CEDRIC GERVAIS
Yoshitoshi Miami
Yoshitoshi
· Bring the club home! Oh… wait….
House music is a genre completely dependent upon its environment for relevance. Played in a dark room with a generous blend of flashing pink lights and drunken young people, a thumping, electro-ambient melody is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Play it in a car, an apartment, on headphones or anywhere else not benefiting from the reduced-inhibition nightclub setting, though, and all you’re typically left with is a predictable bass thump and uninspired sampling.
French DJ Cedric Gervais’s mix of the famous Yoshitoshi label’s catalogue, Yoshitoshi Miami, perfectly epitomizes this. Taken for what it is – generic house music – it competently lives up to the criteria set out by the genre. Analyse it objectively, however, and it’s still just aural tripe that gives 19-year-olds in fishnet tanktops an excuse to flail their arms about madly and yell "woo."
Again, nothing so awfully wrong with a theme disc for waving them in the air like you just don’t care. That kind of thing has its place – it just isn’t in your CD collection.
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