Winter Chill, Vol. 2

Product Description
Second installment in the best-selling series. Includes tracks from, Chicane, Moby, Afterlife, Hefner, Muki, Air, Smith and Mighty, LTJ Bukem, Night Traffic, Dusted, Airlock, Delerium, Tosca and A Guy CAlled Gerald to name a few. 2000 release in a magnetic closing digipak.

Tracks:

Makes Me Feel - Afterlife
Porcelain - Moby
No Ordinary Morning - Chicane
Silence - Delerium
Deliver Me - The Beloved
Always Remember To Respect Your Mother Part 1 (Bent Remix) - Dusted
Swollen - Bent
Alpha - Airlock
Beaches & Deserts - A Guy Called Gerald
Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
Russian Roulette (Dulcimer Cut And Shut Mix) - Urban Dwellers
Quiet Alone - Snooze
Utopia - Goldfrapp
Revoked (Renaissance II Mix) - Aware

Tracks:

Vega - Paul Van Dyk
Sunrain - LTJ Bukem
Move You Run - Smith & Mighty
The Truth - Handsome Boy Modeling School
Dive Into You - Hefner
Honey - Tosca
Chase The Blues (Cameron McVey Mix) - Terranova
Motorcity (Dexter's Lab Mix) - 45 Dip
Rain - Night Traffic
I Don't Want To Know - Muki
So La Ra Dsa - Lux
Beautiful - Millenia Nova
Another Skin - The Angelica Project
The Trainer Shuffle - Blues States
Vostok Jazz - Cybophonia

Album Description

Second installment in the best-selling series. Includes tracks from, Chicane, Moby, Afterlife, Hefner, Muki, Air, Smith and Mighty, LTJ Bukem, Night Traffic, Dusted, Airlock, Delerium, Tosca and A Guy CAlled Gerald to name a few. 2000 release in a magnetic closing digipak.

Album Details

Chillout/ambient. This Album Includes the 'unmixed' 12" and Album Mixes of Well-known Tracks but with a Slightly Darker Edge. Also features Unique Artwork by Jason Brookes as Well as High-quality Packaging. Disc Two Includes Tracks by Urban Dwellers, Valerie Etienne, Bent, Anthea and Others.

Customer Reviews:

Chill out.......2005-04-25

The second volume of WINTER CHILL is a treat. The first disc has some great tracks from Sarah McLachlan and Delerium, Afterlife, Goldfrapp, Bent, Dusted, Chicane, Thivery Corporation and more. However, I found disc two to be the better of the two. It features great tracks like "Sunrain" by LTJ Bukem, "Move You Run" by Smith and Mighty, and "I Don't Want to Know" by Muki. Great chillout album!

Great lounging music.......2004-11-28

Who are these people who complain about this volume? It's every bit as good as volume 3! It's definitely heavy on female vocals, but I think there's so much more variety here than in, say, a Norah Jones album that I can't complain about the girl-heavy tracks. There's just enough variety between the songs to keep you interested, but not enough to lose the chill-out vibe. I like to have this one on while I'm studying.

Both CDs are equally wonderful.......2003-08-19

I have been listening to CD#1 for 2 years, loving every moment. This weekend, I finally bothered to listen to CD#2 (you have to understand, most 2-CD sets have one CD that's worth it and the other is just filler.....or so I thought!) I am now having trouble deciding which CD is better, but they are both amazing. Beautiful beautiful beautiful music. Sensitive, innovative, melodic, seductive. Some (good) rap, some acapella, good arrangements, dreamy lyrics. If you like HedKandi, this is one of their very best.

Feel the "Chill" of Hed Kandi........2003-02-04

As of this writing, our region has been suffering some exceptionally cold weather. In these times, you feel like staying indoors, curling under a wool blanket while sipping away at a cup of herbal tea. But what's still missing from this picture? Hed Kandi's excellent second volume of their Winter Chill series. Here are two discs of edgy songs featuring plenty of ethereal female vocals, with genres ranging from dark electropop to sprinkles of soulful jazz. In my mind, Mark Doyle (who compiled these CDs) is among the standard-bearers of downtempo comps, and he creates formulas that labels Ministry of Sound and Ultra would later emulate. What's to like? Afterlife's "Makes Me Feel," familiar cuts "Porcelain" by Moby and "Lebanese Blonde" by Thievery Corporation, as well as "Silence" by Delerium all make Disc 1 worth the trip. But Disc 2 covers more ground, with cuts like the soulfully suave "Sunrain" by LTJ Bukem, the reggae touches of the seductive "Move You Run" by Smith and Mighty, and the acoustic guitar-flavored "I Don't Want to Know" by Muki. These tracks do a great job of creating a mellowed out atmosphere, and they bring up images of a frigid January afternoon. Hed Kandi steers away from the predictable and released one of the best downtempo comps I own. A smart purchase for those who'd rather stay in.

Not bad but could have been so much more.......2002-01-23

Anytime you buy a techno (or any of the techno progeny like house, ambient, trance etc.) you are taking a chance. Why? First, because it doesn't take much to make dance music sound weak. Second, because you probably own half the tracks (in a slightly different mix) on other albums. I own about 10 chill out albums of various quality and I have to, honestly, say that Winter Chill 2 is the weakest. Its flow is sludgy (is that sludgy sound the "winter" in winter chill?) and experimental but experimental in a garage noise kind of way.

(their version of "Swollen" sucks, its littered with ambient crap that sounds reminds me of what a 13 year old does when he gets his hand on his first synthesizer. Sometimes people think that any experimentation is good. No. fyi: You probably own a version of "Swollen" it's the one with a woman crooning "The quietest shade of brown...")

Tracks:

Makes Me Feel - Afterlife
Porcelain - Moby
No Ordinary Morning - Chicane
Silence - Delerium, Sarah McLachlan
Deliver Me - The Beloved
Always Remember to Respect Your Mother, Pt. 1 [Bent Remix] - Dusted
Swollen - Bent
Alpha - Airlock
Beaches and Deserts - A Guy Called Gerald
Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
Russian Roulette [Dulcimer Cut and Shut Mix] - Urban Dwellers
Quiet Alone - Snooze
Utopia - Goldfrapp
Revoked [Renaissance II Mix] - Aware

Tracks:

Vega - Paul Van Dyk
Sunrain - LTJ Bukem
Move You Run - Tammy Payne, Smith & Mighty
Truth - Handsome Boy Modeling School
Dive into You - Hefner
Honey - Tosca
Chase the Blues [Cameron McVey Mix] - Terranova
Motorcity [Dexter's Lab Mix] - 45 Dip
Rain
I Don't Want to Know - Sophie Barker, Muki
So la Ra Dsa - Lux
Beautiful - Millenia Nova
Another Skin
Trainer Shuffle
Vostok Jazz - Cybophonia

Average customer rating:

Series at it's best
Great mellow, make-out album!

Winter Chill, Vol. 2
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Hed Kandi
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005JI4E
Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

Makes Me Feel - Afterlife
Porcelain - Moby
No Ordinary Morning - Chicane
Silence - Delerium, Sarah McLachlan
Deliver Me - The Beloved
Always Remember to Respect Your Mother, Pt. 1 [Bent Remix] - Dusted
Swollen - Bent
Alpha - Airlock
Beaches and Deserts - A Guy Called Gerald
Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
Russian Roulette [Dulcimer Cut and Shut Mix] - Urban Dwellers
Quiet Alone - Snooze
Utopia - Goldfrapp
Revoked [Renaissance II Mix] - Aware

Tracks:

Vega - Paul Van Dyk
Sunrain - LTJ Bukem
Move You Run - Tammy Payne, Smith & Mighty
Truth - Handsome Boy Modeling School
Dive into You - Hefner
Honey - Tosca
Chase the Blues [Cameron McVey Mix] - Terranova
Motorcity [Dexter's Lab Mix] - 45 Dip
Rain
I Don't Want to Know - Sophie Barker, Muki
So la Ra Dsa - Lux
Beautiful - Millenia Nova
Another Skin
Trainer Shuffle
Vostok Jazz - Cybophonia

Customer Reviews:

Series at it's best.......2003-02-04

I first heard the Winter Chill 2 compilation through a friend, and it was my first experience (that I was aware of) of listening to "chill out" music. I must say that having purchased all the Winter Chill albums released by Hed Kandi, this is by far my favorite. The artists are diverse, the song selections are wonderful, and the quality is perfect. My only complaint is that sometimes the songs are in a more coincidental order than Mark Doyle (who compiled the albums) would let them on to be. For example, Disc 1 is virtually all female vocals and every track is sung by them (with the exception of Moby), while Disc 2 is one-half loops and instrumentals. Disc 2 seems to be a more "chilled" disc, while Disc 1 is meant to be concentrated on while listening to it. All in all, still a PERFECT album, and it took me a while to track a copy down.

Great mellow, make-out album!.......2001-10-12

This is the type of album that you listen to and everyone asks "What is that?" because they like it so much. This is the compilation that really turned me onto chillout music. If you're not familiar, chillout encompasses a number of music styles including deep house, chilled trance, acid jazz, etc. Basically, it's solid down-tempo stuff that you can listen to while at work, relaxing at home, driving, coming down from a night of partying, making out, etc. If you're into Moby's recent mellow stuff and are looking for more by other artists, you're guaranteed to like this.

The first disk is the stronger of the two here, and with the exception of Moby's excellent but oft-played "Porcelain" and perhaps Delerium's "Silence", contains tracks that most people have not heard. Highlights include Dusted's "Always Remember to Respect and Honor Your Mother" Bent Remix (and if you've never heard it, check out the even better original mix on Dusted's album), Goldfrapp's "Utopia" and the amazing deep grooves of Aware's "Revoked."

A lot of this music you can't find elsewhere, which is unfortunate, because it's great stuff. Highly recommended.

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