 | Moon Safari by Air
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.21 Gotta start with the defining work of Chillout! Air have never approached this brilliance again, but it is a wonderful thing that this has remained.
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 | Black Cherry by Goldfrapp
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.51 Not as popular as 'Felt Mountain', but blissfully weird. Alison Goldfrapp's voice is at the peak of its powers.
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 | Best Kept Secrets 1996 - 2004 by Lamb
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.97 Any group that can write 'Gorecki', know chillout as second nature!
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 | Play by Moby
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £0.28 Yea, yea - you probably know this one - but watch the video 'Jetman' & you'll see its brilliance anew...
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 | Leftism by Leftfield
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £1.95 The best electronica Album of the 90's - blends at least 5 genres into serene melodies. If you don't believe me, then pick up any chillout compilation & I bet it has 'Melt' on it!
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 | Rhythm and Stealth by Leftfield
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.86 Used to death by Ray Mears on his programmes, but that should not detract from it... ;)
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 | Visions by Jakatta
Buy used from: £2.99 Thought these were just Bandwagon jumpers, but this album has some fine tracks on it, even if the 1st one is just the speaking clock over a beat!
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 | Resist by Kosheen
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.94 I just love this album cover - its so serene! And the music on it is the same - blissed out drum & bass. 'Hungry' is easily the best song (from this perspective.)
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 | The Best Of by Groove Armada
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.62 Although the constant looping of the same samples should be nauseating, it is somehow not & 'My Friend' (Track 5) is mesmerising...
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 | Simple Things by Zero 7
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.57 Way, way too overrated in the chillout stakes. However 'Waiting Line' & 'Destiny' are good...
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 | The 5th Exotic by Quantic
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £5.14 Obscure, but the first 4 tracks beat anything 'Zero 7' have done for World Peace!
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 | The Cross of Changes by Enigma
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.62 Obscure again & only one good track. However, every time I play my Chillout compilation, people loop that song over & over again - Track one 'The Return of Innocence'.
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 | Classic M People: The Best by M People
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Lost wonders of the 90's - 'Search for the Hero' is blindingly powerful & the rest are guaranteed to bring you joy.
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 | Fragments Of Freedom by Morcheeba
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £0.33 Fleas on the above, but prolific enough to have moved out from the shadow of the big tree & into their own element...
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 | 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.10 Often cited as chillout, and with good reason - what happened to the genre of Chillout Hip-Hop? Bring it back I say!
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 | Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £0.85 Ranked #613 in music? Superb album & a forgotten Chillout classic. One of those cases of an eloquent voice dispelling rage (like Eminem can be.)
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 | James: The Best Of by James
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £0.98 Tis rare for a band to understand Chillout. These guys don't do it deliberately but, like Alanis Morrissette, their passion & soul speak to places other chillout doesn't reach! ;)
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 | The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.94 Another Chillout Band, but this one do (or rather did) know what they were doing. This album never fails to calm me while driving as it has surreal touches & the lead singer's voice can't be bettered.
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 | The Best TV Ads...Ever by Various Artists
Buy used from: £0.89 Another car chillout classic. This has so many tracks that are soulful & peaceful though, oddly, they don't seem to work as chillout when taken off the album & put on a compilation.
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 | Chillout Album by chillout album
Buy used from: £24.47 The original & best though gone out of issue. Quick - Go buy up all the copies!... Actually, maybe its best left as secret brilliance... D'oh!
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 | Chilled Ibiza by Various Artists
Buy used from: £0.49 These CD's are especially good for lazy bedroom afternoons without, though preferably with, company (if you know what I mean...;)
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 | The Chillout Session by Various Artists
Buy used from: £0.25 Very enjoyable & apparently better than the recent 'Best of'. As wise women say - 'it ain't what you do it's...'
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 | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly by Original Soundtrack
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £5.91 A big secret among Chillout fans - keep it under your hat... Of course there is 'The Very Best of', but that's only the first three tracks & misses 'Ecstacy of Gold'...
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 | Oxygene - 30th Anniversary + 2D DVD by Jean Michel Jarre
Buy new: £11.98 Purely Instrumental, but was the inspiration for Moby (& probably most of this list.)
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 | The Voice of Calm by Paul Wilson
From the writer of the Little Book of Calm. The final word on all things peaceful & serene (unless you like reading as well as listening...)
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