Artist: V. A.
Album: "MUSIC FOR MODERN LIVING PART 3 (2CD)"

Year: 2006
Media type: CD

10 years of „Music for modern living“! Mellow & Rivera - compilers, DJs and owners of their Lounge Records label - celebrate 10th volume of the internationally renowned compilation series in 2006. „Music for modern living““ has been a steady companion to modern club and bar life since 1996.

The golden issue „Music for modern living“ features the biggest club hits, rare tracks and unreleased music from the label portfolio of the two musical activists from Hamburg/Germany.

„We are not here to offer a hip scene the latest hot shit. I am too slow myself to be aware of what is currently en vogue .... but when a production has depth and quality there is always space for it, be it on physical record, as a download, on the stage or in the box of a DJ – the possibilites are vast,“ Mellow says about the philosophy of „Music for modern living“.

Consequently the tracklisting of this double CD offers a wide variety of styles. As remixers we have the brasil experts Mo’ Horizons (for La Taverne Du Lac), beat freak Aim (for Lemn) and deep house matador Vincenzo (for Rivera Rotation). The currently globally active duo Torpedo Boyz sent the previously unreleased spanish version „Hablas Con Migo Senor?“ of their „Are You Talking To Me ???“ single. Space Kelly, songwriter from Berlin and a star in Japan, contributed the instrumental version of „Es ist nicht das Ende der Welt“ as an exclusive for this CD.

Bikini Machine from Rennes/France put some authentic sixties meets electro sound on the menue. Erk from Berlin provides a true hommage to the Tears For Fears classic „Shout“ and Batterie Du Verre, the project of Soenke Dьwer - member of the Hamburg Mojo collective - has an electrified „Jitterbug“ on offer.

Plus there is a fine and funky selection of breaks courtesy of MUTO, Mellow & Rivera’s sublabel which they introduced especially for this genre. „Hot“ by The Strike Boys is not on their current album, but on this compilation. Additionally there are tracks by SuperStyleDeluxe and The Killergroove Formula, vinyl only releases until now.

„Like traversing the globe in a hot air balloon,“ somebody in the British press once said about „Music for modern living“. Volume 10 is no exception. The balloon launches in mid September, you will then find Mr. Mellow out and about DJing on festivals and in clubs around the country spreading the word.

TRACKLISTING:

CD1
1 Flight Over Rio (Instrumental) – Timax 4:33
2 Tu Estas Fatal (Never Kiss Me Again) (Original Mix) - Vincenzo & Rivera 5:02
3 Magic Single Barrel (Mo’ Horizons Restyle) - La Taverne Du Lac 6:27
4 Advice For The Living (Aim Remix) - Lemn 5:28
5 I’ll Be There (70s Delight Version) - Seductive Souls 6:25
6 L’Autre Jour (Circular Mix) - Gator 5:38
7 Make Peace For Baby Boom - Cubismo Grafico 2:44
8 Jim vom Stamme Nimm - Folke Jensen 4:15
9 Monkey Bum Bum Boogie - Bikini Machine 4:01
10 Es ist nicht das Ende der Welt (Instrumental) - Space Kelly 4:01
11 Shout - Erk 4:20

CD2
1 Sugar – Zimpala 4:12
2 Jitterbug - Batterie Du Verre 4:07
3 Ensolarado - Lucky Loop 4:53
4 Now! - Rollin Hand 4:54
5 Hablas Con Migo Senor? - Torpedo Boyz 4:57
6 One Mood - Olaf Hund vs DJ Omar from Oslo 3:39
7 Latinica Witch (Vincenzo’s Satin Soul Mix) - Rivera Rotation 8:24
8 Hot - The Strike Boys 6:03
9 Flash Dance - Super Style Deluxe 6:50
10 Killergroove Uppercut - The Killergroove Formula 5:52