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Throttle Elevator Music, occasionally billed as Throttle Elevator Music feat. Kamasi Washington , was a San Francisco Bay Area jazz ensemble active from 2011 to 2021. The group is influenced by punk , funk , hip-hop , and ska , while its performers were primarily composed of classically trained jazz instrumentalists.
The term can also be used for kinds of easy listening, [7] lounge, piano solo, jazz or middle of the road music, or what are known as "beautiful music" radio stations.. This style of music is sometimes used to comedic effect in mass media such as film, where intense or dramatic scenes may be interrupted or interspersed with such anodyne music while characters use an elevator.
Muzak may also be referred to as "elevator music" or "lift music" (see also Music on hold). Though Muzak Holdings was for many years the best-known supplier of background music, and is commonly associated with elevator music, the company itself did not supply music to elevators. [6]
Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities by The Books (often referred to as simply Music for a French Elevator) is a 2006 release by the Books. It is a compendium on mini CD of four pieces created for the "1%" art and sound installation in the Ministry of Culture in Paris , France in 2004.
Some beautiful music stations (especially on AM) successfully transitioned to adult contemporary formats, often with call letter changes to shed the "elevator music" identity. Many of these stations marketed themselves as playing many of the same songs from the original artists; adult contemporary had the benefit of having core acts that could ...
Aug. 19—The Walk In Art Center is ending its summer concert series with a Labor Day blowout on Sunday, Sept. 3 with Velveeta, a popular band at Penn State's University Park campus. The concert ...
Music for Elevators is a music album written and performed by Anthony Stewart Head and George Sarah. The label Beautiful Is As Beautiful Does knew that Head and Sarah had worked together on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and suggested that they should do something together. They did exactly that, and the album was released on ...
E-Z Listening Disc is a compilation album by the American new wave band Devo, originally released in 1987 by Rykodisc.The album is a compilation of all but one of the tracks from Devo's two E-Z Listening Muzak Cassettes, which had been available only through Club Devo in 1981 and 1984, respectively, consisting of instrumental versions of Devo songs performed in the style of easy listening ...