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Leo
I'm looking to start making some music that sounds like older elevator music. I am not looking to make muzak, being covers of other songs played instrumental on an elevator. I'm just looking for the general feel of it. Waiting music. I was wondering if any of you have seen movies or television shows that have good elevator music, or could shed the light on what sort of structure to look at. Seems to me that the elevator music I make up in my mind is in 3/4 at about 130 BPM, and has a lot of vibes, organ, dusty percussion, and flutey sounding melody lines.
In short, where can I listen to some good elevator music?
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Roshi
Are you talking about something like this? link
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Leo
Track 9 from that is closest to what I had imagined. Oh, Harmonic 33 type stuff, too. Roshi, that was great, by the way.
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Roshi
Glad you liked it. I'm sure you can find more by searching on easy listening.
Although it's a slippery slope, and lawrence welk is on the bottom. 
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Roshi
You also might like Martin Denny as well... and other 50's-60's exotica might be up your alley.
Paging lowlifi...
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colin
indeed, ... les baxter, Arthur Lyman,
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nightowl
Devo thought their tunes would eventually end up in elevators, so they made their own muzak of their tunes.
it was available for a while on cassette, but probably long gone.(E-Bay?)
i love the martin denny stuff because its so cheesy with the
jungle bird calls in it.
there is a whole series of cd's of this king of lounge music, but i cant recall the name.
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Leo
Oh, this is all great. Thanks so much for the tips. I have one to share, being Sven Libaek. That stuff is great. I think I will have to go out and find some elevators to ride, and see what's going on in there. Maybe I could find some mystic elevator guru who sits in a dusty basement smoking cigars, and talks about the days past.
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tylth
i  elevator music!
05/05/08
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lysdexic
playing midi files in windoze mediocre player/quicktime always sounds like elevator music to me.
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Leo
I've gotten good results playing the Waltz drum tones from the Lowrey Fiesta organ along with Mellotron, Opitgan, and Prophet V through amp modeling. Bass is the tricky part. Sampled upright sounds sampled, and sticks out. I'll figure a way to tone it down, I'm sure. Either that or I'll have my friend come over with his NS and play some lines.
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deltasleep
You need to hear lots of Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert, and you should look up the early records that muzak made. They were called "Stimulus Progression" they were made all the way up till the early 80s(you should hear muzak corp's version of funky town).
I don't think any of those groups are EXACTLY what you are looking for, but I think what you want is somewhere inbetween all these things. You need to learn some standards from the eras you are interested in and try and reinterpret them in a softer way- you'll quickly come to understand the logic that is muzak.
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oxymoron
I guess any genre can be called "elevator music" if its cheesiest / blandest elements are used.
In my day, it was character-less bossa nova and corporate-video-type 80s instrumentals.
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nightowl
the name of that e-z listening/lounge series is "Ultra Lounge" so cheesy it will raise your cholesterol
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