The Cosmic Lounge presents Trip-Hop Music: ‘Before The Summertime’ by Airlock.
“In 1998, Musicom, (a three piece from Brussels consisting of Pierre Mussche, Ernst Meinrath and Renaud Charlier), began crafting tracks of cool electronic ambience mixed with orchestral hip-hop, as soundtracks for adverts and underground films. Scottish born Esra Tasasiz was working in Brussels at that time writing and composing songs with various Brussels based artists. She joined Musicom and the four decided to work together on recording a short piece of music.
It was during these sessions that it soon became obvious that their creative output worked outside the confines of cinematography and Airlock were formed.
The production of their first album ‘Drystar’ stretched over a period of two-and-a-half-years. During this time Airlock met with cult film director Oliver Van Hoofstadt and wrote some tracks in conjunction with the making of three of his films – Keo, Snuff Movie, and Parabellum. ‘Face Down’ the composition that appeared on Parabellum, finally made its way via European radio stations to the desks of British record labels as part of a demo. After being spoilt for choice, they signed up with One Little Indian on which ‘Drystar’ was released in 2001.
The connection between Airlock and films was kept alive with their work on Roman Coppola’s the “Making of” of CQ. Furthermore, many tracks from ‘Drystar’ were used in films and series such as “CSI”, “CSI Miami”, “As If”, “Model Behaviour”, “5 go dating”, and more.
Airlock began work on their second album. The album was completed in October however, before they had played the album to anybody, all of the masters were destroyed in a studio fire. Airlock had to re-record the entire album! Whilst the studio was being rebuilt, the band decided to write some new songs for the album and worked in an improvised studio with minimal equipment. Though they had to change their working habits by that (the band considered this as a positive challenge), it also gave them the opportunity to concentrate more on the writing itself.
The new album ‘Symptomatic’ has elements of tension, naivety, strength, conviction, vulnerability and freedom.
Compared to their debut with its various musical directions, ‘Symptomatic’ is more coherent. There are less instrumental tracks and warm sounds of analog synths are used on all tracks. The content of the album however, deals with a mixture of emotions, experiences and expressions (or symptoms…) resulting from the issues Airlock had to face.”
http://www.last.fm/music/Airlock
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He will until it get’s scary, and even then he’ll keep posting!
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i’ll buy this cd i hope find it on mixup on soundtracks section 
oh yees! this is exactly my favorite kind of musik
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thanks for posting. I’m subscribing!
been a portishead fan forever, but today I have discovered a wealth of music!
please keep posting artists such as these!
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very nice vocal ,nice to with this music
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and my name is Bushynajma2 and on 5:35 ill be in the forest!
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Pure awsomeness =P
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i listend to this when i was stoned..
IT FREE’D MY MIND.
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pure bliss
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_____Oh yeah… That music is so-o-o good. It’s so good that I think people will dip into their favorite pharmeceuticals just to get the most out of it. I know, the 60′s are over. Now the people who were in the 1960s are in their 60s. They’ll still get a kick out of this sort of stuff. Or rather, they’ll get a TRIP out of it. Tune this in while smoking whatever the caterpillar’s got in his hookah. Just puff-f-f-f…
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very smooth and dreamy ilike it much
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Ah, this is just perfect. Just set this up with the rest of the songs on a hi-fi stereo system. Then head along and do your choirs. Excellent background and chilling music! many thanks Profeshian!
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This is the best song in your repertoire!
That’s what I call “lounge”^^
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i´m from Brasil and…..i like this songs…coooool….and…thanks