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The French touch
How Paris put a filter on house
In 1994 one of the founders of a young French label came out with “We give a French Touch to house Music”. Three years later an album recorded in a bedroom was called Homework. This chapter is about one gesture: quoting a record you love, and bending it.
Context first
This one opens without an account, and it is read before the lessons.
- The place
- The era
- The people
The lessons in this path
- 1The French touch, or how Paris put a filter on houseThe French touch invented nothing: disco came from New York, house from Chicago. Paris added a touch, records cut up and run through a filter, and the nerve to say so in English, on the back of a jacket.9 min
How these lessons are written
Each lesson starts from a brief and from period sources: Wikisource, Gallica, Persée, archives and museum websites. A fact that cannot be tied to one of them does not get written. The sources are listed under each lesson, linked directly.
The rhythm
A lesson takes five minutes, four questions at the end, then a review the next day, at three days, seven, twenty-one and sixty. It is that spaced return that makes what you read stay. One a day is enough, and nothing stops you doing several.