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Café Del Mar: Volume 7 - Volumen Siete

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Artist: Café Del Mar
Title: Volume 7 - Volumen Siete
Released: 2000.07.25
Label: Mercury Records Ltd. (London)
Time: 77:03
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Club/Dance
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2002.06.18
Price in €: 10,81
Web address: www.cafedelmarmusic.com

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[1] Northern Lights [performed by Lux] - 5:33
[2] Breather 2000 [performed by Afterlife] - 6:02
[3] Whispering Wind [performed by Moby] - 6:05
[4] Easy Rider [performed by Deep & Wide] - 4:54
[5] Letting the Cables Sleep [performed by Bush] - 5:24
[6] Sunbeams [performed by UKO] - 4:22
[7] Winter Pagent [performed by Aromabar] - 3:57
[8] Beautiful Strange [performed by Bedrock] - 6:17
[9] One More Try [performed by New Funky Generation/Joy Rose] - 4:11
[10] Swollen [performed by Bent] - 6:47
[11] 68 Moves [performed by Underwolves] - 3:43
[12] Cahuita [performed by Oystein Sevag/Lakki Patey] - 4:53
[13] Riva [performed by Slow. Pulse/Cathy Battistessa] - 4:56 

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ØYSTEIN SEVÅG - Keyboards, Producer
LAKKI PATEY - Guitar, Producer
ROBIN TAYLOR-FIRTH - Keyboards, Programming, Producer, Production Consultant
NEW FUNKY GENERATION - Performer
PROFESSOR STRETCH - Arranger, Keyboards, Programming, Producer, Mixing
JULES EVANS - Keyboards, Programming, Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Engineer
NORBERTO RODRIGUEZ - Reggae, Solo Instrumental, Guitar
BENT - Performer
CATHY BATTISTESSA - Vocals, Producer
PETE YEADON - Arranger, Keyboards, Programming, Producer
NATHAN BRAY - Trumpet
JOY ROSE - Arranger, Vocals, Producer
FROS'T - Arranger, Keyboards, Producer

DJ BRUNO - Compilation
MOBY - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
NICK MUIR - Producer
JOHN DIGWEED - Producer
UKO - Producer
STEVE MILLER - Producer
UNDERWOLVES - Arranger, Producer
NED KELLY - Arranger, Producer
LENNART KRARUP - Producer, Engineer, Pre-Production
JON GRAY - Engineer
BRUCE WOOD - Engineer
DAMIEN ASKER-BROWNE - Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Engineer
E.A.S.E. - Mixing
TIM - Mixing Assistant, Assistant
JOSH - Retouching
RICK GUEST - Photography

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2000 CD Mercury Records Ltd. (London) 524 912-2

Seventh volume of the popular dance series. 13 tracks including 'Northern Lights'-Lux, 'Breather 2000' (Arithunda Mix)-Afterlife, 'Whispering Wind'-Moby, 'Easy Rider'-Deep & Wide, 'Sunbeams'-UKO, 'Winter Pagent'-Aromabar, 'Beautiful Strange'-Bedrock and 'Swollen'-Bent. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.



The Cafe del Mar series of compilations is inspired by a cafe of the same name in Ibiza, centered around sunset watching, and also, like much of Ibiza, club music. The ambient music on these anthologies is designed to complement sunset watching, and the collections have thereby become renowned as repositories of "chill out" music; it's even been reported that Madonna counts these among her favorite records. Bush (represented by a N.O.W. remix of "Letting the Cables Sleep") and Moby (with "Whispering Wind") are the only names likely to be recognized by most listeners of this volume, which was assembled by Bruno, a DJ at Cafe Del Mar itself. It's jet-set music with class or, to be harsher, music for members of the leisure class who can afford to while away their hours at such expensive resorts, but want their sultry electronica-cum-Muzak with a tinge of hip artiness. It's only a tinge; it's relaxing but slick ambient music (some vocal, some instrumental), the arrangements' electronics and synths sometimes colored by Mediterranean or South American-sounding guitars and melodies. It's easy to picture this as the soundtrack to holiday romance films in which young, rich, and beautiful couples, such as the one pictured on the sleeve, begin affairs on a spectacularly lit beach at dusk. The rest of us just have to put this on in the kitchen while we heat our soup and sulk with envy.

Richie Unterberger, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2002 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



An oasis of calm amidst the turbo-fueled clubbing tornado that is Ibiza, Café Del Mar is the White Isle's original home of red-eye chill-out vibes and weepy sunset soundtracks. The series of compilations bearing the bar's name, meanwhile, have long patented that authentic sound of Balearic bliss (even claiming Madonna as a huge fan), and this seventh volume maintains the high standards. Founding DJ Jose Padilla may have long moved on, but his successor, DJ Bruno, is clearly well aware of the old adage about not fixing what ain't broke. There's the usual mix of names well known (Moby, Bedrock, Nightmares On Wax) and head-scratchingly obscure (Uko, Lux, Aromabar), but the sound of beautiful music for loved-up and lazy beach bums stays the same. Frankly, this sounds as good at home as it does on the early-morning terraces of San Antonio.

Calvin Bush, Amazon.com



Ist die "alte" Magie noch da? Mittlerweile hat sich Bruno Lepetre als Nachfolger von José Padilla am Café-Pult bestens eingearbeitet. Café Del Mar Vol 7 bietet kaum mehr Überraschungen als Vol 5 oder Vol 6, nur noch ein wenig mehr Vocals. Diese Nachricht dürfte die meisten Hörer freuen, denn mit exzellenten Exklusiv-Tracks von Moby, Bedrock (John Digweed) und Deep & Wide (mit Bruno Lepetre himself!) wird ein solides Ambient-Fundament gelegt, auf dem der ansonsten bunte Stilmix sanft aufsetzen kann. Die Trackauswahl ist gewohnt eklektisch und reicht von latin-jazzy Tunes (A New Funky Generation) über süßlich-melancholische Trip-Popsongs (Bent, Bush, Slow Pulse) bis zur luftig-leichten Akustikgitarren-Keyboard-Mélange von Oystein Sevag und Lakki Patey, die eindeutig der Kategorie New Age zuzuordnen sind. Aber Genregrenzen sind so ziemlich das Letzte, was auf der Sonnenterrasse des Café Del Mar irgendeine Relevanz besitzt; auch künstlerischer Anspruch ist kein wirkliches Kriterium. Es zählen nur die diffusen magischen Vibes, die musikalische "Aura". Um die eingangs gestellte rhetorische Frage zu beantworten: Ja, sie ist noch da, schöner denn je, wenn auch vielleicht die Oberfläche ein wenig zu glatt geriet.

Christian Arndt, Amazon.de
 

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