ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK `JOE DIRT' ... REGION Edition

• Published in: Pittsburgh post-gazette (Pittsburgh, Pa. 1978)
• Main Author: (SONY/LEGACY) "DISCOVERY" (VIRGIN) "FAUX MOVEMENT" (NETTWERK) "AMERICAN DJ 02: DALLAS" (THE RIGHT STUFF) -- ED MASLEY
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pittsburgh, Pa Pittsburgh Post - Gazette 30.03.2001
• ISSN: 1068-624X; 2692-6903

Autour De Lucie is also from France. And that's about the end of any similarities to Daft Punk. There's no party here. No camp. No kitsch. No joie de vivre. No fun, to quote the Stooges. If George Thorogood would truly drink alone -- and were a pouty French chick drinking wine, not dollar draughts -- his records might sound more like this. Or maybe not. He'd still be kind of dumb. But this has definitely got that sort of wine-drunk, late-night, lonely feel. From the opening notes of "Je Reviens," the mood is set on low, with acoustic guitar offset by electronic ambiance and Valerie Leulliot's entrancing, ethereal vocals. I have no idea what she's singing, being uni-lingual, but I feel her sadness. And it's rare that music so effectively erases language barriers -- which could be why the latest Daft Punk hit is sung in English. A continuous club mix of trance and progressive house anthems is what the sticker out front promises. And that's exactly what you'll find inside. But say, just for the sake of argument, that you, the reader, wouldn't know a continuous club mix of trance and progressive house anthems if it bit you on the bottom. That's OK. You'll be too busy shaking it to get hung up on the trainspotting musicological classification of it all. It's party music, not too plain but plenty simple, ushered in with "Sandwiches," a smile-inducing cut with a rubbery bass and ridiculous vocals inviting the ladies to join Detroit Grand Pu Bahs in a new dance with "I know you wanna do it/ You know I wanna do it too/ Out here on the dance floor/ Where we can make sandwiches." The party atmosphere continues through the pulsating house with soulful vocal hooks of "Fine Ladies Only," a Kelly Reverb vs. Sergio Techini track that kicks off with the DJ telling everyone, "The next song will be played for fine ladies only." Other artists featured here include Green Velvet, Bedrock, Wamdue Project, CRW and Antoine Clamaran.