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Deep Forest: World Mix

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Deep Forest
Title: World Mix
Released: 1998.09.18
Label: Céline Music
Time: 76:33
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Electronic / World Music
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.09.10
Price in €: 6,99
Web address: www.deepforestmusic.com

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Deep Forest (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 5:34
[2] Sweet Lullaby (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 3:54
[3] Hunting (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 3:27
[4] Night Bird (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 4:18
[5] The First Twilight (Cue/Mouquet/Sanchez) - 3:18
[6] Savana Dance (Cue/Sanchez) - 4:26
[7] Desert Walk (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 5:14
[8] White Whisper (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 5:46
[9] The Second Twilight (Cue/Mouquet/Sanchez) - 3:02
[10] Sweet Lullaby [Ambient Mix] (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 3:44
[11] Sweet Lullaby [*] (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 6:48
[12] Sweet Lullaby [*] (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 7:20
[13] Deep Forest [*] (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 7:07
[14] Forest Hymn [*] (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 6:46
[15] Forest Hymn (Mouquet/Sanchez) - 5:49

[*] - new Remixes not available on the original Deep Forest: "Deep Forest" debut album of 1993.

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


ERIC MOUQUET - Arrangement, Keyboards, Programming
MICHEL SANCHEZ - Idea, Arrangement, Keyboards, Programming

MICHEL VILLAIN - Add. Vocals
COOKY CUE - Keyboards, Programming on [6], Engineer

DAN LACKSMAN - Producer. Engineer, Mixing
GUILAIN JONCHERAY - Executive Producer
PETE ARDEN - Re-Mixing on [11]
JOSE "Choco" REYNOSO - Engineer on [11]
APOLLO 440 - Re-Mix, Add. Production on [12], [14]
MARK SPOON - Re-Mix, Add. Production on [13]
DANIEL IRRIBAREN - Re-Mix, Add. Production on [13]
 

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1998 CD Columbia 476589

Sweet Lullaby No. 5 in USA and top 10 in UK, Golden Album in USA and nominated at the Grammy Award 1994. Mid-price reissue of the internationally flavored, French dance act's remix album. Feauting 15 tracks in all. Highlights include, 'Sweet Lullaby (Ambient Mix), (Round The World Mix), (Apollo Mix), 'Deep Forest (Sunrise At Alctraz Mix)', 'Forest Hymn (Apollo Mix), 'Hunting', 'Night Bird', 'Desert Walk' & more. With this album Deep Forest added a few Mixed tracks to the album called "Deep Forest", it joins together the propulsive dance music of modern Europe with the haunting voices of the Pygmies of the central African rain forest. Deep Forest is a unique pop creation with roots both in the "world beat" phenomenon and in ambient dance music, an album for dancing and for listening.



Innovatively fusing traditional ethnic musics with state-of-the-art rhythms, the work of Deep Forest was best typified by their 1993 smash "Sweet Lullaby," which brought together the contemporary sounds of ambient techno with the haunting voices of the Pygmies of the central African rain forest. The project was primarily the work of the French keyboardists and programmers Eric Mouquet and Michael Sanchez; after the latter returned from Africa with boxes of records he'd picked up across the continent, he and Mouquet began sampling the native sounds for use with their atmospheric dance tracks, and with the aid of producer Dan Lacksman, their eponymous debut LP appeared in 1993. Propelled by the international hit "Sweet Lullaby," Deep Forest was a surprise success; Mouquet and Sanchez soon began work on a follow-up, this time exploring such areas as Mongolia, India and Hungary, recording several tracks with singer Marta Sebestyen. The resulting album, Boheme, appeared in 1995; the third Deep Forest record, Comparsa, followed in 1998, with Live in Japan appearing a year later.

Jason Ankeny, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



This French edition of the first album features some exclusive remixes that don't feature on the UK album "Deep Forest". Why these exclusive mixes never featured on the UK album or the singles I'll never know. Basically, the first ten tracks are the same as the regular Deep Forest album, and then everything after that are extra tracks. The Around the World mix of Sweet Lullaby gets a laid back house treatment from Pete Arden, but its the Apollo mix of the same track that made me stop what I was doing and turn up the stereo - trancey layers build up over the familiar chords and chants of the original mix, and whilst it never really kicks in full throttle, this is an excellent piece of remix work. I always wondered what happened to the first part of the Sunrise at Alcatraz mix of Deep Forest, the second part of which features on the CD single of the ambient mixes. Additional remix on both parts are from Marc Spoon (one half of the German duo Jam and Spoon) and Daniel Irribaren. However, there's no need to get excited because its much the same as the second part. But the best is saved until last, with the almighty Apollo 440 remix of Forest Hymn. This has been an old favourite of mine that I've had on tape for many years, although I never knew who remixed it and what the track was actually called apart from that it featured on this French version of the album. Many thanks to Benoit Carretier for sending me it! :) Its a stomping dance remix of what was originally a lovely ambient track (and even the original of this track failed to appear on some versions of the first album), although it still retains the euphoric and uplifting vibes of the original. This track on its own has got to be worth getting the album for.

Global Trance & Dance
© 1996 - 2001 Rich Morley



World Mix n’est pas un disque comme les autres mais bien l’expression d’une philosophie. Fous de bidouillages sonores, Eric Mouquet et Michel Sanchez ont plongé leurs oreilles dans l’immense réservoir sonore des forêts africaines. Alchimistes de l’électronique, ils y ont recueilli la fluidité des flûtes pygmées d’Afrique centrale, la beauté lancinante des chants bata de la forêt camerounaise, les pulsations des rythmiques sénégalaises, et ont ciselé des sons nouveaux, sidéraux, mystérieux, d’une sensualité métallique, véritables passerelles entre la magie des civilisations noires et les rêves du troisième millénaire. Un mariage qui met en scène par des couleurs sonores inédites - dans des titres comme "Desert Walk" ou "Forest Hymn" - le lien des civilisations, la force des pouvoirs, la persistance des légendes, en un mot la spiritualité, éternelle, qui transpire dans les pulsations des claviers et des voix.

Sylvie Clerfeuille, Amazon.fr
 

 L y r i c s


 DEEP FOREST

Somewhere,
deep in the jungle
are living some little men and women.
They are, our past
and maybe,
maybe they are,
our future...


SWEET LULLABY

Sa ziza zecob dela dalou'a
Boralea'e borale mi komi oula
Etawuae'o ela'o coralia wu'aila
Ilei pandera zel e' tomu pere no mo mai
Alatawuané icas imani'u
Barletas e'e barkia'a
Pro'e lai e'le a pantou
la'u Ilei pandera zel e' tomu pere no mo mai

Sa ziza zecob dela dalou'a
Boralea'e borale mi komi oula
Alatawuané icas iwua'oula
Ilei pandera zel e' tomu pere no mo mai
 

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