Coming Home
compiled by Nouvelle Vague
CD
Release date: Out now!

Nouvelle Vague is the exceptionally successful project of French music producers Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin. Their unusual and charming rearrangments of various new wave and post-punk classics has become a classic itself.

Accordingly, Libaux and Collin have, with help from their singers (among others Melanie Pain, Gerald Toto), bared the heart and soul of songs by Joy Division, The Clash or Blondie and translated them into chanson and bossa nova spheres on their last two albums. For the second part of the “Coming Home” compilation, they have come up with a special concept, which is a credit to its name that also refers to the French film genre: “Coming Home” compiles 20 pieces that are all taken from movie soundtracks.

Nouvelle Vague introduces the remotely obscure and strange as well as the obviously glamorous grand gesture. They do so simply as a matter-of-course, a circumstance which is definitely based on qualitative substance and the protagonist’s long experience. As a matter of fact, a –and again- classic of classics like this one can’t simply be compiled by the way. Especially film music has a tough act to follow, because on the one hand it seems familiar, and on the other hand it also has to prove itself without visual backing.

With this “Coming Home” episode, Nouvelle Vague accomplish the rare feat of creating their own oevre from compositions of most diverse masters from various decades in a homogeneous context that, with all due respect to originals and a cautious approach, always knows exactly how the dramaturgy of their own mind-movie works. Chapeau!

Coming Home
compiled & mixed by Tim Love Lee
CD
Release date: xx.xx.2007

It's truly absurd that a genre born as the lovechild of the freedom of sampling technology and a musically open mind ten years ago has to suffer critics' slander, senseless labelling or ultimately being written off, while its numerous listeners are more than not interested in if the sound they love is currently being called Downbeat, Trip Hop, Easy Listening, Abstract HipHop, Freestyle, House or whatever. At the end of the day, it's about a good vibe and something undefinable. You can only feel it.

Tim 'Love' Lee is a true master of drastically, hedonistically laid back vibes, be they slow or fast. This stylistically at ease hippie (if there is such a thing) has always been ahead of his time. After a short sunny stint as Hammond player with Katrina and The Waves at the end of the 80s, he started producing what has since amounted to quite a repertoire of well-tempered (in both senses of the word) bouncing music, rocking living room and dancefloor alike: remixes for artists such as Shantel, Gus Gus or Soul Wax, two groundbreaking albums of his own ("Confessions Of A Selector", "The Continuing Confessions Of Tim 'Love' Lee"), and records by Groove Armada, Tom Vek, Crazy Girl and others, which he released on his label Tummy Touch, (...) founded in 1996. Everything flourished in Tim 'Love' Lee's uncomplicated world of sound of joy and pleasure without ever missing the crucial bite. His own tracks, which even in the early days bridged over to psyched-out folk sounds, can mainly be distinguished by finding their salvation in simple, yet irresistible bass runs, nonchalant hooks ( ) and high-rising bedrocks of beat, whilst avoiding small-time and loin-lame programming orgies. And even though his last year album was called “Against Nature” and struck saturnine notes, Tim 'Love' Lee is the last to be found tuning against his own. Au contraire: Lee was sporting a dapper moustache in a time when Franz Ferdinand thought that to be a sportscar brand.

For “Coming Home” he has now collected 18 of his all-time favourite tracks. This remarkably homogenous mixture breathes the special 'Love' vibe of the unpretentious Brit, not by compulsively dragging out the obscure, but by masterfully bringing together intertwining tracks by (amongst others) Dub Syndicate, As One, Thomas Fehlmann/Gudrun Gut, The White Sport and Jammin Unit. We hear Dub bass seesawing next to Bossa Nova, circling ambient beats, whilst a Tango sample muscles its way onto the dancefloor, where crooked synths ( ) linger and barenaked bongos illuminate the night on wonderful songlines in the glow of low-lying mirror balls.

Thus, “Coming Home” is not only the showcase of a truly reliable gigolo (if there is such a thing) making everybody perfectly happy, but also a casual demonstration to all formalists and know-it-alls that there's one thing you need for good music: the love of it.

Coming Home II
"warming up your living area"
CD SD 080-2
Release Date: 25.03.02

Coming Home I
CD SD 050

… and it feels like COMING HOME again!

What does your life sound like? We here at Stereo Deluxe, as our company name suggests, have been instrumental in supplyin`you with the finest in-sounds from way-out. This time we`re takin` it a step further.
Tell us, what do you do, when youre coming home from work, college or a party, tired, eventually too uptight to go to sleep, wandering around, chillin’, surfin on your sofa, hangin´ about? Our sound-couture labs have dug deep and came up with a perfect solution, just taylor-made for your needs:
COMING HOME, music to dress houses by, refurbish rooms, warming up your living areas.

Kitchen music? Attic sounds? Bedroom rockers? Sound-furniture!
And if you know us, you know what to expect. Your flat never looked so hip for the price of a cd. A musique d`ameublement like the old Satie was thinking of. Inflatable tonal atmospheres.

No boring wallpaper or ambient drones, active, vibrant, groovy stuff for all your domestic interests: from swingy dish washing to funky vacuum cleaning, hackin the net Latin style, plundering your fridge the housey way. And not to forget, toilettin’ away with heavenly downtempo freedom. We all got it here…
Compiled by DJ Oli Roesch, an expert in acoustic bionautics, who already brought you modern house hold favourites like the future lounge and slow mo compilations.

Music to have a shower by, leap into horizontal dancin, do your love thang and leaving the f***in` telly switched off … or for christ`s sake, turn it on and create your own soundtrack for ... COMING HOME!

COMING HOME not only feels fantastic and sounds good, it also looks great!