For those unaware, the first major project for the Metro songwriting and production team, the album also boasts credits for Motiv8, Cutfather & Joe and former PWL mainstays Phil Harding and Ian Curnow. On its original release in March 1997, the album hit #12 in the UK and was certified silver.

CD1 features the original album, freshly remastered for 2024 from the original studio tapes and updated to include the showstopping Eurovision version of ‘Ooh Aah… Just a Little Bit’. Bonus tracks include a previously unreleased ballad, ‘Waiting on Your Love’, the single mix of ‘Gimme Some Love’ and the floor-filling commercial 12” mixes of the other five singles.

Documenting the collision of mainstream pop and underground club culture in the 90s, CD2 contains an eclectic selection of reworks, ranging from full vocal club mixes and U.S. radio remixes to cooler fare from such luminaries as Hysteric Ego, DJ Tonka and Todd Terry, whose Acid Dub mix of ‘Every Time I Fall’ became a bona-fide speed garage anthem under the pseudonym of G.O.D. ‘Unlimited’. Across the 2CD set, no less than a dozen cuts were previously promo-only, vinyl-only or unreleased.

All six promo videos are released together for the first time on DVD, together with Gina’s 1996 Eurovision performance.

CD 1:
1. OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [EUROVISION VERSION]
2. FRESH!
3. TI AMO
4. EVERY TIME I FALL
5. FOLLOW THE LIGHT
6. GIMME SOME LOVE
7. RHYTHM OF MY LIFE
8. MISSIN’ YOU LIKE CRAZY
9. I BELONG TO YOU
10. HIGHER THAN LOVE
11. IT DOESN’T MEAN GOODBYE
12. WAITING ON YOUR LOVE [Bonus Track]*
13. GIMME SOME LOVE [EUROBEAT MIX] [Bonus Track]
14. OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [MOTIV8 EXTENDED VOCAL MIX] [Bonus Track]
15. I BELONG TO YOU [12” EXTENDED MIX] [Bonus Track]
16. FRESH! [BAYSIDE VOCAL CLUB MIX] [Bonus Track]
17. TI AMO [METRO’S ‘SUMMER OF LOVE’ CLUB MIX] [Bonus Track]
18. EVERY TIME I FALL [METRO’S EUROBEAT MIX] [Bonus Track]

* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Kicking off with the crazily spirited Euro pop, instant party classic, smash hit OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [EUROVISION VERSION] and the pop-H-NRG bounce of the titular FRESH! and then comes the sultry Latin flow of TI AMO, the euphorically-charged ballad EVERY TIME I FALL, the sweeping NRG of FOLLOW THE LIGHT and then the original album continues onward with the Euro beats that propel GIMME SOME LOVE, the synth pop of RHYTHM OF MY LIFE, the lush ballad MISSIN’ YOU LIKE CRAZY, the album rounding out on the propulsive beats of I BELONG TO YOU, the frenetically-charged HIGHER THAN LOVE, closing on the anthemic IT DOESN’T MEAN GOODBYE.

Of the seven bonus tracks, stands out for me include the previously unreleased WAITING ON YOUR LOVE, the quite brilliant to still hear OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [MOTIV8 EXTENDED VOCAL MIX], and both the FRESH! [BAYSIDE VOCAL CLUB MIX] and a stunning remix of TI AMO [METRO’S ‘SUMMER OF LOVE’ CLUB MIX].

CD 2:
1. OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [SOUL SOLUTION RADIO VERSION] +
2. GIMME SOME LOVE [FITCH BROS. EXIT BOSTON RADIO EDIT] +
3. EVERY TIME I FALL [TODD TERRY’S POP MIX] +
4. HIGHER THAN LOVE [MOTIV8 PUMPTRONIC 12” MIX]
5. FRESH! [PHAT ’N’ PHUNKY VOCAL CLUB] +
6. GIMME SOME LOVE [METRO’S EXTENDED EUROBEAT MIX]
7. OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [HYSTERIC EGO VOCAL] +
8. I BELONG TO YOU [DJ TONKA’S EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED MIX] +
9. TI AMO [ANDY & THE LAMBOY STRIP DUB MIX] +
10. EVERY TIME I FALL [GINA’S ACID DUB] +
11. HIGHER THAN LOVE [MOTIV8 RIFFMATIC DUB] +
12. GIMME SOME LOVE [ANDY & THE LAMBOY CLUB VOCAL MIX] *
13. OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [SOUL SOLUTION MAIN VOCAL] +

* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED // + FIRST TIME ON CD

The second disc opens on the first, and to my mind, the best of three versions of OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [SOUL SOLUTION RADIO VERSION], all making their debut on CD, and then come three more of GIMME SOME LOVE, with the ANDY & THE LAMBOY CLUB VOCAL MIX standing out for me, and also included are two cuts of EVERY TIME I FALL (the GINA’S ACID DUB mix being on fire), and amongst some others, a solitary, yet wondrously vibrant version of FRESH! [PHAT ’N’ PHUNKY VOCAL CLUB].

DVD:
1. OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [PROMO VIDEO] 2. I BELONG TO YOU [PROMO VIDEO] 3. FRESH! [PROMO VIDEO] 4. TI AMO [PROMO VIDEO] 5. GIMME SOME LOVE [PROMO VIDEO] 6. EVERY TIME I FALL [PROMO VIDEO] 7. OOH AAH… JUST A LITTLE BIT [EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 1996 PERFORMANCE]

Each disc is housed in an individual card sleeve showcasing David LaChapelle’s iconic original photo shoot, presented in a clamshell outer box, with special print finish throughout and the original 1997 artwork lovingly refreshed. The 24-page booklet includes additional photos, new sleeve notes, full lyrics and an illustrated discography.

Gina G - Fresh! [Official Trailer]

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