Little Buddha

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…

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…