Ça, C'est Paris

France. The land of good food, and, surprisingly, good electro and house. The best example? It's home to Ed Banger records, the guys behind Justice and Daft Punk, as well as others like SebastiAn, DJ Mehdi, Mr. Oizo, Feadz, and Uffie. This post has a couple of songs from Ed Banger, but there are also a few from other labels as well.

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My genre of the day: Ed Banger

Okay. Not a genre. But it might as well be as the artists on their roll have a pretty distinct sound.

What you need to be listening to:

Encore (Human After All / Together/ Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You) - Daft Punk
I was planning on putting a Daft Punk remix of a song that's a lot less known, but there was no way I could resist putting this on. Off of the Alive 2007 CD (their live album from that trippy Coachella performance), it builds from Human After All into the other songs (Together and the Stardust song are both from projects of Thomas Bangalter, who is one half of Daft Punk). Crazy, crazy drop; the second half is better, but it all builds into itself. Sound quality is a lot better than on the YouTube version, just download it.
Encore - YouTube
Encore - Download

Paris (ft. Au Revoir Simone) (Aeroplane Remix) - Friendly Fires
Aeroplane is actually from Belgium but the songs called Paris and Belgium is really close to France, so cut me some slack. Plus, it's a legit song. Pretty laid back, but catchy and summery.
Paris - YouTube
Paris - Download

Discobitch (C'est Beau La Bourgeoisie) - Kylian Mash & Laurent Conrad
Super popular house track in the land of the French that came to me by way of my mate in Switzerland who actually got me into electronic music in the first place (BIG holler). The song's a lot of fun and would definitely make a party go nuts. Don't judge the tune on it's video though.
Discobitch - YouTube
Discobitch - Download

Pop The Glock - Uffie
Has Uffie (pic above) laying down vocals over a Feadz beat, straight out of Ed Banger. Ill use of a vocoder in the background and solid bass make for a just chilling kind of feel.
Pop The Glock - YouTube
Pop The Glock - Download

Classic song:

(Classic being used lightly here; it's from 2005)

La Ritournelle - Sebastien Tellier
A classic and chillout at it's best. A little emotional, kind of romantic, and pretty French sounding. It changes up a little with a vocal towards the middle, so listen through. YouTube quality is off, but I had to use this video because it matched my version (the video itself is not great either. I just haven't had good luck with YouTube in this post).
La Ritournelle - YouTube
La Ritournelle - Download


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