Track Listing

1. Northern Lights - Lux
2. Breather 2000 [Arithunda Mix] - Afterlife
3. Whispering Wind - Moby
4. Easy Rider - Deep & Wide
5. Letting the Cables Sleep [the N.O.W. Remix] - Bush
6. Sunbeams - UKO
7. Winter Pageant - Aromabar
8. Beautiful Strange - Bedrock
9. One More Try - New Funky Generation, Joy Rose
10. Swollen - Bent
11. 68 Moves - Underwolves
12. Cahuita - Lakki Patey, Øystein Sevåg
13. Riva - Cathy Battistessa,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43180 in Music
• Released on: 2000-07-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Seventh volume of the popular dance series. 13 tracks including 'Northern Lights'-Lux, 'Breather 2000' (Arithunda Mix)-Afterlife, 'Whispering Wind'-Moby, 'Easy Rider'-Deep & Wide, 'Sunbeams'-UKO, 'Winter Pagent'-Aromabar, 'Beautiful Strange'-Bedrock and 'Swollen'-Bent. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Amazon.com
An oasis of calm amidst the turbo-fueled clubbing tornado that is Ibiza, Café Del Mar is the White Isle's original home of red-eye chill-out vibes and weepy sunset soundtracks. The series of compilations bearing the bar's name, meanwhile, have long patented that authentic sound of Balearic bliss (even claiming Madonna as a huge fan), and this seventh volume maintains the high standards. Founding DJ Jose Padilla may have long moved on, but his successor, DJ Bruno, is clearly well aware of the old adage about not fixing what ain't broke. There's the usual mix of names well known (Moby, Bedrock, Nightmares On Wax) and head-scratchingly obscure (Uko, Lux, Aromabar), but the sound of beautiful music for loved-up and lazy beach bums stays the same. Frankly, this sounds as good at home as it does on the early-morning terraces of San Antonio. --Calvin Bush

Customer Reviews

Drifting and Dreaming
Of all the Cafe Del Mar CDs I have (3,5,6,7 and 8), I enjoy listening to this one the most. Jose Padilla has moved on, but Bruno clearly understands the definition of "chillout".
Lux's opener, Northern Lights, sets the pace, and is followed by a remix Afterlife's Breather 2000. Incidentally, Steve Miller has a hand in both groups, and both reappear on Volume 8. Apart from Northern Lights, Deep & Wide's Easy Rider, and Beautiful Strange by Bedrock are worth mentioning. Among the best tracks is Moby's Whispering Wind, which was later included on the Play b sides. I do not know why it wasn't on Play, because in my opinion, it is better that anything on Play. Nightmares On Wax have done an amazing remix of a song by Bush, Letting The Cables Sleep. Bush are a rock band, similar to Blur and Oasis, but this track fits seamlessly onto the album.
This disc is good after a long day, during an easy day, at any time during the day. You can listen to it, or play it in the background. It's not good if you need some solid music to get your teeth into, but otherwise, it's great.

For fans only (3.5)
In no way I do not mean wrong here, but this cd is well... First as the person before wrote before Jose Padilla is no longer involved in Cafe del Mar projects, for whatever reason his personal touch is not on this cd. The new dj Bruno has skills in this style, he knows the formula and the mood, but his efforts are far beyond reaching what Padilla built for himself along 6 previous cd's. With the evident up's and down's his compilations went on to be an example of Balearic music worldwide, giving the people who could not afford the Ibiza experience for themselves. His style ended up being copy by greedy corporate people that knew the well deserve success of his compilations. Volumen Two and Five have to be my personal favourites and I would recommend them to newcomers to the series. I mean after 6 times hitting gold the concept has done so much for us, that I guess Padilla himself though it was time to move on. I have no complaints for the Art (which features a summer stylish beach catalogue with a couple of models enjoying the good life with plenty of Sun and Sea) Despite a couple of solid tunes, the fact of incorporating Bush (a well respected Rock band from the U.K) in the form of a mix from dowtempo monsters Nightmares on Wax makes you wonder, why, has Balearic music gone rock? If you are an addict of the Cafe del Mar series then buy this cd, you might actually find something new but if you are starting your collection buy 2,3,4,5,6 instead.

Remarkably mediocre, not worthy of the "Cafe del Mar" name
I'm a huge fan of the entire Cafe del Mar series by Jose Padilla. Volume seven, picked up by DJ Bruno after Padilla decided to call it quits, is a tremendous disappointment. It's dull and forgetable, without the surprising, quirky, personal, evocative, and lyrical qualities of volumes one through six -- and it contains some real jarring selections, to boot. It begins wonderfully, with Lux's "Northern Lights," a piece as haunting and mellisonant as anything in the prior volumes. But then it slides into the kind of selection that deeply mars this volume -- Afterlife's "Breather 2000," one of many pieces that feature breathy, feathery, and totally indistinguishable vocals by female singers whose voices dully float over bland melodies. The CD recovers briefly with the Moby piece (which is wonderful, if a little too familiar) and a beautiful, guitar and strings work by Deep & Wide. Then there is one of a number of gaffes, the selection by Bush, which is drastically out of place here or on any Cafe del Mar CD -- it is reminiscent of a heavy metal band trying to do a perfunctory (and trite) ballad. (Another out-of-place piece is the New Funky Generation selection, a noisy, quick-tempoed, Latin-jazz influenced vocal that is quite mediocre by Latin jazz standards.) UKO's "Sunbeams" reflects another unfortunate trend on the CD, an overemphasis on electronic, space-age-sound-inflected music (which was used sparingly -- but effectively -- on the previous volumes). This is followed by a string of undifferentiated lightweight vocalist-driven pieces. (Again, Padilla used vocal selections only occasionally, as simply one of the many different textures and moods his CD's displayed.) Near the close, "Cahuita" provides a brief recovery, with a cut featuring lovely guitar work and a melancholy melody, before ending with yet another female vocalist, singing truly cringe-worthy lyrics. The occasional inspired choices (Lux, Deep & Wide, Oystein Sevag/Lakki Patey) earns two stars. Otherwise, this is strictly a one-star, run-of-the-mill compilation, an unworthy successor to the extraordinary, original, poetic Cafe del Mar series.