My fav french house artists are DJ falcon, Alan Braxe, Fred Falke, Thomas Banalter (of daft punk of course), Cassius.
Some of my fav sets are from 2001-2003 by these guys.

French house has changed a bit lately though, Still good but a lot more cut up vocals, a bit harder too.

I am speaking in very general terms here and I am sure other people have some helpful insight too. I only really started listening to french house in the early 2000's so I prob jumped on the bandwagon too late.

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