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Hed Kandi: Serve Chilled, Vol. 59 | 
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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Hed Kandi
Category: Music
List Price: $24.97
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 34104
Format: Enhanced, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5026535518525
ASIN: B000FL7AUM
Release Date: June 13, 2006
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Conceptions - 4hero | | • | Bohemian Sunset - Jazzanova | | • | Beautiful Otherness - Bent | | • | Thought of You | | • | Dream of You - Secret Stealth | | • | Hi-Fi Love [Kenneth Bager Re-Edit] | | • | Crazy Girls | | • | Float Through Stars [Boozoo Bajou Mix] - The Funky Lowlives | | • | Starlight - Cathy Battistessa, Coco & Puttnam | | • | Sweet Morning | | • | Let's Come Together - Alexandra, Jeff Lounge Experience Bennett's | | • | Rouge | | • | Alone - Tennishero | | • | Hello There - Cagedbaby | | • | [CD-ROM Track] |
Disc 2
| • | Lujon - Henry Mancini | | • | (This Is Not) A Love Song - Nouvelle Vague | | • | Get a Life - Rae & Christian, , Bobby Womack | | • | Slowly - Max Sedgley | | • | Sweet Feeling - Crazy Penis | | • | Losing You [Nick Franglin of Lemon Jelly Mix] - Hey Negrita | | • | Pacific Memories - Fenomenon | | • | Manana [Afterlife Mix] - Christophe Goze | | • | Viver [Butti 49 Re-Fusion] - Sandboy | | • | Calma - Isabel Fructuoso, | | • | Love Affair - Dalminjo | | • | Feel [Afterlife Remix] - Teddy Rok | | • | Rise Hour - Amberflame | | • | Bliss |
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Album Description
UK two disc set, subtitled A Return To The Brighter Side Of Chill, featuring 28 euphoric chill-out tracks including 4 Hero's 'Conceptions', Jazzanova's 'Bohemian Sunset', Ganga's 'Sweet Morning', Frontera's 'Rouge', Defender's 'Bliss', Nouvelle Vague's 'This Is Not A Love Song', True Stories' 'Crazy Girls' and more.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Serve Chilled Returns June 14, 2007
bordersj2 (Boston)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was a pretty vocal advocate of Hed Kandi's "Serve Chilled" series. I tried out a few of their other compilations too, Winter Chill and Beach House specifically. But neither really grabbed me the way the Serve Chilled series did. Maybe it was because of the time I got the first one... towards the end of 2000, I saw it in the Virgin store in Vegas while there for business and picked it up having recognized S-Tone Inc. and some others. I loved volume one, especially disc two which I listen to very often with jams from Ballistic Brothers, Jhelisa, Fourth World, etc. I quickly became a fan of volume two before volume three ranked amongs my favorite compilations. So hearing that "Serve Chilled" was returning, I was very happy about the decision.
After all of that, when I checked this one out, I wasn't really disappointed but it didn't pick-up where vol 3 left off some 5 years ago. It starts out nice enough with a great 4Hero track (those guys are quality!) and the Lars Bartkuhn track is a nice surprise too. It wasn't my favorite track of his (Treasure Everywhere is) but I like Lars' music and his approach. But then there's pretty cool soulful track by Secret Stealth that has a neat beat and feel to it. Very promising start! But that's really it for disc one IMO, outside of the interesting "Crazy Girls" which gets you more for it's originality.
Disc two comes on and I'm taken back to the fantastic disc twos of the franchise. This one starts out well with Henry Mancini's "Lujon", a song that was done over by a few "chillout" groups in the early 2000's. I want to say it was "Ocean Beach Cybophonia" by Black Mighty Orchestra. Another stand-out was Crazy Penis' (horrid name, I know) "Sweet Feeling". The name and the song together... pretty poor. But it is a nice song. Sandboy's "Viver", given a remake by Butti 49 is very nice and laid back - a real throwback to the great times in the series. Sung in portuguese but with a real modern vibe to it and splashes of orchestration. It's been on a few other comps too. Finally, Defender's cut was alright... a bit redundant after the first minute and it ultimately goes nowhere. But it has a unique sort of mid-80's feel to it.
So this was a decent return for the HK Serve Chilled Series but not awe-inspiring or as memorable as the 99-2001 editions. I wanted to give this one 3 stars but couldn't change it. Like all the other releases of theirs that I own, it's got loads and loads of filler that drag it down. In fact it follows the blue-print of its predecessors perfectly... mediocre disk one with a few stand-outs and superior disc two that still has a few crummy & boring songs. But HedKandi's approach was always top rate - they didn't follow the run of the mill series' bent on making a quick buck (even though they still want to) like M.O.S. or Ultra. The songs are always the full edit and there's no cross-fading here - just full tracks which always gives the series a full star in my book. 3 stars - a good summer album, but be very wary of the filler & it's not nearly as strong, in the end, as volumes 1 and 3 which are sadly out of print.
Awesome! April 12, 2007
KaWai Lam (San Jose, CA United States)
I really like this CD. It's great background music for a cocktail party or just studying and relaxing. I've had comments from party guests about the music I was playing. They liked it too. It isn't good for driving music because it will put you to sleep.
 Fantastic chill/ambient/background music April 5, 2007
Dav0id (Seattle, WA)
I know this is an expensive import, but it has 2 CDs full of great music.
JfromNY August 31, 2006
belgianwaffles (NYC)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a great chill, poolside, or even a great evening late-night low -key album this is it. I have 7 Hed Kandi CD's and this is my favorite, along with, but a totaly contrast to, the twisted disco set. I can't recommend this album enough.
Glad it's back August 6, 2006
Jake Z (Canada)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought the new Serve Chilled album. Like the other reviewer below, it was nice to have something different after Hed Kandi's last few dance albums, which have been a little disapointing. I like that Hed Kandi is now bringing back older compilation series that I thought were long gone. Now if only they could bring back Deeper, I would be very happy! Serve Chilled is a nice collection of chillout tunes that are more upbeat than the dark and acoustic tracks from their Winter Chill compilations (which I also love). Nice summer listening!
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