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If Berlin techno can make the UNESCO cultural heritage list, so can French touch... "We are the inventors of electro. We have that French touch," the French President said in a recent interview.

It would join German techno and Jamaican reggae

Here is an extremely incomplete list of songs that were written, produced and/or performed by Pharrell Williams: “Alright” (Kendrick Lamar), “Hot in Herre” (Nelly), “Blurred Lines” (Robin Thicke), “Hollaback Girl” (Gwen Stefani), “Get Lucky” (Daft Punk), “Milkshake” (Kelis), “Shake Ya A–” (Mystikal), “Rock Your Body” (Justin Timberlake), “I’m a Slave…

Forget festivals and albums. The big (ro)bucks are to be made by making an appearance in one of today’s biggest video games

"With the Nile thing it really had the ‘Chic’ [sound], and I wanted to do my best Bernard Edwards impersonation!"

From meeting Michael Jackson at 19, to playing with B.B. King and on Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, his career has thrived on variety – but the session great tells us it starts with your ears, not your hands...

For your Recording Week pleasure, these are the are the most notable albums of the last 24 years…

Piece By Piece is "a unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams", apparently

Five years after Philippe Zdar fell to his death from a Paris building, Boombass has brought back Cassius – having received his old musical partner’s blessing in a ‘beautiful’ dream

Hubert Blanc-Francard, aka Boombass, is one half of one of France's coolest music exports: Cassius. In the wake of acts such as Daft Punk and Air, they conquered dancefloors and charts across the world as part of the French Touch movement, before reinventing themselves a decade later while producing albums…

On his third LP, Paradise, Purple Disco Machine’s Tino ‘Schmidt’ Piontek pays homage to ‘70s disco recording techniques