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Gavin B. · 03-22-2010, 12:29 AM

A Few Trip-Hop and Lounge Favorites

This high concept video of Alphawezen's Frost really caught my eye with it's dazzling deep space visuals that fit like a glove with the music.

Under My Star is collaboration between singer Beth Hirsh with Gelka, available on the latest Cafe del Mer collection, which is Volume XV. Beth Hirsh is a stellar jazz/trip hop vocal stylist who first appeared on Moon Safari the groundbreaking debut album by the French electronica duo Air. On that album Ms. Hirsh arranged and sang all the female vocal, chorus and choir parts and Beth was also the lead vocalist on Air's first internatinally released single, You Make It Easy.

My final selection is from the Postmarks' latest album Memoirs at the End of the World. The Postmarks aren't technically within the trip hop genre but the influence of bands like Thievery Corporation and Portishead are pervasive in the Postmarks' arrangement of this song, No One Said It Would Be Easy. The song is a mysterious slice of exotica in the tradition 60s era Italian B-movie soundtrack composers like Alessandro Alessandroni, the Baragozzi Group, Piero Ulmilani and the master, Ennio Morricone.

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Gavin B. Model Worker Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,248	A Few Trip-Hop and Lounge Favorites This high concept video of Alphawezen's Frost really caught my eye with it's dazzling deep space visuals that fit like a glove with the music. Under My Star is collaboration between singer Beth Hirsh with Gelka, available on the latest Cafe del Mer collection, which is Volume XV. Beth Hirsh is a stellar jazz/trip hop vocal stylist who first appeared on Moon Safari the groundbreaking debut album by the French electronica duo Air. On that album Ms. Hirsh arranged and sang all the female vocal, chorus and choir parts and Beth was also the lead vocalist on Air's first internatinally released single, You Make It Easy. My final selection is from the Postmarks' latest album Memoirs at the End of the World. The Postmarks aren't technically within the trip hop genre but the influence of bands like Thievery Corporation and Portishead are pervasive in the Postmarks' arrangement of this song, No One Said It Would Be Easy. The song is a mysterious slice of exotica in the tradition 60s era Italian B-movie soundtrack composers like Alessandro Alessandroni, the Baragozzi Group, Piero Ulmilani and the master, Ennio Morricone.