Larry Levan: Greatest Salsoul Mixes [Import]

Larry Levan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 2, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2004
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Salsoul
• ASIN: B0000DFZCU
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,402 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Ain't No Mountain High Enough [Version]

2. How High

3. By the Way You Dance [#][Mix]

4. Handsome Man [#][Mix]

5. Double Cross

6. The Greatest Performance of My Life

7. Crying

8. When I Come Home

9. I Know You Will

Disc: 2

1. I Got My Mind Made Up

2. First Time Around

3. It's Just Begun

4. Everybody

5. Summertime Lovin'

6. Skyzoo

7. Slap Slap Lickedy Lap

8. High

9. Bodyshine [#][Mix]

10. Make It Last Forever

Editorial Reviews

All mixed up by Larry Levan, featuring Instant Funk, Loleatta Holloway, Jocelyn Brown, Aurra, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Skyy, Inner Life and more. 19 tracks packaged in double gatefold digipak. Salsoul. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Dance Music for Real People, July 20, 2004

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Dre Mace "MaceBoogie" (CA - USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Larry Levan: Greatest Salsoul Mixes (Audio CD)

This is not a mixed CD. These are original remixes by the famous DJ Larry Levan of the Paradise Garage. If you are a fan of "Disco?", "House", "Deep-House", "Garage", "Chicago-House" or whatever you want to call it, you will appreciate this set. There are too many standouts for me to type, but me 3 favorites are Skyy - 1st Time Around, Instant Funk - Crying, Inner-Life - Make It Last Forever (became a Paradise Garage Anthem). Note the remixes are all extended versions with plenty of instrumental and vocal emotion.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LARRY GIVES SALSOUL CLASSICS AN EXTREME MAKEOVER!, December 11, 2007

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Patrick Frierson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Definitive Salsoul Mixes 78 - 83 (Audio CD)

By that I mean remixed. If you find yourself buzzin off live at Paradise Garage, you should get the same amount of satisfaction from this. Larry took Salsoul favorites and remixed them to max effect. along with Westend, Salsoul have a reputation of creating some of the hardest hittin dance music known to man. With Larr behind the boards handlin these bad boys, expect to feel like a kid who had too much sugar! You'll be bouncin' off the walls and through the roof.

I especially love how he bring in the precussive breaks in certain tracks such as the garage house standard "I got my mind made up" courtesy of Instant funk and Bunny Sigler's "By the way you Dance". If you love the latter track on his paradise Garage mix CD, you definately need to check for this version. As opposed to the 7 minute version on Paradise Garage, this version is ten minutes long. His emphasis precussive breaks and that powerful hook makes that version sound more intricate than the one on Live at Paradise Garage. But that's a drop in the cocktial glass to other tracks on this album. First Choice is reliably soulful as always on "Double Cross" (the string loop at the beginning alone is worth a a double take), Instant funk is repsrented by several other stellar remixes such as, "Crying", "Everybody", "Slap Slap Lickedy Lap", and "Bodyshine". Slap Slap is a sleazy piece about oral sex that rivals "Nice and Naasty" as being the sexiest track in the Salsoul catalog. Of course you get the ultimate garage anthem with Inner Life's "Ain't no mountain high Enough" amongst others.

Overall this is every bit as gratifying as "Live at Paradise Garage". While it doesn't have the cinematic rush of that that album, Salsoul Mixes is the hardest and heaviest anthology between the two. Every disco and househead on this planet should have this collection. on the surface this may seem like another Salsoul anthology but, with Levan housin' s&*!, he'll bring it down and leave us there to pick up the pieces!

More than Highly reccomended!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars larry levan definitive salsoul mixes, March 25, 2010

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Paul G. Hagan (australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Larry Levan: Greatest Salsoul Mixes (Audio CD)

let me start by saying i am a massive fan so my thoughts are one sided ok
but if you can lay your hands on this cd do it stand out tracks well
they all stand out but instant funk crying bunny sigler by the way you dance & of course inner life aint no mountain high enough & sparkle handsome man
if you are serious about quality dance music it doesnt get much better than this collection
its not easy or cheap to find but get it & play it for someone not aware of this music i assure you they will find something in this to move them its worked for me