Roulé

History

The label's first release was the EP Trax On Da Rocks in 1995, which included the track "What To Do"; this track later appeared in the 2018 film Climax. In 1997, Alan Braxe released "Vertigo" after meeting Bangalter at a night club; the single included a remix by Bangalter called the "Virgo Edit." The following year, Roy Davis Jr. issued "Rock Shock," which featured another Bangalter remix titled the "Start-Stop Mix." After "Vertigo," Braxe performed at the Rex Club in Paris with Bangalter on keyboards and Benjamin Diamond on vocals; they composed the first version of "Music Sounds Better with You" for that performance, using a looped sample from the 1981 Chaka Khan song "Fate" sampled with an E-mu SP-1200.

The polished track was released in 1998 and spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. Also in 1998, Bangalter released Trax On Da Rocks Vol. 2, which peaked at number 83 for two weeks on the Official Singles Chart Top 100. In 1999, Romanthony released "Hold On" on Roulé; the track had previously appeared on his own Black Male Records in 1994, and the Roulé version included two different remixes. In 2012, Trax On Da Rocks and other releases were reissued, briefly reviving the label.

Roulé was liquidated by Bangalter in December 2018. After Daft Punk split, Bangalter created a new label named Alberts & Gothmaan for his solo work.