01. 00:00 Sneakin (Vocal): Jaffa 02. 06:15 Shure Thing (St-Germain): Sven van Hees 03. 11:55 Laid Back (City Nights Mix): Karl Axel Dissler 04. 17:58 Time Flies: Groove Theory 05. 22:01 Never Ft IK Dell (Bonobo Mix): Bushy 06. 27:03 Put Your Hurt Aside: Charles Webster 07. 31:46 Roodbeets: Afterlife 08. 36:30 Pina Colada (Jazz Mix): Digby Jones 09. 42:02 Shadow: Beady Belle 10. 46:40 After 4AM: Long Arm 11. 53:13 Set Me Free: Gary B
A large scale data restoration project may require spending lots of time contemplating your musical history; this session is a tribute to some classics from the Golden Age of Downtempo (1998-2004) that turned up during my project. I was amazed at the way the intr...
01. 00:00 Sneakin (Vocal): Jaffa 02. 06:15 Shure Thing (St-Germain): Sven van Hees 03. 11:55 Laid Back (City Nights Mix): Karl Axel Dissler 04. 17:58 Time Flies: Groove Theory 05. 22:01 Never Ft IK Dell (Bonobo Mix): Bushy 06. 27:03 Put Your Hurt Aside: Charles Webster 07. 31:46 Roodbeets: Afterlife 08. 36:30 Pina Colada (Jazz Mix): Digby Jones 09. 42:02 Shadow: Beady Belle 10. 46:40 After 4AM: Long Arm 11. 53:13 Set Me Free: Gary B
A large scale data restoration project may require spending lots of time contemplating your musical history; this session is a tribute to some classics from the Golden Age of Downtempo (1998-2004) that turned up during my project. I was amazed at the way the introductory bars of Digby Jones's Pina Colada or Jaffa's Sneakin' continue to affect me TO THIS DAY, a day well over a decade from the moment of our first encounter. This music endures.
Music, along with atmospheric light, is the most compelling trigger for memory that I know. For some folks, the mere whiff of cinnamon or pine brings Christmas memories flooding back in; in the same way, a piece of music will transport me to the time I first heard it. These tunes from the early 2000s take me back to a point when we were poised at the edge of a change we could not imagine, when everything was fresh and it seemed our hearts could expand forever.
S/O to The Third Power, who brought the music of Groove Theory to mind.
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