Review: For their latest trip into celebratory disco territory, Glitterbox Recordings has asked Aussie rework fiend Dr Packer to get busy with a quartet of dancefloor classics. He begins by putting his stamp of LaTrece's Mark Kinchen-produced 1993 cover of Alicia Myers' "I Want To Thank You", giving it a breezier and more boogie-influenced feel, before moving further towards hybrid disco/soulful house territory on a fine rub of Shuya Okino's 2011 jam "Still in Love". Flip to the virtual flipside for a pitched down, electrofunk-fired rework of ATFC's "Bad Habit" that's more in keeping with the 1985 Jenny Burton cut on which it was based, and a gently beefed-up take on Soul Rebels' tasty cover of Rene and Angela boogie classic "I'll Be Good".
Review: No one does contemporary disco like Dimitri From Paris. And no one has the compilation licensing clout like Defected. Naturally this is a match made in glitterball heaven as DFP spans 40 years of grooves with a spotless collection of his own edits and upfront jams. Ranging from his own twists on standard disco gems such as "Le Freak" and "Lost In Music" to the likes of Disclosure's "F For You" and Todd Terje's "Delorean Dynamite" this is, without question, one of Defected's most extensive, expansive and exciting collections to date - which really is saying something. A natural fit for all house, disco and funk fans young and old.
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