KLF, The - Chill Out


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Label: Wax Trax! Records
Catalog#: WAXCD 7155
Format: CD, Album
Country:US
Released:Feb 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Ambient
Credits: Composed By, Compiled By, Other [Collated By] - KLF, The
Written-By - Bill Drummond , Jimmy Cauty
Notes:Recorded Live in a 44 minutes take at Trancentral.
Samples:
'Crossing Bells'
'Horn with Electric Train Pass'
'Short Freight Train Pass'
'F18 Diamond Fly-By'
'Dodge Van Starts, Drives Out'
'Surf'
All taken from 'Authentic Sound Effects Volume 2' (Elektra Records).
American, British and Russian radio stations are heard throughout the album; BBC pips and a jingle from Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 ("Rock radio into the nineties and beyond").
7: 'In The Ghetto' performed by Elvis Presley.
8: 'Albatross' performed by Fleetwood Mac, and of 'After The Love' performed by Jesus Loves You.
11: 'Pacific' performed by 808 State.
12: 'Stranger On The Shore' performed by Acker Bilk, and of 'Eruption' performed by Van Halen.
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Tracklisting:

1   Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border (1:46)
2   Pulling Out Of Ricardo And The Dusk Is Falling Fast (1:29)
3   Six Hours To Lousiana, Black Coffee Going Cold (3:01)
4   Dream Time In Lake Jackson (2:35)
5   Madrugada Eterna (7:40)
6   Justified And Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago (1:08)
7   Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul (3:02)
    Written-by [Sample] - Davies*
8   3 A.M. Somewhere Out Of Beaumont (9:24)
    Written-by [Sample] - P. Green*
9   Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard (5:55)
10   Trancentral Lost In My Mind (1:16)
11   The Lights Of Baton Rouge Pass By (3:34)
12   A Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back (1:41)
    Written-by [Sample] - Bilk* , Mellin*
13   Rock Radio Into The Nineties And Beyond (1:26)
14   Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up (0:16)
User Reviews:
ledjfab, Jan 05, 2005

Recorded in one take at Trancentral in 1990, this album is a mixture of samples and new age/experimental contemporary music. Many elements from "Chill Out" were sampled from previous releases of The KLF, and then re-used again in the making of "The White Room" (their most popular opus). So you do recognize bits from "3 AM Eternal", "Last Train To Trancentral" and "Justified and Ancient" throughout this musical road trip.
My favorite moments on this CD are "Wichita Lineman..." and "Trancentral Lost In My Mind", later released in part as the "Pure Trance Original" mix of "Last Train To Trancentral". The sampled voices of a preacher and a radio host are melt together in a strong melodic segment.
"Elvis On The Radio..." samples a song from Elvis Presley, way back before Junkie XL with "A Little Less Conversation". Amazing "Hawaian" result! Hear for yourself!
Interesting and very moody; I recommend to everybody. Lie down, close your eyes, relax: Chill out.

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