the klf chill out

Come on then posters - the best tune by BRMC/The Strokes/Starsailor/White Stripes/Kylie/the immacualtely dressed but nevertheless tuneless Hives and Trail of Hyped up Dread

Vs

The 4 minutes or so of melodic, funky, blissful noise that is 3am Eternal.

Weekender, fuck off and die.

The 4 minutes or so of melodic, funky, blissful noise that is 3am Eternal.

Yeah, 3AM wins, even over Kylie. But Chill Out is even BETTER.

From a certain perspective, sure, it could be monotonous/pretentious/boring/whatever... but personally, it's so much more. Blame my suburban Midwestern upbringing, but it so perfectly evokes those aimless, nocturnal, frost-covered 20MPH drives through rural subdivisions, all AM radio crosstalking, songs bubbling in and out of the mix. Whether it's a high-concept gag or a genuine evocation of such things, it hardly matters. It's a beautiful, timeless record.

listening to this album is like having a staring contest with god.

i never it

It's a good 'un - if you like The Orb in their prime this one is just as good.

^ exactly

blueski you must it

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hhdmtJGMbQE

The best KLF tunes by A CONSIDERABLE MARGIN are Justified and Ancient and 3am Eternal, both of which pissed on the chart material of the day.

"Justified and Ancient" is a bit weak. The two greatest of the pop singles are "What Time Is Love?" and "Last Train To Trancentral". They rock.

"Chill Out" is a great snooze classic.

i'm talkin to you baby
come back fat as a rat
if ya meet me baby
if ya meet me baby

alll the way down the east coast

Oh God, Chill out is so wonderful. I remember downloading Madrugada Eterna out on a whim back when I was 16 in my solemn days of late summer, having never heard of, and being quite ignorant of the KLF. Either way, I was just blown away by it, listened to that song like 8 times in a row. I seem to remember saying "when the sun goes down tuesday night, you gonna have so much money you gonna be scared, cause I got it" a lot after that.

come back fat as a rat

listening to this album is like having a staring contest with god
and winning
and driving off into the night

**

i'm not gonna front, though. i only heard this album for the first time, like, a week ago. my life has changed. my life is 1000x better.

Can somebody with a TVT/Wax Trax CD copy dig theirs out? I need to check something. I ordered a copy from a Swiss seller on Amazon.fr since it's (rather suddenly) become hard to find, and theirs was the only reasonable price, and the CD I received has a (very slight) bluish tinge and a printed number around the inside clear rim. Does anyone have an original disc like this, or did I get scammed into buying a well-disguised CDR? If so, I can still return it through Amazon, but I figured I'd check as I know some older discs can be a bit odd-looking.

Mine is a Wax Trax copy and has the same kind of colour on the disk, so I think you're safe. I bought mine in Virgin years ago so I think that all the US imports of this album are like that. My copy of the White Room is a TVT reissue and has a similar looking disk.

Excellent, thanks very much for the reply. I was worried for a moment- not that it makes any difference as far as the music is concerned, perfect digital copies and all that, but it's the principle of the thing.

such a good album

They deleted everything for 23 years, right? So I think that means we can expect a reissue of this in about 4 years time.

no, they deleted everything indefinitely, but this has stayed in print in the US. in 1995 the K Foundation pledged to stop discussing Burn A Million Quid for 23 years.

hmm, 2018? We have polls that don't finish before that!

What else sounds like this? Don't say "some Boards of Canada." Does Segue's Pacifica hit these buttons or did I misread a review a few weeks ago? Seriously looking for recommendations for the new year and I'm techno dumb. I also like Coil stuff like "Dark River" and "The First Five Minutes After Death" (but not totally feeling the recent Blackest Ever Black / Emptyset / Andy Stott / minimal stuff so much). Love Todd Terje's "Snooze 4 Love" but mostly the version w/o beats. And I still listen to that first Wechsel Garland LP. What's my new favorite label / producer / etc?

The recent Donato Dozzy album has a 90s ambient vibe. I really liked it. Loved the Muciccargo on Emotional Response too but I'm not sure it sounds like Chill Out. Not much does really. Do you have Space?

Burger/Ink's Las Vegas might give you a similar buzz to Chill Out, it's got the whole motorik-ambient-techno vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPclpFkHky4

oh and at least the first couple of Orb albums if you don't know them

biosphere - substrata
biosphere - cirque

Thanks guys! I have UFOrb and remember Burger / Ink from the brief Matador / techno dalliances of the late nineties / early oughts, but the rest of this is new to me. Brimstead, is this the Biosphere with the Supersilent connection? Because I like Supersilent.

Also, Noodle, motorik-ambient-techno vibe is exactly what I'm going for. I like the pastoral trancey shit too but I'm generally a "home listening" dude so I still have a pesky aversion to 'beats' of the 909 and 808 variety; I'm trying to get over that, though. I was checking Border Community stuff for a while there, like everyone else I guess.

Basically I'm your average Popol Vuh fan trying to get into techno beyond dilettante level. And I think Chill Out remains some sort of musical platonic ideal.

u need the 2CD version of The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld for sure

huh. that makes it sound like there is a single cd version ?

yeah, there is.

I believe that one was only released in America? Definitely avoid it, if for no other reason than it omits "Spanish Castles in Space"

arse to that.
2 cd version or nothing.
and a total fit for lovers of chill out.
another one would be the global communication remix album for chapterhouse, blood music.

other recs - Woob's 1194, maybe?

biosphere and supersilent are both from norway, iirc, but i'm not sure of any connection beyond that. They don't sound particularly similar but the two albums I listed have a similar 'field recordings mixed with music' thing.

similar to chill out i mean

The biosphere guy also did an awesome cd of field recordings from a Himalayan mountain trek.

Why do so many critics/fans refer to this album as a "novelty record" or a "pisstake"? I fail to see the humor in it. Unless taking previous KLF hit singles like "Last Train to Trancentral" and "Justified and Ancient" and turning them into ambient music counts as humor.

I've never heard it referred to as either. besides doesn't Chill Out predate those singles?

I've never heard it referred to as a novelty or piss-take, but haven't read comprehensively on it either. It's a brilliant ambient album. One of my favs. Better than any Orb LP, in my opinion.

In a 1994 retrospective review, Q's Andrew Collins described The KLF as "ahead of their time" and added that "the fact that Chill Out was seen largely as a urinary extraction exercise[15] at the time when such sound-painting now shapes young careers lends poignancy to its more balmy yet knowing moments."

[15] A "urinary extraction exercise" is (in convoluted British slang) a "piss take" – a targeted joke disguised as something serious.

Probably based on the perception of them as jokers in general. Anyway I'm glad this classic drama has been archived for posterity.

Weekender, fuck off and die.

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Here is a pretty good remix LP of Chill Out by some obscure artist named ODC1 (googling mostly returns results in a language that is apparently Czech?) I especially like 'Pulling The Dusk Out Of Ricardo And Falling Fast' [direct mp3 link]. It all relies heavily on some fairly standard breakbeats but uses them to good effect imo.

Link seems to have vanished

Wye ess aye?

listening to this album is like having a staring contest with god
and winning
and driving off into the night

**

i'm not gonna front, though. i only heard this album for the first time, like, a week ago. my life has changed. my life is 1000x better.

― andi, Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:59 AM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this is my favorite post on ilm. "staring contest with god" extremely otm

I love this album, been listening to it the past couple of days. Spent some time thinking about the actual route the track listing describes, all highways I've driven on repeatedly. It sort of works... but "Pulling out of Ricardo" is followed by "Six Hours to Louisiana" and Ricardo to Orange (the TX/LA border) is only a five-hour drive. Presumably the extra hour involves the detour to Lake Jackson, which is definitely off the usual route. And if dusk was falling fast in Ricardo and it's 3am when he hits Beaumont, the trip probably happened sometime in early summer (May-June) when the sun doesn't set until around 8:30pm. And if the final track is "Alone Again" maybe he picked up a friend in Lake Jackson and dropped them off in New Orleans... that's east of Baton Rouge. Drummond is the sorta guy who's probably driving to Nashville, which he might be able to manage if he took a nap in Lake Jackson at his friend's house. It's about eight hours from New Orleans.

Now (kind of) on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4fBvkZkBuPyo3k7ZogKFAo?si=smRWLhlSQCamTrWopBG8ow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W99Sn3lYY10