Search - Various Artists :: Chilled Ibiza V.2

Awesome chillout album!

Nic | Stockholm Sweden | 03/12/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"phew! this album takes me right back to the beaches of Ibiza when i chilled and saw the sun rise!! Go get it!!"

As Cookie Cutter Goes...

bordersj2 | Boston | 03/15/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Yet another 2001 Chillout release. This one being done up by none other than Warner music, who are perhaps just a notch below Ministry of Sound for this time period of chillout compilations. To their benefit, the formula was standard. But I have to be honest - if you had Dreamstates, Ministry or several of the other knock-offs you'd have been doing yourself a vast injustice by picking this up. But... it did have the occasional odd remix.



One of those remixes being ... well, "Turtle Soup" done up by Wagon Christ on the second cd. Speaking of cd2, you've got Morcheeba's "The Sea" and surprisingly, a great track by Blue States (How I wish he'd go back to this style!!!) with "Your Girl". "Life in Mono" has an interesting vibe, and Golfrapp's Utopia's pretty cool too. I loved Coldcut's classic ambient "Autumn Leaves" remixed however it sounds VASTLY better on Red Jerry's Deep & Chilled Euphoria. CD1 ended up being the one I listened to the most. Starting out with a remake to The Door's "Rider's on the Storm", you get a good vibe for what you're in for. Zero-7's "Destiny" featured, and I loved the song on this cd becuase when I picked this up, it wasn't over-played and Sia's voice didn't have enough time to annoy me. lol I alwyas loved Groove Armada's "Inside My Mind" - a real summer, beach cut with an incredibly soothing beginning and end. But for some reason, the songs I enjoyed most on this cd were Randy Crawford's "Cajun Moon" and Vangelis' "Rachel's Song", even though it didn't fit in. "Melt" by Leftield is a breathtaking ambient track that opens your mind up to the wonders of warm summer nights - however much like "Autumn Leaves", it's better left to be mixed by the experts and I preferred it to on Red Jerry's "Deep & Chilled Euphoria".



So in the end, I think this was a very capable compilation, even if it didn't have an original recipe for success. However I'd err on the side of caution if you're thinking of dropping close to 40 bucks on an old chillout comp since incidentally, you can probably get the albums by all the best artists on it for that price if you look hard enough. Never-the-less, if you still do, the series continued on and I believe it went up to 2004, and you'd probably dig "Dreamstates" and... I can't stress it enough, check out "Deep & Chilled" Euphoria for an amazing ambient and chillout adventure; along with the Euphoria that came out the same year as this that was simply titled "Chilled", put together by Solar Stone."