Bob Sinclar- why?

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The man seems to release a single every three weeks, and they're all shit.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Plus his new video features the triumphant return of blackface to pop promos. lol french race relations

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

That "Gym Tonic" one he did a few years back wasn't too bad.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

but he lifted that wholesale from some thomas bangalter bootleg!

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

That would explain why it was good then!

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

'I Feel For You' was OK.

'Gym Tonic' was originally a collaboration between Sinclar and Bangalter and featured on Sinclar's 'Paradise' album but I think they fell out when he allowed it to be 'covered' by Spacedust (resulting in the #1 single).

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

"World Hold On" was ok...

don't throw stuff

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

altho according to guy on discogs: Entirely produced by Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk), "Gym Tonic" bacame, over the years, a kind of mythical record. According to the rumours, Bangalter didn't want the track to be released commercially. But it gained such a success as a promo that Sinclar decided to put it on his first album "Paradise", crediting himself as the main author and Bangalter as the remixer. This event leaded to several legal problems: Jane Fonda took legal actions for the uncredited use of her voice, and it finally cost around 75 000$ to clear the sample. Many opportunist, commercial dance acts stealed the main idea of the record: the most popular one, Spacedust, released "Gym And Tonic" (which even reproduce Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You" melody). Finally, Bangalter decided to "ban" Sinclar's remix of "Music Sounds Better With You" by ordering new versions of the song to Dimitri From Paris and DJ Sneak. It is unlikely that these two DJ's will ever work together again. Choose your camp.

"World Hold On" was ok...

ha ha, i agree - think the vocalist is same guy from 'The Sound Of Violence'?

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Bom, bom
ba ba
etc.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

source of the famous management slogan, "there's no 'i' in sinclar".

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

"World Hold On" is basically "Promised Land" for the 00 charts...

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't mind "World Hold On" at all, but it really was redundant wasn't it after "Love Generation"? Maybe if there was whistling on it as well.

"Rock The Party" (the one that sounds like a bootleg of "Everybody Dance Now" and a dancehall track on the Kopa riddim) is great though! Spizzazzz are on the mark with their review. Much prefer that to, say, David Guetta vs The Egg.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

your Haircut House penchant knows no shame

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Strictly speaking "Rock The Party" possibly isn't even stylish ("stylish"?) enough for the haircut house crowd, it's a bit more pub isn't it. Haircut house seems to be drifting into harder/weirder territory (perhaps now that electro-house has become minimal it has more space to develop in a dancier/techier direction). In a recent singles review for my local streetpress I was moved to describe one haircut house remix as "avant-haircut" and I bet there will be more where that came from.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I was moved to describe one haircut house remix as "avant-haircut"

we need names!

― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think it might be the Tonite Only mix of TV Rock's "Bimbo Nation" but don't hold me to that. I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek - if I recall it was just very busy and cluttered and multi-sectioned. Basically it feels like all those really commercial electro-house producers are starting to build up the confidence to make productions as complex and as mutational as, say, Tiefschwarz circa 2004 (not as good though). It's odd b/c you know that they've always played this stuff, and stuff like Trentemoller remixing Royksopp, but they're only just starting to try to mimic/match it.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Bisou Sucre was hot as hell but his stuff has definitely dropped off in quality in the past three years.

― Nick Disabato (nickd), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

The B side of his '96 "A Space Funk Project" features a sweet and uncharacteristically held back rework of Gino Soccio's So Lonely, and it's been stomping, stiff funk/disco loops since then I believe.

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Bob Sinclair/Sinclar's (it seems to have changed over the years) only crime (apart from being shit) was to swap from being a decent French house act to a shit Ibiza cash cow. All his releases are timed to get big sales from beered up holiday memories.

Still he manages to put out things like the Africanism series on Yellow so he is allowed to make a purely commercial record... and he has about 1000 aliases too.

― raw sweaters annoying brother (raw sweaters annoying brother), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Africanism is the stomping, stiff afro loops arm -somehow less corny but there's still about 3 keepers max.

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

I havent baught many of the Africanism series... well only one but it had a decent idea of matching different producers and artists together; and has been more successful than the Dialect EPs. Yellow released the first Dimitri and Kid Loco albums and some nice singles so he has to thanked for that. It has been off the boil but it was instrumental in helping the 96 French house boom.

The Bob sinclar monicar has been steadily moved away from this so maybe its a good thing - he gets to make a few Euros and protects the credability of his record label.

― raw sweaters annoying brother (raw sweaters annoying brother), Thursday, 2 November 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

'Phasing News' from the 'Champs Elysées' LP is nice

but is this him just ripping/tributing the Michel Gonest track(s) of the same name?

― blueski, Monday, 31 March 2008 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

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