The KLF – Chill Out
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KLF Communications – JAMSLP5 |
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Vinyl
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UK |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
Style: |
Ambient |
Tracklist
| A1 | Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border | 1:47 | |
| A2 | Pulling Out Of Ricardo And The Dusk Is Falling Fast | 1:29 | |
| A3 | Six Hours To Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold | 3:01 | |
| A4 | Dream Time In Lake Jackson | 2:35 | |
| A5 | Madrugada Eterna | 7:40 | |
| A6 | Justified And Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago | 1:08 | |
| A7 | Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul | 3:01 | |
| B1 | 3AM Somewhere Out Of Beaumont | 9:24 | |
| B2 | Witchita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard | 5:56 | |
| B3 | Trancentral Lost In My Mind | 1:16 | |
| B4 | The Lights Of Baton Rouge By | 3:34 | |
| B5 | A Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back | 1:41 | |
| B6 | Rock Radio Into The Nineties And Beyond | 1:26 | |
| B7 | Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up | 0:16 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – KLF Communications
- Copyright © – KLF Communications
- Distributed By – The Cartel
- Recorded At – Trancentral
- Mastered At – P.R. Records Limited
- Pressed By – P.R. Records Limited
Credits
- Composed By, Compiled By, Edited By [Collated] – Jimmy Cauty
- Plated By – P (29)
- Written-By [Sample] – Mellin* (tracks: B5)
Notes
The KLF would like to thank Evil Graham Lee, Elvis Presley, Nick Coler, Jesus loves you, Fleetwood Mac, Acker Bilk and all other communicators around the world who contributed to this album.
Used Samples:
'Crossing Bells And Horn With Electric Train '
'Short Freight Train '
'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").
A7: 'In The Ghetto' performed by Elvis Presley.
B1: 'Albatross' and 'Oh Well' both performed by Fleetwood Mac and 'After The Love' performed by Jesus Loves You.
B4: 'Pacific' performed by 808 State.
B6 : 'Stranger On The Shore' performed by Acker Bilk and 'Eruption' performed by Van Halen.
Although unstated, all additional writing credits refer to the samples used.
Recorded live at Trancentral
℗&© 1990 KLF Communications
Made in England
Cat# on labels: JAMSLP5
Cat# on front sticker, rear sleeve, and spine: JAMS LP5
Album has been bootlegged (probably in The Netherlands) in year 2000.
Some copies have sticker on outer sleeve "The KLF CHILL OUT file under Ambient JAMS LP5" with barcode 5017139310059 and KLF Communications logo
Used Samples:
'Crossing Bells And Horn With Electric Train '
'Short Freight Train '
'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").
A7: 'In The Ghetto' performed by Elvis Presley.
B1: 'Albatross' and 'Oh Well' both performed by Fleetwood Mac and 'After The Love' performed by Jesus Loves You.
B4: 'Pacific' performed by 808 State.
B6 : 'Stranger On The Shore' performed by Acker Bilk and 'Eruption' performed by Van Halen.
Although unstated, all additional writing credits refer to the samples used.
Recorded live at Trancentral
℗&© 1990 KLF Communications
Made in England
Cat# on labels: JAMSLP5
Cat# on front sticker, rear sleeve, and spine: JAMS LP5
Album has been bootlegged (probably in The Netherlands) in year 2000.
Some copies have sticker on outer sleeve "The KLF CHILL OUT file under Ambient JAMS LP5" with barcode 5017139310059 and KLF Communications logo
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Scanned): 5017139310059
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 1): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P C
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 1): JAMSLP 5 B1 PR-P C
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 2): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P A
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 2): JAMSLP 5 B1 PR-P B
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 3): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P D
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 3): JAMSLP 5 B1 PR-P D
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 4): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P F
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 4): JAMSLP 5 B1 PR-P H
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 5): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P J
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 5): JAMSLP 5 B1 PR-P K
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 6): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P E
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 6): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P F
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 7): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P J
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 7): JAMSLP 5 B1 PR-P H
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 8): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 8): JAMSLP 5 B1 PR-P
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout etching, variant 9): JAMSLP 5 A1 PR-P H
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout etching, variant 9): JAMSLP 5 B1 PR-P H
Other Versions (5 of 41)
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Chill Out (CD, Album) | Indisc | JAMSCD89005 | Benelux | 1990 | ||
| Chill Out (CD, Album, Mixed) | KLF Communications | JAMSCD5, JAMS CD5 | UK | 1990 | |||
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Chill Out (LP, Album, White Label) | KLF Communications | JAMS LP5 | UK | 1990 | ||
| Chill Out (LP, Album, Test Pressing) | Wax Trax! Records | WAX 7155 | US | 1990 | |||
| Chill Out (LP, Album) | Wax Trax! Records | WAX 7155 | US | 1991 |
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Reviews
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So much has been written and said apropos the KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as The JAMs) – from their incineration of a million pounds to pioneering of sampling, from their book and film to that still-unreleased thrash metal album. It is at least arguable though, that their greatest achievement was the ‘Chill Out’ concept album, even if there is also conjecture as to how much of its 45 minutes was actually the creation of Drummond and Cauty themselves.
With an array of chaotic titles (‘Brownsville Turnaround on the Tex-Mex Border’, ‘A Melody from a Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back’, ‘Rock Radio into the Nineties and Beyond’) and hugely varying song lengths – half the 14 tracks are two minutes or under, just three extend past four – the start-of-decade opus serves as ing material for post-rave drives and those early morning roams around the land. While the 3AMs and Trancentrals were aimed for maximum accessibility and extremum crossover yield, there is deeper emotional complexity in ‘Madrugada Eterna’ (Spanish for “Eternally Dawn”) and ‘3AM Somewhere out of Beaumont’, clocking in at a combined 17 and a half minutes. KLF is gonna rock ya! -
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Edited 4 months agoMy vinyl copy, that I bought in Tower Records in Glasgow in early 1991, has a sticker on the front that says “File Under Ancient” rather than “File Under Ambient”. Anyone know if this is rarer than the “File Under Ambient” version?
It still has the Tower Records price sticker with the date etc….a whole £7.99! -
Some copies came with an alternate sticker with "File Under Ancient" on it instead of "File Under Ambient". -
If I could only keep one record out of my entire collection, this would be the very one. It's the best album I ever heard. -
I’ve had this since it came out, never tire of it
Timeless
Sitting here Saturday night, SCD on the telly so I’m cruising the highways -
The throat singing is a little weird in my opinion, but this album is great. Reminds me of car trips I take with my brother - often in the dead of night, plus the fact we have different musical tastes (him being the Elvis and seeing myself in the techno ~30 min in, my favorite parts actually). We'll put this on our "8 hour drive to the beach" playlist this Summer.
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BD: "Chill Out was a live album. It took two days to put together. It was made from a lot of stuff we already had, bits and pieces, but it was kind of jamming, so it was done in real time. Some of the sounds were off LPs, some off tapes — we'd run around having to put an album on there, a tape on here."
JC: "There are no edits on it, and quite a few times we'd get near the end and make a mistake, and so we'd have to go all the way back to the beginning again and set it all up from scratch. It was like spinning plates (laughs). We used two DAT players, a record player, a couple of cassette players and a 12-track, feeding through a mixer and back to a DAT." -
Edited one year agoIn Martyn Ware's (Human League/Heaven 17) podcast interview (July 1? 2023) with Alex Paterson (https://discogs.cinepelis.org/artist/32613-Alex-Paterson) from The Orb, Alex says that 80% of Chill Out is him dj'ing, but that he is uncredited! -
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