Mark Ronson recounts humbling Daft Punk expertise with Zane Lowe on Apple Music
by: David Klemow
Jul 29, 2021
Because the age-old adage goes, recreation acknowledge recreation.
No less than such was the case again in 2010 or so when a nonetheless burgeoning Mark Ronson occurred upon visionary French producer Man-Manuel de Homem-Christo, higher identified behind the masks as one half of Daft Punk, exterior of a bar in Paris. Even for Ronson, who by that time was greater than well-tested in celeb circles, was star-struck, however who wouldn’t be? As a result of in keeping with Ronson, who recounted the passing encounter with de Homem-Christo to Zane Lowe on his Apple Music present, not solely was the scene the singular pinnacle of cool, however it additionally turned out to be fairly a humbling expertise.
Standing exterior of a Parisian bar, Ronson discovered a jacket-clad Man-Manuel de Homem-Christo, complementing Ronson’s classic-yet-contemporary sound between drags of a cigarette. And, notably, this was earlier than Ronson had actually struck gold in his work with Bruno Mars and Amy Winehouse. Coincidentally sufficient, and unbeknownst to Ronson, on the time, de Homem-Christo and former Android counterpart Thomas Bangalter, had been additionally working inside classic-yet-contemporary territory on what would change into their critically acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning LP Random Entry Recollections.
Ronson remembers his dialog with de Homem-Christo,
“‘However you made one thing – ‘Again to Black’ that feels basic.’” And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, however I’m retro man. You actually made the brand new basic by the factor.’ And he didn’t wish to hear it. He actually simply… it’s humorous that they had been making ‘Random Entry Recollections’ on the time as a result of in my head, that now is sensible as a result of he was telling me like, ‘No, however you made some shit that actually sounded basic.’ And I all the time thought that that was fascinating as a result of it was very humble of him.
Just a bit trendy digital music lore about two vastly totally different musical masterminds, praising every others work over a cigarette exterior of some Parisian watering gap. What a time. See Ronson focus on the episode with Zane Lowe beneath and listen to the total dialog on Apple Music.
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