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Stardust is a one-time musical collaborative effort consisting of producers Thomas Bangalter and Alan Braxe and vocalist Benjamin Diamond. The short-lived group released the immensely popular club track called "Music Sounds Better with You" in June of 1998. The song, which is based around a sample from "Fate" by Chaka Khan, was an instant smash, and many have dubbed it "The Greatest House Song of the Millennium". It was recorded in Paris by Daft House productions, of which Bangalter, one half of the popular French house duo Daft Punk, is head. Thomas Bangalter (born 3 January 1975) is a French electronic musician and founding member (along with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) of the French house music duo Daft Punk. ...
Alain Quême, also known as Alan Braxe, is a French electronic music artist. ...
Benjamin Diamond (born Benjamin Cohen, 1975) is a French singer. ...
Music Sounds Better With You is the highly acclaimed single by the shortlived house band Stardust. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens on March 23, 1953 in Great Lakes, Illinois) is an American singer best known for her 1984 cover of Princes I Feel For You, and as a member of the funk band Rufus. ...
French house is a late 1990s form of house music, greatly influenced by 1970s and 1980s disco and funk as well as the productions of Thomas Bangalter. ...
Daft Punk is the collective name of Paris musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975). ...
Though Bangalter was offered three million dollars to produce a Stardust LP, the three members of the band parted ways after their highly auspicious debut, Diamond and Braxe to pursue solo careers, and Bangalter, along with his usual partner Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, to release Daft Punk's second album, Discovery, which marked the group's crossover into the realm of synth-pop. LP or lp may stand for: Look up LP in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974) is a founding member of the French house music duo Daft Punk, along with Thomas Bangalter. ...
Discovery is the 2001 sophomore album by Daft Punk. ...
Synthpop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ...
Notably, the song "Music Sounds Better With You" didn't have a video for several months after release. This was taken to advantage by British music programme The Chart Show, who had received requests to show old graphics before the show ended in August 1998, and they used the fact this song had no video to create a compilation of old graphics, backed by the song. The Chart Show (also known as the ITV Chart Show) was an hour-long music video programme which ran in the UK on Channel 4 between 1986 and 1988, then on ITV between 1989 and 1998. ...
A video was made for the song by Michel Gondry. The video is about an aesthetic boy who finally concinces his parents to buy him an advanced model airplane. Throughout the entire video, you see clips of the normal television music videos of what his father sees, and the video's of the star-people (bangalter) which only the boy can see. Michel Gondry, 2005 Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963 (1964 according to some sources), is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. ...
The boy focuses on building the plane over a few days, and once complete throws it in the air with excitement. The plane gets stuck on a cloud where three star-people (all Thomas Bangalter in costume) wearing white suits, silver boots, silver makeup, and sunglasses are watching. The star-people then decide to give the plane back, and the plane lands on the ground with a twinkle and shine. The star-people wave and leave, the boy waves, and the video ends with the viewer realizing he is a star seed.
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This is a list of number-one dance hits as recorded by Billboard Magazine’s Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart — a weekly national survey of popular songs in U.S. dance clubs. ...
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazines Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. ...
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