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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Eighteenth Street
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 115144
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 25
UPC: 795103002524
EAN: 0795103002524
ASIN: B00002MYZY
Release Date: November 2, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Running Fast - Stevan, G | | • | Trops - Bembo, Alberto Bald | | • | Blues for Alexandra - Mussolini, Romano | | • | Moto Centripeto - Lesiman | | • | Blue Media - Nicelli, Ernesto | | • | Diamond Bossa Nova - DeMasi, Francesco | | • | L' Italia Vista Dal Cielo - Piccioni, Piero | | • | Fearing Much - Stevan, G | | • | Sessomatto - Trovaioli, Armando | | • | Decisione - Trovaioli, Armando | | • | Airport Rock - Barigozzi, Giancalo | | • | Honey Rhythm and Butter - Valli, T.A. | | • | Un Detective - Bongusto, Fred | | • | Casa Di Moda - De Angelis, G | | • | Lady Magnolia - Umiliani, Piero | | • | Messaggio - Lesiman |
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Album Description
Compiled by the Thievery Corporation, this is the first domestic collection of tunes from the popular Italian series of soundtrack film library music from the '60s '70s. 16 tracks. 1999 release.
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| Customer Reviews:
Ciao, downtempo lounge grooves August 2, 2000
Robert II (Central Coast, Cali)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
if you are a part of the wallpaper*, surface*, Sapphire martini crowd, this cd is worth adding to your collection. Also, check out: Coming Home - Warming Up Your Living Area, from Stereo Deluxe
 America's intro to non-spaghetti western Italian scores August 1, 2000
pappa wheelie (Jacksonville, FL)
17 out of 23 found this review helpful
Eighteenth Street Lounge. I've been told it's not only an American label who poses to be the US's answer to international Shibuya All-In nouveau lounge music labels, but also a night-club for the nouveau lounge scene in Washington DC. Whether the club aspect is true or not, I did not cross any ESL releases until a trip to NYC. There, I found the Covert Operations compilation, and label heads, Thievery Corporation's, Sounds from the...Hi-Fi album, only to be greatly dissappointed. These nouveau lounge releases were very reliant on electronic dub influenced trip hop that was so underproduced that I could see my own slow moving reflection in the polished sound radiating from the 2 pieces of equipment it took to make these tracks. Not to say this sound is always bad, just misrepresented using the nouveau lounge moniker. Since then, Thievery Corporation has gone on to produce a track on the nouveau Bossa Nova queen's (Bebel Gilberto) debut release, thusly, assuring their reputation as America's nouveau lounge duo. So when I found this collection in the group's hometown of DC, I passed and did not purchase it. It was shortly later that I learned of the Italian label, Easy Tempo, and deduced that ESL's release was somehow connected to the label itself.pI soon found this compilation again and did not pass. After hearing Fantastic Plastic Machine's compilation tributing Italian film scores (Irma Cocktail Lounge Vol. 1), I had fallen in love with the obscure Bossa Novas and psuedo funk that the genre had to offer. ESL's disc earns four stars just on being authentic and bringing it to the US. This is not the best example of the genre's goldmine, but the CD is worth it for the two Bossas (most notably, the track Diamond Bossa Nova which seems to have inspired all of Stereolab's recent chord progressions). This disc relies more on the funkier, soulful side of the era. ESL's compilation of Easy Tempo's vast library is a great intro, but not the most representative of what 60's 70's Italian film had to offer musically. This seems to be the trend of Eighteenth Street Lounge so we will continue to look towards the Emporer Norton label for quality releases of nouveau lounge domestically.
GET IT NOW July 10, 2000
L. S. Slaughter (Chapel Hill, NC)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This release is a sampling of the Easy Tempo series available in Italy that has produced ten striking CDs of vintage Italian film music from the 60s and 70s as compiled by Rocco Pandiani and gang. As the world's biggest Piero Piccioni fan, I can't recommend this sampling heartily enough. Sure, there' some kitsch and camp here - especially to younger ears - but there's also great feeling and panache in some of the extracts from these 60s and 70s film scores by Travioli, and, of course, Piccioni. Acid-jazz fans will also find this a must, as will trip-hop DJs looking for great samples to base their creations around. I can't rave enough about Vol 6 Easy Tempo: A Cinematic Listening Experience and Vol 3 Further Cinematic Adventures from which some of these titles were collected. Vol 6 is jazz-focused and Vol 3 features more samba and bossa-based cuts (and includes Umilani's wild Lady magnolia). Ebony Ride by Piccioni on Vol. 6 is alone worth the price of the CD. The Italians had a take on jazz and film music unlike any other country: it's bittersweet, funky, spacey, erotic with just enough of the cocktail hour thrown (but not too much). These collections transcend camp and kitsch. They define the heart of a special time that is, sadly, gone. More Easy Tempo, please.
very vibracious... April 25, 2000
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
To begin, I was amazed when I saw that "Customers who bought this cd also purchased..." Britney Spears! Hmm...? Does the market for campy, sexy Italian cine music overlap with that of Britney Spears? Apparently. Kudos, Amazon, for bridging a gap/association that I'd never even dreamed of. br / br /At any rate, this cd is incredible. Right along with the "covert operations" and "jet set" cd's, and, actually, anything on the esl label. br / br /I bought this while visiting New Orleans, and didn't get to play it until I was on vacation...in a beach cottage/penthouse in Seaside, Florida. As it began to play, and I looked out over the Gulf of Mexico from my suite, the feel of cool hardwood beneath my feet, images of Catwoman (the original, Eartha Kitt) dancing to Jimmy Smith (i.e., "The Cat" cd, composed with Lalo Schifrin) or Henry Mancini (i.e., "Charade" or "Breakfast at Tiffany's"), or even Hugo Montenegro, along with a dozen other vixens in angora and go-go boots all came flashing before my mind's eye. It was then that I suddenly realised that I needed a martini (Bombay Sapphire--Skyy in dire situations-shaken). br / br /Does that at all help with describing this disc? Probably not, so forgive me. It is a fantastic assortment of songs. VERY similiar to the "Beat a Cine..." cd's put out on the "Crippled D*ck, Hot Wax" label. br / br /Get this one, and enjoy the sounds that you will find soon creeping/pusling their way into your soul. As a bit of advice, this CD is very good to listen to over a nice cocktail, perusing the latest issue of Wallpaper or Casa Mica (even Metropolitan Home could suffice). br / br /Enjoy.
Wow! Wow! Wow! February 10, 2000
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I found this album totally by accident in Tower Records and bought it simply because it was from the Eighteenth Street Lounge label (ie: Thievery Corporation, Ursula 1000, and Thunderball).pEasy Tempo is a collection of ESL's favorite songs produced under the Easy Tempo label a few decades ago...pESL's own Jet Society and the Wallpaper* Mach 1.5 albums have the same sort of vibe.pThe album is simply decadent. Think: lounge, Wallpaper* magazine, mixed drinks, and mellow get-togethers.
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