Amazon.co.uk Review
While the Paris-based Source Label certainly didn't invent French dance music, they did spot that sci-fi disco and hazy downtempo were the best things to happen to French music since Serge Gainsbourg. They introduced Gallic dance-floor chic to the masses via the now legendary
SourceLab compilations. Cherry-picked from seven years of the series, which essentially became a showcase for the Paris dance fraternity, this two CD best-of sashays with catwalk poise and sophistication through the most ridiculously sumptuous groove selection.
Save for Daft Punk's proto-type boogie "Musique" and Black Strobe's P-Funk strutter "Paris Acid City", there are few podium storming moments. However, the supply of sexy shimmies, sultry jazz-funk and 1970s intergalactic fusion is more than plentiful. Alex Gopher's "Gordini Mix" and DJ Gilb'r's "Espèce Funk" are the slinkiest things ever aimed at a dance floor, with Motorbass's "Bad Vibes2" the most hypnotic. Meanwhile, listening to Air's embryonic aquatic atmospheres and the soulful swagger of "Modulor Mix" and "Casanova 70" is like listening to the birth of chill-out. With no vocals and running times edging seven minutes, these tracks are aren't exactly commercial dynamite. But as a definition of French cool, they're pretty much unbeatable. --Dan Gennoe
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