History of Chillout

The Chill Out style was formed back in the eighties and artists like Yello and The Art of Noise played a major role in this. Funny thing was, the style couldn’t be categorized initially because there wasn’t a name for it. In the late eighties the genre became increasingly popular thanks to artists like Orbital, who was a rising star at the time, in combination with the soothing club sounds from Ibiza. The name Chill Out had been born and thanks to KLF’s successful album ‘Chill Out’ the genre was set in stone and recognised as music style for years to come.

Related to this music style are a number of other genres like Ambient, Psychedelic Chill Out and Acid Jazz but by far closest related is the Triphop genre also known as Downtempo.

A large number of artist don’t stick to just one genre but prefer to wander from one to the next because of the variety this creates.

Chill Out is also known as Lounge music but both artists and fans don’t agree with this and see it as an insult to the style.

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