St Germain - Boulevard (1995)
St Germain - Boulevard (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 398 MB | Covers Included
Genre: Future Jazz, Deep House | Label: Play It Again Sam | Catalog Number: F022CD
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 398 MB | Covers Included
Genre: Future Jazz, Deep House | Label: Play It Again Sam | Catalog Number: F022CD
Picture a world where each and every French dance band was unflinchingly bad; where every Air or Cassius or even Phoenix never existed since every homegrown, starving musician looked to somebody like ATB instead of St. Germain. Luckily, this is but a piece of fiction. Because Ludovic Navarre created such a saintly pseudonym, employing deep house, tittering breaks, and down-tempo attitudes that – in over-simplistic terms – virtually invented the entire French house movement that has crossed over more times than a Diana Ross impersonator. The question is, does being first make you any good? Taking cues from acid jazz and its chin-stroking underground, songs like "Deep in It" or "Street Scene (4 Schazz)" seem to shyly respond, "yes." It's only the preponderance of an odd sense of a Frenchman aping American black music that starts to cause the most alarm. The loose jazz excursions such as "Sentimental Mood" carries all the emotional weight of a sewing needle and the choice of blues samples (while being years before Moby even caught onto the idea) feels contrived. The album may exude an atmosphere of a musician discovering a new genre hybridization, it just doesn't quite reach the maturity of a fleshed out idea. A landmark album? Yes. An album that lacks the loveliness of an Air or the inventiveness of an Etienne DeCrecy? Also, yes. Boulevard has been looked upon as the "essential" Revolver or What's Going On or Dig Your Own Hole piece of French house fans' record collections. It's only a small indignity that the music itself rarely reaches such heights of its comparisons. [AllMusic Review by Dean Carlson]
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St Germain / Boulevard
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EAC extraction logfile from 15. June 2010, 8:18
St Germain / Boulevard
Used drive : Optiarc DVDRWBD BC-5600S Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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TOC of the extracted CD
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1 | 0:00.32 | 7:20.03 | 32 | 33034
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Tracklist:
01. Deep In It (7:20)
02. Thank U Mum (4 Everything You Did) (12:34)
03. Street Scene (4 Shazz) (15:46)
04. Easy To Remember (9:40)
05. Sentimental Mood (10:20)
06. What's New? (7:45)
07. Dub Experience II (3:48)
08. Forget It (7:57)