Chill Out
Chill Out Ambient is a concept album by The KLF, which was released on their own label in early 1990. The album represents a nighttime ride on the Gulf Coast of the United States from the Mexican- Texas border to Louisiana
Chill Out is regarded as pioneering ambient album. David Toop writes in The Times that Chill Out was founded not only the genre term Chill Out, but also the genre of ambient house.
Style
The album consists of a continuous composition, which has been split into 14 parts. It looks more like a sound collage than pure Ambient by a variety of different samples like pieces of Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Acker Bilk or throat singing tuwanischer monks. These samples and effects with original music by The KLF considered ( among other synthesizers and pedal steel guitar ).
After recording, the music reminded the duo on a journey through the American Deep South.
" I've never been to these places. I do not know how these places are, but in my head I can imagine that these sounds come from those places, but if I already look at the map "
Reception
John Bush awarded five out of five stars on the album and writes at allmusic:
" Chill Out Consists Largely of fragmented, heavily reverbed steel guitar, environmental sounds ( birds, trains ), occasional synth, and of angelic vocal chorus repeating the KLF 's own" Justified and Ancient "theme. Throughout, Drummond and Cauty display of instinctive talent for wallpaper music that's truly diverting, making Chill Out one of the essential ambient albums. "
" Chill Out consists largely of fragmented, heavily reverbed steel guitars, ambient sounds (birds, trains), occasional synths and an angelic choir singing, which the host KLF song" repeated Justified and Ancient ". All the time ask Cauty and Drummond an instinctive talent for Wallpaper Music, which is truly entertaining. So Chill Out is one of the essential ambient albums. "