Cruising Attitude

Cruising Attitude Japanese edition of Monsieur Dimitri’s 2003 compilation (not available anywhere else), features an exclusive Pink Martini track, ‘Syracuse’ (Henri Salvador cover) along with lounge and smooth house tracks from, Dimitri, Victor Davis, Omar, Maki Nomiya (ex-Pizzicato Five), & vocalist Ichiro Mizuki on ‘Bokura No Mazinger Z’. Copy-Protected CD. Digipak. Victor.
Customer Review: PREPARE FOR TAKE OFF!!!!
I’m ashamed to say where I picked up this CD…but needless to say “Cruising Altitude” is the follow-up to Dimitri’s awesomely spectacular “Sacrebleu”. A bit more subdued than its predessesor, DJ Dynamo Dimitri still brings you stellar lounge sounds and an overall feel of being in another country sippin’ on Martinis and soakin’ up the sun. This CD “takes flight” with its impressive line-up of vocalists and dreamy cinematic orchestrations. And to you club-heads, yeees, there’s still the occasional house track here and there for your booty’s pleasure. Dimitri delivers on “Cruising Altitude”, proving that he’s as fantastic a producer as he is a DJ. Highly Recommended!!!!

Sorry, Dimitri–but I saw it in a bargain bin at one of those salvage centers so I got it!
Customer Review: Warning: this is not a CD!
First - “artistic” rating. The content of DFP’s work is very nice and mellow - even though a couple of tracks (like “Okinawa Love”) leave me perplexed. I’d give it 4 stars.

Now, the technical… Contrary to what’s advertised on this website, it is not an “Audio CD” - as in “internationally adopted CD standard originally by Philips” JVC released a crippled non-standard version in the guise of “copy protection”! The package says it does not play on Macs, and not on DVD players of certain (?) regions (I can’t read Japanese). When I try to play it on my PC, it launches Microsoft Media Player and plays tracks at 48kbps (only 48!) - which also means no playing on Linux. Shame on JVC!