Bachelor Pad Music: Sounds of the Space Age

If you missed the first two articles, you might want to check out Bachelor Pad Music: An Introduction or Bachelor Pad Music: Exotica.

Space age/atomic age music isn't necessarily my favorite type of lounge music, but it's fun to mix into your playlists. Also, I think a lot of the tunes and melodies are fairly well known and most people recognize it when they hear it. For example, I'm pretty sure that some of the songs I've listened are the same ones that I heard years ago in The Sims.

Since everyone seems to define this subgenre differently, I will specify what I'm referring to for the purposes of this post. Space age music is yesterday's music of tomorrow. But, unlike some people, I do not necessarily confine it to the early electronic music, which emphasized synthesizers and theremins. In fact, I tend to lump that in with "moog music" which I think is probably the most ridiculous of the BPM genres.

Here are some excellent examples of space age music. You can find a lot of it on The Ill Street Lounge radio station from SomaFM or in the albums Music for T.V. Dinners or Ultra-Lounge, Vol 3. - Space Capades. If there is a link below, you can listen to a sample.

Jack Beaver - Workaday World

Les Baxter - Shooting Star

David Lindup - In The Limelight

Orchestra Dei Concerti Di Roma Paul Baron - Star Fire (Jet Plane)
The Voices Of Walter Schumann - Holiday For Strings
Laurie Johnson - Happy Go Lively

Enjoy and look forward to the next edition!