Seduction City -- Signing off

Thanks for supporting Seduction City for the last 4.5 years.

Unfortunately, due to the cost considerations we are discontinuing the station.

Though we developed a loyal listenership things never took off like I hoped. Probably my fault for never really finding an effective way to market it.

Farewell but not goodbye...

Sexing things up

You may have noticed the cheesy new image of the generic bikini-clad chick laying out on the yacht somewhere in Ibiza as the key image for Seduction City.

Well forgive me, but we're sexing thing up a little bit.

Ever hear the motto "sex sells?"

Well I hope it's true.  Because we need the heat.

I thought it would be enough to play simply the best possible chillout/downtempo music on The Web.  Apparently, that doesn't get it done. So I'm shamelessly taking things a step further. Random Internet image of some hot harlot laying on a yacht? Sure.

But y'know what? It kinda makes sense.

The root of all of the music of Seduction City is carnal at heart.  Even though I listen to it myself when I'm at work or driving or drafting my fantasy basketball team... it is in effect stuff that I put together for special alone time with my once-girlfriend-now-wife.

So why deny it any longer?

Some wear their hearts on their sleeve; Seduction City wears it's inspiration on it's blogspot header. Or something.


But despite the blatant sellout, we're still all about the music here. So please enjoy the new stuff I've put on this month, such as...

Going VIP Only for a while

A social experiment gone wrong?  Probably.  But Seduction City is going VIP-only for a little while.

It is a labor of love, this internet radio thing.  And like most such pursuits, it is not a moneymaker.  

Still, the expenses are adding up and meanwhile the money coming in is a trickle.

The math is pretty easy, really:  Monthly costs include royalty payments, bandwidth, storage space, music purchases, etc.  The only money that offsets this is if VIP listeners listen to the station or sign up for a membership through Seduction City.  Or listeners donate via Paypal, which to date nobody has done.

I have a day job, of course, which covers the costs but with listening hours dwindling Seduction City is at a crossroads of sorts. 

If you enjoy the station, please donate via Paypal or through a VIP membership to keep things going.

Thank you.

New stuff on the playlist

Added a bunch of new songs to the playlist.  This is one of them.

If Seduction City every hires an in-house producer, it will probably be Lukas Termena:

Seductronica Vol 1 - Live on Youtube

A silky smooth mix provided by Seduction City...

Max Stone - Lyra (W&D Chillout Mix)

Sherrie Lea - No Ordinary Love (Arnold T Chill Mix)

Ralph Myerz - Stormy Weathers (feat. Christine Sandtrov)

Chimera State featuring Lety - Necessary (Chillout Mix)

Schiller - Playing With Madness (feat. Mia Bergström)

Lukas Termena - Broken Glass

Harland - Here in the Dark (Tasos Panagis Chill Remix)

Lucien Foort - The Shame (Wez Clarke Epic Mix)

Dreamlounger - The Power Of Goodbye (feat. Rainfairy) [Relounged Mix]

Luminary - Believe

Nikonn - Little Girl

Blank & Jones - Fallen (feat. Delerium and Rani)

One of the pillars upon which Seduction City was built

Most of the music on Seduction City is more recent stuff...post-2000.

But if it stuff is good enough, it doesn't matter when it was made.

When I launched the station back in 2009, things were still in relative disarray and Seduction City was still finding it's voice.  But I know this was one of the very first songs I played.

And I love it now just as much as ever:

The legend is true

Occasionally when you pan for gold, you find a nugget.

For months I have been playing a 2 minute demo of Zetandel's and Seven24's remix of Dennis Sheperd's "Fallen Angel", but I had pretty much given up hope that there would ever be a full version.

But it actually exists, by gosh.  I feel like I stumbled onto Bigfoot's lair and snapped a picture of the elusive beast...

DJ Artak Samvel feat. Sone Silver - I Feel Your Body

Time to take the leap

Seduction City has been delivering delicious chillout music to your ears for over three years now. During that time, our audience has grown, as has our music library.  However, over the last six months or so the we've hit a plateau of 4,000 to 5,000 listener-hours per month.

The station is set up to accommodate ten times that amount. Thus, we are taking the next step in the growth of Seduction City.

We are getting listed on itunes.

This announcement is a tad bit premature since we aren't on there yet. I submitted the station for consideration last week and assuming all goes well, it should be live by the end of the year.

So thank you to all of our listeners for getting us this far.  And hold on to your knickers and join us as we take the next step.

First itunes...then the WORLD.

Follow the music

Do you want to be the first kid on your block that knows about the seductronica being played on Seduction City?

Then follow us on Twitter!  We don't have anything to say, but we always have good tunes to tweet!

Anatomy of The City

Seduction City isn't composed only of majestic skyscrapers and towering high rises.

Nay.  It also includes smaller, more modest one bedroom apartment buildings and rent-controlled studios

Similarly, Our playlist contains the normal chillout staples that you already know and love, as well as obscure remixed gems and glorious new stuff.

For example, take the Seven24 and Zetandel remix of ATB's Desperate Religion.

Easy Breeze-y

Tracked down a number of chill remixes done by a producer code-named Christopher Breeze.  Very nice.  You won't find 'em anywhere else on Live365 except Seduction City.  Let me know what you think.

Mission: Improbable

Talk about playing "hard to get"...

There is a band named Abbie Gale from Greece. They've got a song called "Letters". Now that song in itself is not difficult to obtain--it's on itunes. But the obscure "Chris Nemmo Postman Mix" of the song? Fuhgeddaboudit. You'd have better luck tracking down the O.J. Simpson bloody glove or the Whitewater tapes.

Fortunately, I'm too dumb to give up that easy.

There exists a very hard-to-find compilation by Dimitris Papaspyropoulos called "Before the Summer Came" which has the song. Apparently it was distributed free in some magazine back in 2008.

I'll save you the trouble of finding it, because I did already. Listen for it on the upcoming Seductronica compilation coming soon.

In the meantime, here's a taste:

The moon needs some Kleenex.

Long-time listeners of Seduction City are no doubt familiar with Conjure One, the spin-off project of Rhys Fulbur of Delerium that has produced three albums. One of the key songs from the eponymous first album of that project has been remixed many-a-time but I don't think any of 'em are as good as the one by Carmen Rizzo.

Flock to the twitter

I'm posting tons of stuff on Twitter lately, mostly links to seductive tunes that Seduction City deems worthy of the Seductronica moniker. Check it out here.

Winter may kill but it also sounds pretty good

Josh Gabriel has been getting a lot of play on Seduction City recently. And why not? His new project with chanteuse Meredith Call called Winter Kills is just too good to be contained. This album is more money than Reggie Miller in a playoff game against the Knicks.

Mysterious downtempo seductronica is what we traffic here...and based on this album, Josh Gabriel is our dealer.

Check out the official vid for Hot As Hades:

Twelve years too late

One of the crazy things that happens frequently as I'm researching tunes to put on the station is that I find some random stuff that I've never heard of that is just a hidden gem.

I think I first heard Urchin probably about ten years ago on the Winter Chill compilation which included the track Candlelight. It's a dark, mysterious track with some deep instrumental trip hop influences and though I loved the track at the time, for some reason I didn't follow up at the time to see if their other stuff was any good.

Flash forward to 2011 and on a whim I decide to check out their eponymous album which came out back in '99 (put into perspective how long ago that was...Hanson was big then) and of course the damn album is dope. Now I feel like an idiot that I didn't know about it sooner.

Composed of producer Jez Coode and DJ Nic One, this album's calling card is sinister beats and samples reminiscent of DJ Krush, DJ Shadow and Portishead. I even hear one of my favorites in there, namely Teargas & Plateglass, which is really too ill to get much play on this station. Think dark menacing beats that get into you skull and get your head bobbin and the boots knocking. This stuff is addictive, albeit best in small doses.

I've included the songs The Peddler and Ice Cream Van on the playlist this week. You've been warned.

Seductronica Episode 001 -- The Alpha and Omega of Chill!

Imagine if there was a continuous mix of the most sublimely seductive chillout grooves in existence. And imagine it was mixed by somebody who doesn't know what they are doing.

It is a dream no longer. Allow me to introduce...Seductronica Episode 1, on the air this week:

1. Max Stone - Lyra (W&D Chillout Mix)
   
2. Sherrie Lea - No Ordinary Love (Arnold T Chill Mix)
   
3. Ralph Myerz - Stormy Weathers (feat. Christine Sandtrov)
4. Chimera State featuring Lety - Necessary (Chillout Mix)
5. Schiller - Playing With Madness (feat. Mia Bergström)
6. Lukas Termena - Broken Glass
7. Harland - Here in the Dark (Tasos Panagis Chill Remix)
8. Lucien Foort - The Shame (Wez Clarke Epic Mix)
9. Dreamlounger - The Power Of Goodbye (feat. Rainfairy) [Relounged Mix]
10. Luminary - Believe
11. Nikonn - Little Girl
12. Blank & Jones - Fallen (feat. Delerium and Rani)
    

Download it here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4Q7VLV64

The Fonz lives

I don't know if Aaron McClelland is paying Henry Winkler royalties or not, but his moniker Fonzerelli released a cornball pop-dance tune called "Dreamin' (of a hot summers night)" a few years backs that apparently was a hit in Ibiza clubs.

Not as well known is a chill version of this track that overcame the cheese to become an addictive and cool oddity. Listen for it on Seduction City this week.

Seduction City Hall of Fame: Lukas Termena

Who the heck is Lukas Termena? He is an enigma and a paradox. Aside from being a producer from Poland, little can be found about him on the net. But Mr. Termena should be lauded, curtseyed to and generally worshipped for achieving the impossible:

He made a Linkin Park song listenable.

In fact, his remix of New Divide is not only listenable, it's actually good. Not only that, but he's released a host of original songs as well that are some of the best produced chilltronica out there. A bona fide dual threat -- remixer and producer. The problem is tracking down his stuff, he doesn't have a proper album that I can find and in general mp3s are sparse.

Key tracks: Infinity, Weightlessness (Lukas Termena Chillout Mix), Apologize (Lukas Termena Chillout Mix), Broken Glass