Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Nyce & Slo - Lil Louis
2. So Good, So Right - Imagination
3. Twilight - Maze
4. Makeda - Les Nubians
5. I Got The Rhythm - Beautiful People
6. Nikita - Ralph Myers & The Jack Herren Band
7. Get It Up For Love - Tata Vega
8. Can't Give You Up - Deep Sensation
9. Ibo Lele - Jephte Guillaume
10. Peanut Butter - Gwen Guthrie
11. Feel Up - Grace Jones
12. Lust - Rinder & Lewis
13. Seasons Of Love - Blaze

Disc 2:

1. Candidate For Love - TS Monk
2. Fran Mig Till Dig - Emma Nilsdotter
3. The Body Theme - Next Evidence
4. Jazz Room - Paul Murphy & Marc Woolford Project
5. Indigo Blues - Llorca feat. Nicole Graham
6. So Good To Know - Best Friends Around
7. (It Ain't) All Good - De La Soul feat. Chaka Khan
8. Changin' - Linda Clifford
9. It's Yours - Jon Cutler feat. E-Man
10. Never Enough - Boris Dlugosch feat. Roisin Murphy
11. That's The Way Love Is - Ten City
12. Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110999 in Music
• Released on: 2002-02-19
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .27 pounds

Album Description
Keeping the Playboy Mansion concept rolling, Dimitri returns with a 2 CD set featuring his trademark blend of cool retro grooves, laidback house beats and rare & unreleased gems. (Astralwerks)

Amazon.com
Dimitri from Paris has the touch, and everybody wants to feel it. Testimony can be found in the 200,000 copies of his debut Sacrebleu and the millions of 2001's A Night at the Playboy Mansion that have found their way out into the world. For his aptly titled follow-up, After the Playboy Mansion, Dimitri has divided the double CD into the yin and yang of his DJ approach, giving each disc its own name: "Uplifting" and "Laidback." But in DJ terms, things are not always as they seem. "Uplifting" and "Laidback" are both all over the map, and some tracks could easily fit onto either disc. Larry Levan's remix of Gwen Guthrie's "Peanut Butter" on "Laidback" could also work on "Uplifting," as could Danny Tenaglia's glowing remix of Grace Jones's "Feet Up." Most of "Uplifting" intimates disco and mixes in some breezy Brazilian house. French producer Llorca offers subtle samba/jazz on "Indigo Blues," then the groove changes to the Tower of Power-styled funk of "Best Friends Around," which segues into the '80s sound of De La Soul's "(It Ain't) All Good." Lil' Louis (of "French Kiss" fame) introduces "Laidback" with his mindless "Nyce and Slo," remixed by Tony Humphries. Combining old-school tunes with contemporary downtempo, Dimitri adds a shuffling track by Les Nubians, chilled breakbeat by Beautiful People, and a rumbling Latin noir thriller by Norwegians Ralf Myerz and the Jack Herron Band. Blaze closes "Laidback" with "Seasons of Love," a summery Afrobeat groover. --Ken Micallef

From URB Magazine
There's no place on earth as synonymous with sex than the Playboy mansion. Its reputation as an erotic utopia is virtually mythological. No DJ better personifies that swinging spirit than Dimitri From Paris, which is why he's been picked to mix his second Playboy-sanctioned set of libidinous beats.

Where the first A Night At the Playboy Mansion was a single set of '70s-style disco abandon, here he gets to spread the love across two CDs. The laid-back first disc opens with the tasty Tony Humphries mix of Lil' Louis "Nyce and Slo," setting the sexy mood of the mix. He unearths such gems as Larry Levan's mix of Gwen Guthrie's "Peanut Butter " and Danny Tenaglia's reinterpretation of Grace Jones' funky "Feel Up," quietly turning up the heat before ending on Blaze's Afro-beat banger "Seasons of Love."

On the uplifting second mix he goes straight for the discotheque, combining old-school tracks like TS Monk's "Candidate For Love" with updates on the sound such as "The Body Theme" from fellow Parisians Next Evidence. Closing with Ten City's classic "That's the Way Love Is" and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' timeless "Don't Leave Me This Way," Dimitri again proves himself a master of the good-time groove.

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Customer Reviews

Not the same calibre as 'a night at the playboy mansion'
After listening the CD with some good expectations after the masterful 'a night at the playboy mansion', i decided to just stockpile it in my storage desk..
the album lacks connections, transitions are not thoroughly thought and the tracks sound a little bit outdated.
When in A night at the Playboy Mansion, Dimitri made old songs sound fresh and new, in this Album he makes the old song sound same old.
my question is: why Dimitri? why?

Return to the Mansion
This album picks up where 2000's A NIGHT AT THE PLAYBOY MANSION left off from. This generous offering of 2 cds filled with great songs, is divided up by the type of music. The first cd is a more down/mid tempo kind of groove, filled with some goodies such as "Nyce & Slo" by Lil Louis, "So Good, So Right" by Imagination, "Get It Up For Love" by Tata Vega, "Peanut Butter" by Gwen Guthrie, and my personal favorite of the disc, "Seasons of Love" by Blaze. The second disc is a collection of uptempo disco/funk songs, most honorably "Candidate for Love" by TS Monk, "That's The Way Love Is" by Ten City, "Changin" by Linda Clifford, and "Don't Leave Me This way" by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes. This 25 song collection is sure to please any fans of house and disco. This is a generous offering and perfect for when you want to chill out or when you just want to get funky and dance. Dimitri From Paris does not disapoint on this collection. Give it a listen!

and the party doesn't stop! bang on into the wee hours!
dimtri returns with two discs of slamming french house and his secret re-edits of old disco tunes to keep the party going once the playboy mansion is over. digging through a bazillion dusty crates, dim pulls together a slew of rare tracks and puts them together on two separate cds: laidback and uplifting. the laidback disc is just that: laidback. meandering through breaks, hip-hop, and house - dimitri combines the smooth disco sounds that he's known for with a near perfect mix of tracks that really just make you want to relax. the uplifting mix is a grouping of uptempo house tracks that will certainly keep the party going into the afterhours, with not only great 4/4 action, but with themes that make you smile and grind a little closer to the person you are dancing with, or just cut loose on your own. it doesn't matter when it's that late - it just makes sense. this album will be enjoyed by fans of night at the playboy mansion or people who have enjoyed disco in the past for the new disco. it's nothing new from dimitri, but it's all about keeping the party going.