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Various - The Trip Created By Joey Negro (Family)
UK release date: 13 March 2006
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Various - The Trip Created By Joey Negro

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track listing

Disc One
1. 007 And Counting - Barry, John
2. Call Me - Wilson, Nancy
3. Avengers - Johnson, Laurie
4. National Express - Divine Comedy
5. Ride Like The Wind - Cross, Christopher
6. Lust - Rinder, Laurin & Michael Lewis
7. You're Not Alone - Lee, Dave
8. Chase - Moroder, Giorgio
9. Prime Time - Tubes
10. Monkey Star - Arpadys
11. Far Beyond - Sunburst Band
12. Atmospherique - Metro Area
13. Adventures In Success - Powers, Will
14. Entity - Mr. Marvin
15. Captain Of Her Heart - Double
16. Don't You Know - Hammer, Jan
17. Magic Smile - Vela, Rosie
18. Duel - Propaganda
19. Song For A Future Generation - B-52s

Disc Two
1. Inside Life - Jakatta
2. Living In The Past - Jethro Tull
3. Love Music - Mendes, Sergio
4. It's All Because Of You - Dells
5. Strung Out - Staples, Gordon
6. Funky Luvah - Creative Source
7. Do You Have Any - La Pamplemousse
8. Two Hearts Together - Soul Etico
9. Whisper Softly - Kool & The Gang
10. It Ain't Love - Patterson, Rahsaan
11. Free - Seawind
12. Music - Omar
13. Next Lifetime - Badu, Erykah
14. Highways Of My Life - Isley Brothers
15. Rush Over - Miller, Marcus & Me'Shell Ndegeocello
16. I Can See The Future - Incognito
17. So Nobody Else Can Hear - Cobb, Jimmy
18. Moonlight Serenade - Miller, Glenn
19. Inside Life - Jakatta

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One of the great things about a series like The Trip is its ability to show another side of the compiling artist, tunes they might listen to when not doing the day job, so to speak.

When that artist has as many personalities as Dave Lee, you're on to a winner, and choosing the Joey Negro moniker for this release would seem to indicate a leaning towards the dancefloor rather than a sleepy bedroom. The truth is that everyone's catered for here, as the pair of mixes draws in music from the big screen, the club, the coffee bar, pretty much every aspect of everyday music making you can think of.

All very promising, then, and though it sounds obvious the fact Lee is a DJ makes it a lot easier for him to pull things together smoothly without being wrenched cruelly from one style of music to another. This means it's OK to have themes from 007 and The Avengers running into The Divine Comedy's exuberant National Express, those lyrics still as sharp as ever.

It's also not a problem for a guilty pleasure like Christopher Cross's Ride Like The Wind and Jan Hammer's Don't You Know to be rubbing shoulders with the ultra cool minimal New York house of Metro Area. Add Dusty Springfield and the B-52s and you have a cosmopolitan first mix with something for everyone, and, crucially, something new for everyone.

A second mix in the same vein would be hard to pull off, so Lee opts for a lightly funky, soulful experience. Again this can be taken loosely at times, as Jethro Tull makes an early appearance, but there are several magical moments of effortless class, the pick of which occurs when Kool And The Gang's Whisper Softly moves after a natural pause into the warm, soulful groove of Rashann Patterson.

After more magical soul from Erykah Badu the DJ rightly assumes we might be ready for bed, and curls up with Glenn Miller's softly-softly Moonlight Serenade chosen as the hot water bottle.

And so Joey Negro's musical background becomes clearer, with pretty much every decade from the last seventy years covered and little allusion to the vocal house music in which he specialises. Sure, there may be many compilations of this type around, but few carry off the formula as well as this one, particularly when that someone has such a multi-faceted personality. A rewarding trip then, with plenty of eye-catching scenery to enjoy.


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