French House
French house is a style of house music from France that loops and filters samples of late 1970s and early 1980s disco over a steady dance beat.
It emerged in France in the early to mid-1990s and reached a worldwide audience from 1997, with Daft Punk, Cassius and Stardust as its first international successes. The signature sound is a short disco loop treated with filter and phaser effects, over a four-on-the-floor beat at roughly 110 to 130 beats per minute. It is more sample-based and closer to disco than most house music.
Artists it is known for: Daft Punk, Cassius, Stardust, Étienne de Crécy.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- France, early to mid-1990s
- Also called
- French touch, filter house
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 3,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have french house among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
French House artists
Daft Punk
Justice
L'Impératrice
Bob Sinclar
Kavinsky
La Femme
Martin Solveig
Modjo
MadeonThe french house artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.