St. Germain

Whether you're on the dancefloor or in your living room, Frenchmen Ludovic Navarre's dub-influenced, organic Deep House will satisfy you. Tasty vocal and guitar samples (including Ernest Ranglin on "Montego Bay Spleen) give just the right flavor. Backed by the influential label Blue Note, this 2000 release brought the group well-deserved international acclaim.

On Tourist, St Germain -- the nom de mix of veteran French DJ Ludovic Navarre -- solves the
great mystery of travel: how to be in two places at once. With its circular drum sizzle,
real-time horns from the Kind of Blue handbook and hot-sugar samples of jazz thrush
Marlena Shaw, "Rose Rouge" is a rolling joy, a wild Ibiza weekend squeezed into the Village
Vanguard. In "Montego Bay Spleen," Navarre relocates the Jamaican Wes Montgo... More >