Track Listing

1. Reach Inside - Bah Samba
2. Star - Mecca Headz
3. Groove - Astrojazz
4. Down To Love Town - Originals (1)
5. Shangri La - La Pregunta
6. Talkin' All That Jazz - Stetsasonic
7. Outra Lugar - De Bahia, Salome
8. Motivation - Atmosfear
9. Give Me Love - Cerrone
10. I'll Be There For You - Sunburst Band
11. Sweet Music - Hunter, Terry
12. Place Is Rockin' - Pioux, Pascal
13. Wonderful Person - Black Masses
14. Found A Cure - Ashford & Simpson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6105 in Music
• Released on: 2000-05-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
This mix compilation by French DJ Dimitri From Paris of "Sacre Bleu" fame demonstrates the French preference for smoothness and elegance, which is fine when it comes to a twin set but a bit dry as far as dance music is concerned. Dimitri's unwillingness to get down and dirty in his mix denies these grooves by Masters At Work, Stetsasonic and Bah Samba their right to funk. His own remixes of Ashford & Simpson's Found A Cure and Atmosfear's Motivation are equally nice, chic and just a bit flat. The emphasis on sophistication hits its height with the reference to the Playboy Mansion, a fantasy zone of less than real pleasure where cool rules over content and a bloke in his 70s gets laid a lot. If you need a soundtrack to your lava lamps and brown shagpile carpet then here it is. --Jake Barnes

CD Description
Born in Turkey, based in France, Dimitri From Paris is widely considered one of the latter country's top DJ's. With A NIGHT AT THE PLAYBOY MANSION, Dimitri settles quickly into a retro-disco, house music journey. The mix of varied tracks includes such classics as "Talkin' All That Jazz", from Stetsasonic, "Shangri-La", from La Pregunta, and Ashford and Simpson's "Found A Cure".
Dimitri takes the listener on a wild throwback ride, mixing in elements of retro-'70s flavour with '80s house, using modern remix techniques to blend themall together. Some other standouts include "Reach Inside", "Star", and "Sweet Music". Listening to Dimitri spin during A NIGHT AT THE PLAYBOY MANSION is as close as most of us will ever get to this gifted turntablist.

Customer Reviews

Classic disco that's one of this year's best party records
In an era of disco mutated into a dozen forms for the modern dancer, you need releases like this to remind you that the 70's sound was just fine, thank you. With this collection of old and new tunes Dimitri From Paris offers a cleansing of the palette, if you will; a classic sound with a bit of modern editing.

"Reach Inside," fires the part off right away, soulful disco that's all smooth diva crooning and blaring horns. As the disco ball descends, "Star" bounces in, featuring a sample of Aquarian Dream's "You're a Star." Sneaking in is the diva chorus scat singing of "The Groove," flaky but effective. Without checking the liner notes you'd never know the first three songs were made in the last three years (only four on the disc are from the 70's.) "Down to Love Town" is indeed from 25 years ago, Dimitri serving up a re-edit that focuses on the last few minutes of the funk-disco original. "Shangri La" has everything- snappy break intro, strings, electric guitar, even some "wakachica" (yea) and a mean drum fade leading into a great remix of Stetsasonic's "Talkin' All That Jazz." It scraps nearly all the rap to fit in funk guitar, flutes, and production tricks out the wazoo. "Outro Lugar" adds a bit of sass courtesy of Salome de Bahia. "Motivation" is party jazz that doesn't do much, but the rhythm is restored with the classic track "Give Me Love" (house heads will note it's often sampled bassline) and the wailing "Band." "Sweet Music" dishes up deep bass and a piano, leading to Pascal Pioux's smooth and classy "The Place is Rockin." The wrap-up includes the hugs and smiles of the gorgeous "Wonderful Person," and Ashford & Simpson's "Found a Cure."

What you have here is one of the best party records of the year, a complete and polished package of a time brought back to life.

Real Fruity House
The real deal fruity French cheese feel, it gets no smoother than this. Considerably more old skool and disco'fied then Dimitri's MixMag Live effort from a few years back. Disco, funk, soul and Latino influences abound and as a package it works very well. Not the sort of compilation that's gonna change any drum & bass fan's clichéd opinions about house music, but if you enjoy the fruity end of house (or European 'real' house) then this is the one for you. A high quality compilation, but as I say, fruity as all hell.

An education
I must admit that like the 1 star reviewer when I first put it on I just thought "Well so what?" and left it on the side for months.

I couldn't have been more wrong however and one rainy weekend afternoon it found it's way back into my stereo and has not strayed far since.

Like so many of the finer things in life it's an aquired taste; a musical expression of pure joy.

If you already have this and want more check out the "after the Playboy Mansion" double CD also from the man like Dim.