House Funatik

Throwback to 1991… St. Etienne “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” cassette single
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Additional Production and Remix by LOUIE VEGA & KENNY ‘DOPE’ GONZALEZ for MASTERS AT WORK Productions, Inc.
Mix Engineer: Dave Darlington
Mixed at (the legendary) Electric Lady Studios in NYC
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Electric Lady Studios were originally built by Jimi Hendrix and opened in 1970. Hendrix wanted a creative space with no rules, a place for musicians to experiment freely. Even though Hendrix only got to record there for a few weeks before his death, the studio became a hub of creativity for generations of artists.

In October 1999, THOMAS BANGALTER played this rave in Chicago and since my friends and I were massive DAFT PUNK fans at the time, we decided to fly to Chicago to see him DJ alongside some of our Chicago House Music heroes, including WAXMASTER MAURICE and ROBERT ARMANI from Dance Mania Records. This was still before the Daft Punk’s Discovery album had even been released.

THOMAS played a hybrid set that night, DJing on vinyl while also triggering samples and playing basslines live on a keyboard.

We ended up taking photos with Waxmaster Maurice and STACY KIDD (who was a last-minute addition after Robert Armani couldn’t make it). The photos of Thomas DJing didn’t turn out very well because he kept shining a flashlight into the camera anytime someone tried to take his picture - this was still the pre-robot helmet era.

It was an unforgettable night and an amazing weekend in Chicago. I also got to meet PAUL JOHNSON on that same trip (I have photos from that too) but that’s a story for another post 😉