I have always found it a rush to introduce new, hot music to my following on the dancefloor. It is one of the reasons why we spin. Not a single DJ will truthfully be able to say that they don't get off on breaking new jams, and all those we have worked for who want to de-emphasize our power in that regard will burn before they get to hell. I only go on that spiel to introduce this music that I and my fellow jocks will want to premiere in da clubbb!
Get everybody on the floor like they do in the city of "Jamestown", [Made Records – MRECO17LP] and introduce all to Jimmy James (not the '60s and '70s lead singer who fronted the Vagabonds, by the way). This is my kind of music, where dancing it up is the only rule in the incense laden disco-club full o' fly ladies and handsome gents. You'll feel the vibe from the first beats of "Fashionista" - visions of 'Paris Is Burning' dance in my head. "Everybody line-up, the show is about to start!" he implores. With "Famous,' the next cut, you begin to feel the infectious, robust production and positive party lyrics fully. Never truly tenebrous, but for the sybarite in all of us, I'm head-nodding to the beat! Break-it downnn!
"Be Bobo Body," track six, is good ole House music like back in the '70s and '80s. Use it as filler in the mix between monsta jamz.
You can freestyle, touch, or just freak your dance partner on the stalwart track twelve, "Ego," which swings like a slightly slower "Dancin' The Night Away" that came out on Atlantic Records, circa 1979 by the one-hitters Voggue... I might increase the pitch a bit here.
"Summer Sun" is an upbeat, positive 'getting ready for the beach' tune that you should include on any seasonal collection you put together – archive it! It leads into the Daft Punk-like "Top Of Love"... "Kissing A Fraud" breaks into a nice, evil bassy groove about six minutes into it, salvaging the song; and I like the title also – who hasn't felt that way?
I liken Jimmy James' sound to the long lost disco pioneer, Cerrone; the main differences being in the length of tracks, because Cerrone was prone to the ten minute slice. I first noticed this similarity on track ten, "Keep It Movin'." Music is great in that if you live long enough and listen to enough, you develop a great foundation for familiarity and appreciation of the old and new without compromising either even when something new strikes you as familiar. With Jimmy James it is almost like he was a busker who has now been welcomed into the dance community fold. Surely if that was the case, it shall be nevermore, as I can bust a move to his groove with a star rating of four.
