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Nicola Conte | Jet Sounds Revisited

Perfect late summer lounge grooves with hints of retro charm
CD, ESL

Tekst: Claudia Andrade

Publicatiedatum: 27 november 2002

In June 2001, Washington DC's Eighteenth Street Lounge Music released the album Jet Sounds in the U.S., with the title Bossa Per Due, thus revealing the genius of Italian Nicola Conte. Bossa Per Due, was immediately praised and endorsed wholeheartedly by an entire community of downtempo and nu-jazz DJs. Now, they are bringing us the North American offering of Jet Sounds Revisited, 12 solid remixes of Conte's collected works. Conte's known for getting his inspiration from old film soundtracks, Brazilian bossa-nova, Euro-porn, ethnic sounds and 60s and 70s jazz, expertly mixing them up, creating his own blend of lush music and introducing a whole new aesthetic to Italy and therefore to the rest of the world.

Revisited is the embodiment of Conte's works and of much of the lounge movement as we know today. Collaborating on this mighty task are some of today's hottest talents including Micatone, Les Gammas, Nuspirit Helsinki, Thievery Corporation, Koop, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Eddy & Dus, Espen Horne, Gerardo Frisina, Gianluca Petrella, and the main man himself, Nicola Conte. An undertaking of this magnitude in the wrong hands could have amounted to a tedious listening experience, but the artists chosen to contribute to this project have enough quality to pull it off with grace and much finesse. Here the different teams of producers display their appreciation for Conte's creations by cooking up tracks rich in details, steeping each arrangement with their own ingredients and distinct flavors while still preserving the feel of the original songs, remarkably maintaining continuity throughout. The end result is a mosaic of blissful and tasty tunes that stretch the gap of the acoustic bossa sounds from the previous album and harkens back to the 60s and 70s swinging European jazz, entering the realms of today's urban sounds by embracing electronic rhythms and the very best club culture has to offer. Stand-outs include Micatone's sumptuous vocal version of 'Arabesque', the pulsating broken beats of the self-titled track by Nuspirit Helsinki, Thievery's smoldering expediton into dubbed out land of 'Bossa Per Due', 'Fuoco Fatuo', a jazzy Koop remix featuring the warm and rusky vocals of Earl Zinger, 'The In Samba', a more uptempo tune, here cleverly remixed by Kyoto Jazz Massive, 'Love Me 'Till Sunday', a yummy as hell, samba-inspired song by Conte himself, and the sizzling sounds of a funky latin batucada on Gerardo Frisina's remix of 'Mambo De Los Dandies'. Lovers of the Italian 60s sound will have to look no further. This is the soundtrack for the patio pool party made up of girls in bikinis flirting with guys high on martinis. A powerful, beat-infested elixir for anybody enamored with the flair of an era long gone. Kitsch with class, subtle and sophisticated, perfect late summer lounge grooves with hints of retro charm and ingeniously flawless.

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