Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Heartbeats - Gonzalez, Jose
2. Teenage Kicks - Nouvelle Vague
3. JCB Song - Nizlopi
4. Hide And Seek - Heap, Imogen
5. 95 (Make Things Right) - Lemon Jelly
6. La Ritournelle - Tellier, Sebastien
7. Polite Society - Si-Cut DB
8. Nine Million Bicycles - Melua, Katie
9. Wonders Never Cease - Morcheeba
10. Dice - Quaye, Finley & William Orbit
11. All Possibilities - Badly Drawn Boy
12. Bumcop - Crazy P
13. Stops - Elbow
14. I Melt With You - Nouvelle Vague
15. It's Better To Have Loved - Temposhark
16. Dayvan Cowboy - Boards Of Canada
17. American Dream - Jakatta
18. Happy Dreamer - Laid Back (1)
19. Sail Into The Sun - Funky Lowlives
20. And I Kept Hearing - Fragment One

Disc 2:

1. Muscle Car - Mylo & Freeform Five
2. What Else Is There - Royksopp
3. Thunder In My Heart - Sayer, Leo
4. Seven Days In Sunny June - Jamiroquai
5. Make A Move - Joey Negro
6. Love Generation - Bob Sinclar & Gary 'Nesta' Pine
7. Speechless - Mish Mash & Lois
8. Be My Friend - Scape & D'Empress
9. Empty Streets - Late Night Alumni
10. Strings Of Life (Stronger On My Own) - Soul Central & Kathy Brown
11. Fade - Solu Music & KimBlee
12. Steppin' Out - Kaskade
13. Love On My Mind - Freemasons & Amanda Wilson
14. Give It - X-Press 2 & Kurt Wagner
15. Heartbeats - Knife
16. Zombie Party - Hiem
17. Hideaway - Barefoot (2)
18. So In Love With You - Duke (3)
19. Lovin' You More (That Big Track) - Mac, Steve & Mosquito/Steve Smith
20. Listen To Your Heart - DHT

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60466 in Music
• Released on: 2006-01-30
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Barely recognisable as a MoS Chill-out album
I'm a big fan of the Ministry of Sound's more laid-back collections, and the Chillout series is a great way to be introduced to 'intelligent' artists and styles you won't often hear elsewhere. But this album is a long way short of some of the earlier efforts, and I question whether many of the tracks are Chillout at all.

The best Chillout tracks are a downbeat blend of electronic drum & bass, samples and novelty synthesiser noises with more traditional accoustic instruments and vocals, in just the right proportions to send a mellow ripple through your body. There is almost none of that here.

It's not that they aren't fairly decent music, rather they just don't belong to this genre: if you feel yourself wanting to dance to it, then it ain't Chillout. So many tracks are overtly pop, R&B or disco (Leo Sayer's Thunder in My Heart, for goodness sake.) And while on the one hand the thumping baseline of Be My Friend (among others) definitely didn't make me feel chilled, neither did Katie Mehlua wailing about all those bicycles in China. Just because it's slow and she sounds miserable, doesn't make it Chillout. And a special mention for that awful novelty 'JCB Song' - what that's doing here I just don't know.

There are a few gems, such as La Ritournelle, Dayvan Cowboy, and So In Love With You, but there's too much rough and not enough diamonds. For me the MoS series peaked in 2003 with "Late Night Sessions", and I recommend you buy that album instead of this one.

Just as the title suggests....completely chilled
I began purchasing the MOS Chillout Sessions last year and to quite honest, they never fail to impress.

This new album in the series is another fantastic compilation of soothing sounds to help recover from a night of MOS Annual / Clubbers Guide tracks, but above all is ideal to have playing on a sleepy afternoon in the sun or with your book on the couch.

The album begins with one of the fantastic acoustics tracks from Jose Gonzalez which sets the tone for the rest of the first CD.

It's not all mellow though. There are a series of ups and downs from Katie Melua to Badly Drawn Boy and then onto a remix of a classic Jakatta track just to really stir the mood.

CD 2 changes the tone of the whole chillout theme with the producers obviously hoping that you're beginning to wake or at least stir from the night before with Mylo setting the mark with the first track. A little more upbeat but equally is my favourite Jamiroquai track from their latest album, Seven Days In Sunny June remixed to a slightly faster beat.

As the CD moves on, you really begin to get into the spirit for the next night with Bob Sinclair and his Love Generation and then Kaskade.

The Chillout Session finally ends with a fantastic remake of the 90's Roxette classic by DHT, Listen to Your Heart.

Overall, this album made me feel good. Really good. It combined new and old with remixes that blended in with some of the best new material of this year.

I thoroughly recommend Chillout Sessions 2006 and if you enjoy this, I hope you will also enjoy the 2005 edition and Chillout Sessions Vol. 7 and 8 also from the MOS.