We begin this week with PAUL HASLINGER's tribute to late 1950s "space-age exotica," a genre popularized by creative, eclectic arrangers like MARTIN DENNY and JUAN-GARCIA ESQUIVEL.
Lovingly revived in the early 1990s under the banner "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" or just "Space Age Pop," its influences are still with us in the quietly expanding genres of Chill, Downtempo, Ambient Lounge and other variants of laid-back electronica.
The appeal is clear: a nice cold cocktail, some cool beats and ambient electronics makes a perfectly relaxing space for socializing. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, a retro-future- ambient-lounge journey called TIKITRONICA, with music by PAUL HASLINGER, TWILIGHT ARCHIVE, EVAN MARC & STEVE HILLAGE, MARCONI UNION, KLAUS HOFFMANN-HOOCK, JOHAN AGEBJORN, and AURAH. Turn it up and call your friends...
I love Hearts of Space, but Tikitronica made me purchase a subscription! Keep up the good work. Hearts of Space is so cool and unique. There's nothing else like it anywhere.
Marianne
Posted by: Marianne | 13 September 2009 at 04:33 PM
I'm listening to Tikitronica over and over and not tired of it yet.
Frances
Posted by: Frances | 24 September 2009 at 09:30 AM