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the history of chill-out tents
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PsyGalaXy
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Posted : Jul 21, 2011 20:38:06
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V3NOM
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Dunno about chillout tents but for a year me and two mates ran a local gig ever second sunday at an alternative cafe in our home town.
The deal was no 4x4 music and no BPM over 105 to be played. I usually did sets based around Dakini Records, the Chillosophy series & Ultimae Records.
The best was a local DJ in the scene that had a massive collection of classic movie soundtracks on vinyl that he would mash and play for 2 hours, was my fav part of every gig.
We got local artists to do different decor each time, with fluro wall hangings, black lights, incense or scented candles and lots of quality cushions for people to rest on. It was always done on Sunday afternoon to early evening so as to allow a place for people coming back from gigs to stop off and relax.
We also had a lot of local people who had no idea about such music etc. coming in and checking it out, good way to spread the sounds.
Sadly I had a falling out over personal issues with the other two involved and I left them even thought it was originally my idea. One of them has since been promoting himself as having been the brains behind the events, I could never be bother dissing him.
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PsyGalaXy
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Gunter
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Maybe it was set there by god. Or was it an organic evolution? |
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I remember in the 90's there was (at least to me) a lot more experimental mashing done. I have a bunch of mixed CDs by Coldcut/DJ Food etc. that are just amazing to kick back & chill to now-a-days.
If you can hunt down a copy of the Blech II cd which is a mash up of the early Warp tunes it's seriously worth the cash http://www.discogs.com/Various-Blech-II-Blechsdöttir/release/3623 I listen to it at less once a weak, as I do Coldcut "Journeys By DJ".
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Gunter
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Posted : Jul 27, 2011 12:43
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Haven`t chill out stages / gigs also existed before Goa Parties started to kick off? |
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Yeah my oldest sister tells me that early Goa when she was there in the late 80s & early 90's said it was what she calls acid ambient, acid house & ambient house. Beats rarely went over 100bpm & if they did it was more industrial/experimental stuff.
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DjSchofield
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Posted : Jul 29, 2011 00:35
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^ That woulda been great!
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PsyGalaXy
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from the Dance music manual:
Ambient music has enjoyed a long, if somewhat diverse, history and its subsequent offshoots have formed an important role in dance music since 1989. However, it has only recently re-established itself to many as part of the dance music scene when beats were again dropped over the atmospheric content and it was relabelled by record companies and the media as ‘chill-out’ music.
The roots of ambient music are nothing if not unusual. It’s believed that it first came about in the mid 1970s when Brian Eno was run over by a taxi. While he was recovering in hospital a friend gave him a tape machine with a few dodgy tapes of harp music. The result was that the music didn’t remain at a constant volume and on occasion dropped considerably in gain, whereby it mixed with the rain hitting the hospital windows. This second accident formed the beginnings of ambient as Eno began to experiment by mixing in real-world sounds such as whale song and wind chimes with constantly changing synthesized textures. Described by Eno himself as music that didn’t draw attention to itself (go figure), it enjoyed some success but was soon relabelled as ‘muzak’ and subsequently poor imitations began to appear as back- ground music for shopping centres and elevators, and to many the genre was soon written off as ‘music suitable only for hippies’.
When the rave generation emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a DJ named Alex Patterson began to experiment with Eno’s previous works, playing it back to clubbers in small side rooms who needed a rest from the fast, hard-hitting beats of the main room. These side rooms were soon labelled by clubbers as ‘chill-out’ rooms, a place where you could go and take a break from the hectic four-to-the-floor beats. As these ‘chill-out’ rooms began to gain more popularity with clubbers, Patterson teamed up with fellow musician Jimmy Cauty to form The Orb and jointly released what many believe to be the first ever ambient house music for clubbers, somewhat strangely named A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld. Soon after the release of the album, Patterson and Cauty went their separate ways and while Cauty teamed up with Bill Drummond to form KLF, Patterson continued to write under the moniker of The Orb and continued to DJ in the chill-out rooms.
This form of ambient house began to grow into its own genre and chill-out rooms became a fundamental part of the rave scene. Some DJs became VJs (video jockeys), mixing not only real-world sounds with slow, drawn out drum loops, but also projecting and mixing images
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PsyGalaXy
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onto large screens to accompany the music. This was soon followed by a series of ambient compilations hitting the public market, and artists such as William Orbit and Aphex Twin soon released their own ambient house albums.
In 1992, the genre was in full flow and, as different artists adopted the scene, each putting their own twist on the music, it began to diversify into subgenres such as ambient dub (ambient music with a bass), conventional (ambient with a 4/4 backbeat), beatless (no backbeat but fol- lowing the same repetition as dance music) and soundscape (essentially pop music with a slow laid-back beat). By 1995 ambient music was everywhere, as the larger record companies took the sound on board and saturated the market with countless ambient compilations (although thankfully there was never any Now That’s What I Call Ambient Music Volume 390). Even artists who had ignored the genre before began to hop on board in the hopes of making a quick buck out of the new fad.
As with most music that is encapsulated and bastardized in this way, eventually ambient house became a victim of its own success. The general public became tired of the sound and, to the joy of many a clubber, it was no longer the new fashion and it returned to only being played where it had originated from – the chill-out rooms.
Fast forward to the year 2000 and a small Balearic island in the middle of the Mediterranean began to revive the public’s and record companies’ interest in ambient house. DJs in Ibiza’s Café Del Mar began to tailor music to suit the beautiful sunsets by mixing jazz, classical, Hispanic and New Age together to produce laid-back beats for clubbers to once again chill out to. Now repackaged and relabelled ‘chill-out music’, it’s enjoying renewed interest and has become a genre in its own right. However, while chill-out certainly has it roots deeply embed- ded in ambient music, they have over time become two very different genres. Thus, as the pur- pose of this book is to cover dance music, for this chapter we’ll concentrate on chill-out rather than ambient.
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DjSchofield
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Posted : Sep 28, 2011 02:56
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Thaks PsyGalaXy, I enjoyed reading that. I still hope to get to Ibiza one day - though if I do I guess it will be family holiday. But that's okay. Kids need to chill too... 
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