When I saw this thread I thought it was going to be stories about the chill out rooms back in the mid-90’s and especially those that were at the Pharcyde and Vortex raves in Cape Town (super niche, I know) and wasn’t ready to relive those magical velour pillowed drug dens just yet. There was nothing like taking your first half, a little acid to top it off and somehow ending up in those rooms after being separated from your friends and sitting down next to a group of people handing out the purest of doves and eventually your friends find you in a state of bliss in a huge circle massaging strangers hands to a sound track of wonky b-sides, oddball pop played at the wrong speed and anything else that wouldn’t get anywhere near a dance floor. Magical times.
Hahaha well that checks out.
For me “In A Silent Way” is one of the OG chill-out albums - I used to get high and listen to this all the time and parts of the title track work really well in a sunset/chill type set (before it gathers steam about halfway through). The way each player dips in and out and yet it all coheres is pure sorcery.
My go-to album when I’d finally got back to my folks was always Lou Reed’s ‘Berlin’. So utterly depressing and soporific I’d usually be asleep by ‘Oh Jim’, which was handy, becasue you really don’t want to be listening to ‘The Kids’ on a comedown 
I’ve posted this in many threads and worthy of a repost.
This was on the decks in Phonica yesterday which reminded me of a particular post -party morning in Croatia (before the TP sessions began) crammed into one of the tiny rooms on the festival site, when it took us to another dimension. Just sounded so beautiful.
Interestingly, not much music post 90s in this thread.
I can’t think of many records compared to the 70s, 80s and 90s, but these are some more recent favourites.
I bought the ambient ‘Interstellar Meditation’ after seeing in a chart by Jason Boardman (probably TP 
). Didn’t know this existed, from 5 years earlier, until afterwards.
Heads down dancefloor chugger or equally as good for the afters.
Slaters “My Yellow Wise Rug” is great too, this track especially:
Yeah peaked early imo
Be interested to see him revisit aspects of that sound. The planetary assault stuff doesn’t do much for me personally
A really obvious one but has to be in any conversation about all time chillout records. The soundtrack to so many chill out and smoke sessions of my youth. I only have to hear the first couple of seconds and I’m transported right back there. Along with Screamadelica and Blue Lines, Leftism is one of the key albums of any genre of the 90s
All time favourite and pretty funky chill out tune. All round great ep with ace hologram label
No mentioned of Jonny Nash yet, I don’t think.
And this, which is a contender for my fave track of the year so far
I cannot for the life of me (literally 20 years) find a reasonably priced copy of this record:
And another one by the same people, even more chilled:
Groove Armada just have a touch for making everything sunnier don’t they???
Haven’t heard this one before. Thanks for sharing!
Ooh, forgot about this Japanese chill-out legend, who’s been CALMly releasing gems since the late 90s:
