Like Francis said, lounge is a vague term, and adding "experimental" to that
means almost anything could fly. So with that caveat, here's my
recommendations for "experimental lounge"
Xploding Plastix
Wax Tailor - Tales of the Forgotten Melodies
Legion of Green Men - Floating in Shallow Water (oldie but very nice)
quoted 48 lines From: Francis Gosselin <sqrrt@atomheart.ca>
>From: Francis Gosselin <sqrrt@atomheart.ca>
>To: Lumin Egress <applesgrowontrees@gmail.com>, "idm@hyperreal.org"
><idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] Experimental Lounge??
>Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:43:01 -0500
>
>The definition of 'lounge' is usually pretty vague, so unless you define
>what exactly you were hearing, it could go from exotica / 50's-60's
>bachelor pad music (Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, etc.), down to recent Ninja
>Tune, which for some reason some people call 'lounge' music as well
>(perhaps because of the source of many samples used...). It could also be
>anything from modern 'dub' like Kruder & Dorfmeister or Thievery
>Corporation, to Latin Jazz. It's very vague.
>
>What musical instruments were used (if you could distinguish them)? Was it
>mostly electronic or acoustic? Did it 'sound' old or recent? Could you
>compare it to any artist you already know that used similar sounds?
>
>Did you try allmusic.com's genre tree? That's usually pretty helpful when
>you want to start looking into a genre (and you can listen to loads of
>stuff, making it easy to save money by not buying tons of compilations you
>might end up never listening to in the long run).
>
>Francis.
>
>At 03:37 AM 2/19/2006, Lumin Egress wrote:
>> Heh.
>>Um, anyone know of any good lounge music out there? I was in this old
>>dusty
>>record store and the dude had some kick ass vintage lounge music
>>playing. No lyrics,
>>just raw, crackly, minimal lounge. I peeled myself away from an old
>>boards of canada
>>record to give a listen, and I noticed that it really kicked ass! But,
>>I didn't get the name
>>of the band. So yeah, I'm looking for that kind of lounge. If anyone
>>knows I would love to know, thanks loads.
>>
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