Customer Reviews

Café del Mar 1980-2005: 25th Anniversary

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Cafe Del Mar was always about cool beachy vibes, the feel was sometimes decadent (perfect for 7am come down sessions). The change came after vol.8. To me it wasn't so much about Jose Padilla leaving, I think it's more to do with their court case which they won (free from Universal Music) so from vol.9 onwards we see new CD artwork and covers, Bruno had little choice but use their new but limited in-house artists. They were more about new age and easy listening. This 25th anniversary album is the perfect example of that, and with so little variation it can easily be used for a yoga session. I liked about 1/3 of the songs here. It's definitely more spiritual with nothing dark in it, even the CD covers nowadays, the sandy beach and the blue sea are replaced by images of new age philosophy graphics and buddha. Just a bit too clean for my liking.

This not a compilation of past hits, but 3 disks of NEW tunes.

Great music to put on a 3 stack cd player and lay back and dream that that you're listening to the waves and watching the sun go down.

For a real Greatest Hits of this set, here is my top 14 compilation. Private Session*, Sensual Bay, Volviendo Al Sur, The Call* (another great tune from DAB), Espiral, Innocence, The Meeting, Reflection, Knots*, Boheme, Nuevo Comienzo, La Francaise, Life Time, Sensuality.

With tracks* 1,4 & 9 being my favourites.

One of the best compilations.But DISC#2 is not so...
Track#1-Private Session [25th Mix]is the BEST!
Very Special Anniversary Package and Booklet.
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Good albom,good music.
Enjoy of Cafe Del Mar!!!

This collection is crap. Since when did Cafe del Mar become the home of cheesy vocals? Perhaps that's why Gracenote named it's genre as "Easy Listening" rather than "Ambient". There are about 2 decent songs on each of the 3 CD's. The vocals on these songs are sacharine to the point that I had to forward to the next song in disgust. Don't buy this collection.

3CD's 25 years of awesome musical discovery. This is a 5 star compilation of the highest order. 2 Cd's of the best CDM have dicovered and a 3rd disc of new artist's for the undiscovered. If you've ever heard a Café Del Mar album that brought new artist's and new songs this is it. Get it and put it on high rotation - disc 2 is the shizz and disc 3 is all new/unreleased music from around the globe. Don't hesitate you will be impressed and not just coz I said so... jhonny

I have almost all Cafe del Mar cd's in the series, and this is by far the best cd.

Definitely not 'chill' as in dance chill - and not even very New Agey, just background music guaranteed not to offend anyone unless you paid full price for this CD :-)

There's nothing wrong with Spanish guitar but not only is Spanish guitar not very 'chill' to begin with - the tracks here are pretty weak tracks and more noddling on a guitar than any real skill.

The CD gets off to a decent start with the first 4-5 songs pretty nice and chill but then it falls off the map. The rest are just recorded notes - nothing distinctive and certainly not worth actually listening or re-listening to.

I imagine that it will the great but it's fair enough ! This music it's for a very specific people who loves that. It not too bad not too good !

Jorge, stick to Spanish...your English is "not too good"
Typical Cafe Del Mar. Hotel Costes is better as is BB.