Pink Martini - Let's Never Stop Falling In Love

Portland Oregon band Pink Martini is a difficult band to categorize. They blend genres of music such as Latin, lounge, classical, and jazzand their music has often been described as "vintage music". Band Leader, Thomas Lauderdale describes the band's sound as "music of the world without being world music. It's kind of like urban symphonic crossed with Cuban/Brazilian street Carnival parade, Breakfast at Tiffany's/United Nations kind of thing." Ok, got that?

However you describe their music, it is a wonderful listen. Their music has appeared in several film such as Nurse Betty and Mr. & Mrs. Smith; television shows such as The Sopranos and The West Wing. Their music is even the background/setup music for Microsoft's Windows Server 2003.

They released their debut album, Sympathique, in 1997 on their own label, Heinz Records, and sold over 1.3 million copies. It took seven years to release their follow up, Hang On Little Tomato, which starts with the track Let's Never Stop Falling In Love.

Blue Six - Aquarian Angel

Blue Six is the creation of musician, producer and remixer Jay Denes. Denes moved to New York, but did not hit it off until he began working on his own freestyle project. He co-founded Naked Music and released his first album, Beautiful Tomorrow released in 2002. It was a laid back lounge house music album that is a pretty good chill album.

It took five years for Denes to release a follow up, Aquarian Angel. This album, like the first is silky smooth, cocktail lounge house music album. Like Beautiful Tomorrow, it is an appealing groove to play as background to a house party, but not get people on a dance floor. The title track of the same name, is a fairly good groove that you can kick back and just let flow over you.