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Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It may be meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place, usually with a tranquil theme, such as a jungle, an island paradise or outer space. [1]
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Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It may be meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place, usually with a tranquil theme, such as a jungle, an island paradise or outer space.
Some of the genres associated with "chill" include downtempo, classical, dance, jazz, hip hop, world, pop, lounge, and ambient. [1] Chill-out typically has slow rhythms, sampling, a " trance -like nature", "drop-out beats", and a mixture of electronic instruments with acoustic instruments.
Exotica, space-age pop, and some forms of easy listening music popular during the 1950s and 1960s are now broadly termed lounge. The term lounge does not appear in textual documentation of the period, such as Billboard magazine or long playing album covers , but has been retroactively applied.
Lounge refers to a strain of easy listening music from the '50s and '60s that was based on the lush styles of latter-day swing and big band music. Lounge scaled these back, borrowing ideas from the worldbeat exploration of exotica, as well as the futuristic aspirations of space age pop.
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Lounge music is serious, fun, and simple yet complex. It can be electronic, made with a simple 4×4 beat, or a passionate Latin Mambo with a deep percussive sound. Lounge music can also be a romantic French chanson or an alternative “shower” sound with echoing voices and a haunting melody.
