Thomas Bangalter is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and composer.
26 Facts About Thomas Bangalter
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Thomas Bangalter is best known as one half of the former French house music duo Daft Punk, alongside Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.
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Thomas Bangalter has recorded and released music as a member of the trio Stardust, the duo Together, as well as a solo artist.
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Thomas Bangalter owned the music label Roule until its liquidation in 2018.
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Thomas Bangalter has provided compositions for several films, leading the soundtrack to Irreversible, as well as the ballet Mythologies.
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Thomas Bangalter is the son of French music composer and artist Daniel Vangarde.
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Thomas Bangalter was born on 3 January 1975 in Paris, France.
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Thomas Bangalter began playing the piano at the age of six, and took lessons from a music staff member of the Paris Opera.
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Thomas Bangalter has stated that his parents were strict in keeping up his practice, for which he later thanked them.
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Thomas Bangalter's father, Daniel Vangarde, was a songwriter and producer for performers such as the Gibson Brothers, Ottawan, and Sheila B Devotion.
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Thomas Bangalter met Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo while attending the Lycee Carnot school in 1987.
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In 1993 Thomas Bangalter presented a demo of Daft Punk material to Stuart Macmillan of Slam that led to their first single "The New Wave".
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In 1996, Thomas Bangalter was in a group known as Da Mongoloids, consisting of Armand Van Helden, Thomas Bangalter, and Junior Sanchez, under the record label Strictly Rhythm.
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Thomas Bangalter collaborated with Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond and in 1998 released the club hit "Music Sounds Better with You" under the name Stardust.
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Around the same time of "Music Sounds Better with You", Thomas Bangalter co-produced Bob Sinclar's second single titled "Gym Tonic".
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Thomas Bangalter performed on a Yamaha CS-60 synthesizer on the track "Embuscade" in Phoenix's debut album United, which was released the same year.
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Thomas Bangalter teamed up with DJ Falcon under the name Together to release their eponymous 2000 single.
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Thomas Bangalter produced the score to the film Irreversible, released in 2002.
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Thomas Bangalter can be seen dancing in the music video, wearing his Daft Punk helmet.
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Thomas Bangalter was the sound effects director for the 2009 film Enter the Void, his second work with filmmaker Gaspar Noe following Irreversible.
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Thomas Bangalter initially had been approached by Noe to compose the soundtrack of Enter the Void, but Bangalter was preoccupied with work on the Tron: Legacy score at the time.
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Thomas Bangalter instead provided various clips of drones and ambiance for the film to be accompanied by music by other artists from the 1960s and 70s.
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Thomas Bangalter is billed in the credits as sound effects director, and the film features his track "Desaccords" originally composed for Irreversible.
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In 2011, Thomas Bangalter directed and choreographed a short film featuring Elodie Bouchez that served as an advertisement for the fashion line Co.
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Thomas Bangalter was one of the producers on Arcade Fire's album Everything Now, which released July 2017.
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Later in 2018, Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond revealed that they and Thomas Bangalter returned to the studio to work on a remastered version of "Music Sounds Better with You" for the song's twentieth anniversary.