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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Beaumont-Thomas

The 20 greatest French touch tracks – ranked!

Daft Punk, dressed as disco spacemen, standing on a railway track on a bright sunny day in what looks like the south of France.
Disco spacemen … Daft Punk. Photograph: -

20. Demon vs Heartbreaker – You Are My High (2000)

For the uninitiated, French touch is a wondrous style of French dance music from between the mid-90s and (debatably) the late 00s, based around house rhythms, funk/disco basslines, chopped-up vocal samples and heavy use of EQing so that the sound gets psychedelically compressed and expanded. All those elements are in the quintessential You Are My High, with the titular snatch of Stevie Wonder deployed for shameless hair-stroking, eyes-closing, “no mate I love you more” club experiences.

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