Buddha Bar 6

3CD set. To finish the year with style, Buddha-Bar launches a collection full of promises. The deep house and downtempo music has evolved a lot these last months and years and it makes our ears feels better. Intense basses, hypnotizing and shamanic beats dotted with traditional Armenian, Russian or Moroccan instruments… this new deep scene seduces the new generations of clubbers and takes over EDM. A booming phenomenon, a desire to live free, far from the tumult and stress imposed by the present society… an ideocracy that grows and takes all it's meaning during one of the most incredible festival: Burning Man. Who better than Buddha-Bar, the precursor of this musical philosophy to embrace this new culture and help it grow…

The Buddha Bar series has become a band name by now, and Buddha Bar, Vol. 4 does nothing to break the new tradition. Compiled by David Visan, the two-CD set is divided into "Dinner" and "Drink." The former is definitely music for the consumption of comestibles, pleasant and polite with exotic touches of world music, like Nitin Sawhney's "Moonrise" or Gotan Project's revolution of the tango with "Una Musical Brutal," but they're the mildest examples of the artists' output, never pushing themselves forward, but providing a backdrop for food and civilized conversation. "Drink" fares a little better, but has traces of anonymity - Time Passing with "Party People," for example, or Chris Spheeris and "Dancing With The Muse" could both come from a modern TV ad - although its less afraid of imposing itself…

DJ Ravin takes the wheel behind Buddha Bar III, the namesake compilation from Paris's answer to Studio 54. Ravin forgoes the Dinner/Party division that Claude Challe opted for on previous installments of the series, and instead casts Dream versus Joy on this two-disc set. Dream, leaning on the traditional (syrupy Greek strings, Japanese bamboo flutes, Persian harmonists) and New Age Enigma/Deep Forest side of things (Oliver Shanti & Friends, Vangelis engineer Frederick Rousseau) is frankly too restless to be truly dreamy. The frenzied run through so many styles, seemingly solely for the sake of diversity alone, ultimately feels about as sincerely global as a mad dash through Disney's Epcot Center. The second CD in the set, Joy, pays a tad more attention to a general vibe, resulting in a much better overall effect…

Buddha-Bar meets French Kitchen & Friends, a French recipe, prepared with love.
For the first time since its creation, George V Records has teamed up with another Parisian label. And not just any, as we are talking about French Kitchen, the creator of the famous "Cocobeach", "Aum" and "Story" parties. In this project, Sam Popat (resident DJ of the Buddha-Bar Paris) slums on a double album with Sucré Salé (Cocobeach), Animal & Me (Story) and Popof, a legend of Electronic music (Founder of the Heretik sound system). On the first CD, pour only remixes from the Buddha-Bar catalog, prepared by Popof and his associates. Added a second cd home made with unpublished titles and carefully selected by French Kitchen & Buddha-Bar…