DJ Kicks

I discovered Chromeo several months ago and started collecting their other albums and when I received this one I was disappointed in the music selection on this album. This wasn't the sounds of Chromeo I fell in love with and prefer their other albums with their unique and fun lyrics and not this mashup of songs. This is my opinion but I just didn't care for this one but still love Chromeo nonetheless.

I love these albums but this one has a differnt vibe to it I like and I wasn’t disappointed at all with shipping

A primarily 80's mix (I think one track is from 1979) that digs deep into funky, disco grooves of the 80's (not to be confused with 70's disco), and combines it with some similar synth laden, up to date electronic dance tracks. Gone were the classical strings and huge orchestrations of 70's disco, and in came the heavy synth melodies, while still retaining the soulful and funky lyrics. Chromeo finds everything from Canadian disco to the extremely rare funk/freestyle track Time to Move by Carmen, and sprinkles in some current electro house.Complete with every DJ Kicks mix is the artist doing a cover of a classic tune. On this occasion, we get Chromeo running the chorus of the Eagles classic I Can't Tell You Why through a vocoder. As eclectic and energetic as some DJ Kicks mixes before it, this one truly does not disappoint. It ranks alongside Booka Shade's  DJ Kicks  as my top two entries out of the last dozen or so in this mix series. A lot simpler and less diverse than Booka Shade's, but fulfilling nonetheless. They actually took their first stab at an 80's dance mix with  Chromeo Presents Un Joli Mix Pour Toi  in 2005, on the Eskimo label, but this tracklisting is a much better collection of tracks.

One of the reviewers gave this album a 3.0 and said its not chromeo so i felt the need to clarify things. This album reflects chromeo in every way. Its 80s funk & disco. Everything that makes chromeo the band we love. They do a marvelous job at mixing all these great songs together. There is even a chromeo version of the The Eagles "I cant tell you why", which in my opinion is even better than the original. I mean how can you not applaud them for mixing Kano, val young, lifelike, and the alan parsons project into the same mix. It just shows how great these guys music selection is. Buy this album. Its worth every penny.

This is a very good expanded edition from a duo who should be more popular. Their sound is very retro 80's funk and if this is your groove then you should purchase this double disc set.

I'm a big fan of Chromeo, so I got this to be a completist. However, it's basically just songs they pick (which is what the DJ Kicks series is) and a lot of them are cheesy 70s disco songs. If you like that, go for it, but if you like Chromeo, don't.

ddint know what to expect when i listened to it but was suprised very very good from these guys have got it in my car !

Chromeo ist ein 2004 in Montreal gegründetes Electro-Funk-Duo, bestehend aus P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) und Dave 1 (David Macklovitch).Chromeos DJ-Kicks Album wurde 2009 veröffentlicht und setzt sich etwas von den anderen viel gelobten, üblicherweise mehr richtungsweisenden und advangardistischeren DJ-Kicks Veröffentlichungen ab. Es enthält weniger Überblendungen, lässt die einzelnen Stücke mehr Ausleben und stellt mehr ein schwerpunktmäßig aus den 80ern stammendes Disco-Medley dar. Die Zusammenstellung ist leicht retrolastig, erhebt keinen ernsthafteren Anspruch als eine gelungene Unterhaltung zu bieten. Es gibt keine radikalen Stimmungswechsel, keine aggressiven Beats und entwickelt deswegen ein Flow mit viel Swing und positiver Stimmung. Beim Hören kommt leicht ein Wochenend-Stimmung auf, Chromeo sucht seine Julia.Von Kritikern und Hörern des All Music Guide wird DJ-Kicks mit 4 Sternen bewertet, also höher und besser als das aus 2007 stammende Album Fancy Footwork und das 2010 folgende Business Casual.Anspieltips: KANO Ikeya-Seki, TOBA Moving Up, FRANCE JOLI Gonna Get Over You, DONNA ALLEN Serious, LOVELOCK Maybe Tonight, CHATEAU MARMONT Solar Antapex, VAL YOUNG Seduction, LIVELIKE Sequencer, CARMEN Time To Move, CHERI Murphy`S Law, und die als Single ausgekuppelte I Can`t Tell you Why.

se siete degli estimatori della serie dj kicks questo è da avere !!!

カナダのヒップホップ・デュオが、R&B以前の1980年前後に勃興した「（ブラック・）ディスコ歌謡」を繋げたミックスCD。チープなドラムマシンが刻んでいるようなビートは単調だがどこか膨らみがあり、下世話なくらい仰々しい歌は直情的。バックのゴージャスな管弦楽も賑やかでド派手。大型チェーン店のファストフードのように添加物いっぱいでカロリー高め。確実に健康に悪そうだけど、それゆえに毒々しい魅力がある。クールで先鋭的なニュー・ウェイヴだけではなく、1980年代にはこんな垢抜けない代物もあったと認識するためには最良の教科書。キメラのように変な歌謡曲が横行していた状況は、何も日本に限ったことではないのだ。