BECAUSE MUSIC RELEASE LONG AWAITED REISSUE OF STARDUST'S "MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU"
TRIO OF THOMAS BANGALTER (DAFT PUNK), ALAN BRAXE, AND BENJAMIN DIAMOND REISSUE LANDMARK SINGLE ON STREAMING PLATFORMS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER + 12" VINYL TODAY
"Stardust's 'Music Sounds Better With You' is one of the most important songs in the French house canon" - Pitchfork
"Arguably the finest example of the filter-heavy, euphoric brand of house dubbed 'French touch' that reached its zenith in the late '90s" - Billboard
"Stardust's 'Music Sounds Better With You' inadvertently changed the face of house music" - DJ MAG
The sole product of a unique collaboration between Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond, "Music Sounds Better With You" was the eye of a perfect techno-cultural storm and became an immediate touchstone for a new and uniquely French kind of dance music that foregrounded filtered disco samples and deeply swung garage rhythms. Originally released on 20th July 1998 as a single-sided 12", the landmark single today receives a long awaited vinyl reissue and has been made available on digital platforms for the first time ever via Because Music. When the reissue was announced last month the immediate and fervent response made it clear that the track has lost none of its impact over the years, including nods from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Billboard, DJ Mag, and many more.
Upon its initial release, the cut was enthusiastically embraced by France's underground nightclub scene and soon circulated throughout Europe and North America. Club by club, one DJ at a time, the song established itself as the soundtrack to a pivotal season in which electronica entered the mainstream cultural consciousness. "Music Sounds Better With You" was licensed to Virgin Records, who commissioned a video by the visionary filmmaker Michel Gondry. Buoyed by heavy rotation on MTV, the clip and song rode a wave of momentum that could only be called 'viral', selling over one million copies in an age still poised on the verge of internet virulence.
What makes the song endure where so many other hits of that era have been relegated to curiosity? Part of it is its timelessness- the sense that it was always-already outside time: both a throwback to another generation and a musical imagining forward into a technotopian, post-human future. Another part of it is its cool simplicity, its unapologetic stripping away of anything extraneous, with nothing to disrupt or distract us from its modus operandi: to feel good experiencing music together.
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