Chill Out Album: Soft Mixes [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 23, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea/East/West
• ASIN: B000051T1X
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #799,884 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Teardrop

2. Harlequins Meditation

3. Nights Interlude

4. Black Baby

5. Milk

6. Virtuality

7. Offshore

8. Don't Leave

9. Face A La Mar

10. Happiness

11. Underwater Love

12. Appreciation

13. Denfenceless

14. Rise

15. Forbidden Colours

16. Sky Is Broken

17. Jazz Music

18. Sensual Woman

19. It Takes A Thief

20. Light My Fire

See all 31 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Very cool German only 2 CD collection of Chillout tracks. It sports the same artwork as the popular UK series on Telstar but for the most part has an entirely different tracklisting. Of the 31 tracks highlights include, David Sylvian-'Forbidden Colours',

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Soundtrack Was Better Than The Show, July 16, 2001

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"ethylamine" (DC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chill Out Album: Soft Mixes (Audio CD)

This is the album I have hunted for, longed for, drove-local-salespeople-nuts for and have missed like crazy. I know it seems quite a bit to say about a soft-tekkno sampler album, but I'm serious. It was one of DeutschBoy's favorite albums, so I used to do my homework with it in the background. After we broke up this was the only thing I missed about him. The music was pretty enough that not even bitter/sweet memories tied to each and every track can ruin it. I once performed The Herbalizer's "Sensual Woman" at an open-mike night (it's Bullett-toothed Johnny's song in the movie *Snatch*) "Black Baby" and "Sci-Fi Saloon" have a soft jazzy feel and, of course, Shirly Bassey sings "Come on Baby Light My Fire" in the version I find hotter than the first. And yes, it is far more expensive than I would ordinarily pay for an album, but for those who want a chill out album that will not get stale, or are looking for an introduction to good tekkno (as opposed to what passes for it around the US) this is a very nice place to start. It's not 5 stars only because it IS a sampler and I give 5 stars to albums that aren't just songs strung together.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best of the best, November 10, 2003

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Brandon (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chill Out Album: Soft Mixes (Audio CD)

Years ago when I started listening to electronica, I saw this at a CD store and for some reason it stood out from the hundreds of other "chill out" CDs. It was expensive, but I took a chance and bought it anyway. Right away I knew there was something different about this one...it is German, so you definitely get a different angle than the usual British or American perspective. Sure there are mainstream standards like Massive Attack & Moby, but there were other tracks that blew me away. In particular, "Face à la mar" and "Harlequin's Meditation" are tye type of songs you'd never hear on a domestic CD, and now they're some of my favorites of the genre. Every track on here is not a gem, but as a whole you can listen to both discs over & over and not grow tired of it. I love electronica, but I prefer down-beat, slow grooves--this CD has a great balance between slow and medium tempo songs. If you like "chill out" music but are tired of the same-old "cheap" electronica CDs; this is the album for you. I liked it so much that I ordered the other 3 double discs in the series.