Lounge music

As lounge music or just lounge different musical styles are referred to, which are suitable for the background music in bars and lounges, and usually have a relaxing character.

Lounge is a collective term

Lounge music is not a genre designation, but a collective term repeatedly used by the music industry different styles. Lounge music includes both electronic and acoustic music styles. The spectrum ranges from electronic versions ( from Ambient and Trip Hop, on quieter forms of play of the House, and mixed forms such as Acid Jazz, Nu Jazz and the newer Electro Tango) to older styles such as jazz and easy listening. In recent, the lounge music associated genres there are many elements of traditional regional styles of music, such as rhythms or typical vocals from the Latin American and African music.

Lounge - wave of the early 2000s

Today it links the notion especially with the recent Lounge wave that was triggered by the music industry in the early 2000s. Slower electronic styles had become fairly popular at the time, so it should prove to be lucrative for record companies to bring a number of compilations under that name or position on the market.