THE LOUNGE SELECTION
A staple of journalistic ‘best of all-times’, this landmark album poured the spacey sound of the Fender Rhodes over Beach Boys samples, and Bacharach-esque harmonies, with a sprinkling of bossanova castanets. In the process, the French duo created a home-listening chillout classic, and facilitated the change of course of late-90s popular music to a more downtempo zeitgeist. (artwork: The Directors Bureau)