Artwork By [Booklet] -
Serge Jacques
Artwork By [Cat's Documentaliste] -
Alain Charlot
Artwork By [Cover] -
J-C Polien
Artwork By [Design] -
La Shampouineuse (1978)
Mastered By -
J.C.*
Mixed By -
Cutee B.*
Other [A & R] -
Alain Ho
,
Chris "Da French Kiss"
Other [Special Thanx] -
François Jerosme
,
Jane Fonda
,
Q-T Fingers
,
Tatiana
Producer, Composed By, Written-By -
Bob Sinclar
Notes:
Samples (All Uncredited) 2: "Music" performed by One Way Featuring Al Hudson.
3: "Cheek To Cheek" performed by Ohio Players and "Disco Baby" performed by Van McCoy.
4: "Come Back Lover" (bass & rhythm) performed by Fresh Band.
6: "The Ghetto" (live version) performed by Donny Hathaway and "The World Is A Ghetto" performed by George Benson.
7: "New York City" performed by Miroslav Vitous. Originally released by Julius Papp on Astral Waves EP.
8: "Super Sporm" performed by Captain Sky.
11: "Sambo (Progression)" performed by Brass Construction.
13: "Bad Mouthin" performed by Motown Sounds and "Jane Fonda Workout" (video) by Jane Fonda. "Gym Tonic" was entirely conceived by Thomas Bangalter.
(P) & (C) Mighty Bop Sessions
Mixed at Defrey Studios. Mastered at Translab.
EastWest Records distribution code: EW 802
UPC#: 3984246862
ledjfab, Aug 11, 2007
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').
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