One of the more high profile and successful chillout compilations of 2001, The Classic Chillout Album is a double-disc affair with all the right hits in all the right places. The big guns are here on disc one with Kinobe's "Slip Into Something...", Groove Armada's "At the River" and Jakatta's "American Dream" to name but a few. Disc two is a bit more new-age with Deep Forest's "Sweet Lullaby", "Sadness" by Enigma and "Silence" by Delerium but there are some genuinely beautiful pieces from the likes of Morricone ("Chi Mai") and Robin Young-Smith ("Flower Duet") which sit more than comfortably with their downbeat dance cousins. --Georgina Collins
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Wonderful! Ok, I don't like all the tracks but who has ever loved all the tracks on a CD? This is a great album with the right mix of tracks all relaxing in their own way. Beautiful!
its not THAT bad! Ignore all the muppets who tear this compilation to pieces. Just because all those adverts and holiday shows cant come up with their own original background music, it doesn't mean the songs are terriable. If you like all those songs that aren't on this cd, then go buy a cd with them on instead! The oldest song is from 1976 (a little more than 5 years ago) and the compilation includes songs up until recently. Just because its entitled "The Classic Chillout Album", that does not mean it is a classical CD.... more info
Good Music, Crap CD Whoever mixed this compilation should be shot.
Agreeing entirely with some of the other reviews here, there are some nice tracks on these CDs but most simply don't go together, and frankly the mixing between some of the tracks is terrible.
The second CD, depite having some nice tracks on, comes across overall as dull and uninspiring, whilst the first is just a mish-mash of styles and poor cross fades.
This could have been a good CD for the collection, it sounded good on paper, but the execution... more info
Not what I expected 90% of the time, when you've returned from a rather stressful day at work, you need to wind down. A collection of reworked classical and new age sounds promising, but this collection simply fails to deliver.
You get the impression that the compilers are culling only from the latest big names as opposed to anything remotely effective. More worthy inclusions would have been lesser-known titles such as "Monastery of La Rabida" by Vangelis, "Always Returning" by Brian Eno or the soaring guitar of "Summit Day"... more info
Tracks:
Slip Into Something More Comfortable - Kinobe
At The River - Groove Armada
Missing - Everything But The Girl (Todd Terry Club Mix)
