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| 1. Chic Cheer |
| 2. Le Freak |
| 3. Savoir Faire |
| 4. Happy Man |
| 5. I Want Your Love |
| 6. At Last I Am Free |
| 7. Sometimes You Win |
| 8. Funny Bone |
| 9. Funny Bone |
| 10. Everybody Dance |
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Setting the blueprint for everything we think of when it comes to disco--big afros, white flares, lashings of glamour--Chic shimmied into the limelight at the tail end of the 1970s. But it wasn't until the anthemic "Le Freak" hit the charts that the New York four-piece really took centre stage on the disco dance-floor. Included here, C'est Chic epitomises their genre-defining sound which owed as much to funk, soul and electro as to disco. "I Want Your Love" is an infectious party groover, "At Last I Am Free" is a reflective, emotive number, while "Savoir Faire" is a seductive soundtrack of saxophone and strings. A disco classic, this has been sampled to death by a million rappers and hip hop artists since. --Amber Cowan
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In the 1970s, disco was dominated by anonymous artists and flash-in-the-pan singles; which is one of many reasons why Chic towers over the era. For starters, Chic was a real band--a tight-knit quintet led by the twin lights of producers/songwriters Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers (also on bass andguitar, respectively). Secondly, Chic created a consistently high calibre of sophisticated dance music that fused funk's rhythmic principles with disco sheen. Between the band's debut and the release of their classic single "Good Times", Chic released C'EST CHIC.
Due largely to Edwards and Rodgers's crisp, articulate production-- which makes the band sound like the JBs on Manhattan's Upper East Side--Chic achieves a perfect cross-pollination of urban and urbane. The streamlined, minimal groove of "Chic Cheer", the album's opener, is a call to the dance floor, and Chic delivers the goods with "Le Freak", a smash single and one of the movement's defining anthems. Another dance hit, "I Want Your Love", with its tubular-bells hook, abuts smooth balladry like "At Last I Am Free". Chic replicated this record's style on subsequent releases, but never equaled its success. C'EST CHIC is a template for how disco should be done.
Setting the blueprint for everything we think of when it comes to disco--big afros, white flares, lashings of glamour--Chic shimmied into the limelight at the tail end of the 1970s. But it wasn't until the anthemic "Le Freak" hit the charts that the New York four-piece really took centre stage on the disco dance-floor. Included here, C'est Chic epitomises their genre-defining sound which owed as much to funk, soul and electro as to disco. "I Want Your Love" is an infectious party groover, "At Last I Am Free" is a reflective, emotive number, while "Savoir Faire" is a seductive soundtrack of saxophone and strings. A disco classic, this has been sampled to death by a million rappers and hip hop artists since. --Amber Cowan
CD Description
In the 1970s, disco was dominated by anonymous artists and flash-in-the-pan singles; which is one of many reasons why Chic towers over the era. For starters, Chic was a real band--a tight-knit quintet led by the twin lights of producers/songwriters Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers (also on bass andguitar, respectively). Secondly, Chic created a consistently high calibre of sophisticated dance music that fused funk's rhythmic principles with disco sheen. Between the band's debut and the release of their classic single "Good Times", Chic released C'EST CHIC.
Due largely to Edwards and Rodgers's crisp, articulate production-- which makes the band sound like the JBs on Manhattan's Upper East Side--Chic achieves a perfect cross-pollination of urban and urbane. The streamlined, minimal groove of "Chic Cheer", the album's opener, is a call to the dance floor, and Chic delivers the goods with "Le Freak", a smash single and one of the movement's defining anthems. Another dance hit, "I Want Your Love", with its tubular-bells hook, abuts smooth balladry like "At Last I Am Free". Chic replicated this record's style on subsequent releases, but never equaled its success. C'EST CHIC is a template for how disco should be done.
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