Chill Out (KLF album)

Chill Out
Chill Out
Studio album by The KLF
Released	5 February 1990
Studio	Trancentral
Genre	Ambient; ambient house; sound collage;
Length	44:43
Label	KLF Communications
Producer	The KLF
The KLF chronology

"Dream Time in Lake Jackson"

Ethnic Tuvan throat singing underscored by ethereal synthesiser sounds.

"Elvis on the Radio, Steel Guitar in My Soul"

Graham Lee's pedal steel accompanies Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto", with sampled rolling stock.

"Wichita Lineman Was a Song I Once Heard"

The distinctive strings of The KLF's original "Last Train to Trancentral" are prominent. The build-up features samples of a furiously intense salesman.

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Chill Out is the debut studio album by British electronic music group The KLF, released on 5 February 1990. It is an ambient-styled concept album featuring an extensive selection of samples, portraying a mythical night-time journey throughout the U.S. Gulf Coast states, beginning in Texas and ending in Louisiana. Chill Out was conceived as a continuous piece of music, with original KLF music interwoven with samples from songs by Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Acker Bilk, Van Halen, 808 State and field recordings of Tuvan throat singers.

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^ Luck, Richard (1999). "The KLF". In Buckley, Jonathan; Duane, Orla; Ellingham, Mark; Spicer, Al (eds.). The Rough Guide to Rock (2nd ed.). London: Rough Guides. pp. 538–539. ISBN 1-85828-457-0. From #1 to number nowhere, Cauty and Drummond turned their attention away from the mainstream and concentrated, instead, upon ambient music. While Cauty founded The Orb, Chill Out (1990), an album still regarded highly by dance-trance aficionados, was released by the band under the new name of The KLF. Sadly, like the other records the band released during their ambient phase, it didn't sell particularly well.
^ Stanley, Bob (2013). "1991: Time for the Mu Mu". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 645. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5. The KLF's 1990 Chill Out album had pioneered the tautological 'ambient house', mixing train noises, post-punk dub and pre-punk Floyd.
^ Future Music (17 March 2021). "The beginner's guide to: chillout". Music Radar. Retrieved 17 June 2023. An audio collage of everything from Elvis to the Tuvan throat singing of Siberia, the album tells the story of an imaginary night-time journey from Texas to Louisiana.
^ Howard, Vicki; Lawrence, Pete, eds. (2004). "Stripped Pine and Swedish Furniture: A Defence of Chill-Out". Crossfade: A Big Chill Anthology. London: Serpent's Tail. p. 29. ISBN 9781852428754. Retrieved 17 June 2023. The KLF's extraordinary 1990 ambient sonic collage Chill Out was the landmark: a forty-five-minute, distinctly tongue-in-cheek odyssey through sound effects and environmental noise..

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[Luck-2] Luck, Richard (1999). "The KLF". In Buckley, Jonathan; Duane, Orla; Ellingham, Mark; Spicer, Al (eds.). The Rough Guide to Rock (2nd ed.). London: Rough Guides. pp. 538–539. ISBN 1-85828-457-0. From #1 to number nowhere, Cauty and Drummond turned their attention away from the mainstream and concentrated, instead, upon ambient music. While Cauty founded The Orb, Chill Out (1990), an album still regarded highly by dance-trance aficionados, was released by the band under the new name of The KLF. Sadly, like the other records the band released during their ambient phase, it didn't sell particularly well.

[Stanley-3] Stanley, Bob (2013). "1991: Time for the Mu Mu". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 645. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5. The KLF's 1990 Chill Out album had pioneered the tautological 'ambient house', mixing train noises, post-punk dub and pre-punk Floyd.

[Music_Radar-4] Future Music (17 March 2021). "The beginner's guide to: chillout". Music Radar. Retrieved 17 June 2023. An audio collage of everything from Elvis to the Tuvan throat singing of Siberia, the album tells the story of an imaginary night-time journey from Texas to Louisiana.

[Howard-5] Howard, Vicki; Lawrence, Pete, eds. (2004). "Stripped Pine and Swedish Furniture: A Defence of Chill-Out". Crossfade: A Big Chill Anthology. London: Serpent's Tail. p. 29. ISBN 9781852428754. Retrieved 17 June 2023. The KLF's extraordinary 1990 ambient sonic collage Chill Out was the landmark: a forty-five-minute, distinctly tongue-in-cheek odyssey through sound effects and environmental noise..

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