Search - Seb Fontaine :: Prototype 01

Music for The Soul

Niggerachi | New York City, New York United States | 10/25/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Seb Fontaine Prototype 01Think of the DJ Seb Fontaine, as dance music savoir for the new millennium; but for those of you unlucky ones out there, let me give you the low down on him. Seb started out dj'ing at a young age and when on to play at soul and reggae clubs; there he used to get paid 39 pounds (about $25 dollar here) a night; spinning the same old records, night after night. Until a friend of his talked him in to going to a house club one night, and the rest is history. Seb told one magazine: "I was totally blown away". That is where he found his "niche". In a matter of months, Seb went from playing the same old crappy routines and the same old records, to testing out different tunes, missed placed mix's, studying the dance floor, and picking up his "sixth sense" for what the crowd liked and wanted to hear.... before they knew they wanted to hear it! Seb started out his new dance themed set with a number of residencies from clubs such as Wag and Fridge in London, and last year went he got a weekly night at cream in Spain. His set at Cream is where he started attracting people from around the world, people from Germany, china, and even the USA. Everyone wanted to see him perform dance floor destroying sets. Seb's reputation was growing and just rep, so will his CD's. For all you house music lovers out there, disc 1 is for you. Seb slices and dices his way into the funky-seedy style of house music, that currently the crazy of there in London. From the opening track "My Fellow Boppers", you can tell just where Seb is going take you. The music builds and grows into a furnace of hard deep house with core tracks like "Basketball Heroes" "Zipper" and "He chilled out 99". Seb is making a fiery of deep house that never lets you down. Disc 2 (my favorite.) is more like a peak time Saturday night, but with a more trance theme to it. This set blends, shiver, and melts into more commercial tracks such as ATB's "9pm(till I come), "Life Isn't Easy", and "Mission". Plus some more "E"urphoric ones that can be found in gems like "Universal Nation" and " Because of Dreams". In the end, Prototype is a small sample of what we should prepare for what to come from Seb Fontaine, because once you hear this CD, you'll be some immersed, so deep into the music...you'll realize that the CD has stop, but you was still jamming.DJ Dirty D."

This is a mixed bag

P. Gonyea | 03/01/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"For a 49-year-old, I listen to a lot of trance - in fact, sometimes I thrive on it. Seeing the other reviews here, I pounced on ordering this CD. When it arrived, I quickly put on the first CD, and waited for it to "warm up to me" or pick up. I waited & waited... then I realized I was nodding off to insistent (and quite boring) repetitive rhythms. Great if you're an insomniac. CD 2 is quite a bit better, but still uneven. I prefer dynamic and varied paces, melodies you can get behind, and music that gets me going. Only certain cuts on this CD do that for me, so I was somewhat disappointed.Now 2002: I've revisited this CD, and I must confess I'm liking it more - it may grow on you."