Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It is meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place—a jungle an island paradise outer space et cetera—other than where they are listening to it. The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music-influenced instrumentals modern electronica (with chillout and downtempo influences) while remaining thematically focused on its retro-space-age cultural elements.