21 years on…
the long-awaited re-issue of
STARDUST’S
‘Music Sounds Better With You‘
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“Stardust’s ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ is one of the most
important songs in the French house canon” – Pitchfork
“Arguably the finest example of the filter-heavy, euphoric brand of
house dubbed ‘French touch’ that reached its zenith in the late ‘90s”
– Billboard
“Stardust’s ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ inadvertently
changed the face of house music” – DJ MAG
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The legacy of one of the most instantly recognisable records in house music history, and one that has changed face of dance music globally, continues today as Stardust releases iconic single ‘Music Sounds Better With You‘ on digital streaming platforms for the first time ever. The track is playlist ready, and available to stream HERE.
Preluding an era of domination by the helmet clad duo Daft Punk; originally released in 1998, ‘Music Sounds Better With You‘ was in the eye of a perfect techno-cultural storm and became an immediate touchstone for a new and uniquely French kind of dance music that foregrounds filtered disco samples and deeply swung garage rhythms. Meeting by chance at a house party in the emerging electro scene in Paris in the mid-1990s, Alan Braxe and Thomas Bangalter formed a creative partnership that began officially with ‘Vertigo‘, Braxe’s first single, released via Bangalter’s Roulé imprint in 1997.
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“It wasn’t meant to be a hit. It wasn’t even planned to be released,” yet the feel-good house track has for the past two decades infiltrated every corner of dance music, clubs, airwaves, industry and DJ’s of all genres with its infectious glittering of uplifting groove.
With a vinyl reissue and digital release for the first time ever, what makes the song endure, where so many other hits of that era have been relegated to history, unkindly treated by time?
Part of its timelessness, is the sense that it was already outside of time, a throwback to another generation. Another part, is its cool simplicity; its unapologetic stripping away of anything extraneous, with nothing to disrupt or distract us from its modus operandi: to feel good experiencing music together.
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STREAM ‘MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU’
PRE-ORDER LTD 12″ VINYL REISSUE
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