Sentimental Mood, from Boulevard, is the perfect example of his sorcery. Instead, it took hip-hop, reggae and jazz and gently caressed them into the deep house mould, achieving the nigh-on impossible task of making 10-minute saxophone solos sound like fun. St Germain’s music had little to do with the frantic, filtered disco loops that would later typify French dance music in the 90s. His 1995 album Boulevard was a massive hit with British journalists and public alike, named album of the year in the dance music magazine Muzik and paving the way for the new generation of producers whose music would later be banded together as the French touch. St Germain (AKA Ludovic Navarre, whose first new album in 15 years came out in October) was the first sign that things were changing. In the early 1990s, French music was something of a joke an easy punchline for British exchange students who were otherwise intimidated by the sophistication of their hosts.
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