Om Lounge

Om Lounge (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 3, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Om Records
• ASIN: B00000DH09
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,855 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Right Angles Remix - Thievery Corporation

2. Slow Roll 77 - Freakniks

3. Nothing Can Pull Us Apart - Pilgrims Of the Mind

4. Lost And Found - Fluid Motion

5. Bohemian Sunset - Jazzanova

6. Midnight Calling - Mark Farina

7. What We Did Last Summer - Eighty Mile Beach

8. Oceanic Lullaby - J Boogie's Dubtronic Science

9. Adventures In La La Land - Andy Caldwell vs. Woolove

10. Up By 420 - Migs & Jelly

11. Echoes Of My Mind - Julius Papp & Dave Warrin

12. It's Love (Drum & Space Dub) - Wamdue Kids

Editorial Reviews

Om Lounge

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wallpaper music let down by the stars, July 1, 2000

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Richard Diaz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Om Lounge (Audio CD)

Modern lounge, sonic wallpaper, downtempo, middle tempo music (according to the CD) whatever you want to call it, OM Records excels at releasing it. A quick look at the artists on this comp- Thievery Corporation, Jazzanova, Mark Farina, Julius Papp, to name a few - should make it a no-brainer pick-up. But not so, they actually have the mediocre songs that clog up the disc.

Most the tracks use a similar formula: lazy beats, vocal snippets, strings, and dashes of funk on top. When the artists add to this with clever sounds and more intricate production it works. Freakniks' "Slow Roll 77" is what you are hoping to hear, an autumn-cool track of layered percussion, stereo samples, catchy loops and effects. "Nothing Can Pull Us Apart" dips into the vinyl vault for gentle pieces of rhythm and a powdery beat, the sound of stargazing. J Boogie's Dubtronic Science's "Oceanic Lullaby" takes strings, a Japanese koto (?), and even some Rakim samples for another winner.

But it's the bigger names that let this down. Reliable Thievery Corporation are disappointingly bland, and like Jazzanova's contribution, use an annoying vocal to mar the tune. Mark Farina and Julius Papp are decent, but they've done better. The remaining tracks range from decent filler to low blood sugar funk jamming.

This is respectable, with a few sublime tracks, but those looking to see what OM has to offer should get OM Lounge 2, a more varied and exciting collection.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING COMPILATION, May 8, 2000

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Dean Halpern "DJ_DeanH" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Om Lounge (Audio CD)

I could listen to this CD a thousand times (getting there) and not be tired of it. A perfect mix of mid-tempo tunes. The whole damn OM Lounge series in amazing (vols. I - III). This is coming from someone who owns about twenty "chill out" type CDs. The OM lounge series tops my list, but Serve Chilled from Hed Kandi is great, too, as are the Cafe Del Mars. Happy hunting!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gotta Get!!, April 23, 2007

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Canuco "Canuco" (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Om Lounge (Audio CD)

The first release of the now famous OM LOUNGE series. This first of 10-plus cd releases is chock full low bpm, full-a-funk, grooves. The formula used in these productions has never wavered. The producers have taken inspiration from every corner of the planet to offer the listener a very satisfing musical journey. Sitars from India are juxtapozed seemlesly into an Afro-Caribbean rhythm...Bhuddist chanting draped over a throbbing beat of the conga drum...European violins soaring over South African souka and more. The experience is quite uplifting and refreshing. I highly recommend the entire series of; Om Lounge. You can't go wrong with these. Bon Appetit.