My Forever Studio

Ep 49: Braxe + Falcon's $400 dream speakers

Episode Summary

Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon are pioneers of French house music, releasing on Thomas Bangalter’s Roulé label. In 1998, Braxe released ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ as one-third of Stardust, while DJ Falcon broke out with tracks like ‘Together’. Now the producers (also cousins) are teaming up to release new music as duo Braxe + Falcon. In this episode, learn about Braxe’s penchant for affordable speakers, the lesser-known converters they use for all mixes, why they love modular and which esoteric French polysynth makes the cut.

Episode Notes

Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon are pioneers of French house music, releasing on Thomas Bangalter’s Roulé label. In 1998, Braxe released ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ as one-third of Stardust, while DJ Falcon broke out with tracks like ‘Together’. Now the producers (also cousins) are teaming up to release new music as duo Braxe + Falcon.

In this episode, learn about Braxe’s penchant for affordable speakers, the lesser-known converters they use for all mixes, why they love modular and which esoteric French polysynth makes the cut.

Season 4 is sponsored by EVO by Audient: https://evo.audio/

STUFF WE TALK ABOUT (SPOILERS!)
https://www.instagram.com/motorbass/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Al_QCDVk8&ab_channel=HouseMusicDealer%28HMD%29 (DJ Falcon - My Name Is)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3PvUHjoUJA&ab_channel=BlizzardOfTheCoast (DJ Falcon - Honeymoon)
https://gearspace.com/board/high-end/989713-ua-2192-2015-a.html
https://www.burlaudio.com/products/b2-bomber-adc
https://motu.com/en-us/products/software/dp/features/
https://buchla.com/lem-208/
https://buchla.com/music-easel/
https://mos-lab.com/
https://www.strymon.net/product/magneto/
https://reverb.com/item/10079358-tapco-th-15a-15-powered-loudspeakers-pair
https://musictech.com/news/gear/namm-2022-auratone-unveil-new-5c-active-super-sound-cube/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI
https://baloran.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=59
https://www.vintagesynth.com/moog/sourc.php