Blow-Up's clientele were primarily from the Mod scene and preferred suits and button-downs to colourful acrylic polo-neck sweaters and houndstooth jackets.Įasy listening appealed to older clubbers uninterested in either trainspotting the latest rare groove and funk discoveries or joining the Rave cast of thousands sweating in purpose-built warehouses all over the UK every weekend. Whilst some inhabitants of nights like Smashing, Blow-Up and Indigo's did blaze a trail for an easy listening look it never became widespread enough to catch on nationally. Scene suggests a more widespread and codified group with a uniform look, attitude and taste in music in the manner of Mods, Rockers or Punks. We were going to cocktail stick all our articles under a cocktail umbrella called The 90s Easy Listening Scene but the word ‘scene’ very quickly began to feel awkward.įrom a UK perspective there were a large number of established club nights mixing easy listening into their playlists in and around London in 1994 when style magazines such as ID and The Face first began to notice it but to call it a scene would be a misnomer. We’re curious to trace where the interest in all things easy evolved from in the first place, the impact it had on culture and it’s continuing influence now.
#Easy listening music 90s 2000s series#
It's been twenty years since this revival burst onto the record collecting scene so Forumusic is pulling together a series of articles about it this year under the a banner entitled The 90s Easy Listening Revival. New descriptors materialised in the 90s such as loungecore, ultra-lounge, elevator music, retro-lounge and space age bachelor pad music as major labels, minor labels and bootleggers rushed to find new ways to put a fresh spin on what was essentially a huge rebranding and repackaging exercise for very old music. Googling easy, exotica, bachelor, cocktail, lounge and jet set uncovered a cornucopia of titles as did further searching with words like library, mambo, Muzak, commercials, tiki, TV, groovy and spy. The easy listening revival also left in it's wake a host of lounge blogs catering to afficionados still captivated by the genre. The cd and lp sleeves shown here represent only a fraction of the compilations released from the 1990s onwards and whilst new releases these days are fewer in number they still appear periodically in different guises. There is no denying there was an explosion of interest in easy listening music in the 1990s.
The 90s Easy Listening Revival: Introduction Easy Listening Compilations
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