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march.09.2001 - #499
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artist : The Mighty Bop
album : La Vague Sensorielle
year : 1995
label : Yellow
genre : Electronic
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Intro 00:32
02.Vibrations Mystiques 04:42
03.Clever Mind 05:25
04.Sans Emission 05:53
05.Obscure 04:11
06.Infrarouge 05:09
07.Freestyle Linguistique 04:46
08.Abstract Fever 05:15
09.Le Voyage 05:37
10.Brand New Day 04:21
11.Muthafuckin Ghost 04:33
11 tracks | 50:24 mins | 69,4 MB
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The man behind such productions as the Mighty Bop (down-tempo
hip-hop), Bob Sinclar (house), and RΘminiscence Quartet (acid jazz)
is Chris the French Kiss (aka Christophe Le Friant), a Parisian DJ
and head of the crucial French label Yellow Productions as well as
a producer. Le Friant began DJing in 1987 while still a teenager,
and formed Yellow Productions in 1993 with Alain Ho. Several of the
first releases on Yellow were by Le Friant: the Mighty Bop's "Messe
Pour le Temps Present," RΘminiscence Quartet's "Roda Mundo," and
his first LP, the French hip-hop summit The Mighty Bop Meet DJ Cam
et La Funk Mob. Alongside releases from a parade of excellent
French sources, including DJ companions Dimitri from Paris and Kid
Loco, Yellow also hosted two more Mighty Bop LPs during 1996-97, La
Vague Sensorielles and Autres Voix, Autres Blues.
Eager to inject some fun into the burgeoning French house
underground, Le Friant borrowed the name Bob Sinclar (from a
character in the well-known French film Le Magnifique) and in 1997
produced his first Sinclar EP, A Space Funk Project. Soon enough,
he had an entire Bob Sinclar LP ready to go, and Paradise appeared
on Yellow just in time for summer 1998. One of the album's tracks,
"Gym Tonic," began getting some clubplay in France thanks to its
bouncy house vibe and incessant singalong chorus (lifted from a
Jane Fonda workout record). A huge anthem during the summer season
in Ibiza, "Gym Tonic" looked ready to explode on the charts until
Fonda sought legal action for the illegal sample. Perhaps wary of
overly burdensome commercial success, the song's co-producer ù Daft
Punk's Thomas Bangalter, who'd just recorded his own breezy house
delight, Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You" ù refused to
have even a remixed version released as a single. Nevertheless,
assorted bootlegs cropped up and by October a mysterious artist
named Spacedust ù probably just a major-label-fronted cash-in
attempt ù hit the top of the charts in Britain with an almost
identical remix of the Sinclar-Bangalter original, entitled "Gym
and Tonic." (Another crass Spacedust move, covering Bangalter's
solo hit with the slimly disguised title "Music Feels Good With
You," dropped like a rock.)
With all the offending samples removed, Sinclar's Paradise LP was
re-released worldwide in 1999. He also worked on remixes, providing
tracks by Bangalter himself, Ian Pooley, Second Crusade, and the
Yellow project Tom & Joyce with additional production. Le Friant
returned to the Mighty Bop alias in 2000 with the retrospective mix
collection Spin My Hits. --AMG
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