| Cafe del Mar, Vol. 5 | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Fontana Mca
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (45 reviews)
Sales Rank: 33428
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 565228
UPC: 731456522821
EAN: 0731456522821
ASIN: B00000B98T
Release Date: August 2, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Mumbai Theme Tune - Rahman, A.R. | | • | More Than Ever People - Levitation | | • | Appreciation - Floyd, Doc | | • | Paradise - Cheung, Gavin | | • | Penelope - Maggiorana, Sebasti | | • | Tout Est Bleu - Hospital, E. | | • | Uschi's Groove - House, D. | | • | Lubumba '98 - Frost | | • | Face a la Mer - Mellino | | • | Talking With Myself '98 - Martin, B.R. | | • | Pojo Pojo - Opacic | | • | Transfatty Acid - Barlow, A. | | • | Angels Landing - Salt Tank | | • | Mani - Fernandez, Paco | | • | Close Cover - Mertens, Wim |
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Album Description
Fifth in the extremely popular dance compilation series. Compiled by Jose Padilla. 15 tracks from such artists as Levitation, Ame Strong, The Ballistic Brothers, Les Negresses Vertes and Lamb. 1998 release. Standard jewel case.
Amazon.com
Cafe Del Mar's Volume 5 (recently released for the first time in the U.S.) oozes warm, fuzzy, and thoroughly provocative trip-hop laced tuneage sans the shadow of conventional electronica. As is the way with the Del Mar catalog, a true gem sits amid the collection waiting to be discovered. In this case, it is the superb "Les Negresses Vertes" from Face a la Mer (a.k.a. a Nick Warren project from the early 1990s) given a thoroughly good dubbing by the great Massive Attack. Only the KLF-like spatial dreamweaving of Lamb's "Transfatty Acid (Kruder & Dorfmeister remix edit)" comes close to bettering it. Elsewhere, Levitation's "More Than Ever People" is pure orange sunsets on shimmering waves, the warmth of its backbeat adding sensuality, while the retro-disco of French act Ame Strong's "Tout Est Bleu" has the rounded curves of bottom-end as opposed to the sharpened corner of dancefloor disco. Overall, the way to enjoy Volume 5 is to adhere to cliche No. 177 (the sum is stronger than individual parts), dim the lights, find some romantic company, and let the music do the talking. --Steffan Chirazi
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| Customer Reviews: Read 40 more reviews...
 It May Be Volume 5, But it's Not Worth 5 Stars July 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ambient Compilations are far too common nowadays. Very easy to collect an album's worth of tracks at any given time thanks to the thriving Ibiza music scene (where Cafe del Mar lives). So what makes a great album different from an OK album. Generally just track selection, but a great album is usually mixed which none of the Cafe del Mar compilations are. Regardless they do put out some decent ambient/chillout albums, and after collecting a few, one can make their own favorite chillout mix.
This is the fifth installment of the still going strong series. Not bad, but not great. I can't consider any of the tracks as phenomenal, but I do think there are a couple of duds. "Tout Est Bleu" [Original Ame Strong S.A. Remix] and "Talking With Myself" '98 [Canny Remix] receive the dud awards for this album.
3/5 stars.
Not Bad July 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Volume 5 isn't a bad mix, but is definitely not the finest of the Cafe Del Mar series. Volumes 4, 6 and 7 are far more relaxing and have better flow than this volume. Nonetheless, not bad for background music if you are entertaining and not intently listening to the album.
 Chill May 12, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bought this on a whim, actually it was one of the suggested picks from amazon. I put it on but never really listen to it. Definitely background music. Its got like weird orchestral and indian stuff going on, but its good. I like Talk with Myself.
the series did get abit tired... June 5, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of my favourite tracks ever from the series is the last track on Volumen Ocho, Plum Crazy by Celestial. And if you like that sound, then you'll love the albums from Hong Kong's Celestial. Check them out, they are titled:
Hong Kong Dub Station
Happy Valley
Spirit House
it's a deeper dubbier sound that most of Cafe Del Mar, more real instruments, and more space...
 My favorite Cafe del Mar so far! January 6, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not sure if I can articulate how amazing this cd is. It really grooves and flows. The beats are more lively than some of the other volumes, but this is exactly what I have been looking for! The other Cafe del Mar's have taken a few listens before I really liked it, but I got into this one immediately. I try to work while listening to this and all of sudden I just get caught up in the grooves and forget about work. I am also a big fan of volume 7, but volume 5 doesn't have the prominent vocals of v.7 (not that either is bad or good- they are just different).
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