Bare Essentials: Volume Two [Regular Edition]

Bare Essentials: Volume Two [Regular Edition]

ASIN: B00007L9OS

Editorial Reviews
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This second volume of New York label Naked Music's Bare Essentials series continues where Volume 1 left off, showcasing the soft-edged house and blue-mood electronic music of artists like Aquanote, Blue 6, and Miguel Migs. Like other Ibiza-flavored downtempo compilations that have been released in the midst of the style's popularity, Essentials is dance music for beautiful, stylish hipsters who prefer a more bourgeois thump than club music usually provides. Songs like Andy Caldwell's "All I Need" (CJ One Remix) are awash in warm keyboards and an atmosphere of relaxed elegance, transporting even the most landlocked listeners to the imaginary tropical paradise of their choice. Volume 2 also provides a nice mix of old and new, putting tracks like Blue 6's "All I Need" (Jimpster Remix) alongside previously unreleased material, including a blissful track from Weekender ("Weekenderstyle") and two from rising stars Central Living. It's a compilation that appeals to our collective happy place, a land where the nights are warm, everyone is beautiful, and the daiquiris flow freely. --Matthew Cooke

Product Description
The second volume in Naked Music's 'best-of' series featuring rare mixes and unreleased songs from the label's best-known artists including Aquanote, Blue Six, Miguel Migs, Lisa Shaw and more. Slipcase. Astralwerks. 2003.

Tracks:

Nowhere (Crazy P's Heatwave Mix) - Aquanote
Try (Fenomenon Remix) - Arvid feat. Ernestos
All I Need (Jimpster Remix) - Blue Six
Inside - Central Living
All I Need (CJ One Remix) - Andy Caldwell
Brighter Day (Quant Remix) - Kaskade
The Night (Andy's Love Bizarre Dub) - Miguel Migs
Weekenderstyle - Weekender
Visions - Central Living
Let It Ride (Jimpster Remix) - Lisa Shaw
Blow My Mind - Quant
Rely On Me (Jay's Bodega Vocal) - Petalpusher
All Over You (2B4U remix) - Aquanote

Amazon.com

This second volume of New York label Naked Music's Bare Essentials series continues where Volume 1 left off, showcasing the soft-edged house and blue-mood electronic music of artists like Aquanote, Blue 6, and Miguel Migs. Like other Ibiza-flavored downtempo compilations that have been released in the midst of the style's popularity, Essentials is dance music for beautiful, stylish hipsters who prefer a more bourgeois thump than club music usually provides. Songs like Andy Caldwell's "All I Need" (CJ One Remix) are awash in warm keyboards and an atmosphere of relaxed elegance, transporting even the most landlocked listeners to the imaginary tropical paradise of their choice. Volume 2 also provides a nice mix of old and new, putting tracks like Blue 6's "All I Need" (Jimpster Remix) alongside previously unreleased material, including a blissful track from Weekender ("Weekenderstyle") and two from rising stars Central Living. It's a compilation that appeals to our collective happy place, a land where the nights are warm, everyone is beautiful, and the daiquiris flow freely. --Matthew Cooke

Album Description

The second volume in Naked Music's 'best-of' series featuring rare mixes and unreleased songs from the label's best-known artists including Aquanote, Blue Six, Miguel Migs, Lisa Shaw and more. Slipcase. Astralwerks. 2003.

Album Details

"bare Essentials Volume 2" is an Unmixed Collection of Rare and Unreleased Tracks from the Label's Best Known Artrists.

Customer Reviews:

Mature House at its best.......2007-05-21

This collection takes you to the club. Downtempo, Deep House, Uplifting, relaxing, Mellow Vocals (Lisa Shaw ect.) These are words that best describes this CD. If Calgon takes you away, this is the Soundtrack.

Just GOOD Music..........2007-02-17

Yo, they mixed the hell out of this mix. Something told me to visit this used/new store in the mall tonight and LOW AND BEHOLD I find Bare Essentials 2. Something that's been sitting in my saved cart for a year. It didn't let me down either, Every song flows nicely into the next and the remixes and mixes are really grooveable.. Pick this up for a nice moonlight drive on the highway or through any city. Just that feel good after 12 CD right here!

C.TORRES.......2006-07-23

THIS ALBUM BLEW ME AWAY. COMING FROM NEW YORK CITY AND MOVING SOUTH,IT WAS HARD TO FIND MUSIC OF THIS CALIBER. THE MIX OF SENSUALITY AND CLUB IS UNBELIEVABLE. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS ALBUM TO EVERYONE WHO IS READY FOR THIS MUSIC. JUST BUY THE ALBUM AND SIT BACK AND RELAX, YOU WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN.

wow!.......2004-05-28

This CD is fantastic. Well worth any price! The sultry beats and exotic sounds are perfect for any mood. I am new to discover the "Naked Music" genre and I love it. The music on this CD has so much meaning. It conveys -at least to me- a sense of ultra modern luxury in sound. I finally have found my favorite genre of music and bare essentials it at the top.

I hope you get to enjoy this CD.

Enjoyable, not essential deep house.......2003-03-17

Bare Essentials Volume 2 follows up the initial 1999 release from Naked Music, home of delectable deep house and stylishly nude slip covers. With more artists in tow this time, BE2 offers a much broader mix of previously unreleased material and new tunes to tantalize, if a bit lacking in breakout hits.

Surprisingly, the bigger names folks are familiar with (Blue Six, Miguel Migs) supply auto-pilot efforts that belies their talent, while soulful staple Lisa Shaw hits ("Visions") and misses ("Let It Ride"). The standouts are Aquanote's "Nowhere," a mellowed Heatwave Mix pushing the guitar backed Zoe Ellis line "I can tell that our love is going nowhere without you" to somber near-classic status. Likewise, Arvid featuring Ernestos livens with jazz drums for a beautifully realized song, and Kaskade/Quant's festive "Brighter Day," breathy vocals by Josyln, add pep and beach house atmosphere. A stripped down Petappusher (Miguel Migs) offers a serene closer, with flute, on "Reply on Me."

Some Minor misses pop up, primarily Central Living's simplistic lyrics and uneasy (as in, what where they thinking) bass to the batch on "Inside." A shame too, that just one instrumental made the cut (Weekender).

Regardless, the efforts here are impeccably produced; this crew knows their way around a studio. Bare Essentials 2 spins a bit too smooth to gain your attention; call it enjoyable then, just not essential. 3/5

NOTE: Exclusive to Amazon.com is an eight track 45-minute bonus CD packaged in a cardboard sleeve. Dropping the mellow vibes for a welcome return to the dance floor, this mixed offering combines a few exclusives, material from other Naked comps, and older tracks given an umpteenth remix to spruce them up a bit. Far more than just a tossed-in freebie, this is a bopping lil' set in it's own right; Satin Soul adds sprightly keyboard with punchy drums on a welcome revisit to "Music & Wine," a tasty set-up to Kaskade/Quant's festive "Brighter Day," breathy vocals by Josyln. Add quality work from Gaelle via Bugs in the Attic, and energetic beats by Project 4 (a catchy gem that peaks the hour), for a disc that heartily upstages its companion. How's that for essential? 4/5

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