Smooth Sailing: Suntanned Lounge & Summer Chill
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“Les Fleurs found Riperton imagining herself a flower budding into bloom, a hippy-dippy metaphor for every soul realising its true potential. Stepney’s production echoed that metaphor, its sparse guitar and drum verse blossoming into wonderfully overblown choruses encompassing swooning strings, blaring horns, artfully arranged choirs and Riperton’s own theremin-rivalling whistle-register scree; the entire track is some winningly over-egged pudding, its absurdity part of its charm. Though it was overlooked on release, drum’n’bass adventurers 4hero’s faithful reworking for their 2001 album Creating Patterns won a belated new audience for the Riperton original.” (The Guardian)
Sool combine the best of music from France and California. L.A. native Art Bleek and French singer Mercy Collazo mix up pop, soul and electronics. Their EP Quite Obvious is the result of this highly unique collaboration. It’s out on Tokyo Dawn Records now.
Tracklist:
Kendra Morris – Summertime (2018)
Sarah Jane Morris – Me And Mrs Jones [Bossa Version] (2006)
Xavier Boyer – Stockholm Syndrome [Napkey Remix] (2017)
The Carpenters – Rainy Days And Mondays (1971)
Gene Page – Gene’s Theme (1974)
Sven Van Hees – Flute Salad (2001)
Gerd – Far Away Places (2001)
Kinobe – Slip Into Something Comfortable (2000)
Mo Horizons – Dance Naked Under Palmtrees (2000)
Minnie Riperton – Les Fleur (1971)
Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line [The Apple Scruffs Edit] (2001)
Nina Simone – See-Line Woman (1965)
Negrocan – Cada Vez (1999)
Mutabaruka – Dis Poem '99 [Joe Claussell Full Vocal Mix] (1999)
Isolée – Beau Mot Plage [Freeform Reform Part 1] (2000)
Yaeji – Passionfruit (2017)
Dita von Teese – Rendez-Vous (2018)
L’Imperatrice – Vanille Fraise [Edit] (2016)
Sool – Evening (2018)
Alvaro Vitali – Col Fischio O Senza? [Molto Bene Col Fischio Edit] (2018)
Anoraak – Living On A Tape [Endless Summer Version] (2014)
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