Today’s compilation:Coming Home …Warming Up Your Living Area2000Downtempo / Trip Hop / Lounge

Today’s compilation:Coming Home …Warming Up Your Living Area2000Downtempo / Trip Hop / Lounge / Bossa Nova / Deep HouseThere’s so many of those downtempo/chillout comps from the turn of the millennium out there and I think that this is definitely one of the better ones. I know Germany’s Stereo Deluxe label has a good reputation, but this is the first comp of theirs that I’m checking out, and I gotta say, I’m really impressed by it. Nearly every track on Coming Home is great and the thing has good variety, too, as it transitions itself between downtempo/trip hop, bossa nova, and deep house; even has a largely instrumental hip hop track on it, a great remix by the cold water music king himself, Aim.Couldn’t find some of these tracks individually on YouTube or Spotify, but fear not! The whole 70-plus minute comp appears to be up on YouTube as a single video. And that’ll give you a chance to check out some of these criminally underheard nuggets, like my favorite track of the whole comp, “Ulysse” by The Cambridge Circus, which packs together big and dramatic strings with submerged keys, muffled drums, and…crowd noise(???). I dunno, but it earns the “100% certified bop” stamp of approval from me! Listen to the full compilation here.Highlights:Blue States - “Walkabout”Deadbeats - “Got It Goin On (Aim remix)”Bent - “I Love My Man (Lazyboy’s Anyone for Tennis mix)”Coco Steel & Lovebomb - “Yachts (A Man Called Adam mix)”Soul Quality Quartet feat. Almaz Yebio - “I’m Not Here”Nicola Conte - “Il Cerchio Rosso”Daniel Ibbotson - “Celebrate”Groove Armada - “At the River (English Riviera mix)”Oscar - “Soul Deeper”The Cambridge Project - “Ulysse”Sébastien Schuller - “La Baie de Anges”Bobby Trafalgar - “Homeshopping” -- source link

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