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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]
To people of a certain age, Muzak is a word like "Kleenex," or "Xerox." It stands for that annoying, easy-listening entertainment piped into elevators and played during on-hold phone calls. And ...
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 ...
MTI Digital's music and messages are programmed using a media player located at each location connected by the internet to MTI's servers. [9] Audio advertisements and music playlists are regularly updated on each player, ensuring that the content is up-to-date, and allowing MTI to customize the music and messaging program for each retailer and location.
8 Elevator Music/smooth jazz/easy listening/middle of the road. ... 10 Merged to Muzak. 2 comments Toggle Merged to Muzak subsection. 10.1 My feedback (2022) 11 ...
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 ...