From Lazlo Nibble Sent Wed, Aug 5th 1998, 17:58
From Lazlo Nibble Sent Wed, Aug 5th 1998, 17:58
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 07:06:10AM -0700, ... wrote: > > > 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: > 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. -- ::: Lazlo (xxxxx@xxxx.xxx; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists