For this episode, I have chosen to turn back in time and visit my so missed high school years (2000 to 2003), my friends and I called this period the "Radio Star Period" or sometime the "300 Period". Indeed, in my hometown (Marseille) there was (still existing nowadays) a very cool radio called Radio Star that was broadcasting all the latest trendy music, often months before that they appear on national radios.
The "300" was the former name of a famous nightclub now called "The Bazar", they used (maybe it's still going on) to organise parties on the Saturday afternoon...it was ALL like a night club (bouncers, DJ's...) except that it wasn't at night and no alcohol was served. For us (we were between 13 and 15) it was the occasion to have some quite funny afternoons and also a good way to train our "skills" with girl (we're not very proud about how we did it though).
I think that these following songs (only 3, I whish I could post more) summerizes perfectly this period, it's quite hard to define as it's a stench of the 90's Dance Music with the premisces of what will be the 00's house and electronic music.
The first song is Shady Lady by Friendsheap, it's way far my FAVORITE music from this period, the day I posted it on Facebook it brought tons of comments from friends whom suddenly came back 10 years before only by listening the first music's notes. I'm sorry to say that the quality is really bad, mainly because this music is quite hard to find (neither on legal and illegal ways) and I crawled the web for hours prior to find this one. The funny thing with this song is that Radio Star used to schedule it every morning at 07:15, the exact moment where I had to wake up to go to school, therefore I've been woken up by this song for months!
The second song is
Easy Love by
Lady, a really "
Made in Marseille" song and appereared on Marseille's waves almost 1 years before anywhere in Europe. It's a nice mix of some
old good funk (sampled from
Billy Ocean's song) and there also with some premisces of what will be the 00's house.
The third song is a really sweet one named If Only by Datafolk, It's not a very famous song (most of my friends don't remember it) but I don't know why that music remained in my head for all these years. I found it by luck few days ago and I bought the complete album on iTunes.
Once again, Don't hesitate to drop some comments !
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