On Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:15:26 -0500 (EST), Greg Clow <stained@interlog.com>
wrote:
quoted 1 line That's not the Mixmag disc I was asking about, that's Dimitri's own full>That's not the Mixmag disc I was asking about, that's Dimitri's own full
length release. It came out in Europe/UK over a year ago, and it seems that
Atlantic is finally getting off of their sorry major label ass and getting
it in the shops over here at a decent price. It's still a favorite release
of mine after a year+ of rotation.<
Glad to hear more of you in the US will be able to get hold of this ('Sacre
Bleu' - Dimitri From Paris) cos it's wonderful. And it's packaged like some
kitsch French fifties lounge music thing, but there's all kinds of
jazzy-funky-vaguely housey stuff on there. The sleeve notes are piss funny
too - supposed to be some old American army officer or something
reminiscing about his times in Paris during the war, and how he salutes
Monsieur Dimitri for reminding him of those happy days via the power of his
music.
On the CD, there's a hidden track at the end which is probably my favourite
track of all. Huge sweeping strings and boom crash drums, and this breathy
French woman (hey, maybe it's that one off the Air album ;-) going 'Pareee,
Pareee, Pareeee....'. Really beautiful stuff. Don't know what that track's
called though, cos like I said, it's supposed to be hidden. Which is
annoying.
Damon.
np: stupendous Run-DMC remix thing off the radio.