Stardust

On temporary hiatus from injecting the spirit of acid house into the French dance scene as half of <a href="spotify:artist:4tZwfgrHOc3mvqYlEYSvVi">Daft Punk</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:41vv2Tj1knysv6MuFUmdwi">Thomas Bangalter</a> crafted one of the catchiest dance anthems of the late '90s, Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You." A warm, breezy, endlessly catchy mid-tempo anthem that launched hundreds of similar filter-disco tracks over the next few years, the single was recorded quickly by <a href="spotify:artist:41vv2Tj1knysv6MuFUmdwi">Bangalter</a> with co-producer <a href="spotify:artist:24JRvbKfTcF2x7c2kCCJrW">Alan Braxe</a> and released on his own Roulé label in June 1998. After ruling the roosts at Ibiza that summer -- along with another <a href="spotify:artist:41vv2Tj1knysv6MuFUmdwi">Bangalter</a> co-production, <a href="spotify:artist:5YFS41yoX0YuFY39fq21oN">Bob Sinclar</a>'s "Gym Tonic" -- the track was licensed by Virgin and hit number two on the British charts that fall. Though the label offered <a href="spotify:artist:41vv2Tj1knysv6MuFUmdwi">Bangalter</a> three million dollars to produce a Stardust LP, he decided instead to make it a one-shot project. ~ John Bush, Rovi