The Chillout Album 2: The Essential Late Night Mix

Disc 1 is good, but disc 2 is fantastic!

Fair price, CD in great shape and shipped very quickly. Looking forward to doing business with the Music Magpie again!

This was a great Chillout compilation at the time. Trademarked in 1999, I believe this could be the first of the series: "The Chillout Album", one of TelStar' releases into the market before it became saturated with MOS rip-offs. It isn't to be confused with "The Chillout Room" or "The Chillout Mix", either, as the "Mix" was released by Virgin, the other by... I don't remember.How does it stack up? Pretty darn well! Mind you, the 'recent' tracks at the time were from 1998-1997, around then. But the wide aray of cuts come from many different time periods. One of those stand-out tracks being the title theme to Steve McQueen's "Bullitt", as done by soundtrack maestro Lalo Schifrin. I dig it - even though it's close to 40 years old! Then you have tracks from the nineties too, like a classic Nightmares on Wax cut, "Nights Interlude". Too bad though - "NOW" was grossly overplayed in the chillout era. The All Seeing I kicks in too with a nice remake of "Beat Goes On". I remember the intro to the remake on some commercial (forget what it was) in England back in 98' too. And this is just CD1. CD2 is actually the one I prefer. It's got a wide range of tracks! David Holme's "Rodney Yates" is a mellowed out cut with a nice undertone to it while Etienne De Crecy's popular (at least in the 90's) "Prix Choc" kicks it up next. But the gems, IMO, are Rae & Christian's soulful "Spellbound", which just has such a bounce to the R&B beat to it, how can you not bob your head? The elusive and underated Ballistic Brother's come in with an afrocentric 'made for vinyl' cut, "Blacker". It's preceeded by "The Jackal", a song that Nathan Haines "Squire for Hire" made me think of.I like this double disc set, but would have to say to err on the side of caution in deciding on buying it because it's a bit dated, and IMO way overpriced. While I like the cuts, I don't think it warrants the price-tag it has here... and I got this one, yes, a good 5 or 6 years ago. Then not all of the songs got me either... "The Gift" was chopped in size, and of all Moloko songs, why "Fun for Me", which is IMO one of their worst? But still, there are several tracks here that I've enjoyed. If you dig this, and price isn't an issue, then be sure to check out the other 4 releases from the series that came out afterwards. But I'd recommend the Ultra series as a better priced alternative... although one difference between this and that one is that the Ultra series is mixed while this one is not.

I liked the first two so much I’m looking more in the series.

Fantastic variety of "real music" chillout songs. Not just nonsensical riffs over thumping bass lines

I goofed! This is not the album I wanted. For a Chill Out album there is a mix of songs that don't feel like Chill at all but up tempo house that is not relaxing.

So many classics! Re-purchased this after my first copy (from 2000) was loved to death. Get it!!

Great Album, definately recommend.