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CD Review by Rob Faust VARIOUS ARTISTS Café Del Mar Volume Seven Mercury/Universal Records · Seventh installment of Ibiza bliss features tracks by While the Del Mar chill series continues, its creative helmsman, Jose Padilla, has left the café for the snowy Austrian peaks of Vienna and he is sorely missed. Volumes one through six were yearly snapshots of the downtempo side of the Ibizan dawn culture, but seven seems sadly out of step with the previous herd. Lacking in intensity and soul, Del Mar Seven comes off as a bland mix of all things electronic – in this café only decaf is on the menu. There are many "nice" tracks on this album – a Moby remix and a song from Bent – but that’s its weakness. It’s too nice, too much the same, too bland. Vocal cuts, while jumping out on previous releases, only serve to punctuate the album’s homogeneity. Looking for an edge? Not here. No dark Lamb or lilting Ame Streng. Instead, blasphemies of blasphemies, we get a song from Bush. Bush!!?? In the end, it’s the perfect thing for giving birth underwater to or watching films on giving birth underwater to rather then tripping through the realms of the inner cosmos. Like any franchised café, it’s nice, but not the original.... 1/5

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