Bob Sinclar ‎– Paradise

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

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.

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!