The Art Of Chill 3.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: The Art Of Chill 3 [2 CDs]
Artist: Various
Year: 2006
Genre: New Age / Electronic / Dub / Downtempo / Ambient
DESCRIPTION
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The melodic and atmospheric roots of club trance and progressive house lie in the layered sounds of 70's and early-80's psychedelic ambient ala Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. So it's only fitting that iconic UK trance and progressive label Platipus Records launched the first volume of this downtempo series by focusing on ambient material and remixes from its own artists.
For those who care for electronic music history, the first of Platipus's Art Of Chill compilations is the sound of trance leaving the beats of clubland behind and returning to the source. For anyone else it's simply a terrific after-party or late night swim in a deep, multi-coloured ocean of sound. Its studded with downtempo gems that dip into the Platipus catalogue as far back as eight years. Melodic, ethereal tracks like Union Jack's "Water Drums" and Kansai's ambient mix of "Rococco" are both stunning in their own gentle way. The better known Sinead O'Conner and Binary Finary both shine via previously unheard remixes of their tunes "Troy" and the Binary Finary trance anthem "1998" as re-imagined in cold deep space by Neo & Farina. Although a handful of tracks here have appeared on many other comps, the quality of the Platipus content puts this album up there with the best ambient trance collections around.
The pleasant but non-essential Art Of Chill 2 (2005) is far more generic, throwing in just about every strain of downtempo across another two disc set. Thanks to screamingly obvious inclusions like FC Kahuna's "Hayling" and Bent's "Swollen" it simply doesn't distinguish itself enough from many other comps on the market.
Fortunately the series gets well and truly back on track with Art Of Chill 3, a rich, mind-altering mix complied by old hippie techno-ambient rockers System 7 aka Miquette Giraudy and Steve Hillage. It's a colourful, harmonious and at times surreal blend of warm dubby lounge, Hillage's own electronica (as System 7 and Mirror System), current psy-chill tracks from names like Shulman and Blutech, and folksy detours through India and the Far East. An undoubted highlight is System 7's own "Kupuri", a slow-building shamanic groove of rare hypnotic power with Hillage's famous gliss guitar soaring sweetly overhead. - Reviewed by Mike G.
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 22 [2 CDs]
Total Duration: 2:16:12
Total Size: 312 MBs (including scans, m3u, and nfo)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded At: 320 CBR / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
NFO Created: 28 June 2014
Tracklist
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101) Shulman~ First Came The Stars (Bluetech Remix)
102) Mirror System & Alex Paterson~ Flex-E-Fun
103) Jam'n~ Ghayange, Nachenge
104) Manasseh~ Tabla Corner Special
105) Slack Baba~ Tsenstak (Dreamtime Mix)
106) Tosca~ Every Day & Every Night
107) Mirror System & Ucef~ Hilal
108) I:Cube~ Le Dub
109) Dolphin Boy~ Shake It Loose
110) System 7~ Borobudur (The Art Of Chill Mix)
111) Ujang Suryana~ Sorban Palid
201) Tosca~ Rondo Acapricio
202) Pitch Black~ Lost In Translation (International Observer Meets Horace Remix)
203) Gaudi~ Sufani
204) Mirror System~ Mirror Beach (Iron Sands Rerub By Pitch Black)
205) Manasseh~ Lil Nu Ting
206) Gaudi & Tripswitch~ Subdown
207) Makyo~ Skin As Soft As Moonlight (Soft As Silk Remix)
208) System 7~ Kupuri
209) O Yuki Conjugate~ Sunchemical
210) Vector Lovers~ Empty Building, Falling Rain
211) Bluetech~ Misaki
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