Tagging it as "jazz" makes sense, though. Conventional wisdom these days is that only hipsters can be into "ambient," but babies can't be hipsters because they're not old enough to grow facial hair.
- Featuring the following: Beat Presley
Elvis Elton
John Zeppelin
Floyd Bieber
Lady Gees
Bruno Springsteen
Houston Dion
Queen Madonna
Mariah Lennon
Leonard Bowie
Britney McCartney
Joel West
Kanye Eminem
Frank Collins
Phil Sinatra
Jackson Carey
Bruce Mars
Led Justin
Bee Gaga
Billy Swift
Julio Spears
Rod Iglesias
Stewart Collins
David Cohen
Taylor Brooks
There are many contenders for this prestigious title amongst this week's jazz releases from emusic. I gave up counting Halloween albums when I reached 24. IMO everyone of those would be a candidate.
We're not seeing those Halloween selections yet - something to look forward to!
I am forming a theory where these "ambient jazz lounge", etc, compilations are geared to pick up on Spotify search terms used by people looking for background music. All the music is royalty-free; therefore whatever pennies you earn are free of overhead. Haven't yet worked out the part of the theory where you get onto the streaming services at low or no cost...
These days if you try to search emusic by genre and look for ambient music you get an impressive collection of the worst albums in the history of the world. (By taking ambient out of electronic and lumping it with New Age and "instrumental" they have guaranteed that you mostly get endless pages of "relax noises for Yoga" with the occasional instrumental metal album, and none of what I think of under ambient music.)
Well, that's not entirely fair - most of these fluffbucket-lounge and "smooth jazz for restaurants" albums are also available on Amazon and iTunes too (though for slightly-higher prices). In the past, those sites did what eMusic didn't do, namely curate new-release listings in order to keep stuff like this off their home page, hidden away so that you had to explicitly search for them. But eMusic is doing that now, right? So if anything, eMusic has gotten better about this. These records are more of a sad reflection on what music in general has become, rather than eMusic specifically, but even then, there have always been albums like these. And the only reason there are more of them now is because the combination of laptop DAWs and the internet makes them ridiculously cheap/easy to produce and distribute. I shall remove myself from the soapbox now.
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Best White Noise For Baby Sleep - Loopable With No Fade
With super-cute, royalty-free baby:
- Sorry . . .
Includes a single smooth jazz tune, running time 1:12, also titled "Passing Wind." Yeah, I know, grow up...
- Featuring the following:
Beat Presley
Elvis Elton
John Zeppelin
Floyd Bieber
Lady Gees
Bruno Springsteen
Houston Dion
Queen Madonna
Mariah Lennon
Leonard Bowie
Britney McCartney
Joel West
Kanye Eminem
Frank Collins
Phil Sinatra
Jackson Carey
Bruce Mars
Led Justin
Bee Gaga
Billy Swift
Julio Spears
Rod Iglesias
Stewart Collins
David Cohen
Taylor Brooks
My Goodness !
"New Restaurant Music – Ambient Jazz, Smooth Jazz for Cafe & Restaurant, Relax"
Much-anticipated new album from the prestigious "Luxurious Relaxation Zone" label...One of the fine Jazz new releases on eMusic this week
I am forming a theory where these "ambient jazz lounge", etc, compilations are geared to pick up on Spotify search terms used by people looking for background music. All the music is royalty-free; therefore whatever pennies you earn are free of overhead. Haven't yet worked out the part of the theory where you get onto the streaming services at low or no cost...
- Not as bad as it looks . . .
I almost recommend listening to a couple of the samples. Hard to characterize what's going on with that keyboard
Compare and contrast: Gregory Porter's fine album of a couple of years ago...
...New from our fiends at Rehegoo USA
OK, they are just baiting me now. Note track titles...I haven't had the nerve to listen to the samples yet.
PS, can't upload images from the forum for some reason...Had to upload and link to imgur
My two cents worth of logic tells me that it is meant to work, but something went wrong in the upgrade process.
These records are more of a sad reflection on what music in general has become, rather than eMusic specifically, but even then, there have always been albums like these. And the only reason there are more of them now is because the combination of laptop DAWs and the internet makes them ridiculously cheap/easy to produce and distribute.
I shall remove myself from the soapbox now.