Until only a few years ago, when you thought of global dance music hotbeds, you thought of New York, London, Chicago, and so on—but Paris? Hardly. Sure, there were French disco stars in the 1970s—Eurodisco auteur Cerrone, Village People creator Jacques Morali, and Parisian- turned–New Yorker François Kevorkian—but, in general, French music has never been known for being very groovy.
In the late-1990s, though, that began to change when waves of fresh and funky club tracks started exploding out of the City of Lights.
Dubbed “Le French Touch” by the UK music press, this new sound, inspired by (and freely sampling from) soul and disco as well as early New York and Chicago house, soon made Paris the new dance music mecca and the city’s young DJs and producers global club superstars.
First came Dimitri from Paris and Daft Punk. Then, in 1998, the worldwide smash “Gym Tonic” dropped on an unsuspecting world, featuring kitschy vocals sampled from a Jane Fonda workout tape and redited to Bob Sinclar, a shadowy figure said to be variously a "spy, jewel thief, Riviera playboy, mercenary, high-class gigolo and sunglass model.”
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