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Electronica
Release Date: 11/06/2007
Not to be confused with collections of vintage cuts from the golden age of authentically cool-to-silly topical
lounge and
exotica (1953-1963)
, Water Music's
Far Out: Swinging Bachelor Pad Music is a mini-festival of 21st century
electronic production that draws largely upon the work of mix and remix artists from the roster of
Irma Records, a label based in Bologna, Italy. Although the widespread revival of the phrases that make up the title of this album has brought the vernacular to the brink of overuse, there's no denying that the original Cold War
lounge recordings (swinging,
space age or otherwise designated) have spawned an amazing post-postmodern semi-send-up genre of beat-driven entertainment that fairly bristles with elements of jazz/organ combo and
cocktail jazz, jet-set
pop and good-life sleaze within a conceptual arena rendered peculiarly stimulating by most every methodological trope known to modern
electronica. Participants include
Capiozzo & Mecco,
Black Mighty Wax,
Hammond Express,
Montefiori Cocktail,
DJ Rodriguez, and
the Key Tronics Ensemble.
~arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide
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