5 Apr 2018

Nights Cultural Ambassador

From Nights, 7:06 pm on 5 April 2018
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Photo: Bonsaichop at English Wikipedia [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Paul Berrington AKA DJ B-Lo, joins us with some more electronic gems - tonight he's talking about a term entitled "French touch", which refers to a period from about 1997 onward where French producers/DJs influenced by American house music took up the mantle, delivering a hugely popular sub-genre from which the likes of Daft Punk, Cassius and Laurent Garnier found fame.

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Photo: By Scott Sandars from Melbourne, Australia (Laurent Garnier) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) or CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons