KLF - CHILL OUT / ORIGINAL LP / JAMMS/ORB/AMBIENT
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THE KLF - CHILL OUT
1990 KLF COMMUNICATIONS JAMS LP5
SLEEVE: VG+/EX. BEAUTIFUL PASTORAL COLOUR PHOTO ARTWORK OF RESTING SHEEP. FAINT CREASE TOP LEFT FRONT CORNER. OTHERWISE, IN PERFECT NEAR MINT CONDITION. NO TEARS, FEATHERING OR WRITING.
VINYL: VG. CLEAN, SHINY AS NEW AND PLAYS THROUGH ON BOTH SIDES WITHOUT CRACKLES, POPS OR JUMPS. THERE IS A FAINT HAIRLINE SCRATCH ON SIDE A WHICH DOES NOT AFFECT PLAY AND IS NOT DETECTABLE WITH FINGER. OTHERWISE, LIKE NEW.
INCLUDES A4 KLF MERCHANDISING LEAFLET ADVERTISING T-SHIRTS & HAT WITH P.O.BOX ADDRESS.
‘Chill Out’ is one of the strangest, most original, transporting and beautiful records to come out of electronica. Taking cues from Brian Eno’s early ambient records, ‘Chill Out’ seems to simulate a night time road trip across southern USA highways while you have the radio on low because everyone else in the car is fast asleep; it’s enveloping bliss. Some of the tracks don’t even have any melody in them, but they all add to the dreamy ambiance of it all. You can hear train-crossings, birds, engines, even sheep; why some of them are in there is anyone’s guess, but like The Orb’s classic debut, ‘Chill Out’ has a great sense of humour bundled with it which means that there’s always something to take you by surprise. ‘Chill Out’ is also heavily indebted to sampling; the strains of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Albatross’ and Acker Bilk’s ‘Stranger On The Shore’ aren’t disguised in any way, but they don’t really steal their melodies; ‘Chill Out’ isn’t about melodies. It’s all about atmosphere and that’s exactly what the samples provide. As the ‘Albatross’ snippet fades in slowly, you can see yourself sipping coffee parked in a petrol station watching the traffic spin round in the pouring rain.
I strongly doubt there has ever been (or will ever be) a record like this. Though The Orb’s ‘U.F.Orb’ came close, ‘Chill Out’ still exceeds it in nearly every aspect. A transcendant, transporting highway wilderness. In a bizarre change of plan, the year after ‘Chill Out’ was released, The KLF had more UK hit singles than anyone else that year, then the year after that they withdrew one million pounds from their bank account, nailed it to a board of wood, then burnt it. That weird stunt may have shown their madness, but ‘Chill Out’ shows their genius.
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