Good compilation of what's popular in the lounge space
03/11/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"If this were food, it would be sampler hors d'oeuvres. Most of it is acid jazz/lounge/Brazillian influenced whatever you want to call it, but not trip hop and not house. Mostly instrumental and mostly soft beats. This would sit nicely next to Costes, Tosca, Hedkandi, Naked Music, Compost, ESL, etc. The things I don't like: not mixed, two tracks are misfits: 9 comes on too loud as a French Disco number, and the cheezy vocals and accoustic melody on track 14 are so out of place it makes me drop what I'm doing to hit next track, because there's a cool song from Astrud Gilberto to finish the disk."