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The Chill Out Tapes

The KLF

2025 · Electronic

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The Chill Out Tapes by The KLF

The Chill Out Tapes is an Electronic album by The KLF, originally released in 2025. On Gatefold: 3 pressings tracked.

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Tracklist

Side A

  1. A1Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border
  2. A2Pulling Out Of Ricardo And The Dusk Is Falling Fast
  3. A3Six Hours To Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold
  4. A4Dream Time In Lake Jackson
  5. A5Madrugada Eterna
  6. A6Justified And Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago
  7. A7Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul

Side B

  1. B13AM Somewhere Out Of Beaumont
  2. B2Witchita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard
  3. B3Trancentral Lost In My Mind
  4. B4The Lights Of Baton Rouge Pass By
  5. B5A Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back
  6. B6Rock Radio Into The Nineties And Beyond
  7. B7Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up

Side C

  1. C1Last Train To Trancentral (Chill Out Mix 1)
  2. C2Last Train To Trancentral (Chill Out Mix 2)
  3. C3Last Train To Trancentral (Chill Out Mix 3)

Side D

  1. D13AM Eternal (Chill Out Mix)
  2. D2What Time Is Love (Chill Out Mix 1)
  3. D3What Time Is Love (Chill Out Mix 2)

Sound DNA

  • Electronic
  • Ambient & Downtempo
  • holographic
  • meditative
  • pastoral

Album notes

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THE CHILL OUT TAPES
In 1990, Chill Out offered a new way of hearing the world: ambient textures woven with radio static, wandering voices, and the rhythmic hum of American highways. It wasn’t just music - it was a place.
This double album to celebrate 35 years since its release, presents Chill Out as it originally existed in the hands of Bill Drummond in KLF’s South London studio - on a cassette tape. What you’ll hear on Sides A and B is a direct transfer and mastering from one of Bill’s original take-home to listen to tapes. No edits. No polish. Just the warm fuzz of analog and the raw imagination of two sonic explorers. Every imperfection has been preserved, with only minimal hiss removed for your listening comfort. The needle drops, the pops, the crackles, the errors.
Sides C and D pull back the curtain further. Three different mixes of Last Train to Trancentral (one of which was previously released on Lost Trance 2), all direct from the same tape, plus three ambient jams, form a collage of the process behind the finished album. The sounds are familiar from past KLF releases, but again slightly different. These recordings are work in progress, spontaneous and unfiltered.

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