Product Description

Say what you will about mind-expanding drugs, but without them, the world wouldn't have SERGEANT PEPPER'S, DARK SIDE OFTHE MOON, or KLF's CHILL OUT. The very 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.
On CHILL OUT, listeners are treated to a sonic collage that works as both fascinating listening and an aural blanket in which to wrap oneself 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", whileelsewhere 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. It adds up to one of the most original and enduring examples of a musical genre that has subsequently been mined past the point of usefulness.

Track Listing

1. Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex Mex Border
2. Pulling Out Of Ricardo And The Dusk Is Falling Fast
3. Six Hours To Louisiana Black Coffee Going Cold
4. Dreamtime In Lake Jackson
5. Madrugada Eterna
6. Justified And Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago
7. Elvis On The Radio Steel Guitar In My Soul
8. 3am Somewhere Out Of Beaumont
9. Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard
10. Trancentral Lost In My Mind
11. Lights Of Baton Rouge Pass By
12. Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back
13. Rock Radio Into The Nineties And Beyond
14. Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8265 in Music
• Released on: 1993-03-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

My favourite album of all time.
The KLF are best remembered for "What Time Is Love?" & their media pranks. This album is just a pure joy to listen to, recorded in a minimalist way. The music is almost background music to Drummond & Cauty's soundscape of rivers, trains, sheep, planes, cars, mad preachers, and everyday sounds that you hear but never takes notice of, but on this album you do. If you can't sleep at night, put this album on in the dark and you begin to imagine you are on a journey around distant lands. The KLF also used samples from Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Acker Bilk, Jesus Loves You (aka Boy George). Some stripped down versions of some KLF classics are here too, although retitled, along with what has to be the most impressive track the KLF ever recorded "Madrugada Eterna". If you like easy listening then this is for you. If you only ever buy one KLF CD, buy this one, and as the title says... "Chill Out"

TOP MARKS

Genius
Say what you like about KLF-this is a work of genius! Too many late nights spent listening to this might scramble your mind but its worth it.

What an album........
Glad to see this album is still available, as many other greats of the time, such as B.A.D.'s 'The Globe' are sadly out of circulation. Chill Out will forever have a place in my heart for being the first album I'd grab upon coming home from a hard night's stomping - just the thing needed to calm the mind. It's a far cry from the disasterously commercial 'White Room' - of which only a couple of tracks are worthy of listening to.