Hôtel Costes, Vol. 7: Sept is a downtempo/lounge album compiled and mixed by Stéphane Pompougnac

Stéphane Pompougnac

Stéphane Pompougnac is a French house DJ, and also a musician, composer and producer. He is famous for mixing the Hôtel Costes series - a series of compilations of downtempo style tracks.-Biography:...

, resident DJ of the Parisian cafe/restaurant Hôtel Costes

Hôtel Costes

The Hôtel Costes is a famous hotel in Paris, France. Located in 239 rue St-Honoré, it is perhaps best known for its bar and courtyard café.The hotel was commissioned by the Costes brothers to the designer and architect Jacques Garcia in 1991...

. Volume seven carries on Pompougnac's tradition of mixing R'n'B and electronic music with various styles, for example in the remix of Simon and Garfunkel

Simon and Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel are an American duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the...

's "The Sounds of Silence".

Morten Varano, who appears here as part of Slow Train Soul, later joins Pompougnac as a co-writer and singer on his 2007 album Hello Mademoiselle.

Track listing

1. "Lavish" (Deadbeats Remix) - Mark Rae
   Mark Rae
   Mark Rae, born in Ashington, Northumberland, England, is the head of the highly revered independent record label Grand Central Records and one half of DJ and production duo Rae & Christian.-Grand Central and Rae & Christian:...
   
   
2. "Brazilian Hipster" - Fort Knox Five
   Fort Knox Five
   Fort Knox Five is a Washington, D.C.-based recording artist consisting of Steve Raskin, Jon Horvath, Rob Myers, and Sid Barcelona. They have released their music on their own independent label Fort Knox Recordings...
   
   
3. "Work That Body" - Rodney Hunter
4. "Clive the Runner" - Bobby Hughes Combination
5. "Addicted" - Only Child
   Only child
   An only child is a person with no siblings, either biological or adopted. In a family with multiple offspring, first-borns, may be briefly considered only children and have a similar early family environment, but the term only child is generally applied only to those individuals who never have...
   
   
6. "Hip Hip Chin Chin" (Yaziko Club Mix) - Club des Belugas
7. "Palumbo" - Watch TV
8. "S.O.S. (The Sounds of Silence)
   The Sound of Silence
   "The Sound of Silence" is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel to popularity. It was written in February 1964 by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. An initial version preferred by the band was remixed and sweetened, and has become...
   
   " - Trinity FM
9. "Trail of Dawn" (Varano's Hotel of Dawn Remix) - Slow Train Soul
10. "So Ma Guisee" - Mo'Horizons
11. "Don't Stop" (Dublex Inc. Remix) - Dolphin Boy
12. "Please Don't Leave" (the Essential Mix) - Paolo Fedreghini
13. "Tone 10" - Takumi Kato
14. "Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'En Vais" - Claude Monnet presents Monica Nogueira
15. "Sunday Driver" - The Limp Twins
16. "Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes" - Thievery Corporation
    Thievery Corporation
    Thievery Corporation is a Washington, D.C. based recording artist and DJ duo consisting of Rob Garza, Eric Hilton, and their supporting artists, including current drummer Jeff Franca...
    
     featuring Emilíana Torrini
    Emilíana Torrini
    Emilíana Torrini Davíðsdóttir is an Icelandic singer, best known for her 2009 single Jungle Drum, 1999 album Love in the Time of Science and for performing "Gollum's Song" for Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.-Early life:Torrini grew up in Kópavogur, where, at the age of...