Thomas Bangalter
Thomas Bangalter
Thomas Bangalteris a French electronic music producer and DJ, best known for being one half of the French house music duo Daft Punk, alongside Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. He has also recorded and released music as a member of the trio Stardust, the duo Together, and as a solo artist including compositions for the film Irréversible...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDJ
Date of Birth3 January 1975
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
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Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.
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When you look at what we can call the golden era of concept albums, which starts in the mid or late '60s and ends maybe in the early '80s, it's an interesting time for music. You see all these very established and popular acts and bands and artists that were somehow on the top of their game but really trying to experiment.
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There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.
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Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.
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It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'
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In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know?
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Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.
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Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.
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When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.
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Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.
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Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn't put out its best records.
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There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.
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The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
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The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.