ever did... they were offered a lot of money to keep making music under the Stardust name and they refused!!
Such a timeless piece of music
I used to play this every week in bars and clubs. Such a classic track that everyone enjoys.
I love this guy, amazing producer.
Still one of the greatest dance/house tracks of all time. It's so fun and catchy... everyone loved hearing this one in night clubs. The vibe and the beat is incredible. It makes you smile and feel good inside. 😄
Perfect❤
House music had already been around for 25 years before this cheesy French House track was made, and there were hundreds if not thousands of House tracks before this which were much MUCH better.
I was 16 when this song came out and a bit of a late bloomer. My brother and all of my cousins were into r& b and hip hop which i didn't really understand and all of my friends were into metal and grunge which also wasn't really my thing. I remember the first time I heard this song and it opened my eyes to a whole new genre of music. This was the first CD single i ever bought and it changed my life. I love it as much today as I did 25 years ago.
1999ish , in high school still, discovered this song on MTV amp. So interesting watching this song make a resurgence on the Internet because over the years I’ve played it for so many people and nobody knew about it.🙏🏽
What an arrangement, this track is timeless. Thank you Stardust
Timeless song! Brings back so many memories
I remember I switched through the tv program as kid and this song was playing on 3 channels simultaneously..outstanding tune!
When you're so confident your song will go to number 1 that you put it going to number 1 in the video.
One of my favourite House Music ! Masterpiece.
Probably the best dance track ever created! It's my personal favourite and it strikes an emotional chord with me everytime i hear it. The video is very nostalgic too ❤
This is by Far my favorite track alongside lady of modjo
Oh dear.
Try listening to music from the 90's or even 80's.
This is a MacDonalds happy meal dance tune, and the original underground dance music is a 5 course meal prepared by Gordon Ramsey.
@@DjNikGnashers Why do you hate French house so much? You're literally spamming in every comment that it's bad, what's wrong with it?
This track was on my heavy rotation back then. I even bought the CD. I'm still listening to it with great joy. ❤
And we still happy ever since!😊
Thanks Alan, Thomas and Benjamin! ❤
One of the greatest House songs...if not songs period. I've literally been listening to it since it came out...and it NEVER seems to get old!!! F'ing masterpiece!
Alan Braxe is a legend! When I started listening to more French House, I discovered his and Fred Falke's music and it was a really good introduction to this subgenre, besides obviously Daft Punk and Cassius. I always wanted a behind the scenes of this track. Loved this video!
i would have been about 10 when this came out and i never liked it until i reach my 20's a past lover would play this loudly in the car , windows down, summertime and finally this song made sense from then on. There is a sense of nostalgic joy and warmth, predictable hypnotic comfort to this song that drowns out the outside world. Quite remarkable and praise to Stardust for having the confidence not to try and overdo this into typical pop structure.