Looks like off-topic IS the topic these days.

[bmrhye]

Having a party later this summer in which my backyard will be transformed into a fictional tropical island and looking for some good tropical/exotic sounding music.

You don't have to post tracks if you don't want to. I just need suggestions.

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[cyranocyrano]

Anything with a gamelan in it. Seriously.

[grrillaesthete]

Martin Denny. You can't get more tropical, even at the Tiki Tiki Tiki Room.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWESMyBfqys

(If you can't find any online, I have a 2 disc collection I'll up for you.)

[robyn_migratori]

Anything by The Very Best. Or just play The Avalanches' Since I Left You from start to finish.

[imweirdlikethat]

Is reggae okay? Because my first thoughts were these two...

Amadou & Mariam - Senegal Fast Food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccZU1Kk5HQE

Desmond Dekker - Shanty Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFIqxnSo-gQ

Also maybe some Vampire Weekend?

[seasontoseason]

yay desmond dekker!

[lady_moriel]

Let's see, I like anything by that choir of kids on the Lilo & Stitch soundtrack, and New Radicals' "Get What You Give" always reminds me of tropical stuff because, uh, it plays at the end of Surf's Up.