In the heart of Paris stands Hotel Costes - a super, fashionable designer hotel in eclectic French Empire brothel style. Only France's who's who hang out at this ultra-cool joint. And when you have ultra-cool people hanging out in an ultra-cool joint, you'll need an ultra-cool music guru, and he is Stéphane Pompougnac.
Music lovers all over the world have identified Hotel Costes to its famous series of compilations "mixed by Stéphane Pompougnac". Forget about Ministry of Music or Budabar. His music is an eclectic mix of lounge music from different cultures around the globe. A dash of new jazz, a pinch of house, a dab of the classics, and a whole of groove, and you get Hotel Costes Etage 3.
Pompougnac's Hotel Costes consists of seven volumes but Etage 3 seems to be the brilliant one. Each track in the CD has the ability to mark a moment in one's life, a snapshot of an intense romantic encounter, an infatuation, or a fantasy, awakening the senses, all the better for bodies to move.
Rolling Stone Magazine calls it a 'lustrous flow of mood and texture' & 'the idealized, virtual lounge'.
Tracks:
01 Ambrosia - A Reminiscent Drive 02 Where do I begin (away team mix) - Shirley Bassey 03 Les Chrysanthemes - Cosmos Sound Club 04 Hi Fi Trumpet (boyz from brazil mix) - Stereo Action Unlimited 05 Yachts (a man called adam mix) - Coco Steel & Lovebomb 06 Late Lounge Lover - Hacienda 07 Latazz - Funky Lowlives 08 Apollo (adam goldstone edit) - Cujo-Superstars of Rock 09 Cruisin' - Can 7 10 Timeless (orange factory remix) - Gazzara featuring Elise 11 Pnc Aux Portes - Stéphane Pompougnac 12 Cleopatra in New York - Nickodemus 13 Electrorloge - Trouble Makers 14 Last Tango in Paris - Gotan Project 14 Everytime (a man called adam balearic remix) - Lustral
Total time: 75 minutes 58 seconds Made in France Pschent Recordings Price: £13.99
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