They’re back. No Not The Muppets. Sessions albums. Back dividing opinion, back bridging the divides but never dividing the tracks. The first Sessions album of 2007 sees the hardy perennial Ministry melding and morphing, wheelin’ and dealin’, blurrin’ and bodgin’, tweakin’ and twatin’, beepin’ and bloopin’ and generally enjoying the kind of handsome new look that only folks like David and Victoria Beckham can usually meet the expense of. And there’s still no breaks between songs. Like one big lost weekender, it’s not just articles of clothing or bodily juices converging, it’s toons. And it certainly looks like there’s plenty of those. Which is arguably just as well, as they’re not all good ones by any means. But at the same time, they’re not all bad.
Whether the name Fedde Le Grand is familiar to you or not, Le Grand is purported to be most famous for the phenomenal success of his crossover hit ‘Put Your Hands Up For Detroit’. Starting in 2006 as a reasonably unknown House DJ in Holland, holding down a residency at Panama in Amsterdam with his night ‘Sneakerz, what started as a simple bassline popping in his head whilst making his breakfast one morning, would later end up as the number 1 Ibiza anthem by the end of 2006. Or at least that’s what it says on the box. My own ideas seldom make it past getting out of bed.
Initially released on his own label Flamingo Recordings ‘Put Your Hands Up For Detroit’ was picked up by Cr2 and given some major welly. The number one summer anthem of Ibiza, it reached number 4 in the Dutch top 40 and stayed there for several weeks. Which is why we’ve now got this. We’re supping whilst it’s hot.
This month’s mix features the likes of Switch, Camille Jones, Martin Ten Velden in addition to some of Le Grand’s own exclusive productions and a shitload of fizzy, dirty, scuzzy house unknowners to all those outside of the gay clubs in Holland and Europe. Which means it’s actually quite entertaining for a change.
It’s not Freddy, it’s Fedde. And he’s a superstar DJ and all that.