The Chillout Session | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Ministry of Sound
Category: Music
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 282498
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5026535501923
ASIN: B000058ANO
Release Date: March 13, 2001
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Disc 1
| • | The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy | | • | Demons - Cook | | • | No Ordinary Morning - Bracegirdle, Nick | | • | Dusk You and Me - Cato, Andy | | • | Les Nuits - Eveyn, George | | • | 6 Underground - Howe, R | | • | Clubbed to Death - Dougan, Rob | | • | Is It Too Late? - Wallinger, Karl | | • | The Sun Rising - Waddinton, Steve | | • | Horizons - Williamson, D. | | • | One Night Samba - Lee, Tim [2] "Love" | | • | So Com Voce - Garza, Rob | | • | In the Bath - Deakin, Fred | | • | Keefe's Quest - Waters, Julius | | • | Kota - Green, Simon | | • | Natural Blues - Moby | | • | Shoot You Down - Squire, John | | • | Being With U - Ratcliff |
Disc 2
| • | American Dream - Gatlin | | • | The Awakening - Stenzel, T. | | • | Scorchio - Coe, A. | | • | Resurrection - Skeens, Jesse | | • | Cups - Emerson, Darren | | • | Prix Choc - De Crecy, E. | | • | Pasilda - Bennett, Nick | | • | King of My Castle - Brann, Chris | | • | The Child - Gopher, Alex | | • | Swollen - Johnson, Zoe | | • | Falling - Rogers, P. | | • | Sexual - Nowels, Rick | | • | Beautiful Stranger - Digwee, John | | • | Melt - Barnes, Neil John | | • | Eternity - Tate, Darren | | • | Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Heart of Asia) - Sakamoto, Ryuichi | | • | Cafe del Mar - M., Paul | | • | Barber's Adagio for Strings - Barber, Samuel |
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Album Description
Another great compilation from the mighty Ministry Of Sound!The cream of laid-back chillout music, incorporating two areas of the genre, down-tempo sounds and blissed out house and trance skillfully mixed. Includes exclusive remixes and tracks including,
Album Details
The Cream of Chill Out Tracks as Done Exclusively by the Ministry of Sound. Bring Us the Tired, the Frazzled, the Fried ... The Ministry Will Soothe them Back to Reality with the Sounds to Recharge and Soothe their Souls.
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Solid Mix of Tunes from Ministry circa 2001 September 19, 2004
bordersj2 (Boston)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ministry of Sound is a massive label that specializes in all types of party music, whether it be soul, Ayia Napa, disco, house, trance, discotheque and of course chillout, which was what they pushed and pushed and pushed so much that they saturated the market with redundant products in 2001. When I got this, I remember the exact day and place and what was on the "features" wall. This one, Chillout Session 2, Dreamstates and several others were screaming for attention and loaded with "2 for 22 pounds" stickers. Sadly, most of them were extremely similar and maybe not worth the 13 pounds (about 19 dollars at the time) individually. But I was suckered and figured I'd give them a shot so picked up two I thought would be different - this one and the sequel, released that summer.
This is a good mix of some easy going pop/chill tunes on cd 1, and a bit more upbeat with some of the more popular club tracks at the time. But never are the songs over-bearing, there's a consistent vibe. The feel of this cd is not to make you lethargic but to keep you content, in my opinion. But you do have some very popular songs here - lemon jelly, kinobe, rob d, sneaker pimps, Thievery Corp, bonobo, moby, nightmares on wax... if you like chillout chances are you've already heard and seen these exact songs and artists ten fold on other compilations. The second cd features the likes of jakatta, york, sasha, underworld, alex gopher, bent, energy 52. Again, all well known and perhaps overplayed artists but not necessarily of the 'chillout' nature. CD 2 is very interesting in that it goes from a light club feel to more ambient sounding tunes and heavier beats.
The verdict? This is a solid compilation of tunes that in the winter/spring of 2001 represented what was sort of new at the time. I felt that CD 1 was a bit better and more original - I dug the remake to the old Stone Roses track and have always been a huge Kinobe fan. But today this compilation might be out-dated and the cuts over-played. And be forewarned that Ministry of Sound loves to mix everything, therefor none of the tracks are really stand-alone. If you want to check out a few other chillout comps from the time (2001) then take a look at Serve Chilled III, Renaissance Ibiza, Dreamstates, Brazilectro III and heck, maybe some other Ministry Stuff. Just be VERY careful of overlap as it will be virtually impossible to find two cd's without at least 2 of the same tracks on them.
 bad mix (avec clashes etc.) April 26, 2004
Joe M (adelaide)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I would class myself as a dance music critic (having over 3000 songs in my possession and being a dj myself) and I can safely say that the mixing in this cd is shocking. Not only do they not bother to get the bpms sinked (in cd2) but many of the tracks clash so violently that it makes me want to perpetrate a criminal act to the ministry of sound website. No, but seriously they picked a great set of tracks but did a bad job of combining most of them. I reckon if they had just left the cd unmixed it would have solved a lot of problems (employing a dj for one).
Peter m.
Music for the Morning After July 19, 2002
The Groove (Boston, MA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's Sunday morning following a long night at the club. Physically and emotionally, you're a mess. You're probably suffering from a major hangover, or your ears are still ringing from hours of the relentless beats of house music. You have no intention of getting out of that bed anytime soon, and you're looking for a CD that'll get you ready to take on a brand new day. The brains behind Ministry of Sound have created a solution, and it's called the Chillout Session. This two disc set has one CD of mid-tempo numbers ranging from alternative pop to electronica, while the other CD has a collection of slightly housed-up jams, and a few ambient numbers. The selection is well put together and sets the tone with the beautiful "The Shining" from Badly Drawn Boy. This track has appeared in quite a few chillout compilations, and it's easy to see why: the acoustic guitars and the mellow vocals are good enough to soothe and put you at ease. We're also treated to other jams by Macy Gray, Moby, Thievery Corporation, an ambient remix of "Sexual" by Amber, and a discocentric remake of the theme to "American Beauty." In the world of chillout compilations, there are the pretenders, and there's the Real Thing. This overall impressive set by Ministry of Sound definitely falls into the latter category.
 The original chill June 21, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Picked this up on a whim a few years back, and it remains among the best CDs I've ever bought. The flow of the album, and a number of surprisingly luscious tracks (chicane, lemon jelly, badly drawn boy, etc.) make it perfect for an evening, a sunday morning, or a train ride any day.
BRILLANT DANCE CHILL MIX April 19, 2002
K. Archer (London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a for runner of all the ... chill albums an exellent mix of sounds, a true classic compilation.
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