Polo & Pan

One Liner: Very French electronic music
Wikipedia Genre: house, electronic, tropical house, deep house, world, synth-pop
Home: Paris

Poster Position: Top Quarter - Line 3 (!?!)
Day: Sunday
Both Weekends.

Miller Lite Stage at 7:15.

Thoughts:  You always wonder about the sliding doors of music.  Would Jay-Z have been a megastar if Biggie and Pac had lived?  Would Dave Grohl leave Nirvana to create the Foo Fighters without Kurt Cobain's death?  Would one of the bands sidelined by COVID at their inception have become the biggest band in the world?  What if a huge pile of folks had lived - Buddy Holly, SRV, Janis Joplin, Duane Allman, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, etc. etc.  It was the first of these that popped into my head this morning in the shower while listening to these guys, but that last name also brings up the same point that had me thinking.  Because if Jerry Garcia had lived, and the Dead kept churning out more of their signature sound, then would the legions of copycat artists floating in their wake have ever existed?  Interesting to think about.  

Anyway, this group sounds to me like what happens when Daft Punk refused to keep making music.  Daft Punk were a French electronica duo that quit in 2013 with their very-well-regarded Random Access Memories.  This group is a French electronica duo that released their first album (EP?) in 2014.  And, like Daft Punk, this is not the EDM of the majority of the artists on this poster, building towards a drop and thrumming with bass.  Instead, this is sort of sexy, sort of groovy, the kind of thing that a smart-dressed Parisian would be playing from their Vespa as they insouciantly weave through traffic with a cigarette smoldering in their mouth. That is not always true, some of these build and bounce like regular EDM, but I find the less generic ones infinitely more interesting.  "Canopee" is a good example of that, or "Peter Pan."  I always wonder about electronic duos though - what is the second dude doing while the first one is twisting the fake knobs and moving the little fake switches up and down.  Do they both act like they are doing something after they click play?  Or does one act like he is the one in charge while the other just does the "pump it up" gesture?

I make fun, but I have actually enjoyed this more than the other EDM on this poster.  They do a cover of Pilot's track "Magic" that is great, even if the commercials for Ozempic have now ruined that song for me.  Four albums - 2014's Dorothy, 2017's Caravelle, 2021's Cyclorama, and 2025's 22:22.  The top tracks are both from the 2017 album, with the #1 song being "Canopee" with 146.9 million streams.

Le Honhonhon!  Je temps le pommes de terre!  Je danse nue pour toi et ton petit champignon grandit et explose avec ta fleur brillante mais ensuite un arbre t'a mangé et j'étais déconcerté!  In other exciting news, canopee means canopy.  Was hoping for so much more...

I won't do the #2 song, since it comes from that same disc.  Let's go to #3, which uses native American chanting for some reason, and is from the 2021 album.  "Ani Kuni" has 62.5 million streams (well, that is for the edit, the full version has another 52.6 million itself).  I believe this is the edit.

A Native American hymn originating from the Arapahoe tribes living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming, according to Wikipedia.  Righteous.  I bet those native homies didn't know how to add a sick ass beat that sort of sounds like that one Madonna song!  This was their top hit on the charts, rising to #10 in France and charting on something in Belgium called Ultrapop Wallonia chart.

Probably a no for this show, but if they had a 2pm show I could go just lounge to while waiting for friends to show up, I would wear my beret and sip red wine while lounging in the splendor.