Deep in it (St Germain) (LP 2378 - 2379)

St Germain  Boulevard (CD, F Communications Records, 1995) *** 

St Germain  Tourist (CD, Blue Note Records, 2000) ****   

Genre: Jazz 

Places I remember: The Warehouse

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Pont Des Arts

Gear costume: Sure Thing 

Active compensatory factors: I became hooked on Tourist for a while there in the early naughties.

It sounded so fresh, revolutionary even, and it was on Blue Note - so massive credibility. It's also got that cool French cachet in spades.

The repetition is essential and creates a trance like effect. Main man of St Germain is French DJ and record producer Ludovic Navarre, and he knew what he was doing.

Boulevard was his debut album but it's not a patch on Tourist. It's also far too long.

Nevermind - for a time there St Germain was the perfect cafe music. 

Where do they all belong? next up in the jazz category - David Sanborn's Inside.