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Aka the best french house album in the world............ever

I found nothing in HMV so I walked into the other crappy record shop, where you'd be lucky to find anything which wasn't in the charts. And then I saw this CD cover with the logos of pretty much every commercial french house artist ever on it. And then I looked at the back and saw it had the DJ Falcon remix of La Mouche on it, and Phoenix-If I Ever Feel Better, and Daft Punk, and Stardust, and Alex Gopher. So many more too. This CD was 15 euros and has made my day, anyone else got it?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"Aka the best french house album in the world............ever"
That's not too much of a stretch.Top track listing,including that Phoenix remix that you were talking about a while back.Never fails to satisfy,and brings a smile to my face every time I listen to it.

― dek1, Thursday, 17 October 2002 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah the tracks I don't know are pretty special too, a significant part of the enjoyment is just finding this thing out of the blue.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got it too! Received a free review copy before it came out, and was amazed never to see it on sale in a record shop. Did it actually get a proper release?

When I (finally) went to Paris in July, I walked around Montmartre for hours trying to hear some Daft Punk playing from someone's window.

― Zanny Gognet, Thursday, 17 October 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

the braxe and falke track, intro, is great (with the jets sample), did i put this on that cd ronan? i forget now...

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

No you didn't but it's one I know very very well.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"Did it actually get a proper release?"
Astralwerks put it out in the US...don't know about the rest of the world tho'.

― dek1, Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Enjoyed Marcello's write up of this on the C of M, that Little Star Cosmo Vitelli remix is absolutely amazing, hadn't picked up on it until now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I have it! I found a used copy in Recd and Tape Exchanges Dance shop. Not fully absorbed yet, but the Phoenix and Cassius remixes are belters.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

It came out in Belgium in the summer. All the reviews here were sniffy - "mon dieu, not these tracks encore une fois" etc. People are funny, aren't they? ;)

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Amazing tracklist, the only thing missing is Grand Popo Football Club Men Are Not Nice Guys and maybe Galleon, but otherwise it's the ultimate french house hits comp. Of course, if you've been hearing these records twice a day on the radio for the last five years, it might indeed seem a bit redundant, but it sure beats hunting down all the singles.

Cosmo Vitelli is great, the remix of Cassius The Sound Of Violence is also ace, and the video of the (excellent!) new Party Day tune is currently doing the rounds on local MTV here.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i found a copy of this for $8 a couple of days ago, but when i went to buy it they couldn't find the cd :-(

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr C. that Cassius remix is one of favourite tunes ever, I think I've been rambling about it for about 8 months now since Darren Emerson kept mixing it back in over and over at various points in the night back in February. It's so mesmeric, the same riff just over and over and over and over and that gigantic clicking drum in the background, repetition at its very best.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

but otherwise it's the ultimate french house hits comp.

pepe bradock, anyone?

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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