Our Chill Out Tent classic this week is the gorgeous Love Theme from Terry Callier, we’re sharing the less well know 4 Hero ‘No Skins’ mix here, a joy from first to last. What a sublime voice…
Global Communication – 14:31
This week’s Chill Out Tent classic is another timeless electronic masterpiece, Global Communication’s ‘14.31’ from their 1994 album 76:14. Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard’s collaboration is a slow meditative pulse punctuated by the ticking of an antique clock. Definitely a track to get lost in…
Hard to find physical copies of this album, but committed fans and completists can now order this amazing box set from Bleep, don’t sleep on this one…
Blade Runner Blues – Vangelis
Our next Chill Out Tent classic is the majestic Blade Runner Blues from the Vangelis soundtrack of the 1982 iconic science fiction feature. Eventually released in 1994 after years of legal wrangling it remains a seminal electronic landmark. Arguably best enjoyed in the 2007 special edition triple pack…
Coldcut – Autumn Leaves [Irresistible Force mix]
This week’s Chill Out Tent classic is a collaboration of two seminal forces in electronic music; cut & paste pioneers Coldcut and the grand wizard of ambient Mixmaster Morris in his ‘Irresistible Force‘ guise. Morris takes the classy Coldcut version of the jazz standard and stretches it out into ten sublime minutes of languid synths and strings, it’s deep, dreamy and emotionally affecting. Recalling memories of Morris closing one of his legendary Big Chill Sunday night sets with this, leaving a blissed out crowd of horizontal chillers…
Buy or stream a high quality digital file from Coldcut’s official online store here.
Art Of Noise – Moments In Love
This weeks Chill Out Tent classic is the majestic ‘Moments in Love’ from the Art of Noise. This 1983 beauty from the ZTT pioneers and provocateurs is cited by Cafe del Mar legend Jose Padilla as his all time chill out #1, so who are we to argue?
https://www.discogs.com/Art-Of-Noise-Moments-In-Love/master/3650
Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent)
Our first instalment of ‘Chill Out Tent Classics’ is the sunset favourite of An Ending (Ascent) from Brian Eno. Composed by the ambient pioneer in 1983 as part of the soundtrack to the 1989 Nasa documentary ‘For All Mankind’. Beautiful, melancholic, essential.
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