The ‘French touch’ sound, with its cut-up samples, oodles of soul and garage-house beats, inspired producer Bashmore’s debut album Knockin’ Boots. Here he lists the tracks that most influenced him
There’s a scene in Eden, the critically acclaimed film about the French house scene in the early 90s, in which the camera pans over a euphoric warehouse rave, where everyone is dressed in terrible, baggy clothing, their hands in the air. What’s striking about the scene, and this film in general compared with others that have attempted to capture clubbing, is how the audience are bellowing the words to Aly-Us’s Follow Me, a signature garage track about anti-racism, embedded in messages about peace and freedom. The scene underlines the unifying, hug-your-neighbour joy of having a loved-up sing-along and is a reminder of how house music was so often uplifting and political at the same time. (You can listen to its cracking soundtrack here.)
This attitude and atmosphere is something Bristol-born producer Julio Bashmore has attempted to capture on his debut album, Knockin’ Boots. It has serendipitously come along like a companion piece to Eden’s celebration of the so-called French touch movement and the early US house records it was inspired by. Many of the album’s tracks have the unmistakable mark of the French sound – cut-up samples, disco instrumentation, oodles of soul, garage-house beats – as if they could have been played at Tony Humphries’ Club Zanzibar in New Jersey, but buffed up with a brand new shine for 2015. It’s the style that first made Bashmore want to explore house music and he hopes that Knockin Boots will likewise encourage people to “dig further into house history” instead of getting their house fix from the current charts.
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