As I looked at the CD titled Cafe Del Mar: Volume Seven, I wondered ‘what kind of music is this?’ In my mind, I already knew I was not going to enjoy it since it has a woman in a two-piece bathing suit on the cover.

But hey, for a little Asian girl who listens to country, oldies and hip hop, I was willing to give it a try.

The CD is a “domestic debut” of the “sunny, swaying spirit” of the Spanish island, Ibiza, and its famous nightclub, Cafe Del Mar. The CD is a compilation of tracks from popular international dance, trance and pop artists such as Moby, Bush, UKO, Lux, Afterlife and many more.

I’ve heard of Moby and Bush, but I thought they were alternative groups. To me, these tracks were mixtures of Latin beats, wind blowing noises, drums and horns. Even some rainforest sounding beats.

It did not sound like any trance and pop music that I?m familiar with, yet, how do I know what trance music sounds like, when I listen to country music?

DJ Jose Padilla began compiling the series of CDs to capture the lush ambient music that he felt captured the spirit of Cafe Del Mar and Ibiza. But how can someone capture the spirit of a nightclub or an island?

I thought it would be a mixture of the average nightclub track. Instead, it sounded like easy listening music. How does someone dance to laid back music?

Volume Seven is the U.S. compilation by DJ Bruno and this summer he is set to release the eighth volume of this series. I’m very suprised that this collection has even made it to a seventh volume. But then, it’s only the U.S release; maybe it is a favorite for Europeans, they are a little different from Americans, right?

Don?t get me wrong, I didn’t immediately stop listening to this CD while reviewing it. I listened all the way through it, three times to be exact. But eventually, I got tired of it.

For those of you that like wind blowing sounds, you may like this collection. I give it a rating of one out of five. It’s not totally horrible, but it’s still not one I can get used to, no matter how many times I try to listen to it.

1 out of 5 Sinatras