- Audio CD (6 Feb 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: V2
- ASIN: B000025A9O
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,173 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Time |
| 2. Tryin |
| 3. Child |
| 4. Ralph & Kathy |
| 5. With U |
| 6. You My Baby & I |
| 7. 06 10 98 |
| 8. Party People |
| 9. Consolidated |
| 10. Quiet Storm |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Alex Gopher's debut is full of late-night house music in the images of smoochy jazz, Prince-styled funk and the romantic airs of 1990s revisionist disco. The most immediate tracks are party pleasers with butt-oriented beats and strident vocals demanding that you get down and get with it. Elsewhere Gopher is more considered--even melancholy--sampling Billie Holliday on "The Child" or collaborating with AIR for the intimate alt. ballad "Ralph and Katy" (a swooning track with poetic vocoderisms and fragile airs). Much of the album shows Gopher's credentials as doyen of the French house movement--like Bob Sinclair or AIR (both of whom debuted on the Solid imprint co-founded by Gopher), he makes a version of house/electronica that is metropolitan and urbane. He also holds a warm nostalgia for the lost world of Studio 54 and remakes disco as a luxurious modern music--a winning approach. --Tony Marcus
From Amazon.com
As a French DJ, Alex Gopher faces inevitable comparisons to Daft Punk, France's principal exporter of urbane electronic disco. While the comparison is not unjust, YouMyBaby&I inclines more towards organic, sweaty funk than the robotic metronome beats of France's other prodigal sons. Though he is too mannered to indulge in the raucous hip-hop inflections of American electronica icons such as Fatboy Slim, Gopher is nonetheless in hot pursuit of your booty and your libido. This is most obvious on "Party People," a full-on international funk rave-up that is already a dance-floor staple in European clubs. Most of the album, however, is post-rave material. For those that left the rave with a new friend and are looking for seduction aids, there is "The Child," with its insistent bass line and sultry, suggestive vocal sample from jazz great Bessie Smith; for those that left still buzzing and are looking to ease reentry, there is the spacey, hypnotic "Ralph and Kathy," in which a vocoder-voiced astronaut laments, "I have lost control of the shuttle, all the stars are the same," only to be comforted by a soothing female computer. This album is for those who party like Francophones--it's suave, hip, and restrained, but still a slave to the funk. --David Roberts
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Customer Reviews
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Well I ordered this CD based on some of the stuff of Alex's that I had heard over the years whilst out and about, and I can say that I wasn't disappointed one bit.
This album has a feel of "J-Walk", "Dimitri from Paris", and "ST Germaine". I have played it a few time's now and have not once skipped a track, they are all very listenable and well produced.
The CD is a good few years old now and as previous reviews have stated, it sounds very current, timeless is probably the best word to describe it.
A very eclectic album indeed, one for pulling out on those summer evenings round the back with the barbeque and a gin and tonic, very very cool indeed.
This album has a feel of "J-Walk", "Dimitri from Paris", and "ST Germaine". I have played it a few time's now and have not once skipped a track, they are all very listenable and well produced.
The CD is a good few years old now and as previous reviews have stated, it sounds very current, timeless is probably the best word to describe it.
A very eclectic album indeed, one for pulling out on those summer evenings round the back with the barbeque and a gin and tonic, very very cool indeed.
Format:Audio CD
It might be a few years old now yet most of the tracks on this album are completely timeless and still sound fresh.
If you like french funk then this will be an excellent edition to your collection.
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