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What does lounge-y mean?
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Jackie
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Lounge music is a retrospective description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s encompassing the exotica, easy listening, and space age pop genres.
It is a type of mood music meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place — a jungle, an island paradise, outer space, etc. — other than where they are listening to it.
The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music-influenced instrumentals, modern electronica (with chillout, Nu-jazz and downtempo influences), whilst remaining thematically focused on its retro-space-age cultural elements.
The earliest type lounge music appeared during the 1920s and 1930s, and was known as Light music. Contemporaneously, the term lounge music also denotes the types of music played in hotels (the lounge, the bar), casinos, and piano bars.
It is a type of mood music meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place — a jungle, an island paradise, outer space, etc. — other than where they are listening to it.
The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music-influenced instrumentals, modern electronica (with chillout, Nu-jazz and downtempo influences), whilst remaining thematically focused on its retro-space-age cultural elements.
The earliest type lounge music appeared during the 1920s and 1930s, and was known as Light music. Contemporaneously, the term lounge music also denotes the types of music played in hotels (the lounge, the bar), casinos, and piano bars.
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Holly
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Yes, that would be loungy blues,another loungy one is hip-hop techno music latin loungecore dance music
hear hip hop loungecore http://divalounge.com/
hear hip hop loungecore http://divalounge.com/
Attila Attila
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You probably heard the term ‘lounge-ie’ from ‘lounge music’ and ‘chillout music’ fans. The modern term ‘lounge’ may or may not be accurately defined by your average encyclopedia. Why?
Because ‘lounge’ has gone way beyond the boundries of ‘easy listening.’ For Chillout and Lounge fans, ‘easy listening’ should not be ‘dull.’ They use the words ‘down tempo’ instead.
So what’s ‘lounge-ie’? What’s ‘down-tempo’? What’s ‘chillout’? I shall give my own version. You can always Wiki/ Google them for the ‘official’ versions….
Lounge and Chillout music, though different to some fans, often end up in the similar shelves (in shops and at home.) They are both Down Tempo, for ‘winding down’, for relaxing to (but not always, as many types have a ‘dance’ beat.) They can be electronic - or made with real, cultural instruments. Often it has Latin American influences (such as Bossa Nova.) It can also have other cultural influences from around the world, such as Middle Eastern music. And of course you have the more commercially assessable old jazz standards. On the most relaxing extreme, it could be danceable like Brazilian and Cuban music; and on the other extreme, it could be as relaxing as Yoga/ meditation music.
Down Tempo is like a broader term. It can describe the all the various genres. It is what its name implies – slow in tempo (compared to other music forms.)
Here are examples of very, very archetypal ‘lounge’ music. Unlike pop compilations, Lounge compilations are unique, because – of the often hard-to-find songs, which are sometimes DJ mixed (non-stop), to create a unique listening experience…
Buddha Bar (‘relaxing’, ethnic World Music mix; regarded by many fans as The One to have); Hotel Costes (the archetypal ‘lounge’ mix; a little Latin, a little electronic jazz – and all very French, for the ‘vogue’ crowd.); Verve Mixed/ Verve Unmixed (jazzy lounge classics from Verve records, brought together by DJs such as Thievery Corporation.)
Examples of electronic bands and DJs that do Down Tempo:
Thievery Corporation; Claude Challe; Stephane Pompougnac.
Closing words. Due to the growing popularity (from the 1990s onwards) of Lounge and Chillout, the music fan is swarmed with seasonal compilations. My explanation of Lounge veers towards that of modern Lounge and DJ culture.
Because ‘lounge’ has gone way beyond the boundries of ‘easy listening.’ For Chillout and Lounge fans, ‘easy listening’ should not be ‘dull.’ They use the words ‘down tempo’ instead.
So what’s ‘lounge-ie’? What’s ‘down-tempo’? What’s ‘chillout’? I shall give my own version. You can always Wiki/ Google them for the ‘official’ versions….
Lounge and Chillout music, though different to some fans, often end up in the similar shelves (in shops and at home.) They are both Down Tempo, for ‘winding down’, for relaxing to (but not always, as many types have a ‘dance’ beat.) They can be electronic - or made with real, cultural instruments. Often it has Latin American influences (such as Bossa Nova.) It can also have other cultural influences from around the world, such as Middle Eastern music. And of course you have the more commercially assessable old jazz standards. On the most relaxing extreme, it could be danceable like Brazilian and Cuban music; and on the other extreme, it could be as relaxing as Yoga/ meditation music.
Down Tempo is like a broader term. It can describe the all the various genres. It is what its name implies – slow in tempo (compared to other music forms.)
Here are examples of very, very archetypal ‘lounge’ music. Unlike pop compilations, Lounge compilations are unique, because – of the often hard-to-find songs, which are sometimes DJ mixed (non-stop), to create a unique listening experience…
Buddha Bar (‘relaxing’, ethnic World Music mix; regarded by many fans as The One to have); Hotel Costes (the archetypal ‘lounge’ mix; a little Latin, a little electronic jazz – and all very French, for the ‘vogue’ crowd.); Verve Mixed/ Verve Unmixed (jazzy lounge classics from Verve records, brought together by DJs such as Thievery Corporation.)
Examples of electronic bands and DJs that do Down Tempo:
Thievery Corporation; Claude Challe; Stephane Pompougnac.
Closing words. Due to the growing popularity (from the 1990s onwards) of Lounge and Chillout, the music fan is swarmed with seasonal compilations. My explanation of Lounge veers towards that of modern Lounge and DJ culture.
Attila Attila
New member
You probably heard the term ‘lounge-ie’ from ‘lounge music’ and ‘chillout music’ fans. The modern term ‘lounge’ may or may not be accurately defined by your average encyclopedia. Why?
Because ‘lounge’ has gone way beyond the boundries of ‘easy listening.’ For Chillout and Lounge fans, ‘easy listening’ should not be ‘dull.’ They use the words ‘down tempo’ instead.
So what’s ‘lounge-ie’? What’s ‘down-tempo’? What’s ‘chillout’? I shall give my own version. You can always Wiki/ Google them for the ‘official’ versions….
Lounge and Chillout music, though different to some fans, often end up in the similar shelves (in shops and at home.) They are both Down Tempo, for ‘winding down’, for relaxing to (but not always, as many types have a ‘dance’ beat.) They can be electronic - or made with real, cultural instruments. Often it has Latin American influences (such as Bossa Nova.) It can also have other cultural influences from around the world, such as Middle Eastern music. And of course you have the more commercially assessable old jazz standards. On the most relaxing extreme, it could be danceable like Brazilian and Cuban music; and on the other extreme, it could be as relaxing as Yoga/ meditation music.
Down Tempo is like a broader term. It can describe the all the various genres. It is what its name implies – slow in tempo (compared to other music forms.)
Here are examples of very, very archetypal ‘lounge’ music. Unlike pop compilations, Lounge compilations are unique, because – of the often hard-to-find songs, which are sometimes DJ mixed (non-stop), to create a unique listening experience…
Buddha Bar (‘relaxing’, ethnic World Music mix; regarded by many fans as The One to have); Hotel Costes (the archetypal ‘lounge’ mix; a little Latin, a little electronic jazz – and all very French, for the ‘vogue’ crowd.); Verve Mixed/ Verve Unmixed (jazzy lounge classics from Verve records, brought together by DJs such as Thievery Corporation.)
Examples of electronic bands and DJs that do Down Tempo:
Thievery Corporation; Claude Challe; Stephane Pompougnac.
Closing words. Due to the growing popularity (from the 1990s onwards) of Lounge and Chillout, the music fan is swarmed with seasonal compilations. My explanation of Lounge veers towards that of modern Lounge and DJ culture.
Because ‘lounge’ has gone way beyond the boundries of ‘easy listening.’ For Chillout and Lounge fans, ‘easy listening’ should not be ‘dull.’ They use the words ‘down tempo’ instead.
So what’s ‘lounge-ie’? What’s ‘down-tempo’? What’s ‘chillout’? I shall give my own version. You can always Wiki/ Google them for the ‘official’ versions….
Lounge and Chillout music, though different to some fans, often end up in the similar shelves (in shops and at home.) They are both Down Tempo, for ‘winding down’, for relaxing to (but not always, as many types have a ‘dance’ beat.) They can be electronic - or made with real, cultural instruments. Often it has Latin American influences (such as Bossa Nova.) It can also have other cultural influences from around the world, such as Middle Eastern music. And of course you have the more commercially assessable old jazz standards. On the most relaxing extreme, it could be danceable like Brazilian and Cuban music; and on the other extreme, it could be as relaxing as Yoga/ meditation music.
Down Tempo is like a broader term. It can describe the all the various genres. It is what its name implies – slow in tempo (compared to other music forms.)
Here are examples of very, very archetypal ‘lounge’ music. Unlike pop compilations, Lounge compilations are unique, because – of the often hard-to-find songs, which are sometimes DJ mixed (non-stop), to create a unique listening experience…
Buddha Bar (‘relaxing’, ethnic World Music mix; regarded by many fans as The One to have); Hotel Costes (the archetypal ‘lounge’ mix; a little Latin, a little electronic jazz – and all very French, for the ‘vogue’ crowd.); Verve Mixed/ Verve Unmixed (jazzy lounge classics from Verve records, brought together by DJs such as Thievery Corporation.)
Examples of electronic bands and DJs that do Down Tempo:
Thievery Corporation; Claude Challe; Stephane Pompougnac.
Closing words. Due to the growing popularity (from the 1990s onwards) of Lounge and Chillout, the music fan is swarmed with seasonal compilations. My explanation of Lounge veers towards that of modern Lounge and DJ culture.
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cw21dlr
Guest
Yes, lounge music would be similar to "elevator" music, bland and nondescript, basically "filler" music. Sort of middle-of-the-road tunes, Barry Manilow, etc. (apologies to the Manilow fans)