Bob Sinclar ‎– Paradise

All Tracks Is Great Mixed, and We Love It;-)

My copy also has the sleeve artwork with the girl with the wavy hair & bigger boobs & it was definitely bought in 1998, not in 2000.

Mine also has the exact same runout etchings as the 1998 Discogs entry.

It would be useful if someone with a 2000 reissue could update this entry with the runout etchings from the reissue.

I'm pretty sure I got mine when the album was first released, and it has this sleeve as well.

Comparing the cover artwork of this reissue and the 1998 release (http://www.discogs.com/Bob-Sinclar-Paradise/release/8411), my copy has the cover from the reissue but was definitely purchased in 1998! So I'm not convinced that they are the right way around here on Discogs.

Bob Sinclar, a DJ that's mostly scoffed at today for his terrible commercial dance tracks and the whole "Gym Tonic" incedent where he steals Thomas Bangalter's track after getting the rights to it and promising NOT to release it, and puts it on his own album.

You see, back in the day, Bob Sinclar didn't make cheesy commercial music that wasn't worth the vinyl it's printed on. He was part of the big French House scene, starting off with his AWESOME remix of "Music Sounds Better With You" by Stardust. His debut album is a pretty good one, but nothing top-tier, Save for Thomas Bangalter's Gym Tonic none are super great, but they're still worth listening to

The intro is lifted from a movie and is used to set the basis for the concept of "Bob Sinclar", who's supposed to be a former porn-star turned secret agent for the government, all based off of a movie character. Then you get into Get Into the Music, Disco 2000 Selector, and Gym Tonic which are all good examples of the French House genre. New York City Music isn't that great of a track, nor is Ultimate Funk. The Ghetto is probably the second-most catchiest track on the album, sampling George Benson. Visions of Paradise has a catchy vocal repeat, and finishing off the LP is the boring Mo Underground People.

The CD is mixed and has 3 more tracks: Souvenir, Paradise Interlude, and Move Your Body. Souvenir is a a bad interlude track, while Paradise Interlude is a really nice relaxing one that features calming waves. And Move your Body is actually a nice gem of a track that sounds a LOT like a Todd Edwards UK Garage track.

Overall a decent album, much better than his stuff today. The Ghetto, Move Your Body, and Gym Tonic are the best songs to be found on here, but the rest is sort of middle-of-the-road French House. If he had continued with this sound past Champ Elysses, he could've been a really great producer, but unfortunately the whole Gym Tonic incedent threw him out of the scene after two albums. But this album is actually worth checking out.

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What ijustspeak said!! 'Cerrone By Bob Sinclar' was a very good album as well. Paradise has a LOT of funky disco samples which keep your butt shaking. 'My Only Love' has wonderful lyrics on it by Lee Genesis. Gym Tonic is the popular one with the Jane Fonda Workout "5 6 7 8 and BACK...2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and BACK..."

I consider this an essential album for the underground house music that pushed me to explore other great artists such as Ricardo Villalobos, Sven Vath, Cassius, Magda, Phats & Small.

If you are a young fan of Bob Sinclar and think you might get something like "Love Generation" or "Rock This Party" on this album, you are wrong.
The original concept of Bob Sinclar was similar to the Daft Punk one. Bob Sinclar was supposed to be a mythical character, former porn star, turned secret agent for the French government. Ready to tell the world about the scandals he is aware of in an unauthorized biography, he is threatened not to do so by the authorities. And so, he choose House music as an alternate way to reveal his thoughts. "Paradise" is supposed to be the first part of this 'Biography'. Later developments would show Sinclar as an one-eyed Playboy ('I Feel For You') ready to take it to the stage.
While Christophe Le Friant takes pleasure to say he doesn't use samples, "Paradise" is full of them, although they are all uncredited on sleeve. Are included his previous club tracks "Disco 2000 Selector", "Visions Of Paradise", "My Only Love" and his variation of "New York City Music" by Julius Papp.
Globally, "Paradise" is a good album. It begins with the search for Bob Sinclar (gone to Miami), and it ends with the legendary 'Gym Tonic', the much discussed Thomas Bangalter production.
Apart from vocals on 'My Only Love' and 'The Ghetto', the other tracks are all instrumental, filtered Disco-House flavoured. An unquestionable detachment of its posterior work (in every sense of the term...).
'Champs Elysées', the follow up album, was the last chapter of this project that could have developped into something similar to the Daft Punk mythos. Even Thomas Bangalter believed in the 'Bob Sinclar' project before he was 'betrayed' (thus the exchange 'Gym Tonic' / Sinclar's remix of Stardust's 'Music Sounds Better With You').

These days, Bob Sinclar has simply become a joke with his convertion to the commercial scene. Let's backtrack some years and pull this out of the bag. It's a french classic packing several filter-shredding floor rockers . My friends still plays these tracks today (Especially Ultimate Funk, which pulls all the girls to the floor). Gym Tonic was also a big hit, but also responsible for others to call Sinclar a thief for crediting the track to himself when it was Thomas Bangalter who mainly did it.
But stories put aside, it's a marvelous party album in a great sleazy sleeve. It feels so sad to see all these artist sell out for money and saturating the market with shitty music. But this release is just brilliant allround. Hail the golden 90's!