--- Tim Gregory <tgregory@ccmc.org> wrote:
>
> My wife hates my music (only types I listen to are
> electronica & post rock),
> but we recently found a middle ground - modern
> electronic lounge. Problem
> is, that much of it that I've sampled seems to delve
> too much into cheesy
> sounds, smooth jazz or easy listening (like some of
> the thievery corp stuff
> I listened to...).
>
> What are some essential lounge CDs out there?
> Any suggestions would be good.
I'll definitely second (or third) the Tipsy and Senor Coconut
recommendations offered up by others.
Also, though, you should check out Stock, Hausen, and Walkman for a nice,
very interesting tangental glance at the lounge genre falling well within
the IDM range, with nice, lush rhythms. I'd also be really surprised if your
wife didn't dig on mid-period Mouse on Mars, especially Iaora Tahiti and the
Twift single (excepting that excellent little piece of video game logic by
fx randomiz, but with special attention to the High Violets remix).
And I know you said *modern* lounge, but there's also a lovely, upbeat comp
on Emperor Norton called "Cinemaphonic: Electro Soul" featuring a number of
Perrey/Kingsley tunes along with a number of nice classic bits by artists
working in the same aesthetic range. You won't avoid cheesiness here (nor
will you in anything that yer gonna call lounge, for the most part), but
this stuff is so damn friendly it's difficult to resist liking it, and the
composition on many of the tunes avoids a lot of the easy cops and camp
prevalent in most latter-day lounge artists (especially those generally on
Emperor Norton), linking it more with things by Esquivel, Mancini, or Martin
Denny recordings, each one a whole helluva revolution for their time-- in
production technologies and otherwise.
Oh, and Broadcast (maybe too obvious of a choice, here) also maintains a
good deal of the lounge feel without sacrificing any depth to the music. And
I can't help but hear some hefty lounge/easy-listening influence in
Schlammpeitziger's Augenwischwaldmoppgefloete, but then.... that's probably
just me. Yeah... I'm guessing it's just me.
Best of, and such,
Matthew
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