I have been into lounge music for a really long time. I consider that the first song I ever heard of the style is the first track on a mix cd by Thievery Corporation that came with a magazine, many many years ago. The song was ‘Bossa Per Due’ by Nicola Conte. I’m guessing that being a very early James Bond fan made me get into it a lot. The music was modern bossa, with many sixties’ influences. Nicola Conte is an Italian DJ and producer and I love all his stuff: his DJ-sets, acoustic music, electronic music, remixes (they’re amazing). He gets away from one of the things that can bother me very much with lounge music; that it just become trendy background music for decoration stores.
A couple of years ago Conte released a record called Other Directions, the sounds on this album was very traditional, yet somehow very modern.
I have been DJing for many years, mostly Deep House music but I love to play more chilled sets, where I have more space to play things I have discovered, and listening to Nicola Conte’s sounds always make me contemplate to just become a pure Jazz/Bossa DJ. That would be cool.
February 24, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Hey,
Is our Google Map project due tomorrow the 25th?
Kevin
February 27, 2008 at 5:31 am
man that bossa per due track has the craziest drum intro! i wanna sample it, now i wanna dig… hey i’ll bring you a cd next week too
March 11, 2008 at 7:10 am
Nicola Conte is always the one man~~~~
Have you listen to Rosalia De Souza (I think you probably have!). She has cooperate with different DJs and musicians. Her bossanova and somba is a little different from Conte~(Their musics are in the same genre anyway…)