All the Tablet Tunes mixes are available for download, track by track or in their entirety, from the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia versions of the iTunes Music Store. Downloads will be available soon from other country-specific iTunes Music Stores.
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England's Dreaming
An epic London soundtrack spanning three decades of English rock and pop classics. Selected by The Zetter, London
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London, England, UK
Clerkenwell, neighboring on tiny Soho, the buttoned-up City and art-damaged Shoreditch, is ground zero for London’s design and creative communities, chock full of imaging labs, ad agencies, and design firms. Many of our customers will have business in and around Clerkenwell, and now they have a convenient place to stay as well. Not that there’s a shortage of hip new hotels in London—this is still the most competitive hotel market in the world—but there’s always room for another good one, especially in this once boutique-shy neighborhood.
Supermarket heir Mark Sainsbury has gutted one of Clerkenwell’s grimiest Victorian warehouses to make room for this hotel, officially known as the Zetter Restaurant & Rooms—and not inaccurately, we might add, as the entire ground floor is devoted to the restaurant, in order to draw as many local diners as possible. In this it is a success; the atmosphere is less that of a hotel dining room and more that of, well, exactly what it is—an excellent and smartly designed Italian restaurant populated by impossibly cool locals.
The rooms are no afterthought, though. A bright crimson spiral staircase negotiates the bright five-story atrium and delivers guests to rooms that are equally bright, if not quite as spacious and airy. The Kubrickian whiteness of the decor is mitigated by sparing splashes of bright color, and the occasional piece of antique furniture. Penguin paperbacks and web-enabled satellite TV prov... more
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All Hotel Mixes
- Swedish Gold A crash course in Sweden's leading export from the '70s. Selected By Hotel Rival, Stockholm
- Come, Gentle Night Dim the lights and unwind after a night out in Soho. Selected By The Soho Hotel, London
- Number One Playa The sound of a humble fishing village gone suddenly upscale cool. Selected By Deseo, Playa Del Carmen
- Paris After Dark A soundtrack for a contemporary city romance. Selected By Hotel Sezz, Paris
- One Night In Bangkok A dark electronic soundtrack for a wild night out in the "other" City of Angels. Selected By The Metropolitan Bangkok, Bangkok
- Soft Landing Classics from the Caribbean at its most romantic. Selected By The Landing, Harbour Island
- Mexico City Oasis The perfect soundtrack for a moment of peace on a rooftop terrace overlooking Polanco. Selected By Hotel Habita, Mexico City
- Love Supreme A collection of mid-century jazz classics to set the mood for a wine country rendezvous. Selected By Hotel Healdsburg, Healdsburg
- On The Rocks A night out on the stylish side of Sydney. Selected By Establishment Hotel, Sydney
- Miami Sound System This one skips the expected Latin rhythms and goes Jamaican all the way. Selected By The Standard Miami, Miami Beach
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- It's Oh So Quiet Ten laid-back tracks to set the mood, whether you're going out or staying in. Selected By Clift Hotel, San Francisco
- Marrakech Express A cosmopolitan mix for mellow days in the medina. Selected By Dar Warda, Marrakech
- Diesel World An amusement park of a rather more adult kind, it's a bizarre fantasy from the Italian fashion giant. Selected By Pelican Hotel, Miami Beach
- Chicago via Paris See this all-American city from the French point of view. Selected By Sofitel Chicago Water Tower, Chicago
- Downtown Sounds What the rest of the world will be listening to a year from now. Selected By Soho Grand Hotel, New York
- A Passage To India Soak in the traditional sounds of the subcontinent. Selected By Amarvilas, Agra
- Tune In Tokyo An eclectic assortment of Western sounds, new and old, as seen from the Meguro underground. Selected By Claska, Tokyo
- England's Dreaming An epic London soundtrack spanning three decades of English rock and pop classics. Selected By The Zetter, London
- Cool Water Hide out from the hoi polloi in elegant Isla Verde. Selected By The Water Club, San Juan
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