The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally accepted. Consequently, there is now a younger generation that is more focused on making great electronic music, good parties, and having fun, where there is not any more so much need for cultural and ideological statements in electronic music itself.
Thomas BangalterI am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French.
Thomas BangalterBeing nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.
Thomas BangalterWe come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.
Thomas BangalterWe have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.
Thomas BangalterThe place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally accepted. Consequently, there is now a younger generation that is more focused on making great electronic music, good parties, and having fun, where there is not any more so much need for cultural and ideological statements in electronic music itself.
Thomas Bangalter