Hotel Costes, Vol. 6

Hotel Costes 5 The fifth installment in Stéphane Pompougnac's wildly popular series, Hôtel Costes 5 dishes up more of the impeccably classy, impossibly cool lounge beats that Pompougnac regularly spins for Jean-Louis Costes and his guests at the famous hotel in Paris. As on all the others in ...	Hotel Costes, Vol. 2: La Suite The Second Volume of Music Mixed by Stephane Pompougnac, that Launched the Successful Costes Mix Disc Series. Pompougnac Effectively Captures the Hip Feel of the Parisian Landmark, Translatable to Any Place in the World. His Skills have Made Him the Favorite Mixmaster of Thousand...	Hotel Costes, Vol. 9 The Ninth Volume of Compiled Music by Parisian Tastemaker Stéphane Pompougnac Once Again Offers an Impeccable and Intimate Mix of Exclusive Tracks that Recreate the Unique Spirit of the Hôtel Costes.	Hotel Costes, Vol. 3: Etage 3 Since Pschent started the Costes series any old half-trendy restaurant has started releasing its 'downtempo' compilation. The covers all show someone on a sofa, the tracklistings all look the same, and the music is just plain boring. With Costes however we try to make sure that t...	Hotel Costes, Vol. 7: Sept As this is the 7th release in the Hotel Costes series, you might think you know what to expect from DJ Stephane Pompougnac's turntables. But 2003's Hotel Costes 6 provided a dose of the dark and unexpected, a trend which happily continues on Costes 7. The usual oh-so-classy, jazz...
Hotel Costes, Vol. 8 The 2005 edition of the King of lounge compilations encores it's well established tradition of bringing the ultimate music of Parisian luxury and sophistication to the rest of the world. Stephane Pompougnac has curated yet another outstanding showcase of the most interesting tr...	Hôtel Costes: Quatre Celebs like the Rolling Stones, Madonna, and Craig David enjoy hanging out at the legendary, exclusive Hôtel Costes in Paris, where the good life is lived with abandon. This fourth installment of the Costes music series highlights the slick and impressively alternative music sel...	Hotel Costes V.1 French only collection, strictly for fans of the Claude Challe's 'Buddha Bar' series, red wine, beautiful people etc. The first edition includes tracks from, Ballistic Brothers 'Cubafro Con Amigos', Grace Jones 'Libertango', Nitin Sawhney'Migration', Rinocerso 'Machine Pour Les O...	Hotel Costes, Vol. 10 The ''Côstes'' brand is forever linked with the ultimate in quality and is renowned with patrons as the home of luxury in Paris. After all, the overriding theme is ''all things in excess.'' This is French DJ/Artist Stéphane Pompougnac's tenth definitive set of the best tracks h...	Hotel Costes: Best of Costes 2004 compilation that features the best tracks taken from the first seven volumes of the Hotel Costes series along with an extra bonus track, an exclusive version of Madonna's 'What it Feels Like for a Girl' that Stephane Pompougnac remixed himself for this Collection. This 16 tr...

I enjoy this CD
This is my first Hotel Costes album. After listening to it I reviewed online the other numbered albums by the same producer, and I have to say #6 is my favorite, it is the right mix with the right transition between tracks and to date the only Hotel Costes I own. A friend had the CD sitting on his desk and I borrowed it, and I was reluctant to give it back, so I ordered it. I enjoy the variety of the compositions, the haunting yet soothing voices, and the technical rhythm instruments used throughout. I was in a San Francisco Thai restaurant earlier this week and they had it playing as well, offered me a sense of familiarity. My first impression was that it is the sound track I might here in a "W" restaurant lounge or bar, hip and easy to enjoy. Great while driving, could be used to work out with too.

It's not from here
Here in LA this stuff fits but its not from here. Just like everybody that lives here. It's from somewhere else that's a bit of a mystery.

Hotel Costes Vol 6
Great CD. I wanted her entire Hotel Costes collection, which used to be sold as a box set on Amazon, but I guess I'll just have to go back to FNAC in Paris to get it!!!

Soulful mix
First off, I love all the Hotel Costes collections. The running theme throughout this collection of songs is collective cool. Soulful drifts of music begin with Slow Trains hipnotic "In The Black of Night" that leads into another groove on Stigmato Inc.'s "Rality Check" that is full of jazzy intonations and melodic transcendence. The songs weave together like a world music tapestry, one song flowing into the next to be suddennly transported into a bandeon driven electronic groove as in "Metropolitan." The seemless musical odyssey is a non-stop-after- hours-party-groove.Sometimes it is hard to tell when one songs ends and another begins; only after many listens will you be able to discern where different songs begin and end. Even when Tosca lends its dub tones to the mix it still feels like one continium."Morenita" is a bossa nova induced laid back song that Stephanne Pompougnac does a masterful job bringing to life. The transition songs, as I call them, where the tempo shifts to more downtempo or upbeat is a brilliant bit of cohesive production.Many of the songs feature female vocalists stepping out from behind retro disco like beats that have been modernized, displaying echo and reverb and other effects for the electronica fan. The vocals create a breezy sound that is downright sexy. Rarely do the songs become repititious , with possibly the exception of "The Breeze is Black" where drone like poetic vocals mix with Latin flavored jazz piano. Not quite pure downtempo but driven enough to keep you working hard in the gym this music is not to be missed. Whether dancing, working out or just chillin on a drive this is some cool music you need to brighten your day.

Great Lounge
This is a CD that surpassed my expectations. No wierd songs, just easylistening and up-beat song. You wont fall asleep with it. I have it as a permanent CD in my car.