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 V.A.French Fried Funk 3 1xCD 2xLP : Kickin |
| We have always loved french people for their chauvinist way
of doing things, have we ? Yes, an avant garde music scene exists in France, albeit a small one and based for most part
of it in Paris. Just as french people are, their music is always a little more sensual, warmer and easier than music from
Germany or the UK for example. The French Fried Funk collection tries to captivate this french feeling, and captain of this
project is dj Eric Rug. Fortunately, this edition of French Fried Funk stays clear of french hype of people like Bob Sinclair,
Laurent Garnier or Daft Punk. We admit their is a Bob Sinclair track on French Fried Funk, but it's not the Jane Fonda type
of 'buy me now' record. Let's hilight the pearls and gems on this compilation ! There is the Prozak release Seven Dub and Chateau Rouge, for a lazy supa-ez jazzgroove with always varying chords, strings, riffs and all kinds of gimmicks. Easy relaxing stuff that keeps our mind interested! Surprise surprise, as Eric Rug, presents a real seventies lofty disco track from 1979 ! Chantereau, Pezin & Dahan and Disco Free sounds like a real Loft classic. Nice bass guitar on a easy going beat with touches of moody atmospheric strings. Great discovery, Eric! Another track that will blow your mind is Playing 4 The City and "Sh Blues". Producer Olivier Portal brings once again his very own and recognizable atmospheric bassline, with background vocoder-like chants. The beat is easy going but pumping enough to make you move. Woven on top of that are weird and jazzy seventies gimmicks. Yeps, we just love it! Uplifting, weird and a nice variation is presented by Jo Zas and Chocolate OD. Driving, techfunk full of breaks and effects. Moving enough to keep you on a dancefloor and interesting enough to keep your mind flowing above the crowd. More of this deep minimal future funk please! Finally, Demon and Lost Highway is noteworthy for this review. Starting off with a cleverly sampled and convoluted sampled beat of Grand Master Flash' The Message, this is dancefloor stuff to move and groove you. With a deep beat and weird distorted vocals, this will keep most floors packed although offers maybe not enough for home listening. ez jul/99 |