Saint-Germain-des-Prés Café

Cover of the first volume of the series

Saint-Germain-des-Prés Café is a series of nu-jazz compilations distributed by Wagram Music. Its name evokes the cafés of the area in Paris associated with the existentialism movement. As of 2010 the series includes twelve volumes, and has sold more that 950,000 copies worldwide.^[1]

Volume 1

1. "'Round Midnight" – Durán y García – 5:10
2. "Original Oddstep (Revised by Grand Unified)" – Vert – 5:30
3. "Coffee Talk (Yukihiro Fukutomi Remix)" – Jazzanova – 8:05
4. "Jazzion" – South Froggies featuring Allan – 4:40
5. "Chok-A-Blok Avenue (Nu-Jazz Wilde-Stereo Summer Mix)" – Barrio Jazz Gang – 5:23
6. "Yes It's True" – Taxi – 4:22
7. "Lo-Fi Nu Jazz #13" – Rubin Steiner – 4:01
8. "Godsdog" – De-Phazz – 3:14
9. "At Last" – Megashira – 5:16
10. "Theme to the Last Puma" – Ian Simmonds – 4:59
11. "Style" – Jet Set Productions featuring Jo Laundy – 5:38
12. "G.U.B.N.U.F." – Bugge Wesseltoft – 7:13
13. "Ocean Games" – Funk 4 Sale – 3:41
14. "Deep in It" – St. Germain 7:13
15. "Courants d'Air" – Grand Tourism featuring Terry Callier 3:32

Volume 2

1. "Saint-Germain-des-Prés" – Pink Satellite 4:49
2. "Possoz Boogie" – Klément Julienne 4:31
3. "The Snare" – Zero db 5:17
4. "Too Deep" – The Duncan 4:33
5. "The Essence" – Herbie Hancock 4:47
6. "Game" – Beady Belle 4:26
7. "D'Jazz Tribute" – David Grumel feat. Billie Holiday 3:19
8. "Summer Sun [Original Version]" – Koop feat. Yukimi Nagano 3:44
9. "Hit the Road Jack (Pé Na Éstrada)" – Mo' Horizons 5:39
10. "Beads, Things & Flowers [Instrumental Version]" – Humble Souls 4:04
11. "Mr. Dope" – Kenny Dope 3:00
12. "Good Life" – Kaori 3:18
13. "Move on Up [Bugz Opaque Remix]" – Mark De Clive-Lowe feat. Cherie Mathieson 5:33
14. "Heavy Piano" – Durán Y García 4:00
15. "5 Alive" – Kevin Yost 4:48
16. "Strangest Feeling" – Gorodisch 2:52
17. "Change" – Bugge Wesseltoft 5:05
18. "Private Sunshine [Big Lounge Album Mix by Carmen Rizzo]" – Ashley Slater's 3:54

Volume 3

1. "Trying (Butti 49 Nu-Níveau Mix)" – Nuspirit Helsinki 5:58
2. "High Jazz (Nicola Conte Remix)" – Truby Trio feat. Joseph Malik 6:25
3. "Quiet Night (Nicola Conte "Out Of The Cool" Version)" – Infracom Presents [Re: Jazz] 4:58
4. "Ping Pong" – Big Bang 5:40
5. "Kool Bavaria (Patchworks Remix)" – Crusho 5:55
6. "Channel Zero (Shades Of Soul Remix)" – Eric Pierre featuring Lady Gattica 5:07
7. "Summertime" – Patchworks 4:47
8. "Un Été À Paris" – DJ Cam 4:21
9. "Conchita's Cabine" – Briskey 4:32
10. "R. Bvor" – Variety Lab 3:53
11. "The Novel Sound" – Llorca 6:54
12. "Moonlight (Remix)" – Hardkandy 4:28
13. "Take Me Higher" – Fertile Ground 4:31
14. "Downtown Tazacorte" – De-Phazz 2:27
15. "Half Pint" – Projections 1:08
16. "We're Gettin' Down" – 4 Hero aka TEK 9 4:35
17. "Sing It Back (Can 7 1930's Mix)" – Moloko 2:09

Volume 4

1. "Naturally" – Slow Train Soul 5:29
2. "Squire for Hire" – Nathan Haines 3:33
3. "Flying Saucer" – U.F.O. & Dee Dee Bridgewater 4:35
4. "Fuoco Fatuo" – Nicola Conte 4:07
5. "Yunowhathislifeez [Jazz Mix]" – Metropolitan Jazz Affair 3:33
6. "Frontlines" – Paul Hunter 2:58
7. "Tonight [Nicola Conte New Jazz Version]" – Koop 6:12
8. "Equal" – Lunar Chipmunk 3:20
9. "Q Baiano" – New Cool Collective 2:43
10. "Swoundosophy" – Infracom 3:56
11. "When My Angers Starts to Cry" – Beady Belle 3:44
12. "High Noon" – Kruder & Dorfmeister 5:59
13. "Suddenly" – Matthew Herbert 5:32
14. "Red Thing Called Love" – Loopless 5:35
15. "Nattergalen" – Bobby Hughes Combination 5:55
16. "Galactic Jack [Buscemi's Beat to Beatnik Remix]" – Briskey 3:38
17. "No Government" – Nicolette 2:00
18. "Breaking Away [Koop Remix]" – Shaun Escoffery 3:21
19. "Round About Midnight" – Modern Jazz Quartet 1:08

Volume 5

1. Slow Train Soul – Inna City Woman (Varano Remix)
2. Marco Di Marco feat. Nathan Haines – Take Off (Nicola Conte "Campi's Idea" Version)
3. Soulstance feat . Arthur Miles – Time
4. De-Phazz – Cut The Jazz
5. Norah Jones feat. Peter Malick – New York City (DJ Strobe Brooklyn Vibe Mix feat. Split-Vizions)
6. Refractory – Yo Solo Quiero
7. Stacey Kent feat. Jan Lundgren Trio – Street of Dreams
8. David Borsu feat. Damia Da Costa – Late Nite Swing
9. Patchworks presents Dapper Ray – Deep Ocean
10. Elsa Hedberg – Open the Door
11. Ástor Piazzolla vs. Koop – Vuelvo Al Sur
12. Brisa Roché – I Hear Music
13. Meitz – Can You Live
14. Eli Goulart & Banda Do Mo Mato – Meu Sambo (Nicola Conte's Bossa Ahead Remix)
15. dZihan & Kamien – Stiff Jazz
16. Gotan Project meets Chet Baker – Round About Midnight
17. Malia feat. Erik Truffaz – Yellow Daffodils
18. DJ Cam feat. Tassel & Naturel – So What (part 2)

Volume 6

1. Jamie Cullum – Devil May Care
2. Doctor Abstract – Struck On Jazz
3. Mr Scruff – Get A Move On
4. Tm Juke – Playground Games (Diesler Mix)
5. The Mighty Bop – Feeling Good
6. Re:Jazz feat. Lisa Bassenge – All I Need
7. Povo feat. Ed Thigpen – Good & Bad
8. Horne Singers – Flat Foot
9. Benny Sings – Get There
10. Was-A-Bee – This Is What You Are
11. Eddie Roberts – Roughneck
12. Skalpel – 1958
13. Minigroove Orchestra – La Monostéréologie (Riding Giant Mix)
14. Hird – Keep You Kimi
15. Stacey Kent – In The Still Of The Night
16. Madeleine Peyroux & William Galison – Back In Your Own Back Yard
17. Two Banks of Four – One Day (Song for Jared)
18. DJ Cam feat. Tassel & Naturel – Cantaloop Island

Volume 7

Disk one

1. Paolo Fedreghini & Marco Blanchi – Oriental Smile
2. Metropolitan Jazz Affair – Escapism
3. The Quantic Soul Orchestra Feat. Alice Russell – Feeling Good
4. Sicania Soul Feat. Lara Luppi – Life Is A Tree(Live – Take 2)
5. Michael Bublé – Peroxide Swing
6. The Five Corners Quintet feat. Mark Murphy – This Could Be The Start Of Something
7. Jamie Cullum – It Ain't Necessarily So
8. Povo – Uam Uam
9. Rhythm Factory – African Rhythm (A Touch Of Jazz Mix)
10. Nick Holder – Sometime I'm Blue
11. Tosca – Pyjama
12. Abdullah Ibrahim – Ishmaël (Stephan Rogall Remix)
13. Kyle Eastwood – Big Noise (From Winnetka)
14. Kinny & Horne - Sacred Life
15. Electro Deluxe Feat. Cynthia Saint-Ville – Mister Freeze
16. Sarah Vaughan – Lover Man (Jazzelicious Remix)
17. Beat Assailant – Hard Twelve (The Payout)

Disk two – Ladies In Nu Jazz

1. Beady Belle Feat. S. Lech – Goldilocks
2. Tok Tok Tok Feat. Tokundo Akinro – About
3. Muriel Zoe – Bye Bye Blackbird
4. Sonia Cat-Berro – Let Yourself Go/Puttin' On The Ritz
5. Fertile Ground Feat. Navasha Daya – Yellow Daisies
6. Jeanette Lindstrom – Here
7. Re: Jazz Feat. Ultra Naté – Twisted
8. Susi Hyldgaard – Blush
9. Alice Russell – To Know This
10. Norah Jones & Joel Harrison – Tennessee Waltz

Volume 8

Disc one

1. Cellophane – Ashley Slater
2. Yo Yo Jazz – Big Bang
3. Little Something – Diesler
4. Gods of the Yoruba (Belem) – Gerardo Frisina
5. Push Push – Onejiru, Re: Jazz
6. What Is Cool – Kevin Yost
7. I See a Different You – Koop
8. Expecting Repercussions – Dania König, Matthias Vogt
9. Dreamer – S-Tone Inc.
10. Sandy – Jumbotronics
11. Million Ways – Povo, Trine-Lise Vaering,
12. Sweet Is in the Air – Nature Boy, Alice Russell
13. Forgetting to Remember [Nostalgia 77 Mix] – Horne, Kinny
14. Thin Ice [Paolo Fedreghini & Marco Bianchi Remix] – Dining Rooms
15. Sweet Melody – Painted Pictures
16. Chronik Break – Beat Assailant, Tash

Disc two

1. Forgotten Places – Alif Tree
2. Drifting [Swing Mix] – Metropolitan Jazz Affair
3. Ocre – Benjamin Devigne
4. Almost – Rongetz Foundation
5. Murmur – Bang-Bang, Athena Constantine
6. We've Got It! – Stephane Belmondo, Nutropic
7. Fool Like Me – JMDee-Beat, Tassel
8. I Am a Manchild – Uptown Funk Empire
9. Drivin' – DJ Cam, Tassel
10. Stop Trying – Teknic Old School

Volume 9

Disc one

1. Nostalgia 77 – Wildflower
2. Us3 – I'll Be Right Back
3. Native – Prussian Blue (Nicola Conte Jazz Dance Rework)
4. Koop feat. Yukimi Nagano – Come To Me
5. The Five Corners Quintet – Trading Eights
6. Sheila Landis – Summertime
7. Metropolitan Jazz Affair – Everybody Knows
8. Micatone – Nomad (Radio Citizen Mix)
9. Third Eye A.K.A. Nicola Conte – Macedonia
10. Nils Krogh – Things We Do
11. Spiritual South – Calypso Blues
12. Smoove Feat. The Bukky Leo Quintet and Darren Grainger – Rejoice In Righteousness (Smoove's Nu Jazz Remix)
13. Me and You – Last Night
14. Spengler – Good Things
15. Kero One – In All The Wrong Places
16. Re:Jazz – People Hold On (Alternate a capella take)
17. Jazzanova Feat. Clara Hil – That Night (Live At The SK Office)

Disc two

1. Dj Cam Quartet – Rebirth Of Cool
2. Dj Cam Quartet – So Sweet
3. Dj Cam Quartet – New York New York
4. Dj Cam Quartet – It's Yours Feat. Inlove
5. Dj Cam Quartet – Tribute To J Dilla
6. Dj Cam Quartet – Raise Up
7. Dj Cam Quartet – Saint-Germain
8. Dj Cam Quartet – Hold Tight
9. Dj Cam Quartet – Visions
10. Dj Cam Quartet – Back In The Days

Volume 10

Disc one

1. On a Cloud – O'Bryant, R.
2. Memories – Waldeck
3. Light My Fire (Kenny Dope Remix) – Shirley Bassey
4. Little Bit Of Feel Good (Señor Coconut Remix) – Jamie Lidell
5. Ease My Mind – Jazz Liberatorz feat. Tre Hardson, Fat Lip & Omni
6. Ma Soucouyant – Varano, M.
7. My Mama Said – Navarre, Ludovic
8. Break on Through – DJ Disse
9. If This Ain't Love – Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators
10. Things We Do – Krogh, N.
11. Indigo Blues – Graham, Nicole
12. No Need to Rumble – Schäfer, Nathalie
13. Relaxin at Club F****n – Simonsson, Oscar
14. Forefathers – Marcina Arnold
15. Enchant Me – Harbottle, Mark
16. Take Three – Kitty The Bill
17. Brotha – Jill Scott
18. Sweet Dreams – Térez Montcalm

Disc two

1. Melodious Wayfarer – Holland, Will
2. Soundcheckin' – Delgado, Paulo
3. Life, Rain, Fall – Cowan, Alex
4. Cuidad del Swing – Holland, Will
5. It's Real – Williams, Joseph
6. Arroz Com Feijao – Nascarella
7. All That – Parks, Lizzy
8. One Man Entourage – Ferguson
9. Sound of Everything – Holland, Will
10. Wildflower – Lamdin, Benedic
11. In the Morning – Pearn, N.
12. Eel Oil – Ferguson, Lance
13. Marrakech – Holland
14. Northern Girls – Modest
15. Death of the Revolution – Holland, Will
16. Interlude – Holland, Will
17. Freedom – Lamdin
18. Sabor – Holland, Will
19. Dis-Information – Ferguson, Lance

Volume 11

Disc one – The Nu Jazz Session

1. I've got that tune – Chinese Man
2. Say yes – Wax Taylor ft. A.S.M.
3. Floating on air – Club des Belugas ft. Anna Luca
4. Up & down – Loopa Scave Meets Cayetano ft. Pelina
5. 100 Days, 100 Nights – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
6. Silent snow – Parov Stelar
7. Here's us – Nekta
8. Jolie Coquine – Caravane Palace
9. That Gut Feeling – Tm Juke & The Jack Baker Trio ft. Andreya Triana
10. Give It My All – Sumsuch
11. What Is Hip? – The Juju Orchestra ft. Terry Callier & Carolyn Leonhart
12. Music Takes Me Up – Mr Scruff ft. Alice Russell
13. Bridge The Gap – Tribeqa
14. Mr Chombee Has The Flaw – The Herbaliser
15. Hammond – Smoove & Turrell
16. Do What – The Jivers ft. Anqui
17. Mission Impossible – Big Horns B
18. Boogie – Uptown Funk Empire
19. Just Ain't Gonna Work Out – Mayer Hawthorne & The County
20. Sex Friend – Booster ft. Sandra Nkak

Disc two – The Belleruche Gramophone Session

1. My Name Is... – Nostalgia 77 ft. The Fiction Trio
2. Feet Keep Moving – Natural Self
3. Painted Basement – Cru Jonez
4. Nobody's Smiling – DJ Signify & Blockhead
5. Backyard – Belleruche
6. Uncle Sam Goddamn – Brother Ali
7. Bad Luck Blues – Blend Crafters
8. Breathe Deep – Natural Self ft. Abdominal
9. Chop That Wood – Milez Benjamin
10. Greenery – Quasimoto
11. Faultlines – Natural Self
12. Aqui Princesa – Princesa (Marcelo Fabian Remix)
13. Enyere Kumbara – Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro
14. Hot & Cold – Soopasoul ft. Dionne Charles
15. Get A Move On – The Quantic Soul Orchestra
16. Elemental – The Limp Twins
17. Anything You Want (Not That) – Belleruche
18. Washington Square – The Correspondents

Volume 12, The Blue Edition

Volume 12 is also known as Saint Germain des Prés Café – The Blue Edition. The second disc was mixed by Mr. Scruff.

Disc one – Cool Tempo Session^[2]

1. "Voices" – Blundetto feat. Hindi Zahra – 2:56
2. "Miss Fortune" – Aloe Blacc – 3:59
3. "This Room" – Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie feat. Fat Freddy's Drop – 6:03
4. "Layer" – Julien Dyne feat. Mara TK – 3:31
5. "Jealous of Roses" – Bibio – 2:23
6. "Downtown Jenny" – Blackjoy with Aqeel – 3:18
7. "Imaginist" Space Invadas – 2:55
8. "Check the Blueprints" – Kero One – 4:20
9. "Join the Club" – Suff Daddy – 2:36
10. "Hello, I Love You" – Dafuniks feat. Elias – 2:45
11. "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" – Seu Jorge & Almaz – 4:57
12. "Invitation to Love" – CFCF – 5:48
13. "Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix)" – Mayer Hawthorne – 4:36
14. "One Woman Army" - Hint feat. Laura Vane – 3:31
15. "Why Can't There Be Love (Pilooski Edit)" – Dee Edwards – 3:00
16. "So Good Today (Yoruba Soul Remix)" Ben Westbeech – 5:35
17. "All the People"" – Milez Benjiman – 4:17
18. "Desire (Moodyman Remix)" – José James – 5:06
19. "Bloodstream" – Stateless – 5:11

Disc two – A Ninja Tune Session By Mr. Scruff

1. "Fair-Weather Friend" – Homelife – 4:33
2. "Consciousness" – DJ Food – 0:59
3. "Bass Baby" – Mr. Scruff – 3:15
4. "Chicken Spit" – Pest – 3:40
5. "Never Can Get Enough" – London Funk Allstars – 4:30
6. "Moon Sequence (Radio Silence)" – The Herbaliser – 3:45
7. "Singalong" – Treva Whateva – 5:00
8. "Survival of the Freshest" – Poets Of Rhythm – 3:06
9. "Get Your Head Down" – Luke Vibert – 4:42
10. "Music For Body Lockers (Reworked From Shatners Bassoon)" – Chocolate Weasel – 2:33
11. "Up to Jah" – DJ Vadim feat. Demolition – 2:47
12. "Flutter" – Bonobo – 4:25
13. "Beautiful Nasty (4 Hero Remix)" – Chris Bowden – 5:26
14. "Scratch Yer Head (Squarepusher Remix)" – DJ Food – 7:32
15. "Chomp Samba" – Amon Tobin – 3:45
16. "Channel 1 Suite" – The Cinematic Orchestra – 3:45
17. "We Don't Care" – TY – 3:55
18. "Juggle Tings Proper" – Roots Manuva – 4:24
19. "Nocturne" – DJ Food – 7:14

Volume 13, The Must-Have Cool Tempo Selection By Bart & Baker

Volume 13 is also known as The Must-Have Cool Tempo Selection By Bart & Baker.

See also

• Deep house
• Nu jazz
• Acid jazz
• Jazz
• Jazz rap

References