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Hmm, i haven't listened to this in a long time but i think i am of the opinion that it is a landmark ambient album. Of course it's not really the origin of it we have brian eno and others who i am not informed enough to know, no doubt. I do however think that this album helped shape ambient music as it is at the moment. And that is almost everything from the orb to tim hecker (sorry if that dispells some people's opinions of what time heckers music is) as in flowing albums with theme and structure as a whole. This also is kind of at odds with SAW2 but anyway... Your thoughts??? |
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johnl sent me this. wasn't too impressed. don't know how you could like it unless you're on drugs at the time - unlike SAW2 which is lovely in many different circumstances |
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they Re-Invented the ambient music. they invented the actuall chill out sounds. chill out is a masterpiece rox |
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elvis should sing much more in ambient music, i like his voice. |
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i don't need any drug to listen to chill out it's perfect anyway lol relaxing, intelligent, melodic etc etc |
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Well it came first i also said it was at odds with saw2. I also disagree with the fact that is only enjoyable with drugs, i highly enjoy it whatever state i am in. Also it is mostly sample based saw2 isn't. Also sample manipulation has come alot further as well. Example: tim hecker - radio amour is totally sample based but becomes lovely almost syth like textures through the manipulation. Also in context i am sure it also means alot more but i was only6 years old when it came out but i can understand the importance of such things, as i am a music fan and make a point of studying the history of it as well. |
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I love Chill Out. It's possibly the KLF's best album. It's very relaxing and also I like the narratives in the voice snippets. I have searched for a long time for any ambient music as good, and I'm still searching. The guitar-work is nice, I'll be forcing redrum to listen to some more KLF soon. Other stuff like Chill Out : Space, which is pretty damn cool, an imagined trip around the solar system. Rites Of Mu, an ambient piece with a story narrated by Martin Sheen, where the KLF invite him to the island to witness a ritual. Waiting, which lies somewhere between Space and Chill Out. It's a bit more stressful than either. Build A Fire, from The White Room, has a nice guitar line and lyrics. The KLF are, in my humble opinion, under-appreciated and, in general, mis-understood, particularly with regard to The White Room and the Stadium House Trilogy. If anyone wants to know more about KLF ("also known as the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, furthermore known as the Jams"), contact me. Good KLF website : http://www.klf.de It has a link to an FTP which contains almost all of the KLF's output. |
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i might give chill out another go. for the time being i'm more interested in getting you to hear incunabula and saw2 :D |
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It is one of the all time classic albums of any genre. It is Ambient, and the fact has has little or nothing to do with SAW II just shows the breadth of possibilities in the genre of ... ambient (I used the word ambient, well, four times now). I love the way it blends a loose roadtrip narrative across the States whilst retaining peculiarly British sounds in the mix. It, for me, is like an imaginary European version of an American road movie in the way someone like Wim Wenders views the US. It references loads and yet retains startling originality, in summary: Aces. |
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I haven't listened to it in ages, I must admit. But it is quite good, although when I bought it, I felt it wasn't enough techno as I'd hope for (my taste in 92...). But it dawned on me when i started getting into the Orb and Warp's ai series 1-2 years later. I think this was actually the record that primed my musical taste towards the ambient/abstract stuff that was all the rage from 94 and onwards for me. A landmark of a record, no less. |
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awesome. a typical wednesday night in 1991... go out, get drunk, come back, smoke a bong, listen to chill out, pass out on someone elses floor, miss next days lectures, not really care much. |
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Ah, one of the very first electronic albums i heard, and it's a fucking gem. I remember being about 11 and listening to it in bed thinking this is what all music should sound like. Listening to it nowadays, it's nice to hear some ambient music that doesn't seem to take itself so very tediously seriously... lovely but not up it's own arse. One of those records i don't play nearly enough. |
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space by jimmy cauty is a pretty good album aswell |
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: ) It makes me happy that this is appreciated. |
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