31 May 2006 - Private Reserve (Show 8)

The Cafe Del Mar Special

BLANK & JONES feat. MIKE FRANCIS – Someone Like You
Taken from the album “Relax Vol. 2”
The production team of Blank & Jones dominated the top of Germany's dance charts since the country's late-'90s trance explosion. Met with consistent financial success as, they are unquestionable Germany’s biggest electronic music export. To this day, they have refined their songwriting craft, developed alternative directions in their productions like this acoustic beauty and have been a firm material choice for Café Del Mel.

AROMABAR – Winter Pageant
Taken from the album “1”
The Vienna based trio Aromabar consisting of Roland Hackl, Karin Steger and Andreas Kinzl are masters of blurring pop and modern electronic music with utmost elegance and esprit.

BEAT FOUNDATION - My Freedom
Taken from the untitled demo CD from 1999.
The production mastery of Mike Mukhopadhyah, Andy Cocup & Dan Hewson.

TEARS FOR FEARS - Mad World (Afterlife Remix)
Taken from the album “Tears Roll Down : Greatest Hits 1982 – 1992”
According to Ramon, owner of Café Del Mar, Afterlife have been "the sound of the summer" for years. The Manchester-based outfit put their sophisticated sound to the Tears For Fears classic.

MENTAL GENERATION – Café Del Mar
Taken from the single “Café Del Mar”
Doubt as the best chillout anthems ever made in the early 90s. German producers Steffen Andersen and Jan Kjølhede Meedom pay tribute to the world reknowned San Antonio beach bar.

MOODSWING - The Redemption Song (Oh Happy Day)
Taken from the album “Psychedelicatessen”
Comprising of James Hood (one-time drummer of The Pretenders) and Billy Bragg producer Grant Shwobiz. The outfit make organic ambient music that draws on the timeless mix of worldbeat and modern electronica.

LOVERS LANE – Island Memories

Taken from promotional CDR
A project formed between Cafe Del Mar’s resident DJ Bruno Lepretre and Vargo producer Ansgar Ueffink. 'island memories'. This debut single, featuring the spoken vocals of French model Florence Chicault, is all about the magic of the island. It describes a moment of goodbye, a woman is sitting on the beach writing to her lover, remembering the wonderful times they shared together.

RACOON feat. CHRISTINE LUCAS – Beautiful Smile
Taken from the album “Universal Vibes”
An Italian outfit made up for a fusion of three veteran DJs / producers. With their strong passion for downtempo and lounge music, they cook up a dreamy, jazz-infused soundscape.

BUSH – Letting The Cables Sleep (The N.O.W. Remix)

Taken from the album ”The Science Of Things”
UK grunge quartet Bush gets their hit single retouched, reworked and re-interpreted.

MIRO – The Cure (Sunshine Mix)
Taken from the single “The Cure”
Miro was founded in Farum, Denmark in 1990 by Steen Thøttrup and Mads Arp and have since released countless progressive house, trance and chillout singles till this day.

LEVITATION – Out Of Time
Taken from promotional CDR
Based in Ibiza, Christian Gilcher Ingmar Hansch and Marcell Meyer produces a wealth of lounge music including this which was used in a Vodafone TV-campaign.

24 May 2006 - Private Reserve (Show 7)

JAMIROQUAI – Talullah
Taken from the album “Dynamite”
London-bred future soul/funk outfit Jamiroquai are an enigma in the British music scene who are constantly churning out their distinctive classic sound and are always on top of their game. This is a pleasant jazzy number sprinkled with flute and saxophone melodies, coupled with an alluring vocal delivery.

PAROV STELAR feat. ANITA RIEGLER & PETER KREUZER – Tell Me
Taken from the album “Rough Cuts”
The freedom of old-skool jazz combined with the groove of modern electronica and hip hop describes the character of Parov Stelar.

LOVAGE – Everyone Has A Summer
Taken from the album “Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By”
An ambitious all-star project by Handsome Boy Modeling School / Gorillaz graduate Nathaniel Merriweather (aka Dan The Automator), layering down some ultra laid-back beats and easy listening styled hip hop.

ELCHO - Lazy Summer Days
Taken from the compilation “Café Del Mar Vol. 12”
A side-project between composer Steve Isles and Jamie Cullum.

STARGAZER – Eastend
Taken from promotional CDR

NIGHT TRAFFIC – Rain
Taken from promotional CDR

GOTAN PROJECT feat. JUAN CARLOS CACERES – Notas
Taken from the album “Lunatico”
Gotan Project took the world by storm when they debut in 2003, skillfully mixing the sounds of tango with adventurous downtempo elements and sprinkled with their trademark accordion-based French grooves.

YONDERBOI – Follow Me Home
Taken from the album “Splendid Isolation”
This Hungarian wonder kid is somewhat a breath of fresh air with his eclectic sound, blending Eastern-European folk with downtempo, rock and some trippy electronic beats; and yet he hardly fits into any typical electronica/lounge stereotype. Artistically ahead of his time.

NEON HEIGHTS – 16 Again
Taken from the album “A View From The Heights”
The outfit was started by Cal Gibson and Sime White, two Nottingham-based DJs who met on a sound engineering course. Together with the vocals of Zoe Johnson – who sound like a cross between Joni Mitchell and Tracey Thorn – they make tracks ranging from lush deep house to blessed-out Balearic song.

ROY DAVIS JR – If You Wanna
Taken from the album “Chicago Forever”
Raised in Chicago, Roy Davis Jr. was introduced to dance music by the Chicago House pioneers such as Lil Louis and Farley Jackmaster Funk. He made the pilgrimage to New York to work for one of the biggest house labels of all time (Strictly Rhythm) and there has since been producing a steady stream of soulful house music gems.

AQUA BASSINO – We Could Be Friends
Taken from the album “Rue De Paris”
Heralding from Glasgow, Scotland. Aqua Bassino is a stalwart for high quality smokey upbeat Jazz-flavoured electronica.

US3 – Cantaloop (Bossa Mix)
Taken from the album “Questions”
London natives Geoff Wilkinson and Mel Simpson had a simple idea: sample their favourite jazz albums to make new dance music. With an astute use of sampling Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island", a cool cut rapping over a funky groove, they made the 1994 global hit single "Cantaloop".

17 May 2006 - Private Reserve (Show 6)

The Ibiza Beach Classic Special
As we gear up for the arrival of Cafe Del Mar into Singapore, breathing more life into the sleepy island of Sentosa, this edition of the show revisits some of the balearic tunes and sunset classics that make Ibiza so special. Soak up, wind down.

DEEPEST BLUE - Deepest Blue (Jon Hopkins Mix)
Taken from the single “Deepest Blue”
Deepest Blue are Joel Edwards and Matt Schwartz. Individually both Matt and Joel have worked with some of the biggest names in dance and pop including Massive Attack, Mica Paris and Underwolves. Big melodic hooks, soulful vocals, acoustic guitars and a slick electronic production add up to their direction with a contemporary pop sound.

BROTHER BROWN feat. FRANK’EE
- Star Catching Girl (Soulside Mix)
Taken from the single “Star Catching Girl”
Rare downtempo remix of Henrik Olsen & Atle Thorberg’s huge House single.

TUKAN - Light A Rainbow (Almadrava Mix)
Taken from the single ‘Light A Rainbow”
The unreleased mix of the 2001 trance anthem.

GROOVE ARMADA - My Friend
Taken from the album “Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub)”
The London-based Groove Armada is perhaps one of the UK's most successful dance music outfits. Their vast diversity and musical progression are the key elements in the music of Tom Findlay and Andy Cato.

SCHILLER - Ruhe
Taken from the album “Zeitgeist”
This top-selling German electronic pop act, fronted by producers Christopher von Deylen and Mirko von Schlieffen sit comfortably making relatively slow paced but hauntingly warm music, laced with diverse mix of rhythms, cultures and emotions.

THE EGG – Venice Beach
Taken from the EP “Venice Beach”
A new century Balearic classic steeped in memories of The Orb’s finest moments. An essential tune, boasting a gorgeous spaced-out melody, making it an essential for the down-tempo generation.

NITIN SAWHNEY – Falling
Taken from the album “Human”
Mercury Music prize nominee Nitin Sawhney fuses his British-Asian heritage with his internationalism and dwells in an eclectic musical environment.

STATIC REVENGER – Happy People (Christian J Rhodes Remix)
Taken from the single “Happy People”
Detriot-born Dennis White was initially the director of Kevin Saunderson’s Inner City, is responsible from this anthemic Ibiza big House tune.

BENT – Magic Love
Taken from the album “Everlasting Blink”
Nottingham's Bent, make up of Simon Mills and Nail Tolliday, have an enigmatic and charming approach to making their brand of electronic music. Produced by the lengendary Stephen Hague, ‘Magic Love’ is nothing short of disco heaven with sing-a-longs and a dreamy groove to boot.

LAURENT GARNIER – The Man With The Red Face (Svek Mix)
Taken from the single “The Man With The Red Face”
The original house and techno French impressario who first dared the world to believe that French dance music could be cool. “The Man With The Red Face” takes the usual techno-no-go area of saxophone solos and honks and squawks it through some seriously chilled and tuneful tech-house grooves.

INNER CITY - Good Life (Ian Pooley Mix)
Taken from promotional CDR
It is hard to believe that only two people made this timeless early House classic. Chicago house vocalist Paris Grey and Detroit producer Kevin Saunderson topped dance charts in America and Britain 11 times, hit Britain's Top 40 eight times, and sold over six million records.

G CLUB pres. BANDA SONORA – Guitarra G (Chillout Mix)
Taken from the single “Guitarra G”
Huge Ibiza anthem getting a balearic-styled chillout treatment.

MATT DAREY feat. MARCELLA WOODS
- Beautiful (Stuart Crichton Mix)
Taken from the single “Beautiful”
Matt Darey has pioneered the Trance sound since 1994 and has produced and remixed some of the pinnacle tracks of the genre.

10 May 2006 - Private Reserve (Show 5)

LYN LEON – Tomorrow (Edit)
Taken from the album "Private Pop”
Carolyn Leonhart began recording television commercials in grade school, and was a soloist in her high school gospel choir, and sat in to sing with her father, jazz bassist Jay Leonhart, at his Sunday brunch gigs at Manhattan’s Blue Note club. Together with her Swiss pop group – a quartet led by her husband - Leonhart croons songs about the loss of love and alienation in the modern world.

WAS A BEE - On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
Taken from the compilation “Modern Sounds From Italy 2”
The rich and loungey voice of Mario Biondi takes on this jazz standard with a touch of modern soul sensibility.

AKMUSIQUE – Broker’s Night
Taken from the compilation “Broker’s Night”
Producer Andreas Kolinski is reputated for his superb smooth after-hours productions that have seen being compiled in many high profile compilations

MO’ HORIZONS - So Ma Guisee
Taken from the album “... And The New Bohemian Freedom”
German pair Ralf Droesemeyer and Mark Wetzler's Mo’ Horizons outfit allow for no musical corsett contstraints and are constantly breaking new ground trajectory in the way of artistic freedom. fusing Latin, jazz, soul, Afro and funk influences.

SPILLER – Cry Baby (Royksopp’s Malselves Memorabilia Mix)
Taken the the single “Cry Baby”
Band of the moment – and indeed the future – Royksopp, provide a top class remix.

PRAFUL – Moonglide
Taken from the album “Pyramid In Your Backyard”
Praful is a native German who moved to Holland at the age of 23 to study at the Amsterdam School of Arts. There he studied saxophone and flute before disappearing for some soul-searching at an Indian ashram as well as in Brazil. When he returned, he was newly inspired, combining work with Indian, African, and Brazilian musicians with newly spawned electronic musical styles such as trip hop & drum ‘n’ bass.

MICHAL – The Dearest Love
Taken from promotional CDR

[RE:JAZZ] - Keep On Movin’
Taken from the album “Point Of View”

BAHIA SUNSETS - Somewhere Not Here
Taken from promotional CDR
One of the many projects from the multi-talented Shinichi Osawa aka Mondo Grosso, who has been not only at the helm of the Kyoto Jazz scene but across the globe as well.

BARTHOLOMAUS & RAABENSTEIN – A Night Out With Nel Foltz
Taken from "Guten Abend Guten Morgen EP"
Two berlin-based producers known for their exploration of diverse musical genres produces music that gently fits inbetwwen jazz and electronica, laced with smooth sonic atmosphere.

DE-PHAZZ – Depression Royale
Taken from the album “Natural Flake”
This German-based outfit performs a unique and sexy blend of Bossa Nova rhytms, Soul, Electronica, Downbeat and 60s lounge swing and serves up a cocktail of fun.

PILOT JAZOU - Your Crime (Dati Rmx)
Taken from the album “Wonderful Morning”
Pilot Jazou is the musical alias of Ugo de Crescenzo, a key figure in the Italian Nujazz scene; mastering the full spectrum of Jazz, Downbeat, Bossa and House. With the uplifting vocals of Imma Costanzo, this incarnation packs a deliciously musical excursion.

FRAGMENT ORCHESTRA – Metropolis
Taken from the album “Fragment Orchestra”
Fragment Orchestra is the pairing of Italian jazz aficionados Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. Their great passion and respect for all that is referable to Jazz is heard throughout their productions of uptempo grooves.