Luxurious music for those stressed out times

[FunkyHiFi]

I have no connection to this internet station, other than listening to it for years now, all the way back to 2000 when all I had was a dial-up connection and had to listen to a scratchy-n-swirly sounding stream...but still enjoyed it a lot!

Luxuriamusic.com (http://www.luxuriamusic.com/) - listener supported/commercial free

Excerpt from their about page:Surf Music, Bossa Nova, Exotica, Space-Age Bachelor Pad, Jazz, Soft-Psych, Sunshine Pop, Wall of Sound, Latin, Go-Go, and Film & TV music of the past 50 years are expertly distilled and blended in order to concoct the “highly intoxicating and sometimes hallucinatory” LuxuriaMusic Sound. Somehow, in this context, it all makes sense.Listening makes you sorta feel you're at a club in a hotel next to the beach or sitting in a home like this (http://plastolux.com/mid-century-modern-for-sale-by-clifford-yates-year-built-1955.html) while the console stereo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/memphistikihead/2701574879/) plays & you and your friends sip drinks with fruit and umbrellas in them. :D

FYI: back in 2000 on this station is where I first heard Thievery Corporation, which has become one of my favorite sources of music.

[FunkyHiFi]

And if you really want to get into this stuff, there's the Ultralounge series of CDs that have been around since the late 90s.

http://www.ultralounge.com/ w/full tracks to listen to

I only own 9 of them so far, but there is alot more in the collection than that. My favorites I own are the "On The Rocks" CDs, where studio musicians took hit pop & rock tracks and "beautified" them with string sections, full orchestras and other sonic elements the original artists NEVER intended. :eek::D(y)

Here's a great site all about Space Age Pop and similar music styles:

http://www.spaceagepop.com/index.htm

A page about Les Baxter, who helped popularize exotica and lounge music:

http://www.lesbaxter.com/

His song "Tropicando" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCrFM13qAb4) is the lead off track on Thievery Corporation's DJ Kicks album - starts out slow and slinky but suddenly the drums kick in and it sounds much more modern.

[ericg]

very good, very good.
thanx.

check out www.kexp.org too - a seattle radio station i like.

peace