For the longest time this label has eluded me. It all started not long after the Talented Mr. Ripley came out and I went on Kazaa to download the soundtrack. There was a mislabeled song that I downloaded that was a techno remix of a song from the opera Dido & Aeneas. It blew me away and was, to me, the perfect infusion of electronic and classical music. I saved the song for the longest time but despite my efforts to find more of the same type of thing, I never could. Then, just recently, for whatever reason, I looked in the details of the file and noticed something about a "cafe del mar" in the ID tag. I thought of looking on
www.musicdonkey.net for this band (so I thought) cafe del mar to see if maybe it could help me in my search. Sure enough, it did. I found a 20 album discography of this Cafe del Mar and downloaded it. In it were 2 albums entitled Aria and Aria II - one of which contained the Dido & Aeneas song - that had much more music of a similar style. Earlier today I went on the net and found Cafe del Mar's website, only to discover that it's a LABEL, not a band, and that it is also a cafe in Ibiza. (The original file I found said "Ibiza" in the file name - but I related it to the popular techno albums that come out of Ibiza
) It turns out that the song I had found on accident is actually from a guy named Paul Schwartz (whose name I recognize for some reason although I don't know why).
Have you heard or heard of Cafe del Mar? Do you like the music they put out? If you haven't heard it, I recommend you check it out. Also, if you have, what are some other suggestions you can make as to where I can find similar style music. I especially like this Paul Schwartz guy - some really interesting stuff. In fact, anyone have any idea where or why I may have heard of Paul Schwartz?
Is my mind just playing tricks on me, or have other people heard of him as well?