neo lounge
Dan Bouvier
into lounge but in the lousy town I live in any lounge CD has to be special
ordered. This makes browsing for music difficult because I only rarely hear
about new lounge acts on the web. Can anyone recommend any good sites? Also
if anyone can direct me to some Real Tuesday Weld mp3s while I wait for my
CD, that's good too.
Here's another thing: Of course we're all familiar with old-school lounge,
be it surf rock or crooners or whathaveyou, but I've been thinking a lot of
what's considered ambient or electronica nowadays is really the evolution of
lounge; laid-back, hip music using turntables instead of a string section.
For example, Dimitri from Paris (who's arguably not really lounge anymore, I
know) and Esthero. I'm curious what y'all think about this.
dan
unidyne
"Dan Bouvier" <dbou...@memlane.com> wrote in message
news:10Pq8.37$4X5....@jekyl.ab.tac.net...
> I've just stumbled upon this newsgroup, so forgive my ignorance. I'm way
> into lounge but in the lousy town I live in any lounge CD has to be
special
> ordered. This makes browsing for music difficult because I only rarely
hear
> about new lounge acts on the web. Can anyone recommend any good sites?
Also
> if anyone can direct me to some Real Tuesday Weld mp3s while I wait for my
> CD, that's good too.
This newsgroup has been rather inactive as of late. The best I can suggest
is to visit a search engine like Dogpile (www.dogpile.com) and type "lounge
culture" in the search block.
> Here's another thing: Of course we're all familiar with old-school lounge,
> be it surf rock or crooners or whathaveyou, but I've been thinking a lot
of
> what's considered ambient or electronica nowadays is really the evolution
of
> lounge; laid-back, hip music using turntables instead of a string section.
> For example, Dimitri from Paris (who's arguably not really lounge anymore,
I
> know) and Esthero. I'm curious what y'all think about this.
AHA! A kindred spirit! I've always felt such music as "Eye of a Needle" by
Art of Noise was crypto-lounge! Not to mention the very first ambient LP
ever, "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" by Brian Eno. I could just imagine
"2/1" being played in some smokey bar somewhere as you bend your elbow to
imbibe. I agree with you 100%! I'm in the planning stages of setting up a
lounge-oriented web station (if it remains possable after May of this year)
via Live365, and incorporatng such music into the playlist.
E-mail me directly, my good man, and let's discuss this at length.
I need to talk to someone. I live just outside of Las Vegas, and the town is
not what what you would wish it were. What was once Sin City is now an "R"
rated Disneyland.
---unidyne---
uni...@lvcm.com
Dan Bouvier
lost your email address! write me back. but i gotta go, Shakira is on tv and
i think i can see her nipples...
Noize
I am new to this group too.
I agree with you on the ambient or electronica issue. I am a radio DJ
(KSVR 90.1 FM WA) and I just recently did a show pointing out this
phenomena. I did an hour of cool & strange classics (ala Martin
Denny, Les Baxter) & then an hour of new music that was derivative
from lounge. Check out the new release from Ursula 1000 called Kinda
Kinky. It is similar to Dimitri from Paris and it's cover art is done
by Shag.
Troy
www.valleyint.com/Noize