Stylish Music
I think that many times lately I find myself considering of music not as bad or good, touching or indifferent but as stylish or not! I don’t know if there is a point in that, and moreover if music critique can be based on this criterion (and actually what makes a musical piece, track, song stylish?) but I like to use this term when I listen to music that could be heard in an ultra fashionable bar, a stylish restaurant or the lobby of a design hotel. That doesn’t mean that this music can be enjoyable only there but I think it would fit perfectly there…
So two of the tracks that come instantly to my mind this period when I think for something stylish are from Walter Ego and Simian Mobile Disco. Walter Meego is a musical duo from Chicago, Illinois whereas Simian Mobile Disco (even the name is cool!) come from a closest to mine neighbourhood as being an English production and remix team. Actually there is a story on how I discovered these groups and their music and the connecting link is “Diesel Liquid Space” (right, the latest ultra-chic and super-ultra- hightech fashion show from Diesel where holographic projection was used for the first time in that kind of live show … Alexander McQueen’s fashion show in Paris followed with a hovering ethereal Kate Moss! … but enough with this enormous parenthesis!). As you can imagine tracks from both Walter Ego and Simian Mobile Disco were used to dress musically the show, along with tracks from other producers of course.
Anyway, below you can listen to “Romantic” from Walter Ego (which is heard during the catwalk… search for the Flosstradamus remix) and to “I Believe” from the English duo (though the track used for the show is the “I Got This Down”… but no clip for that).
The first track is not my kinda thing at all…It’s the annoying and boring kinda songs that Christopoulos puts in his La suite Collections.
The second track is quite interesting but without that something special that will make you wanna listen to it again.
I think that both songs are the kind of songs that you would like for a fashion show since they act as background music that noone actually takes notice about it and focuses on the clothes. I guess this is what designers actuallly want since if the music is great, everybody will wanna know what is playing and not focus on the designer’s clothes…