The 16-minute doc that'll make you worship a French drummer you've never heard of.
Mr. Supernature AKA Marc Cerrone or simply Cerrone has been a pillar of glittery four-to-the-floor disco anthems for nearly 40 years now. If you’re not familiar with the drummer, producer, composer, francofunkateer amongst countless other titles and roles, he’s kind of a god, on par with Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers and the like. Pitchfork has gathered raw concert footage and interview with Rodgers, Bob Sinclar, Dave Haslam and the man himself (who chalks-up his fascination with electric music numbers to seeing Jimi Hendrix perform live in Paris as a teenager) to delve into the mans incalculable contribution to the DNAs of dance floor freakers and pop music alike (sampling years before it was adopted as hip-hop’s hammer and nail) and how he came to be so cherished by the greater funk cannon.
Direction
Pailhe condenses 40 years into pure serotonin
Production
Raw footage feels like finding a lost reel
Writing
Nile Rodgers' testimonial hits like scripture
Director
Dimitri Pailhe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cerrone invented the extended 12-inch format and loop-based composition—essentially building the scaffolding for hip-hop production decades early.
His 'Supernature' became a queer anthem and eco-parable simultaneously, proving disco could smuggle radical ideas onto dancefloors.
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