Casting a shadow: Cerrone was a huge influence on the French touch scene
Marc Cerrone has always been a man ahead of the game. France’s foremost disco auteur at the time when Daft Punk, Air and their contemporaries were still in short trousers, his biggest UK hit, 1978’s Supernature, was a warning from the future about climate change. Now aged 70 and still DJing, he tells us why he’s releasing a greatest hits with a difference, a continuous mix that takes in his career highlights as well as new reboots by the likes of Purple Disco Machine, Joey Negro and Dimitri From Paris.