It couldn't be as annoying as half of the other posts, so i'm replying
ON list. Besides, I've got an IDM angle here ;)
You should most definitely check out Tipsy. Their first album "Trip
Tease" is great. Allegedly, the duo (whose names I conveniently
forget) had been constructing loopy lounge songs from loops culled from
many Esquivel recordings and and other lounge essentials. They
couldn't get clearance on the samples (you'll recognize many if you are
down with lounge/exotica ala esquivel, denny, baxter, etc) so they
brought in a bunch of Bay Area jazzbos to record the parts they'd
sampled. The result is an awesome loungy but very modern sounding
album with lots of great moods.
After that, a 12" was released with a new song and remixes by u-ziq and
curd duca. This is FUCKING EXCELLENT. Its called Flying Monkey Fist.
And then five years after Trip Tease (in 2001), they released "Uh
Oh!". Its not quite as mellow as Trip Tease, but offers a more
fractured idm-friendly (not to say that trip tease isn't idm friendly)
perspective of lounge stuff. Lots of instruments cut up and played
backwards. I love it. Tipsy is rad! By their albums.
Also, Curd Duca (mentioned above) is kinda electronic loungey stuff. I
reccomend the elevator series (3 volumes out).
And then more obviously, Luke Vibert's album with BJ Cole is pretty
loungy. In terms of more traditional stuff, I like Martin Denny a
lot. I'm at work now so I don't know exactly what it was called, but
he has a really awesome moog-lounge album. Oh wait... I think its
called Exotic Moog. Thats all that springs to mind at the moment.
Have fun.
-Aaron
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Gregory <tgregory@ccmc.org>
Date: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:40 pm
Subject: [idm] lounge recommendations
quoted 24 lines hopefully this isn't too off topic.> hopefully this isn't too off topic.
> if this is annoying - email me offlist.
>
> My wife hates my music (only types I listen to are electronica &
> post rock),
> but we recently found a middle ground - modern electronic lounge.
> Problemis, 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.
>
> tg
>
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