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HighEnd
The HighEnd Sound: UrbanLoungeSupreme
Organic and melodic downtempo with touches of lounge, dub, salsa and jazz.
$11.50
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| Track Listing |
| 01. |
Slow Roll [4:18] |
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| 02. |
After Traffic [4:50] |
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| 03. |
Shisha [4:15] |
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| 04. |
First Night [4:24] |
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| 05. |
Rough Times [4:41] |
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Call It A Night [4:28] |
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| 07. |
Pickpocket [4:05] |
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| 08. |
Palaver [3:59] |
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| 09. |
Everybody Love [3:54] |
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Detect Mode [5:05] |
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| 11. |
Sometimes ft. Double Down [5:11] |
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| 12. |
Telling Tales [3:54] |
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| Additional Information |
One of the things that LA-based producer Rudy Mangual (AKA HighEnd) has always loved about lounge music from the 50s and 60s was that it seemed able to immediately create a mood in the listener's mind. His modern twist on lounge music called Urban Lounge combines the traditional aspects of lounge music with elements typically reserved for the urban underground. This exciting new sub-genre reflects Mangual's love of Dub music (specifically the work of King Tubby and Lee ?Scratch? Perry) and Hip-Hop, while also highlighting the great Salsa and Jazz from his Latin heritage. Unlike most other ?lounge? records, HighEnd composes a work that shifts gears, styles and moods with each track, without repetitiveness and with originality by the loads...
Opening track, ?Slow Roll,? creates a slow rolling, romantic Latin groove with a sharp edge. ?After Traffic? is a laid back spacey track inspired by La?s hectic traffic. LA folks, this is the soundtrack for the aftermath! With ?Shisha,? HighEnd takes us on a trip to India with a sexy sitar hooka smoker of a track, while ?First Night? is the soundtrack to going to a new club for the first time. ?Call it A Night? is also inspired by a club, but more for the somber time of the night when the club actually closes! ?We reach the centerpiece with ?Rough Times,? a track that has an awesome jazzy prohibition vibe and plays like a classic. The mischievous ?Pickpocket? and ?Palaver? leads into ?Everybody Loves? featuring the mic talents of Oakland's MC Kiwi. It's a song about love, without saying what a million love songs have already said. The Spy movie tension of ?Detect Mode? and The Vegas glitz inspired ?Double Down? leads into the final track ?Telling Tales? with a "old west meets dub? sound.
Los Angeles native Rudy Mangual hails from a family of Puerto Rican artists: His father, a magazine publisher, comes from a long line of musicians and his mother is a painter and gallery owner. Aside from the natural artistic education he received growing up, Mangual also studied Ethnomusicology at U.C. Santa Cruz before attending engineering school. He has spent several years perfecting his craft and this CD marks his first proper artist album. Now sit back and enjoy a one-of-a-kind ride through urban lounge...
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