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 May 17 2020, 08:36 PM
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Just something I wanted to do as I've been a little obsessed with chillout tracks recently. Will
Let's begin with one of the most iconic. Groove Armada - At The River Released: 1997 and re-released in 1999 (#19 UK) What a perfect place to start, the epitome of the chillout genre. Officially a part of the group's second album Vertigo (though it did appear on Norther Star initially), At The River has blissful vocal, based on a sample of Old Cape Cod by Patti Page, laid across one of the smoothest productions ever. I don't need to say anything else other than revisit it in all its glory (or discover it if you haven't before). Fun fact: Radio 1 were going to ignore this on their daytime playlist because they thought it was too slow  thanks to Rob da Bank and Zoe Ball (amongst others) spamming it the song got forced into rotation!
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May 17 2020, 08:50 PM
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Love chillout music!
I found a short thread I started a few years ago, and notice what song I started that thread with too!  http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=192682 |
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May 17 2020, 08:52 PM
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 an actual coincidence. Well, I hope to bring some more joy to the forum on this genre!
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May 17 2020, 09:13 PM
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Try Smooth Radio Chill. It's actually really good and nothing like the main station. It plays chilled versions of dance tracks:- https://www.smoothradio.com/chill/
Recently played:- Café Del Mar (Michael Woods Remix) - Energy 52 2People (RexKwondo Remix) - Jean Jacques Smoothie Since I Left You - The Avalanches Greece 2000 (Moonwatchers Mix) - Three Drives Offshore (ambient mix) - Chicane The Ocean (Escape Mix) - Paul Van Dyk / ARTY https://www.smoothradio.com/chill/radio/playlist/ This post has been edited by gavindeejay: May 17 2020, 09:14 PM |
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May 17 2020, 09:15 PM
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Oh mate I'm already there, it's what inspired this thread! I've been listening to it non-stop for the last couple of weeks
Very happy to see tracks from Escape Reality being played. |
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May 17 2020, 09:19 PM
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Great suggestion for a radio station, and I can definitely vouch for that Energy 52 remix and Avalanches and Chicane are great artists too.
My choice of chillout streaming that I’ve used for some years now (both as a paid and unpaid subscription) is di.fm which have a variety of chillout stations, my preferred is the vocal chillout station, but I dabble in and out of other stations too. https://www.di.fm/vocalchillout |
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May 17 2020, 09:27 PM
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Smooth have done a good job at rebranding chill. actually. They just posted 312k listeners in the Q1 Rajar (300k in Q4 2019 which was its first set of stats) which isn't bad for a station that's only been going (in its current form) just under 9 months.
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May 17 2020, 09:35 PM
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QUOTE(lewistgreen @ May 17 2020, 10:27 PM)  Smooth have done a good job at rebranding chill. actually. They just posted 312k listeners in the Q1 Rajar which isn't bad for a station that's only been going (in its current form) just under 9 months. It's on National DAB now so those numbers should increase in the next Rajar. Have to agree it's a great station, probably the best and most adventurous Global station. My chillout tracks are:- Massive Attack - Teardrop Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy Chicane - Saltwater Chicane - Offshore Chicane - Poppiholla Moby - Natural Blues Moby - Porciline Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? Daft Punk - Something About Us Portishead - Glory Box Zero 7 - Destiny M83 - Outro |
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May 17 2020, 09:43 PM
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^ Some of which I may feature in this thread
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May 17 2020, 09:53 PM
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QUOTE(gavindeejay @ May 17 2020, 10:35 PM) Chicane - Saltwater Chicane - Offshore Chicane - Poppiholla If you're going to have those then also add this 
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May 17 2020, 09:57 PM
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Also just while we are on the subject of Chicane, there was a remastered album released last week which contained No Ordinary Morning and Saltwater.
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May 17 2020, 10:13 PM
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and if you like the Paul van Dyk chill album, Ferry Corsten has just put one out too. haven't listened to either of them myself yet. and Above & Beyond also did one, which was out last year but they seem to have re-released it with some more spoken word tracks.
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May 17 2020, 10:16 PM
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Flow State is a fabulous album
will have to check out the Ferry Corsten one at some point
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May 18 2020, 07:39 PM
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I want to take an opportunity to promote DJ Shah’s work. He also goes by the alias Roger Shah and you may have heard some of his uptempo trance music, but his chillout music is very dear to me.
I’m especially fond of his side project called Sunlounger, which I bought CD’s of many years ago, and they are some of the finest chillout songs I’ve discovered before. I wanted to share some of the music with anyone searching for chillout music. As DJ Shah he has released a couple of compilations which include both his own music and other music from his label; He also released an album called Songbook which contains “acoustic” versions of all the tracks and they are very chilled; But his best work in my opinion is what he has done under the alias of Sunlounger; I don’t think he produces any more music under the Sunlounger alias anymore, but what he did make is worth listening to many times over as music to chill to! 
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Sunday, 08:46 AM
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Time for a new one this week and it comes from American producer Luttrell. The track, Lucky Ones, features on his album of the same name released in March through Anjunadeep. Leaving Laurel are signed to the same label and the’ve turned the song into a beatless wonder, enjoy!
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Sunday, 09:31 AM
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Moby's “God Moving Over the Face of the Waters” is also a great chill-out track. : )
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Sunday, 12:02 PM
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QUOTE(Doctor Blind @ May 24 2020, 10:31 AM) Moby's “God Moving Over the Face of the Waters” is also a great chill-out track. : ) I told you Lewis! I will check out the Luttrell song now. |
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Sunday, 12:13 PM
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Well that was certainly calming to listen to, such a restful piece of music.
In a similar vain, I will share this song from my library which I discovered some years ago which I consider to be one of the chillest songs of all time. It’s just such a mellow piece of music from an artist called Transa; |
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