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GamerMunkie

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« on: 06 Sep 2006, 08:10 »
Cafe Del Mar?

I don't know if it's the kind of music that you a lot of you guys are into really, but I just wanted to get some thoughts.

For those of you who don't know what CDM is, it is a bunch of compilation CD's done by the in-house DJ Jose Padilla at Spain's Cafe Del Mar (I think it's in Spain...)

It's kinda chill music...Eclectic relaxy stuff...Helps me to study, and also to sleep...

But what is really good for sleep is George Winston...
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« Reply #1 on: 06 Sep 2006, 09:16 »
It would save some people a lot of time if you put the band name in the title of the thread, rather than people like me - and I'm sure others - clicking on the thread, realising it's about someone I don't give a shit about, and wandering off.
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GamerMunkie

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« Reply #2 on: 06 Sep 2006, 09:26 »
Point noted.

How polite of you.
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« Reply #3 on: 06 Sep 2006, 12:31 »
Aw, that wasn't very nice, was it? Yah, it's better to have the name of the band in the thread name though!  The synopsis sounds good however, linkplzkthxbai!
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« Reply #4 on: 06 Sep 2006, 12:54 »
I think I was into them when I went through my trip hop phase in the late 90s.  Definitely preferred their compilations to the Buddha bar ones though.  I don't really remember Cafe del Mar past 4 or 5, but my vague recollection was that they went way downhill.
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« Reply #5 on: 06 Sep 2006, 15:25 »
Back when I used to sell CDs for a living, we used to sell a lot of Cafe Del Mar CDs to people who owned cafes. The compilations are basically just innocuous, groovy-but-not-imposing, pleasant-but-not-memorable background music.

A resounding "meh" from this corner, but I agree with Moiche that they're better than the overpriced yuppie-cheese-tronica of the Buddha Bar series.
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« Reply #6 on: 06 Sep 2006, 16:12 »
Yeah, the physical Cafe Del Mar is on the island of Ibiza, which is part of Spain.  When the first CD came out the cafe was billed as being the chill-out place for the UK clubbers who swamp the island every Summer.

I checked out the first 2 or 3 as they were released, but gave up before the close of the 90s.  They always had a few good artists in there - I remember that ubiquitous Nightmares on Wax tune was on one of them -  but I just found something a bit too damn clean and hippyish about it all... like they were threatening to slip in an Enya tune somewhere or something. :)  Absolute lack of friction... which isn't always bad, but...

The thing is, if I recommended things that I use in a similar way or think cover similar territory but are better, they'd probably seem identical to most people. :o  *sigh*
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GamerMunkie

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« Reply #7 on: 06 Sep 2006, 17:39 »
"Clean And Hippyish"?

Do those words go together?

Hmm, yeah, I'm collecting them (Which is difficult in Aus) and I still think most of the songs on there are pretty good.

Alot of people said that they became too commercial, but that doesn't really bother me...I hate it when people automatically hate something that has become mainstream...
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« Reply #8 on: 07 Sep 2006, 08:40 »
I'm of the same opinion. There's a difference between becoming successful in the mainstream and selling out.
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« Reply #9 on: 07 Sep 2006, 16:54 »
Not me. I hate anything that anyone likes.
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« Reply #10 on: 07 Sep 2006, 17:07 »
Nuts, people beat me to complaining about being suckered in by the nondescript title, so I guess I'll actually listen to 'em...
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« Reply #11 on: 07 Sep 2006, 20:55 »
Quote from: GamerMunkie
"Clean And Hippyish"?

Do those words go together?

Heh, fair call... maybe "clean and New Age" is better?
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