The KLF Chill Out Top 10 ambient records of all time
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The KLF – Chill Out
Label: KLF Communications – JAMS LP5 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Unofficial ReleaseCountry: Europe Released: 2004 Genre: Electronic Style: Ambient
Tracklist
A1 Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border 1:47 A2 Pulling Out Of Recardo And The Dusk Is Falling Fast 1:29 A3 Six Hours To Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold 3:01 A4 Dream Time In Lake Jackson 2:35 A5 Madrugada Eterna 7:40 A6 Justified Ans Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago 1:08 A7 Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul 3:01 B1 3AM Somewhere Out Of Beaumont 9:24 B2 Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 5:56 B3 Trancentral Lost In My Mind 1:16 B4 The Lights Of Baton Rouge Pass By 3:34 B5 A Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back 1:41 B6 Rock Radio Into The Nineties And Beyond 1:26 B7 Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up 0:16 Media Condition: Mint (M)Sleeve Condition: Very good + Chill Out is the third studio album by The KLF, and the first album under the name, released in February 1990. An ambient house concept album, it portrays a mythical night-time journey up the US Gulf Coast fromTexas into Louisiana. The album is a continuous composition, in which sampled music (including Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Acker Bilk and Tuvan throat singers), vocal samples and sound effects are overlaid with original music.
Chill out is an album released in 1990 by the English band Klf that has basically defined what chill out was about at that span as the concept of a chill-out room only became necessary within the rarified rave culture of the ’80s and ’90s, when club-goers needed a respite from Ecstacy-induced whirling and the random hugging of strangers.
It consists of 40 minutes supposedly excerpted from a 480 minutes of a live chill room performance. This was back when chill was unheard of (or at least cutting edge). Strangely enough, it’s at least 50% Orb, and was just made at the KLF’s studios. All I can say is that sounds like a mystical journey through the English countryside. If there’s only one ambient album you ever buy, buy this one too.
One of the initial works in the ambient house canon, Chill Out is the practically beatless soundtrack to a late-night journey along the Gulf Coast, and the track titles tells much of the story: “Six Hours to Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold,” “3AM Somewhere Out of Beaumont,” “Elvis on the Radio, Steel Guitar in My Soul.” Recorded live by Drummond and Cauty (with much unintended help from sample victims Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, and the throat singers of Tüva), Chill Out consists largely of fragmented, heavily reverbed steel guitar, environmental sounds (birds, trains), occasional synth, and an angelic vocal chorus repeating the KLF’s own “Justified and Ancient” theme.
Say what you will about mind-expanding drugs, but without them, the world wouldn’t have Dark side of the moon or KLF’s Chill out. On Chill out, listeners are treated to a sonic collage that works as both fascinating listening and an aural blanket in which to wrap one self to counteract the affect of too many pinging synapses. Each song here is a hallucinatory vignette, filled with sounds that could have been collected from dreams. A sleepy sax floats over ocean noises and seagulls in “Melody From a Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back”, while elsewhere are heavenly choirs, railroad ambience, Tibetan chants, stuttering synthesizers, a snippet of Elvis Presley singing “In the Ghetto”, sounds of thunder, and disembodied voices off the radio. Throughout, Drummond and Cauty display an instinctive talent for wallpaper music that’s truly diverting, making Chill Out one of the essential ambient albums.
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