chill out

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chill out
The KLF's studio album

Publication
(s)

5th February 1990

Label (s) KLF Communications

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Ambient
downtempo
sound collage

Title (number)

14th

running time

44.19

production

Jimmy Cauty, Bill Drummond (The KLF)

Studio (s)

Stockwell, London

chronology
The "What Time Is Love?" Story
(1989) 		chill out The White Room
(1991)

Chill Out is an Ambient - concept album by The KLF , released in February 1990 on their own label. The album is a nocturnal drive on the Gulf Coast of the USA from the Mexican - Texan border to Louisiana .

Chill Out is considered a groundbreaking ambient album . David Toop writes in the Times that Chill Out not only founded the genre term " Chill-out ", but also the genre "Ambient House".

style

The album consists of a continuous composition that has been split into 14 parts. It is more reminiscent of a sound collage than pure ambient through a multitude of different samples such as pieces by Elvis Presley , Fleetwood Mac , Acker Bilk or the throat singing of Tuvin monks. These samples and effects are overlaid with original music from The KLF (including synthesizers and a pedal steel guitar ).

After the recording, the music reminded the duo of a trip through the US Deep South .

“I've never been to these places. I don't know what these places are like, but in my head I can imagine that these sounds come from those places, just looking at the map. "

- Bill Drummond from The KLF

reception

John Bush gave the album five out of five stars and wrote on allmusic :

"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. Throughout, Drummond and Cauty display an instinctive talent for wallpaper music that's truly diverting, making Chill Out one of the essential ambient albums. "

“Chill Out consists mostly of fragmented, heavily reverberant steel guitars, ambient noises (birds, trains), occasional synths and an angelic vocal choir that repeats its own KLF song" Justified and Ancient ". All the while, Cauty and Drummond have an instinctive talent for wallpaper music , which is truly entertaining. So Chill Out becomes one of the essential ambient albums. "

- John Bush, allmusic

Track list

  1. Brownsville Turnaround on the Tex-Mex Border - 1:43
  2. Pulling out of Ricardo and the Dusk is Falling Fast - 1:29
  3. Six Hours to Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold - 3:01
  4. Dream Time in Lake Jackson - 2:37
  5. Madrugada Eterna - 7:41
  6. Justified and Ancient Seems a Long Time Ago - 1:09
  7. Elvis on the Radio, Steel Guitar in My Soul - 2:40
  8. 3 am Eternal Somewhere out of Beaumont - 9:50
  9. Wichita Lineman Was a Song I Once Heard - 5:57
  10. Trancentral Lost in My Mind - 0:56
  11. The Lights of Baton Rouge Pass By - 3:26
  12. A Melody from a Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back - 1:51
  13. Rock Radio into the Nineties and Beyond - 1:27
  14. Alone Again with the Dawn Coming Up - 0:19

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release date
  2. ^ David Toop : A world in a grain of sound , The Times ( London ) ISSN  0140-0460 , August 13, 1993
  3. ↑ "I've never been to those places. I don't know what those places are like, but in my head, I can imagine those sounds coming from those places, just looking at the map. "Quoted from: Ernie Longmire (" Lazlo Nibble "): KLF is Gonna Rock Ya ! ( January 26, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ), X Magazine , April 1, 1991.
  4. ^ The KLF: Chill Out