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Aromabar — Velvet Nights
Album: 1!
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6.6

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Total ratings: 1108









Released: 1999
Length: 5:15
Plays (last 30 days): 2
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I've mixed us up a couple of rusty nails...sparking some Granola Funk... I think we'll just CHILL here for a bit...
Drumming reminds me of the Bad Plus. Very cool!
If the album name is 1!  Should I give it a 1? Or is that an 11?  
Very nice, very Hooverphonic
Interesting to hear this: I thought for a moment that The Midnight Revolution had broken through (some nice live stuff on KEXP). Very nice!
 MrSpaz wrote:

1! = 1 Hmm. There's only one way to do it, I guess?


Upside down the album title could be   -   iL  
About Aromabar from discogs.com
https://www.discogs.com/artist...

"Vienna trio Aromabar consisting of Roland Hackl, Karin Steger and Andreas Kinzl alias Deejay Scott, proves that it is possible to blur the boundaries between pop and modern electronic music with utmost elegance and esprit. Doing so they minted the expression Pop Couture, the search for moments of everlasting beauty. Pop couture means creating music which is more than the sum of its parts.

Aromabar debuted on the INFRACom! compilation "Fast Forward" with "Telephone", which used to turn up in the playlists of Coldcut and Rockers Hifi.

Their debut "1" caused furore and their track "Winter Pageant" was included in numerous lounge compilations. "Winter Pageant" also appearing on Cafe del Mar No 7 (sold 250.000 copies). "1" also features the track "Little Brother", which was remixed by Mo?Horizons and Vienna Scientist and notched the German Top Ten Clubcharts in September 1999. The video for "Little Brother" rotated on MTV, VIVA and VIVA2 for several weeks.

In 2000 Aromabar released the ultimate summertrack "Sweetness of Joy", in the same year "Sparkling Beauty" won the first MTV-I-Clip Award.

The following album “Milk and Honey”, released in 2001, included more pop tunes and could follow the succses of their debut album with the video clip "Father" which was broadcasted on several tv music channels.

Now the sound of the trio comes to perfection on "Things Got To Change" "pop, folk," Aromabar oscillates in between the musical worlds sputtering sparks. Genre convention? Not interested. Fat hip-hop beats are on equal footings with acoustic guitars or subtle Fender Rhodes piano sounds Aromabar combine different genres at playful ease in order to create a new whole with a shiny surface but still with edges. "We produce songs, not tracks." says style master DJ Scott who adds the final touch to the songs together with producer Roland Hackl. Especially thanks to the lyrics written mainly by vocalist Karin Steger, the elegant sound sculptures differ strongly from the club sounds appealing to the masses.

No matter whether it is a melancholic love story, subtle criticism of the society or capitalism "..the lyrics are always driven by an optimistic prevailing mood. We are too old for music without a message." the trio says jokingly.

Guest vocalists Big John Whitfield, Nappy G and Pollard Berrier add more than just additional shades to the smooth voice of Karin Steger. The vocalists? personalities turn the latest album "Things Got To Change" into a complex and diversified album with an astonishingly wide range, making the listener reflective and happy, melancholic and excited all at once.

Aromabar know about their strengths taking advantage of them with relaxed dreaminess and an astonishing competent handling of their sounds, thus expressing a completely new musical language. Roland Hackl says: "It is not until you adopt music for 100% that it becomes authentic, unpretentious and therefore interesting"
Some enjoy Nights in Velvet while others prefer Nights in White Satin.
I like the note on Wikipedia asking for a contributor to write a profile:

 "Pretty much any artist played on RP is worthy of a Wikipedia entry."
 Proclivities wrote:
Nice groove.
{#Chillpill}  
shag
 
Currently waiting for Shag print to be delivered. A big one 48" x 29".
this is so jazzy early 2000s. the groove is heavily drinkable. so im drinking...go ahead. sip.sip.sip...
 Proclivities wrote:
Nice groove.
{#Chillpill}  
shag
 
SHAG!!!!!  
Love the  
 LaurieinTucson wrote:

where's the martini?
 
She's waiting for him to bring it over from the wet bar.
 Proclivities wrote:
Nice groove.
{#Chillpill}  
shag
 
Nice Shag print. Yours? I have five of them.
 Proclivities wrote:
Nice groove.
{#Chillpill}  
shag
 
where's the martini?
Info and discography about Aromabar on discogs
Schon wieder der Peter aus dem Kindergarten
Schon wieder Kindergarten!!!!!!  {#Frustrated}
 Proclivities wrote: so Shag...

Nice groove.
{#Chillpill}  
shag
 

 Proclivities wrote:
Nice groove.
{#Chillpill} 
shag

  pretty art Proclivities
looks like Natasha's blonde cousin wearing sunglasses in her floating stereo-egg, way groovey
...cannot hear the aroma either maybe I'll youtube them  : )
 Skydog wrote:

the "NEW:Beta Website/Player" is working

 
What to do to those who use the "smart radio" or naim audio devices?
 a_genuine_find wrote:
Started around 22:00
At 02:00 Still Frozen 

 
the "NEW:Beta Website/Player" is working
Started around 22:00
At 02:00 Still Frozen 
 Der_Hamburger wrote:

Thx!{#Smile}

 
Hamburg! You're welcome!
 a_genuine_find wrote:
How long has the site been locked up?
BTW - PSD still works 

 
Thx!{#Smile}
How long has the site been locked up?
BTW - PSD still works 
 branislavmikic wrote:
This song is dead

 



Stuck here as well. No sound...

I don't know if this track is good or not, because it seems to have broken RP.  Only PSD is working...
Bereft of life, it rests in peace!
This song is dead
 pxd wrote:
Same here (London Weds 29 March 2017). pxd

 
I just realized that they put their automatic time zone. I'm in Croatia, it's 29/03/17, 09:22 in the morning and I've been friends with the PSD button for about an hour now {#Cheesygrin}
Same here (London Weds 29 March 2017). pxd
I don't know what's going on, but this song has been on for more than half an hour and it is mute :-/
grand and beautiful
 plutodazed wrote:
Intersting but uninspiring.
 
Yep, what I thought.  Nice backing track it sounds recycled.
Nice groove.
{#Chillpill}  
shag
 SillyForever wrote:
I'm in a cloud... sand grains flowing through my fingers... I can feel the breeze on my face and the gentle waves...  

 
Then Jim Morrison appears, and makes you a nice cold drink with an umbrella in {#Sunny}
I'm in a cloud... sand grains flowing through my fingers... I can feel the breeze on my face and the gentle waves...  
 LawrenceSheppard wrote:
I don't know, but I think you need something special to smoke to enjoy this.
 


I've never touched the stuff (no, seriously), but I love this tune. It reminds me of something that I can't put my finger on right now...
Mmmmmm - yum!
...just intriguing enough to catch my attention - echoes of laurie anderson's blue lagoon...




love it!{#Roflol}
Haha.. is that why i totally enjoyed this song just now..?
I don't know, but I think you need something special to smoke to enjoy this.
Nice
Sounds a lot like Air....
loved it
Well said Forge!!! This track is another example of why I listen to Radio Paradise. How can anyone criticise when all they know is commercial radio... Al
jgeyer wrote:
Aromabar eh? This song gives off an aroma that leads me to believe this Aromabar can only be brown.
Gotta agree. This is the first 2 I have given to an RP song in a long time.
Very nice!
Hidden gem, January 16, 2002 Reviewer: Takis Tz. (Germany) These little known German artists have come up with the goods here. For those that like their electronica/triphop with an eclectic taste this wil be very satisfactory. The beats are bonding with cool sometimes athereal sometimes downright trippy melodies to produce music you wanna escape to. Female vocals enter the picture and give it that extra sexy touch. Get this one, you'll have a great album and one very few people own.
From Amazon.com
Nice
jgeyer wrote:
Aromabar eh? This song gives off an aroma that leads me to believe this Aromabar can only be brown.
Well, then please be our guest and go listen to a Clear Channel "Classic Rock" station, which probably has more of the overplayed horse crap you prefer. (click here) (Uh, sorry - just getting a little tired of all the criticism...)
jgeyer wrote:
Aromabar eh? This song gives off an aroma that leads me to believe this Aromabar can only be brown.
Why even listen to a radio station like this if you actually don't like the type of music played? Maybe classic rock is more for you?
Aromabar eh? This song gives off an aroma that leads me to believe this Aromabar can only be brown.
Bored me to tears and that is hard to do
7!
Goes from 8 to 9 for me...
Intersting but uninspiring.
Yes, drumming has quite a bit of syncopation. Man or machine...it's good drumming.
There are some deft touches in the drum program. Not a bad tune.
Who are these guys?...sexy voice...hmm \:D/
Actually, the more I'm listening to this, that sounds like acoustic (or at least played by a person) precussion, and it's absolutely delicious!
RichardPrins wrote:
8) I thought the name sounded familiar. Another song of theirs is on the Café del Mar series...
just a random tid-bit- i noticed you change your location alot....i think we both spend to much time on the computer!
I don't know if that precussion is real or sequenced, but it sounds REALLY cool!
1! = 1 Hmm. There's only one way to do it, I guess?
8) I thought the name sounded familiar. Another song of theirs is on the Café del Mar series...