On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 07:06:10AM -0700, ... wrote:
quoted 8 lines i am convinced that klf's chill out is _the_ best ambient record ever
> > > i am convinced that klf's chill out is _the_ best ambient record ever
> > > produced.
> > >
> > > but i've heard rumors that it was written mainly by alex paterson.
>
> "chill out"'s precursor, "space," was made by jimmy cauty and alex paterson. "chill out" is jimmy cauty and bill drummond.
> lazlo's discog doesn't list production credits, but none of the hits that a websearch brought up supported the above
> rumor.
From the KLF FAQ:
quoted 42 lines 2.010: How was Chill Out recorded?
> 2.010: How was Chill Out recorded?
>
> "Chill Out" was apparently recorded live, without edits, in one take, by the
> KLF only. The whole album was attempted several times, and if a mistake was
> made, they started again. Here's what was written in Record Collector
> magazine # 140:
>
> Cauty: "'Chill Out' was done with two DAT machines and a cassette recorder."
> Drummond: "It was a live album that took two days to put together from bits
> and pieces. It was like jamming with bits from LPs and stuff we had lying
> around. We'd run around having to put an album on here, a cassette on there,
> and then press something else to get a flow." Cauty: "There's no edits on
> it. Quite a few times we'd get near the end and make a mistake and so we'd
> have to go all the way back to the beginning and set it all up again."
> Drummond then talks of bouncing it from DAT to DAT and playing a few pads on
> a synthesizer at the notorious Trancentral of legend.
>
> The confusion concerning the recording of 'Chill Out' comes from a Volume
> interview with The Orb's Alex Patterson, where the interviewer writes the
> following:
>
> "Alex and Jimmy Cauty started the first 'Chill Out' room at Paul Oakenfold's
> Land of Oz club, upstairs in London's Heaven. Using two decks and a CD
> player they mixed tracks by the likes of Kraftwerk and Brian Eno over
> bird-songs, BBC sound effects and weird tribal chants! Back in Autumn 1989
> Alex DJ'd for more than six hours at an eleven-hour 'ambientathon' held at
> the KLF's Trancentral HQ. And much of the KLF's 'Chill Out' LP is, in fact,
> made up of cuts from the session! Kopyright Liberation Front: you bet your
> bottom, matey!"
>
> However since this is not a direct quote from Paterson, it is more
> reasonable to believe the KLF's actual statements. It is possible that the
> interviewer was confusing 'Chill Out' with the Space album, which was
> recorded originally as an Orb album by Jimmy and Alex, then they split up
> and Jimmy kept the master tapes (since they were recording in his house at
> Trancentral), reworked it, removed Alex's contributions and added some
> others of his own, finally releasing it on KLF Communications. There were
> infamous weekend- long parties held at Trancentral though. Patterson will
> have had some guiding/inspirational input to 'Chill Out', but it's really
> the interplay between Bill and Jimmy that makes the KLF great. 'Chill Out'
> is unquestionably a KLF record - just listen to steel guitars and
> sheepnoises.
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