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Not just your average Ibiza album

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5 May 18th, 2001 

16 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful

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Great for relaxing to .   Not your average Ibiza album .

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Can be a bit too relaxing at times .   Not to everyone's taste .

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I'm not your typical Ibiza type. I want to get that straight before we start.


Anyhow, the other day, I was sitting in front of the infernal box, watching some high-brow programme when an advert came on for this album. It seemed fairly laid back and didn't bring up too many images of drugged up pillocks on some Mediteranian island. As the cover notes go out of their way to explain, there are different sides to Ibiza, the not-so-chilled-out side, and the chilled-out side, which, although it's had less publicity, is definately worth paying attention to.

The album is a two-CD set, CD1 being the more laid back of the two. It starts with the mellow sounds of Kinobe's "Slip into something more comfortable", and manages to avoid anything that I'd heard of until Massive Attack's "Teardrop" with it's pounding bass. A fair way apart from each other, but still quite different.


CD1 carries on with more people I've not heard of, before revealing just how long this stuff has been going on. We're talking Art of Noise here, with "Moments in Love", dating from 1984, the only track on the Album from before 1990. Never the less, it fits in quite well with everything else, the disc almost peaking somewhere in the middle, and trailing off towards William Orbit's arrangement of "Adagio for Strings", remaining relaxed throughout.


CD2 is a somewhat different affair. We start the The Prodigy's "3 Kilos", which, typically for The Prodigy is not that laid back. Still, it's a bit lighter than other Ibiza stuff, anyhow. This slows down towards the middle of the disc, including some well known favourites from Moby, Bjork, St Etienne and Sneaker Pimps along the way, with various changes in tempo, becoming fairly lethargic towards the end of the album.


This is a great album after a hard day. It can be a bit bass heavy, which is a shame because it's a real "play it loud" album, which will annoy your neighbours no end. 

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Comments about this review »

eca99ajm 18.05.2001 12:30

Good op! Thanks for all the info - the CD title is a bit misleading! Anna

MARKMAN 18.05.2001 11:52

I do want this album - but am put off by the fact that it has Ibiza in the title. It sounds similar to Ministry of Sound's "Chill out Session" which I own - and is great to throw on and unwind to.

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