As a massive fan of ambient music, there are few classic albums that stand out above all others. Brian Eno’s seminal masterpiece, Music For Airports will forever hold my number one position, both for jump starting the genre of contemporary ambient music and for initiating me into ambient culture many years ago. Harold Budd’s collaborations with Eno – The Pearl and The Plateaux of Mirror are also both highly recommended.
This evening I was going through my library looking for ambient house albums I hadn’t listened to since college. I was re-exploring the KLF discography when I came upon Chill Out and Space.
The KLF – Chill Out
Chill Out is essentially a post-rave ride home from Texas into Louisiana.
The Orb’s hit single, “A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld,” and the KLF albums Chill Out and Space are actually quite closely related. Each of the three contain material recorded from Trancentral, (the KLF basement studio), and from the monthly “Land Of Oz” nights at Heaven, the London nightclub. These sessions were a collaboration with Alex Paterson of The Orb. “Ultraworld,” Space, and Chill Out were the result of those sessions.
The KLF – Space
If you’re a fan of these albums, there is an incredible amount of information available from the Chill Out Facebook fanpage.
Chill Out and Space will be my next ambient vinyl purchases.
Brian Eno – Music For Airports – 1-1
Eno and Budd – The Pearl
KLF – Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul, 3 AM
[…] If you’re unfamiliar with ‘Airports,’ you can listen to it in my previous post, Elvis on the Radio, Steel Guitar in my Soul. […]