But for sure, we all loved the last James Blake album, and we all fell in love on our own. James Blake “We’re four composers, and it’s very difficult to love the same thing at the same moment. There was a real body, a real texture to his sound, especially when he was playing vibraphone in his solos.”Ĥ. We tried a lot to reproduce it, with enough microphones and effects, but we never could do it exactly the same. Lionel Hampton “The texture of Lionel Hampton was very important to us. Daft Punk was the only - I don’t want to say mainstream, because they weren’t, so I’ll say ‘electronic music mainstream’ - they were the only artist of that kind who were played in rave parties. When I was 16, I went to rave parties in the woods, which were totally illegal but we liked it.

There were no French musicians who could do what they did.

Daft Punk “You can imagine that in France they’re at least as important as in America. What he did for swing music - I think not for Gypsy jazz, but for the whole swing style - is very important.”Ģ.

Django Reinhardt “At the very beginning of the story, because of Django, we played Gypsy jazz, so we played swing, so we played Caravan Palace.

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