Black Strobe - "Paris Acid City"
Home & Garden - "A Tribute To Paranoia" (Tim Shumaker mix)
Johnny Dangerous - "Dear Father In Heaven" (Repercussion mix)
BT - "Remember" (Mood II Swing dub)
Billy Sprockets - "Dancefloor 101"
Nightsource aka DJ Rasoul & Miguel Migs - "To Be Free"
Soldiers Of Twilight - "Mainfloor"
Didier Sinclair - "Funky Taste"
Lance Desardi - "Rememberance"
Jovonn & DJ Deep - "Back In The Dark"
Mustafa - "Circles" (feat Natalia - The Master mix)
Audio Clash - "Live & Die" (Wild Pitch mix)
Layo & Bushwacka! - "Love Life" (feat Robert Owens - Love From San Francisco remix)
Chris Carrier, Guillaume & WARRIO - "Encense's World"
Boo Williams - "Space 1999"
Gemini - "Where Do I Go" (1997 mix)
Children Of Planet Earth - "You Are The Future" (Stevie Sole Presents Guiro)
Krikor - "Sometimes Sweet Susan"
The Persuader - "What Is The Time Mr Templar"
Phil Weeks - "It Put Me Well" (Fred Everything remix)
Phil Weeks & Dan Ghenacia - "First Step"
DJ Bertrand - "Fuckin' Filter" (Ivan Cube Cleaning dub)
Crispin J Glover - "The Beat Goes On"
Llorca - "My Precious Thing" (Llorca Old Skool mix)
Touloulou - "Theme Of Guts" (The Rug Underground club mix)
Cassio Ware, Chipe & The Og's - "I Wanna See You Freak (Like Dis)" (Kenny Dope remix)
Review: For this first instalment of Ministry of Sound's new Sound Of The City series, Dan Ghenacia revisits Paris in the late 1990s/early noughties, mixing up vintage underground house tunes from that period. That was, of course, a particularly successful period for French house music, yet this isn't really reflected in the tracklist. Sure, there's a smattering of home grown cuts from the likes of Black Strobe, Krikor, Soldiers Of Twilight and Phil Weeks, but most of the tracks come from the US and the UK. Thankfully, the quality of Ghenacia's mix and deep, chunky house selections including such forgotten gems as Mood II Swing's dub of BT's "Remember" more than makes up for this slight flaw.
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