Justice for Daft Punk? Emmanuel Macron calls for French touch to get UNESCO cultural heritage status

Published on 25/06/2025 - 8:38 GMT+2

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for French physics euphony - besides referred to arsenic French touch - to beryllium granted UNESCO taste practice position – for illustration Irish harp music, Jamaican reggae and Cuban rumba earlier it. 

The database of intangible taste practice allows signatory states of nan UNESCO Convention to registry “practices, representations, expressions, knowledge and skills that communities recognise arsenic portion of their taste heritage”.

And if that doesn’t shriek Daft Punk, we don’t cognize what does.

One of nan astir caller euphony additions to nan database delighted ravers. At nan inaugural of an association, Germany added Berlin techno to nan German database of intangible practice successful 2023 arsenic “a shape of physics creation euphony that has near its people connected ample parts of nan metropolis since nan mid-to-late 1980s.”  

And Macron doesn’t want France to beryllium near behind.

In an question and reply pinch French power position Fréquence Gaie (FG), nan president commented connected French physics music's akin taste position to Berlin techno.  

“We’re going to do that too," said Macron.  

"I emotion Germany — you cognize really pro-European I am. But we don’t person to return lessons from anyone. We are nan inventors of electro. We person that French touch." 

Bravo.

French touch has enjoyed tremendous occurrence connected nan world scene, helping to found nan genre's credentials. 

Mostly defined by its geographical situation, arsenic opposed to adherence to a circumstantial sound, nan 90s shape of European EDM, spearheaded by nan likes of Daft Punk, Étienne de Crécy, Bob Sinclair, AIR, Cassius and galore more, spanned various genres – from house, dance, electro, aged schoolhouse disco to jazz and plentifulness of glorious sampling. 

Ever since Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter and his tracks for his Roulé explanation – immoderate of nan earliest examples of French Touch – to much caller offerings by m83, Phoenix and Justice, nan Gallic sound’s fame has waned somewhat since nan 90s and early 00s, but still endearingly simmers. 

Check retired our action of basal songs from nan Gallic euphony movement.  

Through nan Ministry of Culture, France has already had a big of taste practices listed by UNESCO, including nan baguette successful 2022, arsenic good arsenic nan perfumes of Grasse, Guadeloupean gwoka euphony and Réunionese maloya singing. 

Should French Touch beryllium added to nan list, we’re really hoping we get fortunate and that Daft Punk will come retired of retirement to people nan landmark inclusion.

One much time, s'il vous plait.