Audio Lotion stands for delight. Each one of their four album releases had the press plunder their hitherto carefully locked treasure chest of superlatives : "The perfect lounge sound", "Music as essential for your daily needs as eating and drinking", "Indispensible for body and soul". Music that sweeps up a wave of adjectives from the journalist"s heart: "refreshing", "pleasurable", "relaxing", "sensual", or even "sexy". And as the icing on the cake, almost as if to be knighted, the music of Audio Lotion made its entry into the queen of all life style TV series: "Sex and the City". After last year"s album "Metrosensual", the new release "The Finer Essence" draws on the first three albums of the Zurich-based duo, two of which have never been released outside of Switzerland. First, there is their 1999 debut "Advanced Skin Care", a sensual blend of Drum"n"Bass, Ambient, Jazz, Downbeat and elements from classical music. On its cover, the debut showed a stylish container of beauty creme. 2001 saw the follow-up "Your Sonic Beauty Case", still an exclusive Swiss release, before their third album "¡adelante!" finally put Audio Lotion on the map internationally, so much so that the producers of "Sex and the City" choose three songs from this album to be played in three episodes of the cult series. Shortly after coming out in Switzerland, "¡adelante!" was internationally re-released by Mole Listening Pearls using a different cover and a slightly different composition of songs. Audio Lotion"s first three albums – their "Swiss period", as it were – are now presented on "The Finer Essence". Twenty-seven tracks, including exclusive songs from the original Swiss version of "¡adelante!" that have not yet made an international appearance. Music that has already earned its place in the lounge universe. "Music as essential for your daily needs as eating and drinking", as the journalists say.
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