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Short guides to the music we play: where it comes from, what it sounds like, which records to start with, and where you can hear it on POP LOUNGE CAFE.

A panoramic lounge with low sofas facing a glass wall and the sea at sunsetLoungeWhat is lounge music?Lounge music is less a single genre than a mood: unhurried, melodic, often instrumental music designed to evoke a place or atmosphere.A cliff-top terrace with rows of empty chairs facing the sun setting over the seaChilloutWhat is chillout music?Chillout music is a loose family of slow, atmospheric electronic music, usually below 120 BPM, designed for listening and unwinding rather than peak-time dancing.A beach club dancefloor at blue hour with string lights, palms and footprints in the sandDeep HouseWhat is deep house music?Deep house is a subgenre of house music that emerged in Chicago in the mid-1980s, fusing house rhythms with the chords of jazz-funk and the warmth of soul and gospel.A sea of clouds at sunrise seen from a rocky mountain topAmbientWhat is ambient music?Ambient music is a genre of atmospheric, usually instrumental music that prioritises tone, texture and mood over beat and melodic development.A modular synthesizer on a wooden desk by an open window at night, the sea and stars outsideElectronicWhat is electronic music?Electronic music is music made or shaped with electronic technology: tape editing, oscillators, synthesizers, drum machines and computers.A brutalist concrete pavilion by the sea at night with a warm line of light along the wallTechnoWhat is techno music?Techno is electronic dance music that began in Detroit in the mid-1980s and became globally popular in the 1990s.A vintage jukebox on a sunlit Mediterranean terrace with bougainvillea and stacked vinyl recordsPopWhat is lounge pop?Lounge pop is popular music reimagined in a relaxed setting: well-known pop, rock and new wave songs rearranged as bossa nova, swing, jazz or chillout.Hand drums and a lute on a rug on a rooftop terrace at dusk, lanterns and minarets in the distanceWorld BeatWhat is world beat?Worldbeat is music that blends pop, rock or electronic production with traditional and regional styles from around the world, such as Afrobeat, mbalax, son cubano or Indian classical music.
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