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really makes it sound like paris is just a small town with 10.000 - 100.000 people living there, half of them are artists and djs, and they're all living memes, and they all smoke and eat baguette and drive around their miniscooters and drink wine and wear french hats and then meet each other to talk when they stop at a red light..insane, but I'm actually not that far off lol
What he didn't say was that they also all had on blue and white-striped jerseys, strings of onions round their necks, berets and baguettes sticking out of the carrier boxes on the back. Ah hon he hon he hon.
You know what.. now I wish I could find my own music I made when I was 15, back in 1996-1998. Because I would have amazed the dance music genre at the time. I made my own shit, without stealing samples. Now that I see the years/dates all these "famous" producers started out.. I realised I beat them all to it, but I couldn't play in clubs, I didn't have a record label. I was a kid fascinated with electronic sounds and was good at computers. 😵😡
I heard DJ Falcon play ‘Call on Me’ in Australia a year or two before the Prydz version was released. It was the song of the night. After his set, a went up to him and praised the song and asked when it would be released. He said the same thing to me that he told Guetta. ‘ I don’t think it will ever be released’. Then when I heard the Prydz version, I knew straight away that he’d stolen it.
When Call On Me "first" came out in 2004, I could've sworn I've heard it somewhere before. I asked my more "musical" friends where I knew this song from, they all said it came out a few months ago, but I was sure I've heard it years before and I wasn't sure why everyone made such a big deal out of an old song; at least old for me. I even tried to look for an answer on the internet who came up with the song first without much or any results. I thought I fell in or out of a time loop where only I heard this song before it came out, especially when I couldn't find any answers on the internet. I finally decided that it was some deja-vu thing, something weird that happened in my brain and moved on with my life but this feeling of me being crazy always came back when I heard this song, but I never really bothered to re-check about the song in the more modern years of internet. Because of this video, I finally know I'm not crazy and I there are no time loops involved. It was like my own personal Mandella effect which I'm finally free of.
The same happened to me with Ritmo. I was sure I had heard the beat before, but when I asked my friends about it, none of them felt that way. I thought it was me who was mistaken, and probably was a confusion, until I could finally find the source.
@@corporatemcmahon2815 The whole Ed Banger Records label was popping off in the 2000s. Mr. Oizo, Sebastien, Dj Mehdi, Busy P, Para One, So Me, Justice, Uffie
I worked in France in the 90's within the electro Parisian scene. I was lucky enough to get a test pressing of Stardust. It's when 2 of my friends who were DJs started to literaly fight over who would get to play it the same night that I understood this record was very special...
This explains why 'Call on Me' is so different from any other Prydz track. I had no idea that the history behind this track would take 44 mins to explain but here it is. Well done.
To be fair it's not really, there's other songs that he's sampled in similar ways. There's Another Brick In The Wall and I think he also did a bootleg release of Africa by Toto
Yeah, I was always curious why Prydz did not make another "Call on Me". His music under "Pryda" sounds totally diferent than what is happening in Call on me
@@yasin6904 agree. That Africa mix won't show up in most searches but it's out there. Call On Me made him a household name. Yes he released a lot of very different tunes around that time but I feel he did some other tracks primarily for commercial gain / fame. That might be unkind, but think how many other producers out there would never choose to do this. I was a fan of his early work, I'm not saying this to stick a knife in.
If someone had told me that I would watch a 44 minute video about "Call On Me" I would of been skeptical. I was wrong. You completely made it worth it to me. Thank you.
You said what I wanted to say, but not going to pull a spacedust. I'm not going to repost a duplicate. I'm just going to like your comment and agreed... Thank you
The genius is that it's such a repetitive loop and it doesn't try to hide it, but you love it more each time. Please *please* make more videos like this!
I´m the co-admin of the Daft Punk Wiki (I´m Gwtv), and dude holy shit! What a great watch and investigation. I can´t believe the background of the whole song! I joined the wiki around 2013 and both "Call On Me" and "Gym Tonic" articles have been a pain in the ass trying to verify, as soon as I realized it was a deep rabbithole it demotivated me into further looking into it. Great video! Cheers from the Wiki!
Ministry of Sound first offered to release their version but they refused so they got Prydz to remake it and release it without credit to them. First came the "Daft Mafia" remake which Retarded Funk stole. It's basically the same Retarded Funk version but also has Lovelee Dae. Then Eric remade the stolen Retarded Funk version. His initial demo first sampled the original 1987 version, but there were copyright issues, so they redone vocals with Winwood and Replay Heaven and Prydz swapped the new samples and boom. That's the whole rabbithole summarized. You can find the demo by searching Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Thomas Bangalter & Dj Falcon Calling Remix) or try to find the video Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Original Mix) which has a photo of a vinyl. You will instantly notice the difference when you hear higher pitched vocals because it's the same sample as in the Together version. I don't think the Daft Mafia version is on TH-cam, so I'll have to find the CD that I had it on.
Yea that's the moment where this went from "Ey this is a cool vid" to "Wait this guy _really_ knows what he's talking about" and subsequently watching this video three times in full in the span of a year
There are some people so increadibly legendary that just simply "release" 5 songs that they never released, because it wasn't good enough for them. The titan of the Baroque was one of them too.
So Thomas Bangalter gave me a copy of Music Sounds Better with You when he visited Radio FG. Paris March 18, 1998. I’d just given him a copy of Disco Connection vol 1 ep ( Distance /Polyester Records) on my French label whilst Dave Lee ( Formerly known as Joey Negro) & me were promoting our disco house comp of the same name. Still got the white label. Everyone was there Motorbass, Etienne De Crecy…. And David Guetta! They all pitched up to meet Dave of course not me! 😂
@@WilkinsonX Well I had not heard it as they had only just pressed up the white labels but Dave was bit sniffy as he had heard it on CD and said it was just a sample of Chaka Khan ‘Fate’ …. but not sure if that had the vocal on it … it then blew up at WMC in Miami later that month… one of the greatest dance tracks of modern times I believe. We were signed to Paris’ biggest dance label at the time Distance Records and they had singularly failed to sign any of the French major dance acts inc Daft Punk & Air. 😕
This was awesome. I thought I was quite a Daft Punk aficionado and knew a decent amount about both guys' careers but this was all new to me. Great stuff.
I bought this on vinyl also but sadly lost it in a fire along with the rest of my vinyl. The intro is great. Eric Prydz is an amazing producer. His sets are so full of energy. Seen him in Amnesia and he played his Daft Punk private mix.
@@LarsTragel-zh7ei ok, mr professor music. Can you argue It was produced using Digital samplers using samples from vinyl that were recorded very much in the analogue domain. Whether you like it or not, it’s undeniably a smash hit and will always play a part in dance music history.
This was like a tour through the after hours clubs of my high school years. Top Notch production, and amazing tying of the strings together. It’s crazy how you can hear all the tracks that evolved from the records you put together just for one song. New sub, well deserved.
Maybe if Eric Prydz had released "Call On Me" as a remix, and properly credited the artists involved, there wouldn't have been as much guilt and controversy in this whole thing. Remixes happen all the time.
If the original was never commercially released can it truly be called a remix. Do remixes usually sample the original or do they rebuild the entire track from the samples the original used? Assuming he was aware of the Together version he should have given them some sort of credit though.
Seems to me they're both Steve Winwood remixes, Prydz' version at least got the songwriter paid. Guetta was right that Bangalter really should have released a record before someone inevitably stole the idea. But really this is more "biting" than "stealing", if your whole song is a looped pop hook that normal people can easily identify your "ownership" of it is pretty tenuous.
For somebody not really ever interested in music that much; the music evolution, the gray zones of "music authorship", the back-stabbing between creators and pure financial & reputation reward of thuggish behaviour informed me a lot about how pure motives are (mostly) for your own soul, practical relations of power are (mostly) for everyone & everything around you. Thank you a lot, made my week I'd say
Eric and those like him are a dime a dozen. Hell in my day if you had hot sets you damn sure had someone you trust sitting next to your crates. If the venue had DJ's coming up you can bet your ass by nights end someone would take a crack at trying to walk off with one of your banger white labels.
Man I love when people uncover the history of a song. Usually I do this with hiphop and tracing samples back but I heard the call on me song and enjoyed it. It was really surprising to find out it had origins with stardust! Music sounds better with you is one of my favorite songs from them before daft punk but I don't have much knowledge about this genre since I was too young. Going through the story of these songs and learning the origins was definitely entertaining. Great video!
Hearing samples is fascinating- but where is the line? Is it borrowed or stolen for sure? Or is it that people take these “ingredients” and throw them together in different recipes? Lasagna and pizza basically have the same ingredients but the final product is different
@@rayindahay I think samples are an amazing homage to whatever the source is when done correctly. Some people do just change the Pitch of another song and add bass 🙄 but some people like kanye or j.cole or Pharrell are about to find some crazy loop in a song you never would've noticed otherwise and create something like a beautiful mosaic of music. I like to point at Kendrick Lamar- good kid maad city sampling the same song ice cube sampled for "a bird in hand"....which is the song the guys who killed Ricky in Boyz in the hood where listening to when they were driving around looking for people to shoot while Kendrick tells a story running parallel to that of the movie and ice cube song, just adding depth to the song Sampling gets hate sometimes but when done correctly I think it shows a person's knowledge of not only good music other people may not know about but also of just how music works in a mathematical way. But to answer your question lol I think the fact that a sample has to be cleared by the originator lends it to the borrowed side of things.
As a Prydz fan, Daft Punk fan, and overall dance music fan, this video was fantastic. Please make more deep dives into the world of dance music! Thanks Friend!
More like Emplemon, where it's pathed towards a certain message. Summoning Salt has more ploting and Characterjourney/a clear direction where he wants to go or, at least, has to end up.
I found your channel by sheer accident. Now I'm a very busy man, usually with only 15 minute breaks, but damn I watched all 44:14 minutes of this and my jaw has dropped so much I can't believe all this background, it's beautiful, here is a sub.
This is legit one of the best video docu-style stories that has been uploaded to TH-cam recently. I hope everyone on the platform has the opportunity to see this and enjoy it.
For somebody not really ever interested in music that much; the music evolution, the grey zones of "music authorship", the back-stabbing between creators and pure financial & reputation reward of thuggish behaviour informed me a lot about how pure motives are (mostly) for your own soul, practical relations of power are (mostly) for everyone & everything around you. Thank you a lot, made my week I'd say
Really loved the in-depth analysis of this very successful song. Shout also to the amazing coincidence of having captured Zucherberg during his early pre-Facebook years (6:50)
I saw Prydz live in Austin, TX in 2012 and he did not perform Call On Me. I did not expect him to, as I recognized it as being separate from the rest of his own work and what he would play in DJ sets. Didn't know all this history though. Rather illuminating, and I can feel for him for not wanting to be associated with it any more.
Prydz is a genius producer himself, he has stated time and time again that thanks to the success of 'Call On Me' he can produce whatever music he'd like now. Implying that he did it for the money and got lucky
Sometimes musicians and the nature of creative music making goes down that path. They make their one time hit and then with all that financial gain and clout, they can pursue more creative avenues. Happened with a few of the hip hop guys in the early 2010s who had radio/club bangers then left that scene to do edm style music.
They say they re-record but do they really? I do wonder these days, even back then technology was good enough to mess with the original so it looks 'different enough'!
Steve Winwood is the only guy I've ever heard start out with a rough voice and it got cleaner the older he got. So I could quite believe him re-recording it but they could definitely isolate the vocals and do it that way as well.
I love how dedicated videos like this can be, it shows the interest of the TH-camr. Also, the switching of the long "call on me" and the short "call on me" was probably done to cover for the fact that "Valerie" isn't mentioned in the samples (or even the title of any of them) - when Steve sings it, it's a long "Vallerie" followed by a short "call on me", then a long "call on me" followed by a short "Vallerie", so they recreate switching the long and short "call on me"s Finally... until watching this video, I always thought the one guy in the "Call on Me" video was Eric (I just checked to be sure, it's not him - I always assumed it was.)
I usually just listen to a song without too much thinking, but the way you dissected the whole story, its just fascinating. There was soo much more to the story
You'd be amazed at how many songs, famous or not, have backstories just as crazy as this one. _Especially_ in the EDM scene in the 90's, these guys' era. Watch Daft Punk's documentary _"Unchained"._ It's a fantastic historical compilation of Daft Punk's career, and a bunch of huge figures in music are featured in it.
French House wasn't really made distinct because of "adding a low-pass filter". Those filters were very old and established. It's more specifically a very wet side-chained filter which is tied to the kick drum. This results the filter being auto-adjusted in & out around when the kick is hitting, creating the in the characteristic throbbing sound of French House.
sidechain compression, not filtering. though i'm sure some artists used tempo synced filtering as an effect. but the main thing that defines french house to me is the use of short disco loops and the sidechain pumping sound. and daft punk apparently never used sidechaining but just had a very crappy Alesis compressor that just made a crazy pumping sound when pushed hard.
@@stoicface yeah I suppose compression is different from a filter, though when used in that manor it's still more of a filter effect in practice than what compression is normally used for. That was the neat part about it. Yeah, disco loops too but that's not unique to French House.
“They were not just producers, they were actual dj’s too” - I think you had it backwards. They weren’t just dj’s they were actual producers! Great video!
"When you listen to Thomas Bangalter's music, you hear how well he's able to just _work_ with energy; no one does it better." _Trax on da Rocks Vol. 2 beat drop commences_ I can't really express the incredible feelings this particular part gave me. Thank you for this masterpiece of Dance Music history. I knew a lot of this already, but seeing it all explained in a cohesive, well-written essay, complete with visuals, really takes you back into that time. Such an odd era of music, but still one of the best. R.I.P. Daft Punk, long live Eric Prydz.
Guetta made some HUGE mainstream hits but he's no normie, he's a giant among French dance/EDM all his own and deserves the recognition for it, praise shouldn't be held back because of his success
Like the video said, Guetta had a hand in Daft Punk's starting out as well as being the reason Thomas and Falcon met It wouldn't be a stretch to assume he's big in the French house scene
This was amazing, there’s been so much mystery around this song in my friend group for 10 years. We’ve always had our own theories on it but this puts all of those to bed. Thanks for taking the time to do this
As a huge fan of Prydz I have to tell you how much I loved this video. This story is no secret amongst Prydz's followers and pretty openly discussed but I love the level of detail and care you took in constructing this. It puts the whole thing together in a way that I haven't seen yet. As a dance music junkie and bedroom producer... I do need to set the record straight on one thing... You completely understated what Prydz went on to accomplish. He is now widely regarded by other touring producers/DJs as one of the most technically gifted producers AND DJs in House/Progressive/EDM. A huge percentage of artists in those genres list him as their favorite artist and/or their favorite DJ. There's a reason that he "put it together" in a way that no one else did, he's well regarded for his ability to get the right sounds in just the right place.
Yeah, some of the Pryda stuff in particular is insanely well produced (original mix of Niton is probably my favourite: th-cam.com/video/XVO06_YYLTA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=fleszmuzik).
@@Elkenders He describes him as a "successful EDM DJ" at 40:24 to talk about Prydz's career when he's actually (like the parent comment says) one of the best prog house and trance producers around, and has created many many other huge hits. Seeing the level of research in this video, I'm sure its creator knows about Prydz's music and aliases so it was really weird to hear that...
This is one of the best bits of music history I've ever seen, thank you. Also, I genuinely hope that you spend the rest of your life trying to run down the fractal rabbit-holes of dance music singles. Nevermind the inevitable madness.
I think it's important to address the silver lining between ''stealing'' and ''sampling'' When electronic muscisians loops a part of an 80s song and actually makes a whole song out of it, it kinda acts as an uncalled remix of an original piece that is payed omage to, it's sampling When Will.I.Am actually takes an instrummental from Arty & Mat Zo, he does nothing with it, raps over it, and at the same time neither pays or asks for writers credit, that's stealing
@@PelicansCourtsideClub it's a small part of the hook, chopped, looped and reworked. It's definitely recognizable, sure, but I wouldn't say it's the same as just putting vocals on someone else's song and calling it yours. It's not a "dance remix" of Valerie either, and most people would agree that it counts as sampling, not stealing. Most daft punk songs would count as stolen then, and I don't think that's a very reasonable take
Unfortunately, will.i.am DID do something to the Rebound instrumental. He added that stupid ass cringe sounding big room house drop that sounded like everyone's first beat in FL Studio. That's even worse than just stealing the instrumental. That's just pure disrespect. (Also don't forget that when he did finally credit the original producers, he only credited ONE of them.)
@@PelicansCourtsideClub if they were *LITERALLY* the same song, why would millions of people listen to Call on Me over Valerie? I mean, they’re the same song right? Don’t be a dummy xx
It was especially satisfying to learn the actual situation with Winwood helping get Prydz's version released. Everywhere you read says he rerecorded the vocals for the track, but I could tell in his vocals in this version sounded exactly like the original vocal track. But what actually happens is he provides the OG vocal stem and a company recreates the instrumental to put on top of it to avoid master recording copyright. It's a pretty fascinating tidbit in my opinion.
Winwood did re-record the vocals for Prydz. Replay Heaven says so at 33:00. The OG vocal stem would still be owned by the record label, Winwood probably didn't even have access to that.
no, you're wrong. "This is an excerpt from a re-recording of the entire instrumental multi tracks of Valerie by Steve Winwood, commissioned by the artist himself when re-recording his back catalog. Replay Heaven had re-recorded the chorus of Valerie for use in Eric Prydz’s hit ‘Call on me’ and following that, Winwood requested we re-record the entire track for him. The vocals here are supplied to us dry by Winwood. The rest is our own re-recording."
Ministry of Sound first offered to release their version but they refused so they got Prydz to remake it and release it without credit to them. First came the "Daft Mafia" remake which Retarded Funk stole. It's basically the same Retarded Funk version but also has Lovelee Dae. Then Eric remade the stolen Retarded Funk version. His initial demo first sampled the original 1987 version, but there were copyright issues, so they redone vocals with Winwood and Replay Heaven and Prydz swapped the new samples and boom. That's the whole rabbithole summarized. You can find the demo by searching Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Thomas Bangalter & Dj Falcon Calling Remix) or try to find the video Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Original Mix) which has a photo of a vinyl. You will instantly notice the difference when you hear higher pitched vocals because it's the same sample as in the Together version. I don't think the Daft Mafia version is on TH-cam, so I'll have to find the CD that I had it on.
I'm only about halfway through the video but I just gotta commend you for doing such great research. I've also done extensive research on Call on Me and never knew about the Spacedust connection...truly mind boggling to me that he did Thomas dirty again and I didn't know about it. Also idk if you'll mention this in the video or not cause I haven't finished but it's believed Thomas actually didn't have anything to do with the original 2002 live version of Call on Me because he left the Cassius & Together tour early due to tinnitus. Perhaps he helped pick the samples or something but it's unknown if he was ever actually present when it was played live. Anyways, gonna finish the video now. ooh I also just remembered that David Guetta joined Cassius & Together for at least part of their tour, so his recollection that DJ Falcon only wanted to use it in DJ sets is actually really crucial to the story.
Ministry of Sound first offered to release their version but they refused so they got Prydz to remake it and release it without credit to them. First came the "Daft Mafia" remake which Retarded Funk stole. It's basically the same Retarded Funk version but also has Lovelee Dae. Then Eric remade the stolen Retarded Funk version. His initial demo first sampled the original 1987 version, but there were copyright issues, so they redone vocals with Winwood and Replay Heaven and Prydz swapped the new samples and boom. That's the whole rabbithole summarized. You can find the demo by searching Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Thomas Bangalter & Dj Falcon Calling Remix) or try to find the video Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Original Mix) which has a photo of a vinyl. You will instantly notice the difference when you hear higher pitched vocals because it's the same sample as in the Together version. I don't think the Daft Mafia version is on TH-cam, so I'll have to find the CD that I had it on. The Daft Mafia is the secret missing here. I will upload it to my channel if I find it.
I had no idea daft punk had a hand in its origins but when you hear it after knowing that, it really makes sense and fits. It feels like a remix of one of their songs. Amazing how much of a story this one song has that most people will never know.
Really well put together Howard I thought this video would have hundreds of thousands of views ... but I think it will by the end of the year Would love to see more deep dives on samples like this Cheers
Amazing video! This kind of story, especially in dance music industry throughout the 90's and early 2000's is quite common. Here is another example. Take sampling of Carrie Lucas' "Dance With You" (1979). Before Armand van Helden's worldwide 1999 smash hit "You Don't Know Me", there was an underground NYC house track with the same sample Johnick "The Captain" that came out in 1996, and a European house cover with vocals re-sung from Bini and Martini "Dancing With You" in 1998. And then there was the Phats & Small (by the way, Phats has collaborated with our boy Spacedust, too!) track sampling the same Carrie Lucas song called "Music For Pushchairs", which AvH sampled for his song.
IIRC Armand Van Helden and Johnick are friends, and were signed on the same label (Henry St.) But you're def. right about Phats and Small, like the Spacedust guy they were part of the London club scene and did some plagiarism. "Turn Around" (still a banger imo) is a budget "Music Sounds Better With You", "Music For Pushchairs" is AvH's "U don't Know Me", "Feels Good" is Antoine Clamaran's "Do The Funk" etc. But they grew out of that sketchy background and later Small became Freemasons
This is such an amazing piece of documentary for the history of Electronic Music. Congratulations for this effort, it solves a lot of questions. Thanks for this.
I vaguely remember this song and I started watching this documentary fully expecting to move on after 5 minutes. 34 minutes later I paused and was shocked by how fast time had gone by. Kudos on this, if half of youtoube channels had your quality the world would be a better place.
I chilled with Thomas a couple of times waaaaaaaay back in the day in Antwerp, Brussels and my hometown of Scheveningen when i was still a young god and its super true that this guy is a musical genius long before they donned the robot helmets and they went full hermit in their private lives......Man i miss those days. Btw great video and you had to do allot of digging into the wierd obscure reaches of underground Euro house for this " I tip my hat to you sir" much love from the Netherlands.
@@VegaVegnagun Thanks i didnt do it for the likes i was just privaliged to meet so many timeless legends that are still revered by many today the 90 'sand 00's were a hell of a time to be young and DJing.
I was a student in college in 97 and was in the Netherlands for a month then. We were in Scheveningen and up North in Drachten…would go out to the little Dutch clubs…They played the hell out of Daft Punks 1st record (Da Funk and Around the World). I recall some dude with a whistle in the club.
At college I remember one assistant professor coming to a class, saying nothing, and playing this music video on the projector right at the beginning. After the video ended, he continued with the class as if nothing had happened. I applaud that man to this day.
This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. I knew these kind of shenanigans must have been happening all over the place back then, especially in house music. I would love to see you tackle more of these in the Dance music scene. There will be tons of it, I guarantee it! It still surprises me that not many people know about the Zombie Nation one. Another good one is the Timbaland... well everything... but the big one is the "Do It" song.
As a French i feel so proud to have a such profound and complete documentary about the song i grew up with... though it was an English song and that's it. The amount of pieces, new song heards and sort of french touch story is superb. The end is the cherry on the cake it's mind blowing how the loop is looped on the ram 2013 album... it's a small world ! I share with my brother and friend, Great job !
I've been hooked on French house since I was a teen, before the time this video went "viral". French house really evoked such a strong fun live feel, I can't help to feel a bit of envy for the culture I never got to experience. Take some pride, I love the music!
man i was a huge Daft Punk fan growing up, I had all their CD's including some singles I had to special order, they are the reason why I started making electronic music and eventually moved to guitar and then joined the dark side of metal where they have cookies, but I had no idea they broke up! sad days.
Their breakup felt like a death. I woke up, first thing I saw was their video post. Was absolutely devastated for most of the day! I hope they are doing what they want to be doing though.
I remember when this song was first played in the states. After hearing the other versions, you can definitely tell that Prydz version was clearly superior for the pop audience that it was being marketed to.
It's definitely tight and for its time playing on absolutely everything to help it including the babes, it's basically one long hook as far as I remember it. At the same time the tricks and recipes were kinda established and even just 10 mins into tis vid prydz is clearly standing on the shoulders of giants. Personally I keep loving Bob Dylan when it's covered by others, like my god and dealer of my drug music, Jeff Buckley, but Bob still wrote the songs so I have a hard time agreeing with myself.
@@bsh819 could be but to me this one feels flat and repetitive even before it is finished. If someone plays any mix of this song or original, I will leave the dancefloor and go to another, its that annoying to me.
All I gotta say is wow. You have so much knowledge of French House History. Thank you so much for solving this mystery and making it into a video. I"ve been always confused on the origins of this song. Def will subscribe!
That re-recording of "Valerie" is pretty close to the '87 Tom Lord-Alge remix. Pretty incredible that Steve was able to closely recreate his own vocal performance from two decades earlier.
Exactly. I'll admit I'm not a fan of these kind of tracks. I find them repetative as hell and I don't get how somebody playing with a loop of someone else's song gets to be lorded as some kind of creative genius. So, I really can't get why it's a big deal that someone else was playing around with this loop, but didn't release it, and then somebody else played around with the loop and did release it. They were all just basically ripping off someone else's creation. So whoever releases it and has success with it, doesn't seem to matter to me. This whole part of the industry is built off of sampling other people's work. The fact that it's incredibly successfull and people want to watch DJs do it, doesn't change for me the fact that these people create very little without building on what more talented people did before them.
So, the reason for flipping the "call on me" and "call on meeeeee;" musically the longer "meeeeee" is the same as the "Valarieeeee" in Steve Winwoods original song. It replicates the chorus melody of the original song, while stripping the name drop. So it wasn't just flipping the "call on me-s," it was ensuring that the hook still sounded as close to the original chorus as possible.
Because the western culture is brain dead, i saw a guy last night on youtube take apart an omega watch using ultra expensive equipment and he used alot of time to fix it as theres tiny complex parts. Yet he only had a few hundred k subs yet pewdiepie a racist far right Swedish meatball inspired a fan who committed a new zealand mosque massacre and even when disney cancelled his contract he came back more famous and has 100 million subs, welcome to the corrupt west
@@VTuber_Clipp3r So, Disney is a parameter for morality? I am confused, how you equalized Disney into not being the highlight of Westernized mainstream-madness? And, I can ensure you that Pewdiepie is not a Swedish far Right-winged person; actually the complete opposite.
There is a another version of Call On Me by Together that was presented at the Original Pacha Club in Ibiza on 8/13/03. When you jump to 1:16:47 on TH-cam video from it, the samples from Pay & Go are present with "Valerie" sampled too. The only problem is Thomas Bangalter isn't present which makes Together version made by only DJ Falcon.
This is dope. And nostalgic AF! I REMEMBER seeing Thomas Bangalter DJing as himself and Live as himself, i remember him being a lot harder live. So funky it hurt too, some proper jaw dropping drops and samples. I can tell this video took ages to make and research so huge props for that. I'm newly subbed after watching this mate. Fairplay
@@wdpk837it was in Birmingham but it was a looong time ago! And at glastonbury or phoenix festivals... one of mated was a proper techno and house (and everything in between!) nerd, i mean that in the nicest possible way i promise! Anyway. He knew everything about all the best DJs and when n where they would be playing, so we all just used to let him organise the night/weekend out and go wherever he said would be bangin. And it always was! He could give you a running commentary and name every tune that came on and Thomas B was his fkn IDOL so we ended up seeing him a few times. And a good few festivals too. 25 years ago tho, lol , csnt remember the name of all the nights or the clubs... i think Que club at least once
Spacedust is a clear plagiarist however, I'm really impressed by his skill in not just re-creating the tracks but how they sound, his production skills assuming they weren't ghost produced which is a good chance considering everything, is actually quite good
Your comment contradicts itself. Its not plagiarised cause its recreated, if its so easy, you go find a sample and make a hit song. And no, it wasn't ghost produced, Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk) is a very talented producer, evident from his contribution to the legendary French electronic duo Daft Punk. Alan Braxe is also a very talented producer. No disrespect bro, but you cant say he plagiarised it and then say its re-created right after each other.
This makes Guetta partially responsible for Da Funk... My god!! Amazing documentary man, I knew bits and pieces of this story but this was so well researched and presented. Legendary!
I love you and this video so much. It’s literally the first thing I’ve ever seen of yours and I’m subscribing and holy hell. So well researched, gorgeously put together, funny, and all that sweet ministry of sound hate. French house is something I treasure and this video just brought it all back for me. You’re amazing.
It’s interesting. I remember going clubbing in 2004 and the Red Kult version of call on me was regularly played in the first half of the year. Then in the second half of the year the Eric prydz version blew up. A similar thing occurred with Dave Armstrongs Make your move which was usurped by Junior Jack’s Stupidisco, both tracks using the same sample from the pointer sisters.
I love how people always hate on guetta while not even understanding his history, guetta even played a big role in avicii's career. Even if u listen only to modern house, half of your favourite artists wouldn't be able to do it professionally without all the work that guetta put in in the past (and his team)
@@simonhudson7029 How much time did he spend recording the prerecorded set? He might've tweaked it many times to get it the way he wants the audience to hear it.
Im glad you mentioned how the Eric Prydz version was the only one that would have been able to have the success it did. It reminds me of quote that I dont remember exactly, but "its not always the inventor that gets the success, but the person who refines it." He DID do the refining.
You're giving me Electronic Music History and I'm here for it. I grew up listening to all these songs but never knew anything about this until you mentioned it. I'm subscribing .
I love this ! I'm very into samples, tracing sample history, French house, Daft sounds, this was right up my alley. Now I'm of to get Valerie into my S2400 and chop it like its 2003. Excellent work my friend.
What an interesting deep dive into one of my fav songs from 2004. I knew Steve Winwood had re-recorded his vocals for Eric Prydz, but had zero clue about anything else. Very well done!
Really great video and research, I’m a big fan of French house so I’m really surprised I never heard about the backstory behind this track. The whole thing about Contact sampling a loop from 2002 really brings Daft Punk full circle. Earned a sub, looking forward to more music videos
I enjoyed this video more than I do most documentary-style vids I've seen. I'm very much looking forward to seeing your future videos. Also, another thing I'd like to point out, thank you for making it possible to _listen_ to this video, and not having to actually watch it. Everything you covered was described with words and audio clips, so we didn't *have* to be looking at the screen all throughout.
24:34: The record label is wrong. The track is actually Groovy 69. Does have a remix too. MusicFeelsGoodWithYou is straight up Spacedust's MSBWY bootleg. It's the first track on HitsNPieces. The Madonna mashup is done by an artist called Stuntmasterz. Mixing Spacedust's mix with Holiday. There's more to the Call On Me rabbit hole too: Before Prydz -Nursesrun made a bootleg in 2003ish. After Prydz -A bootleg on an obscure label that put out 6 volumes back in the mid 2000's known as The Deep House Experience. -A DnB bootleg call Ballistic Bootlegs in 2007. -And a full on "remix" by JL & Afterman in 2012 titled Call Me, which sounds more like the Red Kult version. More recent examples either replay the melody of the Call On Me riff, or are Vaporwave remixes. One more factoid: Let's Get Down - Spacedust: Someone else did a similar version of that track too. Total Recall by Ultimate Heights which is an alias from a guy called Mark Summers who runs Scorccio. Literally the same idea from Spacedust, but I prefer the Ultimate Heights version better.
Ministry of Sound first offered to release their version but they refused so they got Prydz to remake it and release it without credit to them. First came the "Daft Mafia" remake which Retarded Funk stole. It's basically the same Retarded Funk version but also has Lovelee Dae. Then Eric remade the stolen Retarded Funk version. His initial demo first sampled the original 1987 version, but there were copyright issues, so they redone vocals with Winwood and Replay Heaven and Prydz swapped the new samples and boom. That's the whole rabbithole summarized. You can find the demo by searching Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Thomas Bangalter & Dj Falcon Calling Remix) or try to find the video Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Original Mix) which has a photo of a vinyl. You will instantly notice the difference when you hear higher pitched vocals because it's the same sample as in the Together version. That's the deep house experience thing where the demo is ripped from. I don't think the Daft Mafia version is on TH-cam, so I'll have to find the CD that I had it on.
Excellent voice and musical talent. I still remember watching that video when it came out. Super catchy, great production. None of these remixes would have gone anywhere without a great start as Valerie.
What gets me is how little credit he gets. The main hook of this song IS that chorus which was written and performed by Winwood. Its a great song on its own but that chorus hook is everything.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video - my goal is to release a video every 2 months in 2022, so subscribe if you want to see more videos like this.
Also, who else would you like to see me cover in this series?
This was very enjoyable, more about the daft punk or about evolution of trance, techno and house in general
That was pretty interesting. I love this era of french house. Subscribed
We need more videos like that! Nice work
Keep up the good work man, instantly subbed. I am a huge fan of Daft Punk / Thomas Bangalter but didn't know about any of this :)
Good sample anorak stuff! :o)
David Guetta meeting up randomly with DJ Falcon and Thomas Bangalter on fucking scooters in Paris is the most French shit i've ever head in my life
tru 🤣
Strange thing is that you have a big chance of meeting celebrities in Paris 😄 one was even living in my neighbourhood
really makes it sound like paris is just a small town with 10.000 - 100.000 people living there, half of them are artists and djs, and they're all living memes, and they all smoke and eat baguette and drive around their miniscooters and drink wine and wear french hats and then meet each other to talk when they stop at a red light..insane, but I'm actually not that far off lol
What he didn't say was that they also all had on blue and white-striped jerseys, strings of onions round their necks, berets and baguettes sticking out of the carrier boxes on the back. Ah hon he hon he hon.
😂😂😂😂
I had basically no context going into this and still found it really fascinating. Bravo!
same same, worth it
Gee, I wonder why
hello there...
I still don't know where I am
Oh hey isn't the TH-cam recommendation system magical?
Yes, DJ Falcon was forgotten and underappreciated but can we all agree that Thomas Bangalter is literally a GOD of Electronic Music.
Daft Punk are the Beatles of EDM, they have immense influence on the genre.
well, figuratively a god. Not literally.
No. He was merely in the loop of time. Hundreds went before, around and came after him. No god.
No sorry i just listened to that part where Testify blends into Chicago and its Falcon for me.
You know what.. now I wish I could find my own music I made when I was 15, back in 1996-1998. Because I would have amazed the dance music genre at the time.
I made my own shit, without stealing samples. Now that I see the years/dates all these "famous" producers started out.. I realised I beat them all to it, but I couldn't play in clubs, I didn't have a record label. I was a kid fascinated with electronic sounds and was good at computers. 😵😡
I heard DJ Falcon play ‘Call on Me’ in Australia a year or two before the Prydz version was released. It was the song of the night. After his set, a went up to him and praised the song and asked when it would be released. He said the same thing to me that he told Guetta. ‘ I don’t think it will ever be released’. Then when I heard the Prydz version, I knew straight away that he’d stolen it.
If others are not releasing it, then are you really copying it?
in australia goddamn!! and yeah that sucks :/
Not really stolen if no one releases it
@J.D. or Redkult/Spacedust/Paul Glancy
@@artygvozdev true since it wasn't even planned to be a song by either Bangalter or Falcon
That "Music Sound Better With You" song by Stardust is one of the best house tracks ever. It's crazy how timeless it still sounds
Facts! My husband and I danced to it at our wedding. It’s our song!
That and Modjo's Lady and Pepe Bradock's Deep Burnt
I have to listen to it after watching this.
Big Tune in this video is Dab Hands Retouch of Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love Big tune!
I don’t agree. It's played out and monotonous. Popularity does not equal quality. There's so many more much better house tracks.
When Call On Me "first" came out in 2004, I could've sworn I've heard it somewhere before. I asked my more "musical" friends where I knew this song from, they all said it came out a few months ago, but I was sure I've heard it years before and I wasn't sure why everyone made such a big deal out of an old song; at least old for me. I even tried to look for an answer on the internet who came up with the song first without much or any results. I thought I fell in or out of a time loop where only I heard this song before it came out, especially when I couldn't find any answers on the internet. I finally decided that it was some deja-vu thing, something weird that happened in my brain and moved on with my life but this feeling of me being crazy always came back when I heard this song, but I never really bothered to re-check about the song in the more modern years of internet. Because of this video, I finally know I'm not crazy and I there are no time loops involved. It was like my own personal Mandella effect which I'm finally free of.
OK, so I'm not the only one - phew. I was starting to question my grip on sanity back then.
I 3rd that
You must have heard Valerie by Steve winwood though?
The same happened to me with Ritmo. I was sure I had heard the beat before, but when I asked my friends about it, none of them felt that way. I thought it was me who was mistaken, and probably was a confusion, until I could finally find the source.
You're not alone. I felt I was going crazy also.
I’m so glad that people are beginning to understand just how incredible the late 90s French touch artists were because of your video. Thank you.
We need a playlist man. Spiller, Stardust, cassius, etc. Many I forgot. Best times was late 90s and early 2000s dsnce music
@@corporatemcmahon2815 The whole Ed Banger Records label was popping off in the 2000s. Mr. Oizo, Sebastien, Dj Mehdi, Busy P, Para One, So Me, Justice, Uffie
@@corporatemcmahon2815 Stardust only made one title
I fully undestood it back in the day.
I think everyone knows how awesome they were because the music has always been amazing but, not everyone knows it was a French development.
I worked in France in the 90's within the electro Parisian scene. I was lucky enough to get a test pressing of Stardust. It's when 2 of my friends who were DJs started to literaly fight over who would get to play it the same night that I understood this record was very special...
‘Together’ and ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ were literally meant to be played together. Heavenly harmony
Yeah kind of like how all DJs used to mix Bits and Pieces with Now is The Time
You might wanna listen to the Encore bonus track on Alive 2007.
@@JasonBoon02 When the bass hits is amazing, I can clearly listen to it without playing the live set
And Modjo's Lady
yesss!! ty for reminding me of that @@JasonBoon02 🫂
This explains why 'Call on Me' is so different from any other Prydz track. I had no idea that the history behind this track would take 44 mins to explain but here it is. Well done.
To be fair it's not really, there's other songs that he's sampled in similar ways. There's Another Brick In The Wall and I think he also did a bootleg release of Africa by Toto
Voices sounds like it.
Yeah, I was always curious why Prydz did not make another "Call on Me". His music under "Pryda" sounds totally diferent than what is happening in Call on me
@@Ekiboy1 sure, but cirez d and pryda and eric prydz all have their own unique sound. that's why he has all those aliases
@@yasin6904 agree. That Africa mix won't show up in most searches but it's out there. Call On Me made him a household name. Yes he released a lot of very different tunes around that time but I feel he did some other tracks primarily for commercial gain / fame. That might be unkind, but think how many other producers out there would never choose to do this. I was a fan of his early work, I'm not saying this to stick a knife in.
If someone had told me that I would watch a 44 minute video about "Call On Me" I would of been skeptical. I was wrong. You completely made it worth it to me. Thank you.
If they looped the clip for 44 minutes, Id watch it as well.
You said what I wanted to say, but not going to pull a spacedust. I'm not going to repost a duplicate. I'm just going to like your comment and agreed... Thank you
Yeah I was not prepared for this 44minute ADHD hyperfocus but it was worth it for the education.
I literally found it first thing in the morning and started my morning with it unexpectedly. Was an interesting listen though
@@cortes1020 Spacedust should be the new meme/word for copypasta now.
Falcon is criminally underrated and underappreciated in the music scene
The genius is that it's such a repetitive loop and it doesn't try to hide it, but you love it more each time. Please *please* make more videos like this!
Thats the beauty of french house
Because people are too distracted by the women working out.
Very much the Daft House style
@@belstar1128 I couldn't care less about the women working out (it makes me uncomfortable actually) and still love it
The human mind is relaxed by repetitive loops. It goes back to tribal days thousands of years ago.
I think we’ve all just found a gem of a channel before it blows up. Incredible viewing, didn’t lose my attention for a second.
I didnt knew I needed history on tracks. But I do now :D
Welp-
Agreed
@@WorasLT same!
I was absolutely amazed by the video, but your comment made me instasuscribe. Thanks
I´m the co-admin of the Daft Punk Wiki (I´m Gwtv), and dude holy shit! What a great watch and investigation.
I can´t believe the background of the whole song! I joined the wiki around 2013 and both "Call On Me" and "Gym Tonic" articles have been a pain in the ass trying to verify, as soon as I realized it was a deep rabbithole it demotivated me into further looking into it. Great video! Cheers from the Wiki!
You guys should update the wiki ;)
>co-admin of the Daft Punk wiki
Lol, lmao
Ministry of Sound first offered to release their version but they refused so they got Prydz to remake it and release it without credit to them. First came the "Daft Mafia" remake which Retarded Funk stole. It's basically the same Retarded Funk version but also has Lovelee Dae. Then Eric remade the stolen Retarded Funk version. His initial demo first sampled the original 1987 version, but there were copyright issues, so they redone vocals with Winwood and Replay Heaven and Prydz swapped the new samples and boom. That's the whole rabbithole summarized. You can find the demo by searching Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Thomas Bangalter & Dj Falcon Calling Remix) or try to find the video Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Original Mix) which has a photo of a vinyl. You will instantly notice the difference when you hear higher pitched vocals because it's the same sample as in the Together version. I don't think the Daft Mafia version is on TH-cam, so I'll have to find the CD that I had it on.
You can also search up Daft Mafia - I feel so and it uses the same percussion as in Call on Me "Retarded Funk".
You should be proud of 4:18 when you say “no one does it better” and it drops into an amazing groove
Yea that's the moment where this went from "Ey this is a cool vid" to "Wait this guy _really_ knows what he's talking about" and subsequently watching this video three times in full in the span of a year
There are some people so increadibly legendary that just simply "release" 5 songs that they never released, because it wasn't good enough for them. The titan of the Baroque was one of them too.
This is the biggest Scooby-Doo investigation of song plagiarism I've ever seen.
Sounds like one giant copyright law orgy to me
So Thomas Bangalter gave me a copy of Music Sounds Better with You when he visited Radio FG. Paris March 18, 1998. I’d just given him a copy of Disco Connection vol 1 ep ( Distance /Polyester Records) on my French label whilst Dave Lee ( Formerly known as Joey Negro) & me were promoting our disco house comp of the same name. Still got the white label. Everyone was there Motorbass, Etienne De Crecy…. And David Guetta! They all pitched up to meet Dave of course not me! 😂
i just love old stories like this one
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻
Awesome story. Had you heard music sounds better with you before you were given the white label? Or did you just get home and spin it up blind?
@@WilkinsonX Well I had not heard it as they had only just pressed up the white labels but Dave was bit sniffy as he had heard it on CD and said it was just a sample of Chaka Khan ‘Fate’ …. but not sure if that had the vocal on it … it then blew up at WMC in Miami later that month… one of the greatest dance tracks of modern times I believe. We were signed to Paris’ biggest dance label at the time Distance Records and they had singularly failed to sign any of the French major dance acts inc Daft Punk & Air. 😕
Hard to believe it’s been almost exactly 24 years since then 🥺
This was awesome. I thought I was quite a Daft Punk aficionado and knew a decent amount about both guys' careers but this was all new to me. Great stuff.
I can't believe medlife crisis also listens to edm. Love from India!
Dude, I really don't remember the last time I watched a 44 minute TH-cam video in its entirety. You really did a great job ... 👏👏👏
Same...
Ive watched it twice all the way through, I have some problems
Agree. 44 mins felt like 5 mins
I bought this on vinyl also but sadly lost it in a fire along with the rest of my vinyl. The intro is great. Eric Prydz is an amazing producer. His sets are so full of energy. Seen him in Amnesia and he played his Daft Punk private mix.
Well we all learned something for once instead of mindless nonsense found on TH-cam.
When you really think about it, nobody can handle the fame of "Call on Me." Really goes to show the power of the sample made by legends.
Imagine being a die hard Steve Winwood fan at that show, rolling balls and hearing the beat drop with the ‘call on meeeeee’.
Music sounds better with you is one of the best timeless dance records ever beautifully blends analog and digital sounds 👌
Nostalgic to.
@@LarsTragel-zh7ei dijitall* and anknolog* fix your spelling so people take you seriously, wouldn't want to trigger people now
@@LarsTragel-zh7ei your arrogance leaks through this comment like no other.
@@LarsTragel-zh7ei ok, mr professor music. Can you argue It was produced using Digital samplers using samples from vinyl that were recorded very much in the analogue domain.
Whether you like it or not, it’s undeniably a smash hit and will always play a part in dance music history.
I can’t argue with that. Music Sounds Better and Cassius 99 were the two best House joints of the late 90’s.
This is amazing and I’m so thankful you put this together. This is like serious investigative journalism man.
This was like a tour through the after hours clubs of my high school years. Top Notch production, and amazing tying of the strings together. It’s crazy how you can hear all the tracks that evolved from the records you put together just for one song. New sub, well deserved.
I want such music in clubs now :/
Maybe if Eric Prydz had released "Call On Me" as a remix, and properly credited the artists involved, there wouldn't have been as much guilt and controversy in this whole thing. Remixes happen all the time.
If the original was never commercially released can it truly be called a remix. Do remixes usually sample the original or do they rebuild the entire track from the samples the original used? Assuming he was aware of the Together version he should have given them some sort of credit though.
Seems to me they're both Steve Winwood remixes, Prydz' version at least got the songwriter paid. Guetta was right that Bangalter really should have released a record before someone inevitably stole the idea. But really this is more "biting" than "stealing", if your whole song is a looped pop hook that normal people can easily identify your "ownership" of it is pretty tenuous.
For somebody not really ever interested in music that much; the music evolution, the gray zones of "music authorship", the back-stabbing between creators and pure financial & reputation reward of thuggish behaviour informed me a lot about how pure motives are (mostly) for your own soul, practical relations of power are (mostly) for everyone & everything around you.
Thank you a lot, made my week I'd say
Eric and those like him are a dime a dozen. Hell in my day if you had hot sets you damn sure had someone you trust sitting next to your crates. If the venue had DJ's coming up you can bet your ass by nights end someone would take a crack at trying to walk off with one of your banger white labels.
Except for the amount of effort that went into not crediting the original.
Man I love when people uncover the history of a song. Usually I do this with hiphop and tracing samples back but I heard the call on me song and enjoyed it. It was really surprising to find out it had origins with stardust! Music sounds better with you is one of my favorite songs from them before daft punk but I don't have much knowledge about this genre since I was too young. Going through the story of these songs and learning the origins was definitely entertaining. Great video!
Hearing samples is fascinating- but where is the line? Is it borrowed or stolen for sure?
Or is it that people take these “ingredients” and throw them together in different recipes? Lasagna and pizza basically have the same ingredients but the final product is different
@@rayindahay I think samples are an amazing homage to whatever the source is when done correctly. Some people do just change the Pitch of another song and add bass 🙄 but some people like kanye or j.cole or Pharrell are about to find some crazy loop in a song you never would've noticed otherwise and create something like a beautiful mosaic of music. I like to point at Kendrick Lamar- good kid maad city sampling the same song ice cube sampled for "a bird in hand"....which is the song the guys who killed Ricky in Boyz in the hood where listening to when they were driving around looking for people to shoot while Kendrick tells a story running parallel to that of the movie and ice cube song, just adding depth to the song
Sampling gets hate sometimes but when done correctly I think it shows a person's knowledge of not only good music other people may not know about but also of just how music works in a mathematical way.
But to answer your question lol I think the fact that a sample has to be cleared by the originator lends it to the borrowed side of things.
i just watched this work you put together. absolutely phenomenal. you’ve got an amazing gift of storytelling. no filler.
As a Prydz fan, Daft Punk fan, and overall dance music fan, this video was fantastic. Please make more deep dives into the world of dance music! Thanks Friend!
Same! Can’t wait to watch more.
Agreed. Looking forward to more of these. I don't have any dance music friends so these are great for me!
Yes! More dance (house) videos please
Babylon music
A 44 minute video about Call on Me? There's no way I'm going to finish this. 20 minutes in I'm more invested in this than my future.
lol
Just simply
THE STATE OF THE ART DOCUMENTARY OF CALL ON ME.
This is like the level of summoning salt of music.
It's Ahoy-tier. Or at least damn near close
More like Emplemon, where it's pathed towards a certain message. Summoning Salt has more ploting and Characterjourney/a clear direction where he wants to go or, at least, has to end up.
@@TheLPN05Fan also has similar narration and sort of memes like emplemon, although not as prominent ^^
VERY THIS
I appreciate the hard work it took to produce this video. Excellent job, it was both informative and entertaining!
I found your channel by sheer accident. Now I'm a very busy man, usually with only 15 minute breaks, but damn I watched all 44:14 minutes of this and my jaw has dropped so much I can't believe all this background, it's beautiful, here is a sub.
This is legit one of the best video docu-style stories that has been uploaded to TH-cam recently. I hope everyone on the platform has the opportunity to see this and enjoy it.
I had NO IDEA there was so much history behind this track. And OF COURSE it goes back to Thomas. I like his stuff even when I don’t know it’s him.
For somebody not really ever interested in music that much; the music evolution, the grey zones of "music authorship", the back-stabbing between creators and pure financial & reputation reward of thuggish behaviour informed me a lot about how pure motives are (mostly) for your own soul, practical relations of power are (mostly) for everyone & everything around you.
Thank you a lot, made my week I'd say
Really loved the in-depth analysis of this very successful song. Shout also to the amazing coincidence of having captured Zucherberg during his early pre-Facebook years (6:50)
and anthony fantano
I thought the same.. it could be really him.
I thought I couldnt be the first to mention it, now I've seen your comment nikbe
@@pointbreak8646 same lol
And Anthony Fantano right after lmfao
I saw Prydz live in Austin, TX in 2012 and he did not perform Call On Me. I did not expect him to, as I recognized it as being separate from the rest of his own work and what he would play in DJ sets. Didn't know all this history though. Rather illuminating, and I can feel for him for not wanting to be associated with it any more.
Prydz is a genius producer himself, he has stated time and time again that thanks to the success of 'Call On Me' he can produce whatever music he'd like now. Implying that he did it for the money and got lucky
@@Spitfiren Good for him
Why feel for him, he knew what he was doing? His guilt or embarrassment is his own problem.
Sometimes musicians and the nature of creative music making goes down that path. They make their one time hit and then with all that financial gain and clout, they can pursue more creative avenues. Happened with a few of the hip hop guys in the early 2010s who had radio/club bangers then left that scene to do edm style music.
@@Spitfiren Most people do and there was no original release.
I’m actually surprised at how good Steve Winwoods voice had held up over 22 years…his re-recorded version for Pridz sounded almost exactly the same!
They say they re-record but do they really? I do wonder these days, even back then technology was good enough to mess with the original so it looks 'different enough'!
He said yes to the sample clearance just to flex on em
Steve Winwood is the only guy I've ever heard start out with a rough voice and it got cleaner the older he got. So I could quite believe him re-recording it but they could definitely isolate the vocals and do it that way as well.
@@craigratio james hetfield
@@miloscu John Fogerty too.
I had absolutely no intention of sitting and watching 45 minutes on this, but I'm so glad that I did. Thanks so much for the work and time you put in.
I love how dedicated videos like this can be, it shows the interest of the TH-camr.
Also, the switching of the long "call on me" and the short "call on me" was probably done to cover for the fact that "Valerie" isn't mentioned in the samples (or even the title of any of them) - when Steve sings it, it's a long "Vallerie" followed by a short "call on me", then a long "call on me" followed by a short "Vallerie", so they recreate switching the long and short "call on me"s
Finally... until watching this video, I always thought the one guy in the "Call on Me" video was Eric (I just checked to be sure, it's not him - I always assumed it was.)
I always thought the main lady was Eric, because I didn't know anything about it and it was her face all over it with his name.
I usually just listen to a song without too much thinking, but the way you dissected the whole story, its just fascinating. There was soo much more to the story
You'd be amazed at how many songs, famous or not, have backstories just as crazy as this one. _Especially_ in the EDM scene in the 90's, these guys' era. Watch Daft Punk's documentary _"Unchained"._ It's a fantastic historical compilation of Daft Punk's career, and a bunch of huge figures in music are featured in it.
Thomas Bangalter understands how to “work with energy”. Really nicely put. That’s so right.
French House wasn't really made distinct because of "adding a low-pass filter". Those filters were very old and established. It's more specifically a very wet side-chained filter which is tied to the kick drum. This results the filter being auto-adjusted in & out around when the kick is hitting, creating the in the characteristic throbbing sound of French House.
You're absolutely right in the side-chaining going on BUT the genre IS (at least in more mainstream terms) know for the sweeping filters, I'd say.
sidechain compression, not filtering. though i'm sure some artists used tempo synced filtering as an effect. but the main thing that defines french house to me is the use of short disco loops and the sidechain pumping sound. and daft punk apparently never used sidechaining but just had a very crappy Alesis compressor that just made a crazy pumping sound when pushed hard.
@@stoicface yeah I suppose compression is different from a filter, though when used in that manor it's still more of a filter effect in practice than what compression is normally used for. That was the neat part about it. Yeah, disco loops too but that's not unique to French House.
@@en0n126 true it was a new way to use it.
both, sweeping filters is a simple way of adding tension to a song that otherwise doesn't really have much going on besides a repeating sample
The mix with Always Sunny Bits is one of my favorite touches lol.
Glenn would be proud.
“They were not just producers, they were actual dj’s too” - I think you had it backwards. They weren’t just dj’s they were actual producers!
Great video!
I think he emphasized that because most people call everybody who makes electronic music DJs even if they aren't.
@HAAK it low key annoys me when people call producers DJs lol
@@zaptadub Same
"When you listen to Thomas Bangalter's music, you hear how well he's able to just _work_ with energy; no one does it better."
_Trax on da Rocks Vol. 2 beat drop commences_
I can't really express the incredible feelings this particular part gave me. Thank you for this masterpiece of Dance Music history. I knew a lot of this already, but seeing it all explained in a cohesive, well-written essay, complete with visuals, really takes you back into that time. Such an odd era of music, but still one of the best. R.I.P. Daft Punk, long live Eric Prydz.
This 44 minute video felt like a 5 minute one. Really entertaining, well researched and overall an excellent piece. Good job.
Guetta made some HUGE mainstream hits but he's no normie, he's a giant among French dance/EDM all his own and deserves the recognition for it, praise shouldn't be held back because of his success
Facts!
Like the video said, Guetta had a hand in Daft Punk's starting out as well as being the reason Thomas and Falcon met
It wouldn't be a stretch to assume he's big in the French house scene
@@demonking86420 It was actually the other way around. Guetta told, that it was Thomas, who helped him release his first track.
He was great early on. Sold out tho later on
This was amazing, there’s been so much mystery around this song in my friend group for 10 years. We’ve always had our own theories on it but this puts all of those to bed. Thanks for taking the time to do this
As a huge fan of Prydz I have to tell you how much I loved this video. This story is no secret amongst Prydz's followers and pretty openly discussed but I love the level of detail and care you took in constructing this. It puts the whole thing together in a way that I haven't seen yet.
As a dance music junkie and bedroom producer... I do need to set the record straight on one thing... You completely understated what Prydz went on to accomplish.
He is now widely regarded by other touring producers/DJs as one of the most technically gifted producers AND DJs in House/Progressive/EDM. A huge percentage of artists in those genres list him as their favorite artist and/or their favorite DJ.
There's a reason that he "put it together" in a way that no one else did, he's well regarded for his ability to get the right sounds in just the right place.
He gives Prydz his kudos I think.
Yeah, some of the Pryda stuff in particular is insanely well produced (original mix of Niton is probably my favourite: th-cam.com/video/XVO06_YYLTA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=fleszmuzik).
@@Elkenders He describes him as a "successful EDM DJ" at 40:24 to talk about Prydz's career when he's actually (like the parent comment says) one of the best prog house and trance producers around, and has created many many other huge hits. Seeing the level of research in this video, I'm sure its creator knows about Prydz's music and aliases so it was really weird to hear that...
Pyrdz is the Godfather of Progressive House. Very well respected by his peers.
This story was so captivating that I didn't even notice 44 minutes just passed! What a great job on this video!!
This is one of the best bits of music history I've ever seen, thank you. Also, I genuinely hope that you spend the rest of your life trying to run down the fractal rabbit-holes of dance music singles. Nevermind the inevitable madness.
I love going down rabbit holes like this. Finding original samples do this a lot in hip hop
I think it's important to address the silver lining between ''stealing'' and ''sampling''
When electronic muscisians loops a part of an 80s song and actually makes a whole song out of it, it kinda acts as an uncalled remix of an original piece that is payed omage to, it's sampling
When Will.I.Am actually takes an instrummental from Arty & Mat Zo, he does nothing with it, raps over it, and at the same time neither pays or asks for writers credit, that's stealing
@@PelicansCourtsideClub that's quite reductive
@@PelicansCourtsideClub it's a small part of the hook, chopped, looped and reworked. It's definitely recognizable, sure, but I wouldn't say it's the same as just putting vocals on someone else's song and calling it yours. It's not a "dance remix" of Valerie either, and most people would agree that it counts as sampling, not stealing. Most daft punk songs would count as stolen then, and I don't think that's a very reasonable take
@@PelicansCourtsideClub the song the video is about? Call on me?
Maybe I'm missing something idk
Unfortunately, will.i.am DID do something to the Rebound instrumental. He added that stupid ass cringe sounding big room house drop that sounded like everyone's first beat in FL Studio. That's even worse than just stealing the instrumental. That's just pure disrespect. (Also don't forget that when he did finally credit the original producers, he only credited ONE of them.)
@@PelicansCourtsideClub if they were *LITERALLY* the same song, why would millions of people listen to Call on Me over Valerie? I mean, they’re the same song right? Don’t be a dummy xx
It was especially satisfying to learn the actual situation with Winwood helping get Prydz's version released. Everywhere you read says he rerecorded the vocals for the track, but I could tell in his vocals in this version sounded exactly like the original vocal track. But what actually happens is he provides the OG vocal stem and a company recreates the instrumental to put on top of it to avoid master recording copyright. It's a pretty fascinating tidbit in my opinion.
Winwood did re-record the vocals for Prydz. Replay Heaven says so at 33:00. The OG vocal stem would still be owned by the record label, Winwood probably didn't even have access to that.
no, you're wrong. "This is an excerpt from a re-recording of the entire instrumental multi tracks of Valerie by Steve Winwood, commissioned by the artist himself when re-recording his back catalog. Replay Heaven had re-recorded the chorus of Valerie for use in Eric Prydz’s hit ‘Call on me’ and following that, Winwood requested we re-record the entire track for him. The vocals here are supplied to us dry by Winwood. The rest is our own re-recording."
Ministry of Sound first offered to release their version but they refused so they got Prydz to remake it and release it without credit to them. First came the "Daft Mafia" remake which Retarded Funk stole. It's basically the same Retarded Funk version but also has Lovelee Dae. Then Eric remade the stolen Retarded Funk version. His initial demo first sampled the original 1987 version, but there were copyright issues, so they redone vocals with Winwood and Replay Heaven and Prydz swapped the new samples and boom. That's the whole rabbithole summarized. You can find the demo by searching Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Thomas Bangalter & Dj Falcon Calling Remix) or try to find the video Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Original Mix) which has a photo of a vinyl. You will instantly notice the difference when you hear higher pitched vocals because it's the same sample as in the Together version. I don't think the Daft Mafia version is on TH-cam, so I'll have to find the CD that I had it on.
I'm enjoying this a lot! 9:28 actually a HIGH-PASS filter because the low frequencies are removed.
I'm only about halfway through the video but I just gotta commend you for doing such great research. I've also done extensive research on Call on Me and never knew about the Spacedust connection...truly mind boggling to me that he did Thomas dirty again and I didn't know about it.
Also idk if you'll mention this in the video or not cause I haven't finished but it's believed Thomas actually didn't have anything to do with the original 2002 live version of Call on Me because he left the Cassius & Together tour early due to tinnitus. Perhaps he helped pick the samples or something but it's unknown if he was ever actually present when it was played live. Anyways, gonna finish the video now.
ooh I also just remembered that David Guetta joined Cassius & Together for at least part of their tour, so his recollection that DJ Falcon only wanted to use it in DJ sets is actually really crucial to the story.
Ministry of Sound first offered to release their version but they refused so they got Prydz to remake it and release it without credit to them. First came the "Daft Mafia" remake which Retarded Funk stole. It's basically the same Retarded Funk version but also has Lovelee Dae. Then Eric remade the stolen Retarded Funk version. His initial demo first sampled the original 1987 version, but there were copyright issues, so they redone vocals with Winwood and Replay Heaven and Prydz swapped the new samples and boom. That's the whole rabbithole summarized. You can find the demo by searching Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Thomas Bangalter & Dj Falcon Calling Remix) or try to find the video Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Original Mix) which has a photo of a vinyl. You will instantly notice the difference when you hear higher pitched vocals because it's the same sample as in the Together version. I don't think the Daft Mafia version is on TH-cam, so I'll have to find the CD that I had it on. The Daft Mafia is the secret missing here. I will upload it to my channel if I find it.
You can also search up Daft Mafia - I feel so and it uses the same percussion as in Call on Me "Retarded Funk".
I had no idea daft punk had a hand in its origins but when you hear it after knowing that, it really makes sense and fits. It feels like a remix of one of their songs. Amazing how much of a story this one song has that most people will never know.
Yeah, it's very much the daft house style
Really well put together Howard
I thought this video would have hundreds of thousands of views ... but I think it will by the end of the year
Would love to see more deep dives on samples like this
Cheers
Amazing video! This kind of story, especially in dance music industry throughout the 90's and early 2000's is quite common. Here is another example. Take sampling of Carrie Lucas' "Dance With You" (1979). Before Armand van Helden's worldwide 1999 smash hit "You Don't Know Me", there was an underground NYC house track with the same sample Johnick "The Captain" that came out in 1996, and a European house cover with vocals re-sung from Bini and Martini "Dancing With You" in 1998. And then there was the Phats & Small (by the way, Phats has collaborated with our boy Spacedust, too!) track sampling the same Carrie Lucas song called "Music For Pushchairs", which AvH sampled for his song.
IIRC Armand Van Helden and Johnick are friends, and were signed on the same label (Henry St.)
But you're def. right about Phats and Small, like the Spacedust guy they were part of the London club scene and did some plagiarism. "Turn Around" (still a banger imo) is a budget "Music Sounds Better With You", "Music For Pushchairs" is AvH's "U don't Know Me", "Feels Good" is Antoine Clamaran's "Do The Funk" etc. But they grew out of that sketchy background and later Small became Freemasons
You are sophisticated, well-researched, and FUNNY. Subscribed almost immediately. Keep up the good work!
Same here!
same!
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This is such an amazing piece of documentary for the history of Electronic Music. Congratulations for this effort, it solves a lot of questions. Thanks for this.
I vaguely remember this song and I started watching this documentary fully expecting to move on after 5 minutes. 34 minutes later I paused and was shocked by how fast time had gone by. Kudos on this, if half of youtoube channels had your quality the world would be a better place.
Falcon and Thomas are literally two genius musicians. Thank you for this video!
They're literally not musicians. LOL
I chilled with Thomas a couple of times waaaaaaaay back in the day in Antwerp, Brussels and my hometown of Scheveningen when i was still a young god and its super true that this guy is a musical genius long before they donned the robot helmets and they went full hermit in their private lives......Man i miss those days. Btw great video and you had to do allot of digging into the wierd obscure reaches of underground Euro house for this " I tip my hat to you sir" much love from the Netherlands.
I was gonna like this comment but it already has the perfect amount of likes :D
@@VegaVegnagun Thanks i didnt do it for the likes i was just privaliged to meet so many timeless legends that are still revered by many today the 90 'sand 00's were a hell of a time to be young and DJing.
@@k1ngofpayne991 i know! Somebody already ruined your 69 likes so here goes
@@VegaVegnagun hahaha doesn't matter i get enough 69 in RL
I was a student in college in 97 and was in the Netherlands for a month then. We were in Scheveningen and up North in Drachten…would go out to the little Dutch clubs…They played the hell out of Daft Punks 1st record (Da Funk and Around the World). I recall some dude with a whistle in the club.
At college I remember one assistant professor coming to a class, saying nothing, and playing this music video on the projector right at the beginning. After the video ended, he continued with the class as if nothing had happened. I applaud that man to this day.
Things that didn't happen.
that definitely happened
For me, we were guarding an interrogation facility in Baghdad.
We watched it a few times.
Was a good day.
>Comes to lecture
>Plays 'Call on me' on the projector
>Refuses to elaborate
>Teaches
@@lazarus2691 i feel like they were saying THIS video. But even then.
This was a really hard video to get through! Every time you played a song I had to pause and go play the full thing. Great work!
This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. I knew these kind of shenanigans must have been happening all over the place back then, especially in house music. I would love to see you tackle more of these in the Dance music scene. There will be tons of it, I guarantee it!
It still surprises me that not many people know about the Zombie Nation one. Another good one is the Timbaland... well everything... but the big one is the "Do It" song.
I was a DJ back on the day and had an digital copy of "Call on me" as an mp3 file, six months before it got released as "Call on me by Eric Prydz"
And now I understand ☺️ Great Documentary, I own all the Roule Vinyl showed at the beginning 😉
As a French i feel so proud to have a such profound and complete documentary about the song i grew up with... though it was an English song and that's it. The amount of pieces, new song heards and sort of french touch story is superb. The end is the cherry on the cake it's mind blowing how the loop is looped on the ram 2013 album... it's a small world ! I share with my brother and friend, Great job !
Same for me! (As a french person 🙂)
I've been hooked on French house since I was a teen, before the time this video went "viral". French house really evoked such a strong fun live feel, I can't help to feel a bit of envy for the culture I never got to experience. Take some pride, I love the music!
@@DIM_Tech but it has English words
@@wasabij house music didn’t come from France
man i was a huge Daft Punk fan growing up, I had all their CD's including some singles I had to special order, they are the reason why I started making electronic music and eventually moved to guitar and then joined the dark side of metal where they have cookies, but I had no idea they broke up! sad days.
Their breakup felt like a death. I woke up, first thing I saw was their video post. Was absolutely devastated for most of the day! I hope they are doing what they want to be doing though.
Call on Me riff is from Steve Winwood - Valerie recorded in 1982. Good to see that he got a writing credit.
“I’m the same boy I used to be…” Steve Winwood…yessir!
Awesome 🥰I'm so in love with this jam.🥰
Good ear friend. I'm constantly on who sampled that. Com and I missed that
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Good job, DC. It's so clearly Valerie by Steve Winwood.
I remember when this song was first played in the states. After hearing the other versions, you can definitely tell that Prydz version was clearly superior for the pop audience that it was being marketed to.
It's definitely tight and for its time playing on absolutely everything to help it including the babes, it's basically one long hook as far as I remember it. At the same time the tricks and recipes were kinda established and even just 10 mins into tis vid prydz is clearly standing on the shoulders of giants.
Personally I keep loving Bob Dylan when it's covered by others, like my god and dealer of my drug music, Jeff Buckley, but Bob still wrote the songs so I have a hard time agreeing with myself.
I never get why some tracks get popular and others dont because call on me is just meh.
@@Vanadium It was a revelation if you'd never really heard house or similar before, which I suspect described a lot of the pop-audiance in the states.
@@bsh819 could be but to me this one feels flat and repetitive even before it is finished.
If someone plays any mix of this song or original, I will leave the dancefloor and go to another, its that annoying to me.
@@bsh819 i heard an african guy invented house music and house music was popular in nyc except the west coast
All I gotta say is wow. You have so much knowledge of French House History. Thank you so much for solving this mystery and making it into a video. I"ve been always confused on the origins of this song. Def will subscribe!
That re-recording of "Valerie" is pretty close to the '87 Tom Lord-Alge remix. Pretty incredible that Steve was able to closely recreate his own vocal performance from two decades earlier.
Steve Winwood’s voice is why this is so great!
right, and all these tracks would be nothing without it and they are all some level of "ripping off" of his original work.
Exactly. I'll admit I'm not a fan of these kind of tracks. I find them repetative as hell and I don't get how somebody playing with a loop of someone else's song gets to be lorded as some kind of creative genius. So, I really can't get why it's a big deal that someone else was playing around with this loop, but didn't release it, and then somebody else played around with the loop and did release it. They were all just basically ripping off someone else's creation. So whoever releases it and has success with it, doesn't seem to matter to me. This whole part of the industry is built off of sampling other people's work. The fact that it's incredibly successfull and people want to watch DJs do it, doesn't change for me the fact that these people create very little without building on what more talented people did before them.
So, the reason for flipping the "call on me" and "call on meeeeee;" musically the longer "meeeeee" is the same as the "Valarieeeee" in Steve Winwoods original song.
It replicates the chorus melody of the original song, while stripping the name drop.
So it wasn't just flipping the "call on me-s," it was ensuring that the hook still sounded as close to the original chorus as possible.
Thanks captain obvious.
Basically Daft Punk made the song and a bunch of people stole it before it became a hit.
@@outboundflight4455 No, not Daft Punk
@@fmar.8311 Not obvious at all to people without musical experience. Perhaps employ yours and be more musical in your replies?
@@avienated Nah, I'm good.
How do u have less than a thousand subs? The amount of research and effort u put into this is nothing short of admirable, hats off sir
Because the western culture is brain dead, i saw a guy last night on youtube take apart an omega watch using ultra expensive equipment and he used alot of time to fix it as theres tiny complex parts. Yet he only had a few hundred k subs yet pewdiepie a racist far right Swedish meatball inspired a fan who committed a new zealand mosque massacre and even when disney cancelled his contract he came back more famous and has 100 million subs, welcome to the corrupt west
@@VTuber_Clipp3r You need to touch some grass brother
For sure. The amount of research and attention to details are amazing! I wonder if he'll check out anything from Tiesto lol.
At 6,600 subscribers now. Wow!
@@VTuber_Clipp3r So, Disney is a parameter for morality? I am confused, how you equalized Disney into not being the highlight of Westernized mainstream-madness? And, I can ensure you that Pewdiepie is not a Swedish far Right-winged person; actually the complete opposite.
TH-cam’s algorithm actually working. This is the kind of thing I’m on here for.
There is a another version of Call On Me by Together that was presented
at the Original Pacha Club in Ibiza on 8/13/03. When you jump to 1:16:47 on TH-cam video from it, the samples from Pay & Go are present with "Valerie" sampled too. The only problem is Thomas Bangalter isn't present which makes Together version made by only DJ Falcon.
This is dope. And nostalgic AF!
I REMEMBER seeing Thomas Bangalter DJing as himself and Live as himself, i remember him being a lot harder live. So funky it hurt too, some proper jaw dropping drops and samples.
I can tell this video took ages to make and research so huge props for that. I'm newly subbed after watching this mate. Fairplay
where did you see him?
@@wdpk837it was in Birmingham but it was a looong time ago! And at glastonbury or phoenix festivals... one of mated was a proper techno and house (and everything in between!) nerd, i mean that in the nicest possible way i promise! Anyway. He knew everything about all the best DJs and when n where they would be playing, so we all just used to let him organise the night/weekend out and go wherever he said would be bangin. And it always was! He could give you a running commentary and name every tune that came on and Thomas B was his fkn IDOL so we ended up seeing him a few times. And a good few festivals too. 25 years ago tho, lol , csnt remember the name of all the nights or the clubs... i think Que club at least once
Spacedust is a clear plagiarist however, I'm really impressed by his skill in not just re-creating the tracks but how they sound, his production skills assuming they weren't ghost produced which is a good chance considering everything, is actually quite good
Your comment contradicts itself. Its not plagiarised cause its recreated, if its so easy, you go find a sample and make a hit song. And no, it wasn't ghost produced, Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk) is a very talented producer, evident from his contribution to the legendary French electronic duo Daft Punk. Alan Braxe is also a very talented producer.
No disrespect bro, but you cant say he plagiarised it and then say its re-created right after each other.
@@hudode5052 I'm talking about Spacedust not Bangalter 🤦🏽♂️
@@ASalv188 oh shit, i thought u meant “Stardust” sorry bro. Have a ❤️
@@hudode5052 the first and only polite TH-cam comment argument
@@guckie hahahahahah yea man. Nah wasn’t an argument. Dude is right
This makes Guetta partially responsible for Da Funk... My god!! Amazing documentary man, I knew bits and pieces of this story but this was so well researched and presented. Legendary!
The Geri Yoga bit killed me
I love you and this video so much. It’s literally the first thing I’ve ever seen of yours and I’m subscribing and holy hell. So well researched, gorgeously put together, funny, and all that sweet ministry of sound hate. French house is something I treasure and this video just brought it all back for me. You’re amazing.
I was thinking to myself 'Damn that sounds exactly like Daft punk', just goes to show their music is iconic.
It’s interesting. I remember going clubbing in 2004 and the Red Kult version of call on me was regularly played in the first half of the year.
Then in the second half of the year the Eric prydz version blew up.
A similar thing occurred with Dave Armstrongs Make your move which was usurped by Junior Jack’s Stupidisco, both tracks using the same sample from the pointer sisters.
Iirc red kults version was on a space cd
I assumed red kult was Eric prydz when I heard it in later years !
Oh i didn't know about the junior jack thing
I love how people always hate on guetta while not even understanding his history, guetta even played a big role in avicii's career. Even if u listen only to modern house, half of your favourite artists wouldn't be able to do it professionally without all the work that guetta put in in the past (and his team)
I don't like Guetta as a DJ, but I love the work he's done for the industry, instrumental in many of the sounds I grew up with and loved
yawn
Guetta sucks man
People hate him because he’s the sort of dj that plays a prerecorded set and pretends to play it live.
@@simonhudson7029 How much time did he spend recording the prerecorded set? He might've tweaked it many times to get it the way he wants the audience to hear it.
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever experienced on TH-cam. Thank you so much!
Im glad you mentioned how the Eric Prydz version was the only one that would have been able to have the success it did. It reminds me of quote that I dont remember exactly, but "its not always the inventor that gets the success, but the person who refines it." He DID do the refining.
You're giving me Electronic Music History and I'm here for it. I grew up listening to all these songs but never knew anything about this until you mentioned it. I'm subscribing .
I love this ! I'm very into samples, tracing sample history, French house, Daft sounds, this was right up my alley. Now I'm of to get Valerie into my S2400 and chop it like its 2003.
Excellent work my friend.
What an interesting deep dive into one of my fav songs from 2004. I knew Steve Winwood had re-recorded his vocals for Eric Prydz, but had zero clue about anything else. Very well done!
Really great video and research, I’m a big fan of French house so I’m really surprised I never heard about the backstory behind this track. The whole thing about Contact sampling a loop from 2002 really brings Daft Punk full circle. Earned a sub, looking forward to more music videos
I enjoyed this video more than I do most documentary-style vids I've seen. I'm very much looking forward to seeing your future videos. Also, another thing I'd like to point out, thank you for making it possible to _listen_ to this video, and not having to actually watch it. Everything you covered was described with words and audio clips, so we didn't *have* to be looking at the screen all throughout.
24:34:
The record label is wrong.
The track is actually Groovy 69. Does have a remix too.
MusicFeelsGoodWithYou is straight up Spacedust's MSBWY bootleg.
It's the first track on HitsNPieces.
The Madonna mashup is done by an artist called Stuntmasterz. Mixing Spacedust's mix with Holiday.
There's more to the Call On Me rabbit hole too:
Before Prydz
-Nursesrun made a bootleg in 2003ish.
After Prydz
-A bootleg on an obscure label that put out 6 volumes back in the mid 2000's known as The Deep House Experience.
-A DnB bootleg call Ballistic Bootlegs in 2007.
-And a full on "remix" by JL & Afterman in 2012 titled Call Me, which sounds more like the Red Kult version.
More recent examples either replay the melody of the Call On Me riff, or are Vaporwave remixes.
One more factoid:
Let's Get Down - Spacedust:
Someone else did a similar version of that track too. Total Recall by Ultimate Heights which is an alias from a guy called Mark Summers who runs Scorccio.
Literally the same idea from Spacedust, but I prefer the Ultimate Heights version better.
Ministry of Sound first offered to release their version but they refused so they got Prydz to remake it and release it without credit to them. First came the "Daft Mafia" remake which Retarded Funk stole. It's basically the same Retarded Funk version but also has Lovelee Dae. Then Eric remade the stolen Retarded Funk version. His initial demo first sampled the original 1987 version, but there were copyright issues, so they redone vocals with Winwood and Replay Heaven and Prydz swapped the new samples and boom. That's the whole rabbithole summarized. You can find the demo by searching Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Thomas Bangalter & Dj Falcon Calling Remix) or try to find the video Eric Prydz - Call on Me (Original Mix) which has a photo of a vinyl. You will instantly notice the difference when you hear higher pitched vocals because it's the same sample as in the Together version. That's the deep house experience thing where the demo is ripped from. I don't think the Daft Mafia version is on TH-cam, so I'll have to find the CD that I had it on.
You can also search up Daft Mafia - I feel so and it uses the same percussion as in Call on Me "Retarded Funk".
As a DJ nerd I absolutely love every second of this!
This video is insanely well researched, I'm blown away with the quality and effort put into it! All I can say is wow!
Steve Winwood Valerie is a great song. Actually most of his hits were great.
but then he went into that alternative jazz tphase, but we don't talk about that anymore
Excellent voice and musical talent. I still remember watching that video when it came out. Super catchy, great production. None of these remixes would have gone anywhere without a great start as Valerie.
He’s great live too, his band is really tight 👍🏼
love it but sounds like shit...even the remix can't fix it and to make it worse steven breathes into the mic.
What gets me is how little credit he gets. The main hook of this song IS that chorus which was written and performed by Winwood. Its a great song on its own but that chorus hook is everything.
Incredible video! I think everyone who is a fan of this era should watch this! Bravo