| Stardust | |
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| Origin | Paris, France |
| Genres | French House |
| Years active | 1998 |
| Labels | Roulé |
| Past members | |
| Thomas Bangalter Alan Braxe Benjamin Diamond |
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Stardust was a one-time musical collaborative effort consisting of producers Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe, and vocalist Benjamin Diamond.
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The project released the popular club track titled "Music Sounds Better with You" in 1998. The song, which is based around a sample from the 1981 song "Fate" by Chaka Khan,[1] was recorded in Paris by Daft House productions, where Bangalter, one half of the popular French house duo Daft Punk, is based. The song was conceived in Rex Club, Paris, where the trio were playing a live set. Bangalter and Braxe created the instrumental, which Diamond instinctively sang the title words over. The next day they laid down the track in the studio, adding the Chaka Khan sample. The song reached #2 in the United Kingdom[2] and spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart[1] in the United States in August and October 1998 respectively.
Bangalter, Braxe and Diamond have not worked together since. Diamond and Braxe resumed their ongoing solo careers, and Bangalter, along with his usual partner Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, went on to release the second Daft Punk album, Discovery, as well as releasing other house music tracks solo or with other partners.
The video for "Music Sounds Better with You" was directed by Michel Gondry. It features a boy who had just purchased a toy plane. Back at home, while he builds his plane, he switches the TV and features top 5 songs. Some of the music videos have Stardust themselves singing their new song and others which has a resemblance of 80s music videos including Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love".
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AUT [4] |
FRA [5] |
IRE [6] |
ITA [7] |
NETH [8] |
NOR [9] |
NZ [10] |
SWE [11] |
SWI [12] |
UK [13] |
US [14] |
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| 1998 | "Music Sounds Better with You" |
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