 David Guetta’s first album, which is to be released by Virgin on 24 June 2002, is a cocktail of electro and funk house, sweetened by the voice of Nashville’s own Chris Willis. The record, which is entitled “Just A Little More Love”, like the first single which remained number 1 on the French clubs chart for several weeks in 2001, will come as a big surprise for all those who have only just discovered David Guetta ! With its predominant, never-ending grooves and soul vocals, “Just A Little More Love” is a product of the club culture and of the man who started out as a pioneer of French House music (with “Up & Way”, a garage exercise sung by Robert Owens in 1992), before going on to become one of the leading names in the “Paris by night” club scene (in such venues as Folies Pigalle, Queen, Bataclan, Palace and Les Bains), where he has invited DJ legends like Little Louie Vega, David Morales, DJ Pierre and Roger Sanchez to join him on the turntables. The house in “Just A Little More Love” resembles the music David Guetta has always liked to mix: house, technohouse, electro and garage. After “Love Don’t Let Me Go”, which is evocative of Moroder’s techno-disco and Depeche Mode’s new wave, David dives into the roots of a deep and soulful garage style (“Give Me Something”). This is spangled with synthesizer solos and Afro scat as if intended for the dance floor of François Kevorkian’s Sunday party, “Body and Soul”, at Vinyl in Manhattan. This is then mixed with an old school electro number - “Can’t You Feel The Change” (powered by Chris Willis’ falsetto) - and the downright technological “It’s Allright (Preaching Paris)”, which has been “gospelized” by diva Barbara Tucker, star of New York’s West End and Strictly Rhythm labels.
David, who has helped promote the French Sound in the various clubs he has worked in, has come to be identified with his “People Come and Go” style. This is a winner every time, with its Chic-like, mono-harmonic riff sound, combined with Willis’ Eighties funk vocals (reminiscent of Womack & Womack) and the retro touch provided by a saturated guitar (a reminder of Michael Sembello’s heyday). With “Just A Little More Love”, David pays tribute to the masters of groove, having shared his passion for their music with generations of Parisian clubbers since the 1980s. Reference is made to Prince and the Minneapolis Sound in general via the pastiche “Sexy 17”. The street funk filiation is also celebrated, with the whimsical “Atomic Food”, an unexpected synthesis of Funkadelic (“Atomic Food”) and Cajmere (“The Stalker”), on the theme of transgenic food. BPM-thirsty clubbers who love dancing to cold walls of sound are sure to get off on “133”. And fans of the somewhat trippy deep house, released by San Francisco’s Naked Music label, will let their imagination wander to the Balearic Islands or other exotic destinations, thanks to the distant sax and casual slap bass on “You Are The Music”. They will also appreciate the laidback, Café del Mar-style arpeggio on the instrumental “Lately”, which ends the album on a discreetly nostalgic, summery note. Through this contemporary-sounding album, David Guetta reminds us of the uniqueness of French House, a movement which has conquered the world by combining styles and sounds from various places and times to form a consistent cocktail of contagiously good music !
Web info: www.davidguetta.com
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