Essentially, cheesy, greasy-sounding 70s Eurosleaze and romantic.
Serge Gainsbourg, Lee Hazelwood, disco ballads from Spain, Italian soundtracks, wherever. Or just post your favorite Gainsbourg jams. Stuff you'd imagined playing in some forgotten, faded 1970s French movie during a romantic scene on a beach. The sleazier and more Euro the better.
I guess I just want lots of cheese, and haze, and conjurings up of images from old romance/porn movies from the 60s/70s/80s. And lots of strings and maybe some funky bass. But the occasional guitar ballad can fall in here if it has that certain atmosphere. Which I think comes down to what 40 somethings were listening to during this period. People who go to Vegas and take cruises.
Carpenters too, on the more wholesome (but still very sad) side of this.
I mean it has elements that you can find in other things - that kind of Serge-y french 60s pop, the groovy elements - but it has that cool kind of clockworky take on this sound of futurity.
the thing that springs to mind was something I remember on Sesame Street - I'm a bit older so these were the musical shorts they'd play that were made in the 70s or 80s, and I remember some stuff that kind of sounded like that. kind of funky and trippy and maybe suggesting a lot of activity and thought.
I wish I could remember which song exactly reminded me of that one.
Sebastian Russell
I don't have anything to contribute, but golden thread, thx to OP and all contributers
Parker Myers
Pls, can someone recommend more songs with sultry basslines like this?
I'm actually considering starting a general for sharing stuff like this. Maybe called /aesthetic/ or /vibe/ or something.
Like, a thread for digging up and sharing any kind of rare stuff (or newer stuff) that's really vibey, atmospheric, aesthetic, whatever. Could be any kind of obscure foreign disco, corporate music, minimalism, New Age tapes, fusion, Middle Eastern psychedelia, atmospheric soundtracks, whatever has that certain kind of magic to it.
I guess the way to look at it is that this approach would be like doing what Vaporwave, or Chillwave, etc, is a cheap copy of... exploring vibe and style, but unlike with the vaporwave meme, not getting too stuck on one cliched formula only but exploring other aesthetics too. Which all the good experimental musicians do already.
Jason Mitchell
The bass in that, rhythm-wise, actually reminds me more of like New Jack Swing or even later 90s RnB. Just start looking up classic 90s RnB stuff and you'll hear a lot of bass that sounds like that. A lot of good shit.
Joseph Jackson
I don't think I posted this in this thread yet, because it wasn't exactly with the whole Eurosleaze theme, but as far as just cool aesthetics, this one is great:
You have the plans and you have a concept. start this shit, I would appreciate it and contribute whenever I can. Just be careful to not get too specific, since popular threads got popular, because enough people had something to contribute to it.
Isaiah Hernandez
Thanks, yeah think I'll really do it. Yea it'll be pretty open actually, things would just have to be aesthetic or dreamy or have a really cool trippy sense of style. It could also be a place to discuss new experimental stuff too.
I think I'll call the new thread /aesthetic/ since a lot of people know what I mean by that (as in A E S T H E T I C ... but not in the really cliched way)
I'd appreciate it too because I always want new stuff to listen to like this when I make art. Good background music that's weird enough to get your mind going into interesting places.
Yeah it definitely has that rhythm in it. Composers at that time were definitely still drawing from older lounge and bossa type sounds... Henry Mancini etc, in addition to getting into that funkier, 'groovier' sound... like a lot of Morricone's 70s stuff, or Alain Goraguer, who was the arranger for Serge Gainsbourg:
Yeah, I meant to post something from that album in here.
Jayden Wright
got this film on my watch list so don't want to spoil the soundtrack rip
Colton Gutierrez
OP here. Well, off to bed.
Might start the first /aesthetic/ thread tomorrow... it's not something I'd be able to stay around online and do all the time, but I'd like to get something like that going here to some extent because I want a place to swap rare tracks when I'm at home.