Dance Music of France

The French house is a late 1990s form of house music, part of the 1990s and the first year of the 21^st century European dance music scene and the latest way of Euro disco. The genre is also called Disco house, Neu-disco (new disco), French touch, filter house or tekfunk. In the early, mid and late 1990s, the productions was notable for the filter effect used by musicians like Daft Punk. Other productions use more normal vocals and samples. French house is greatly powered by the 1970s Euro disco and especially the short lived space disco music pattern (a European (mostly French) variation of Hi-NRG disco), and also by the P-Funk and the productions of Thomas Bangalter.

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The first French house experiments (at the time known as disco house and neu disco) became notable in the international market between in the year of 1997 to 1999. Daft Punk, Stardust and Cassius were the first international successful musicians of the genre.

The mass international commercial success of the genre began in the year 2000 because of musicians like Bob Sinclar, Galleon, Crecy, Etienne de Crecy and Modjo accompanied the next year.