French House: The Art of Sampling

Welcome to french, disco, filter, sample house. I'm going to take you through some of the more popular french house tracks, and show you where they got their samples from.

Artists include:
Daft Punk
Le Knight Club
Thomas Bangalter
Modjo
Mylo
Stardust
Ourvais
Lifelike
Kris Menace
Justice
Louis La Roche
..and more.


At the end, I also try to re-create Daft Punk's 'One More Time' with the original samples. I do a pretty horrible job, but you'll get the jist.

Enjoy.

[netsab]

This video is weirdly beautiful and well made for a 10 years old video

[LAZY-RUBY]

That's what makes Daft Punk so great; the fact that they're able to make something new and amazing out of something else. Every piece of art builds on what came before it. Daft Punk's just doing what makes music what it is today. In all honesty, I respect them more than most EDM artists out there.

[impatastic]

Daft Punk is honestly so amazing at their sampling. I mean just listening to Discovery and Homework you can really hear how smart they were is mixing the samples up. It's just awesome, I love them so much

[dominoboy]

I like it better when the original track is played first, the sample track second. That way, you would hear the songs in chronological order, and you would listen to how to how the producer of the sample track was able to make something cool out of the track you previously heard.

[Gaboleonv]

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal" -- Picasso

[leondustar]

Agreed/ There are many amazing synthesizer plugins out there..but simply sampling and (re)sampling audio will always be, and still is incredibly powerfull.

[fireblade]

dude, i had no idea french house was so inspired by disco! now i know why my favourite band is daft punk even though my favourite style is disco

[ShimaBB]

Fruity Loops Studio, or Ableton Live. I reccommend Fruity Loops if you're new.

[sissokofamily]

french djs are sick doing remixes seriously! take an example of daft punk. and the dicovery and homework album is crazy!
🇳🇱 Long live the French! 🇳🇱

[Jona_]

1:37 It's from the Off The Wall album, not Thriller album

[sissokofamily]

french djs are sick doing remixes seriously! take an example of daft punk. and the dicovery and homework album is crazy!

[polopowered]

Nice polished bid with no spelling mistakes. I salute you. God bless sampling :-)

[IsloGames]

Song at the beginning is And the beat goes on- By the whispers

[patricklevesque]

people think sampling is shitty, but imo, as a producer, its its own art form. daft punk totally changed the game with the sampling on discovery and the beauty of it will never be created.

[gearkraft]

Awesome video... the end attempt was closer then I thought it would be. Thumb Up!

[thegiantawakening]

We need more of this type of video creation in YouTube. Presentations of this standard are educational, informative and in this particular case can herald changes in music taste.

[murking]

@Memblem I agree, I was kiding in the sense that it's impressive how many incarnations and projects they both have, cheers for a great video

[ShadomMusic]

i seen this video when was 16 0r 15 im 22 now glad to see its still up 

[SkylerJayMusic]

Thanks for the information, my friend! This video gave me a better look on the world of commercial house production. Now I know where I have to search for. Thanks again!

[randomrandooom]

haven't tried personally but something i know people do is: take the sample/loop, change it to fit the tempo, pitch it up one or two semitones, and then highpass it so you cant hear the kick and the bass is gone (you can still hear a kick its just far less prominent.), and sidechain it to a "four-to-the-floor" beat pattern (a kick on the 1, 2, 3, and 4) so the kick and snare are over powered in the sample/loop. i dont know about synths and hi hats though.