So I've been on discogs lately, looking for cheap copies of anything KLF related. So I was looking at KLF 005R (the 3 AM Eternal UK Mixes lp) when I saw that the Other Data section noted that the Blue Danube Orbital mix was going to be from JAMS LP5, which became "Chill Out". At the time of 005R's release, it was called "Live At Trancentral". So was Chill Out supposed to be an Orb album, but released as a KLF album, seeing as the Blue Danube Orbital mix is by The Orb? We can also draw that the remix is an early version/take of 3 A.M. Somewhere Out of Beaumont. I'm pretty sure I'm not the first person to notice this. http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=53289
On 30.8.2011 7:41, Mark Howk wrote:
So was Chill Out supposed to be an Orb album, but released as a KLF album, seeing as the Blue Danube Orbital mix is by The Orb?
Nope, I don't think so. But Alex was quite heavily involved in that. From Wikipedia: "Chill Out is a single continuous musical piece having many distinctive sections, each of which either segues into or introduces the next. The album as a whole is a progression, with percussion gradually introduced during the second half. The KLF have stated in interviews that the album was recorded in a 44-minute "live" take in their studio, Trancentral, located in the basement of The KLF member Jimmy Cauty's squat in Stockwell, South London.This was a DAT to DAT "live" edit — essentially Chill Out is a "best of" of many hours of collaborative ambient DJ jam sessions that also involved Alex Paterson of The Orb." and also: "Parts of the original Trancentral and Land Of Oz sessions not used for Chill Out were developed to become The Orb's single "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld" and the ambient KLF Communications album Space. There are also several bootleg recordings available with additional versions." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chill_Out) But Space started as collaboration between Jimmy and Alex, what should have been The Orb's first album, but then Jimmy left to KLF, reworked Space and released it under KLF Communications. There is quite much of material circulating from those sessions: LX vs. KLF - CHILLOUT - Alex vs the KLF MK II (different mix) - Chill Out 3 Original - Chill Out 3-Track 2 - Chill Out-Orb rmx The KLF Studio DAT - 02 - Brooklyn New York - 03 - Borrowed love (Alex Vs KLF) and also something like 07 - Slowed down borrowed love (KLF slow the beats) There is also Chill Out 2, but if remember correctly, it was a fan made. I think that guy is also in this list, as there was some talk about this some time ago. This could be the case of Chill Out 3 too.. If someone could tell more about these, I would be really happy :)
We can also draw that the remix is an early version/take of 3 A.M. Somewhere Out of Beaumont.
Could be or could be not, as Chill Out was live recording and live mixing. Or that's what they say ;) -- anttil.
As far as I'm aware, "Chill Out" is definitely "live", and recorded in the way as previously noted. There's an interview on klf.de where Bill (I think) mentions that sometimes they'd get to the forty-minute mark and something would go wrong and they would have to go back to the start of the session and begin again ... Bare in mind, "Space" was also meant to be recorded in just one working week (Jimmy: "I started on the Monday morning, and by Friday evening I was done") which I presume would be a lot easier if you've got Orb DATs to work with originally. The 'Blue Danube' mix appears in the footage of the KLF live at the September 1989 Chipping Norton Rave (later released, in expanded form, as an EP by PVC) and September 1989 was when KLF5R was released, iirc. There's also the early "demo" of 3AM called "Mommie Don't" which appears on the first edition of "Orbsessions 1" - it was clearly something all three (Bill, Jimmy and Alex) were all playing around with in the second half of 1989. "Madrugada Eterna" also appears officially for the first time in autumn 1989, on KLF010CD, and was literally recorded "live at Trancentral" (at a party with Graham Lee improvising the riff) so there definitely would have been opportunity to release a "Live @" album instead, based around experimental tapes done at the time .. Both "Chill Out" and "Loving U" could arguably have this alternate title, too ("Loving U" is so "live at Trancentral" that you can apparently hear the electric clicks caused by Cressida turning on the 55 Jeffries Road washing machine halfway through the recording). Finally (I promise) both "2001:A Space Odyssey" (I'm pretty sure it's that soundtrack's version of Strauss that's used in the "Blue Danube" 3AM remix) and "Apollo" (the NASA documentary soundtracked by Brian Eno, which features briefly at the end of "WTIL (Live at Trancentral)") were both on television - Channel 4, specifically - in about February 1989. I remember watching 2001 myself then. I get the impression that these two films, and their soundtracks, had a big effect on the whole "chill out"/ambient house scene that Jimmy and Alex were creating. Anyway - this is probably a case of tl;dr - sorry! It's early in the morning, and I'm probably rambling. :-) John
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