Here is an excellent History of Ambient documentary from Radio 1. It’s full of classic tunes and interviews with the original masters of the genre all woven together. Definitely worth a listen.

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Download it in a variety of formats from here.

Recorded at the Salutations to the Soul fundraiser party on June 27, 2009 at the Transcendent Church of Bass, this mix begins with a glitched out Michael Jackson tribute by ArK47, and moves into a solid psydub groove with my usual blend of effects and samples to spice things up. Listen with the player below and click over to Splendid Beats for the tracklist and download link. Enjoy!

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Dave Segal of The Stranger just wrote a good piece about local chillout superstar, Gel-Sol. The Church of Bass set referenced in the article can be dowloaded from our downloads page.

I just uploaded my Chillography 201 photos and videos last night. Here they are:

And here is another great Chillgraphy set from Lara. Apparently there was a baby or two at the event as well.

That was fantastic! Beautiful beats and peeps groovin’ and chillin’ on the picturesque Seattle waterfront. Thanks to everyone that came out and enjoyed the day with us. I’m not sure how to appropriately sum up the positivity and community that I felt out there, but it was awesome. The only thing that could have made it any better would have been the porta potty that the city had promised us.

I hope you all will join us in the fall for Chillography 202.

The entire show was recorded, so I’ll have those sets up for download in a bit.

Here are a couple of great photo sets of the day:
photos by ECityBlues
photos by +Russ