"Slip Into Something More Comfortable" is a single released in July 2000 by the British electronic group Kinobe. It features sampling from the work of Engelbert Humperdinck, primarily from the intro to Humperdinck's "From Here to Eternity" recorded in 1968. It appeared on the album '' Soundphiles'', released on 17 July 2000, as track 6. The music was published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd. ''

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'' described the record as 'fragrant with half-remembered allusions to paradisiacal Far Eastern locations in Sixties movies, undercut with an implied melancholic realisation that all this concocted splendour is impossible, a mere musical mirage'. Kinobe would play

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in 2001, at

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in south

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Production

It was produced with Ben & Jason. It features

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s and

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violins.

Recordings

* List of Café del Mar compilations, Vol 21 * Chillout Sessions Chilled II 1991–2009, disc 1, track 10

Film music

The music has appeared in films: * ''

Disco Pigs ''Disco Pigs'' is a 2001 Irish coming of age romantic crime film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Enda Walsh, who adapted it from his 1996 play of the same name. Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy star as two young people from Cork ...

'' (2001) * '' School for Seduction'' (2004)

Other

* ''

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'' musical * Television advert for

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, entitled ''Femme Fatale'' (2001) * Television advert for

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* Television advert for Fox's Fabulous Cookies

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(1996) *

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1968 album Los Violines del Amor, from the intro of Inolvidable * Underwater Love (Smoke City song) (1997)

Charts

References

External links

BBC 6 Music
2000 singles Downtempo songs Zomba Group of Companies {{2000s-UK-single-stub