Relaxation (Breakdown: The Very Best Euphoric Chillout Mixes)

Member Name: kasgaroth

Product:	Breakdown: The Very Best Euphoric Chillout Mixes
Date:	23/12/01 (841 review reads)
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Advantages: easy listening, relaxing

Disadvantages: none really

This is actually about the second version of this album that was released on the 26th of November 2001. It is 2 cd's with quite a varied mix of music on them. This is by far the best of the Euphoric Chillout albums to date. If you do not know much about Euphoria then they generally release mixed albums from some of the best dj's and artists that are around but most follow the more Hardcore Dance feel. The difference with these compilations is that they go to the radically different other end of the scale and produce these albums designed with relaxation in mind. This is a great album for those times that you just want to turn the lights down low and let your worries drift away. Something we all could do with a bit more of.

Saying that though not all of the tunes are true slow relaxation music some are still more like a slow dance tune that you can enjoy listening to. Some are more like slow trance tunes as well. With some haunting tunes like Elysium taken from the movie Gladiator where he starts walking through the Elysium Fields to meet his family sre true works of art. Nice melodies from the likes of Jean Michel Jarre help give this album a good feel and you can easily drift through different tracts of thought while listening to it.

It also has many remixes of songs that you may well recognise from the charts but generally these are slower mixes of those tracks. Many you may recognise from tv as they seem to love to put these style of mixes to a lot of ads. Probably upon listening to it yourself you will have the same dilemma that I have faced where you sit there and you recognise a tune but for some unknown reason you can never quite seem to remember where you have heard it from. I have no doubts that this album will have some tunes that you will love and some that you will hate as it follows no true fixed genre but rather a mix of smother slower remixes from all different genres of music.

It is itself a great album for listenin
g to when you have been for a night out and come home wanting to unwind for a bit before you hit the sack. Would be even nicer if you can talk your partner into giving you a massage at the same time.

Personally for me I love this style of music when I am out in the car late at night with few people about. I sometimes just pull into a layby or parking area and put the seat back with the engine running for warmth while studying the night sky. This can be when I truly feel at peace and relaxed, well being a bit of a stargazer I like this sort of music as I find it helps to relax and I get that bit more patience from it.

As this is somewhat different from the tracks listed in the category I will give you a track list but with there being 44 different tracks I think that I will hold back on a track by track listing.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Last Of The Mohicans (main title) - Various Artists
2. Here with me - Dido (Rollo's chillin' with the family mix)
3. Elysium (Gladiator) - Lisa Gerrard
4. Das glockenspiel - Schiller (Schill out mix)
5. Chase the sun - Planet Funk (ambient radio mix)
6. Smoke belch II - Sabres Of Paradise (Beatless mix)
7. Into the dawn - Accadia
8. No ordinary morning - Chicane
9. Inside - Moby
10. Eugina - Salt Tank (Sargasso Sea mix 2000)
11. Belfast - Orbital
12. Early - Chicane
13. Building a fire - James & Brian Eno
14. Resurection - PPK (Node Instant mix)
15. Jabberwock - Solar Stone (chillout mix)
16. Another chance - Roger Sanchez (Afterlife mix)
17. Under the red sea - Lost Tribe
18. We come 1 - Faithless (Elliot J remix)
19. First - Private Taste (Ashtrax ambient score)
20. Strange world - Push (Underwater Kingdom remix)
21. In a landscape - William Orbit

Disc: 2

1. Oxygene (part 2) - Jean Michel Jarre
2. Overture - Chicane
3. Beachball - Nalin & Kane
4. .3.2 - Humate (Bedroc
k ambient mix)
5. American dream - Jakatta (Tranquillo dawn over New York remix)
6. B - Datar (Am 'B' ient mix)
7. Helsinki - Ashtrax (ambient mix)
8. Dirty epic - Underworld
9. Strings of life - Plank 15 (Soul Mekanik remix)
10. 21st century - Weekend Players
11. Slide - Agnelli & Nelson
12. Bob and Rose (theme) - Stewart & Bradley James
13. Stella - Jam & Spoon
14. Don't leave - Faithless (Euphoric mix)
15. I won't let you down - WIP & Emmie (Jay Welsh 'Black Ice' chilled remix)
16. Finished symphony - Hybrid
17. Beautiful strange - Bedrock
18. Children - Robert Miles (original mix)
19. Dream on - Depeche Mode (Dave Clarke acoustic version)
20. When it's cold I'd like to die - Moby
21. Kiss (The Last Of The Mohicans) - Various Artists
22. Para mi - Motivation (Friends Lovers & Family mix)
23. Elegia - New Order

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