In Nightmares On Wax

When first released back in 2000, Tourist was a global success, selling over four million albums worldwide. It was Ludovic Navarre’s (aka. St Germain) third studio album which really transformed his career into superstardom; combining elements of house and nu jazz to produce an impeccable album to chill out to. The album continues to be hugely popular to this day, with the critically acclaimed Jorja Smith doing a cover of Rose rouge earlier this year.

Warp20 (Chosen) placed the track selection process in the hands of fans, who voted online with the option to add messages like "This song makes you feel like a proud parent, à la John Hurt in the movie Alien," as reprinted throughout the booklet. The ten tracks (+ bonus track for Japan) that received the most votes make up the first disc. After track five, the disc makes a swift transition from covering exemplary material (Aphex Twin's bent lounge-porn single "Windowlicker," Boards of Canada's eerie yet blissful "Roygbiv"), to looking more like a sampler of recent releases (from Plaid's "Eyen" to Clark's "Herzog," all 2001-2006 territory). The 14 tracks on the second disc were picked by label co-founder Steve Beckett…

VA - Hed Kandi - Serve Chilled Vol.1 (1999)
Lounge/Trip-Hop/Chillout | MP3 | CBR 192kbps | 02:34:48 | 211 MB

The intention behind the Served Chilled series is sketched in the sleeve notes, with the two CDs of music intended as a soundtrack for those late-night, post-club or lazing-about-the house sessions. Mark Doyle, the curator of the series, earned his diploma of chill through his four-hour broadcasts at Jazz FM, which occupied the slot that crosses Saturday night to Sunday morning. The tracklisting pretty much speaks for itself, 28 tracks culled from leading artists–Groove Armada, Nightmares on Wax, Thievery Corporation, Morcheeba, Jose Padilla…

Deluxe two CD edition of the world's most successful chillout collection! This time, the soundtrack to the upcoming summer comes with beautiful tracks from great chillout experts, ambient and downbeat music from Moby, Nightmares on Wax, Penguin Café, Maricopa, Ozo and many others. The producers of Café del Mar and their compiler Toni Simonen have managed to present two CDs with a varied tracklisting on the same level as the most successful issues of this great compilation series.