Dust off your velvet lounge suits and platforms, crack out the fondue set and light up the dance floor as Dimitri from Paris serves up a tasty dish of classic disco vibes to get you in the mood for groovin’. Long having a connection with the sounds of yesteryear, Dimitri brings us this two disc album on BBE full of some of the sexiest sounds to come out of the 70’s and early 80’s.

Disc one is a mix of laidback grooves featuring some instantly recognizable classics, we open up with one of the most covered songs in the world with George Gershwin’s 1935 standard ‘Summertime’. The Blue Velvets version oozes sex appeal with wily funk guitar and soulful vocals. Another widely covered song, ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ is featured with the version that took it from classic bossa nova to superstar status with Astrud Gilberto’s take. There is great percussion in this one. Stevie Wonder’s ‘Cherie Amour’ gets an 8 minute workout from Orquestra Novel, this track is absolute silk laden audio pleasure. The thing that made disco so great was the good feeling you got from listening to it, there is ever apparent across this disc especially with Darcus’ ‘It’s Got To Be love’ and Paul Mauriat Plus’ ‘The Joy Of You’. You can’t help but smile and bop along as the band gets a big workout with solid brass and string arrangements and soaring vocals over the top. Special mention to The Band That Fell To Earth’s epic 17 minute adventure in ‘Starlight’, the 1 1/2 minute drum break is hot.

We head from the lounge onto to the dance floor on disc 2, opening up with some good call and response workouts in Cindy Rodriguez’ ‘What You Need Is My Love’. The highlight for me on the album is Jobell & The Orchestra de Salsa’s ‘Never Gonna Let You Go’, absolute ecstasy with great brass arrangements throughout and feel good vocals. Love it. The overt sexuality of disco drips from this album, none more so than in Nightfall’s ‘Keep It Up’, the name says it all really. The soul breakdown in Moses’ ‘Something About You’ has to be heard to believed, you would swear that two songs had been spliced together but it works well. The album closes off with slow burner ‘Baby, I Just Wanna Love You’ from Jonelle Allen, the guitar line sounds like it could have been lifted directly from a skin flick, it is just that sexy.

Dimitri has pulled out some of the classic disco grooves for this one, this isn’t over the top dance floor stuff instead it is sexy-as-shag-carpet music guaranteed to get you in the mood for some serious loving. Put it on, turn the lights down and the lava lamps on and trip to the riffs of a time that was so wrong yet so right. In a word: Sexaboogylicious.