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At 07:22 PM 9/10/98 -0700, you wrote:

quoted 4 lines thought i had one saved as i've been eyeing this...

> >thought i had one saved as i've been eyeing this... >anyone have a review? greatly appreciate it >

Taken from Recoreviews pt 36 back on 3/27/98. . Chill Out comp cd (Sabotage) Even from the first glimpse of this release you know who and what this comp is paying tribute to. Both the covers are almost exact copies of the seminal 1990 Chill Out album by the KLF but in place of sheep there are wolves. The music contained therein is not quite chill out music but rather experimental electronica's answer to it. Artists featured on this come include I-f, Epy, Farmers Manuel, Pomassl, Panacea, Fennesz, Alois Huber, Ryoji Ikeda, Aube, and Bannlust to name a few. The tracks range in styles from noise-like electronica to electro to hard distorted breakbeats (complete with "mu-mu" and "kick out the jams" samples in the latter). Fans of Mego, A-Musik, Sabotage and Sahko will not be disappointed by this one but fans expecting an ambient classic akin to the original Chill Out might be disappointed for challenging experimental flavor on this one. 7/10 -->-Lance--- p.o. box 450715 westlake, ohio 44145 united states

This is a late 90's tribute, of a sort, to the KLF's Chill Out album from the start of the decade. This release by the Austrian label, Sabotage, which has one foot in the new experimental electronic area and another in the DJ scene, brings a new hard edge to the idea of 'ambience', evidenced by their parody of the tranquil cover image of the original, which replaces the meadow's lounging sheep with wolves! The cd begins quietly enough, with the industrial-ambient loops and drones of Germany's Airlock, but soon hits its stride with the noise and machine rhythms of producers like Japan's Aube, Austria's Farmers Manual and Canada's David Reeves (who as Otraslab runs a c&w song through a ring modulator). Germany's over-the-top junglist Panacea takes an in-yer-face gabba direction with his KLF-sampling track "Demolition Desaster", which also takes a detour into bits of Extreme Noise Terror's grindcore cover of the chart topping "3AM Eternal". Actually the project has more to do with wolves than the kopyright liberation front, as Sabotage urges you to adopt one in the name of conservation. Their's is called Nimrod... (http://www.teleport.com/~wnorton/namers.html)