Wallpaper Mach 1.5 / Limitless Luxury

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The first release in the Limitless Luxury Collection is a high-style collaboration between the lauded lifestyle-design magazine Wallpaper and the Seattle-based label Sweet Mother. Punctuated with surround-sound comfort and panache, Mach 1.5 promotes itself as "a compilation to play while getting dressed." Despite its prescribed listening conditions, the collection showcases some of the best trip-hop, acid jazz, and electro-lounge artists of the day, promising to warm any interior with sounds that rise to accompany the morning routine. With an aural shower of cascading rhythms, percolating melodies, and lustrous vocal treatments, virtually all tracks shimmer in a daybreak glow. Sampled embellishments add elements of funky bossa nova and raga influences to further the moods. Standout tracks by UFO, Thievery Corporation, Doris Day, and Jazzanova augment these diverse styles with elegance. Deviating from downtempo formulas, serene compositions by Air and Ryuichi Sakamoto round out the mix with tracks bordering on Muzak moments. But ultimately, Sakamoto's blissful orchestration adds the perfect finishing touch with simple melodies and graceful string arrangements. To relax in sophistication, these tunes can play on repeat long after donning the day's perfect wear. --Lucas Hilbert

Product Description
Limitless Luxury Mach 1.5 The Sound That Surrounds You is the Premier CD release from the trend setting fashoin, design and lifestyle magazine Wallpaper. Produced in conjunction with Sweet Mother Recordings, Seattle, Washington. This CD is a compilation album of kitchy tunes that get you through the day. This CD is the first in a series of releases that will be featured heavily in the June/July '99 issue of the magazine. The CD is beautifully designed in true Wallpaper / Sweet Mother style.

Tracks:

Intro
The Sixth Sense (United Future Organization)
Chanson San Issue - Snooze remix (Autour De Lucie)
Another Day (Dragonfly)
Chocolate Elvis - Bazoo Bajou Soul Searcher's mix (Tosca)
Scene At The Open Market (Thievery Corporation)
To Ulrike M. -The Amalgamation of Soundz mix (Doris Days)
Views (TSR)
Allright For Now - 3 Times Infinity mix (Strange Voices)
Voulez Vous (Arling And Cameron)
Fedime's Flight (Jazzanova)
Coding (Tripoli)
Casanova 70 (Air)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrance (Ryuichi Sakamoto)

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The first release in the Limitless Luxury Collection is a high-style collaboration between the lauded lifestyle-design magazine Wallpaper and the Seattle-based label Sweet Mother. Punctuated with surround-sound comfort and panache, Mach 1.5 promotes itself as "a compilation to play while getting dressed." Despite its prescribed listening conditions, the collection showcases some of the best trip-hop, acid jazz, and electro-lounge artists of the day, promising to warm any interior with sounds that rise to accompany the morning routine. With an aural shower of cascading rhythms, percolating melodies, and lustrous vocal treatments, virtually all tracks shimmer in a daybreak glow. Sampled embellishments add elements of funky bossa nova and raga influences to further the moods. Standout tracks by UFO, Thievery Corporation, Doris Day, and Jazzanova augment these diverse styles with elegance. Deviating from downtempo formulas, serene compositions by Air and Ryuichi Sakamoto round out the mix with tracks bordering on Muzak moments. But ultimately, Sakamoto's blissful orchestration adds the perfect finishing touch with simple melodies and graceful string arrangements. To relax in sophistication, these tunes can play on repeat long after donning the day's perfect wear. --Lucas Hilbert

Album Description

Limitless Luxury Mach 1.5 The Sound That Surrounds You is the Premier CD release from the trend setting fashoin, design and lifestyle magazine Wallpaper. Produced in conjunction with Sweet Mother Recordings, Seattle, Washington. This CD is a compilation album of kitchy tunes that get you through the day. This CD is the first in a series of releases that will be featured heavily in the June/July '99 issue of the magazine. The CD is beautifully designed in true Wallpaper / Sweet Mother style.

Album Details

Limitless Luxury Mach
1. 5 The Sound that Surrounds You is the Premier CD Release from the Trend Setting Fashion, Design and Lifestyle Magazine Wallpaper. Produced in Conjunction with Neverstop, Seattle, this CD is a Compilation Album of "kitchy Tunes that Get You Through the Day ". Featuring Tracks by Ufo, Jazzanova, Air, Dragonfly and Ryuichi Sakamoto.this CD is the First in a Series of Releases and Will Be Featured Heavily in the September `99 Issue of the Magazine. It Will also Be Advertised in Forthcoming Issues.the CD is Beautifully Designed in True Wallpaper /Neverstop Style, with Full Color Three Panel Digipack and a Full Color O-card on the Outside.

Customer Reviews:

Perfect cafe music.......2005-10-16

When I originally bought this CD, it was on a whim, without a preview listen, and without too much thought. I soon came to love it, and then started realizing that it (or at least the tracks from it) were being played in all of my favorite cafes, coffee-shops and even Jazz bars/lounges.

Perfect music to have playing in the background while meeting someone new, enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon with a coffee and a book, or even schmoozing with the beautiful people at a funky lounge bar with a martini.

Slide right on in and enjoy.

Mach 1.5 (Wallpaper).......2001-05-17

Its very subjective. As a web designer, I find the music like backgrd loops in a shockwave movie. If u are not into funk or hip tunes, try avoid it.

Smooth.......2000-06-09

This album is 100% hip. A compilation of covers and comtemporary tunes, Limitless Luxury takes you on the groove train to Funksville. Whether you're sitting back in some trippy purple velvet lounge chair, or up and shmoozing with friends over way too, elegantly dressed cocktails, you'll be equally entertained. The phenomenal list of artist reads like a who's who of modern tunes, there's bound to be something that will satisfy all groovy funksters out in music land. Put it on and see where it takes you!

An Amazing Collection.......1999-11-30

Just amazing -- it's a superb compilation of several similar genres, and more. It's chic, lively, stylish. It puts in so much 'luxury' into the electronic genre.
If you're a fan of the wallpaper magazine you'll know what I mean, it's a perfect reflection of and complement to it.
Even if you're not into this type of music, but are a open-minded music fan looking to expand your collection, this is a must. It's perfect for both active listening and background tunes.

limitless wonder.......1999-09-26

This CD is wonderful. If you can bypass -- or buypass -- the ad-copy aesthetics of the magazine, the CD stands by itself as a very cool compilation of mellow, lush songs.

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Needin' You [CD-single] [Import]

Sym#5 (Romantic) / First Serenade in E-Flat

The Next Hundred Years

Music: Dieche

The Silencers

Transcendence [Import]

The Debut

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No6, Op74; Piano Concerto No1, Op23

That Real Hot Boogie Boy: The King Anthology

Sus Grandes Exitos [Import]

The End Of Meaning [Explicit Lyrics]

Tango [Import]

Tune Brothers in the Mix [Import]

Rachmaninov: Music for 2 Pianos

The Raven Speaks