It’s always nice to find some time during summer months to just chill. Perhaps at the beach or the lake or river. Or while on a trip to the big city somewhere to just sit around and chill for a while. Have a nice collection of not too upbeat tracks and perhaps sipping a glass of wine or something and relaxing. Well this mix is the Best Summer Chillout Playlist ever. It’s very hip and current with the mix of tracks. Most of the tracks are at least from the last couple of years and all tracks are downtempo to mid tempo in their bpm’s. So it’s an excellent CDs length mix of chill out tracks that you can burn on to a CD to take with you or sync as a playlist on your iPhone or iPod and take with.

So the Best Summer Chillout Playlist starts out with a very mellow, relaxing mostly ambient vocal cut called Calm by Beach Hoppers from their album Tender Treatment. I figured starting out with a very relaxed song with be best with a chill out mix right? Then we head into Balearic territory with Coyote’s Pacific Breeze which is still mellow and calm and all but this cut and a lot of Coyote’s music has a very light disco flavor to it. It’s awesome. It’s definitely not your parents disco music though trust me it’s all instrumental all mellow chill beat. Pacific Breeze is off of Coyote’s Harlyn Bay album that I highly recommend if you are into cosmic balearic nu disco!

Up next is a sexy breezy ambient chill track called Loving You by Lemongrass. I’ve been a huge fan of Lemongrass ever since I heard of their album Windows. Anyone who has not heard of Windows and is into chill out music then you should definitely start out with Windows. Although Loving You by Lemongrass off of their excellent double album Beach Affairs fits perfectly into our Best Summer Chillout Playlist because you guessed it it’s perfect for Summer right?

Lizzie’s Balloon by 45 Dip is several years old now but you still won’t get tired of Lizzie’s Balloon as it still sounds fresh today. By the time you get to Lizzie’s Balloon in this mix Best Summer Chillout Playlist the beats start getting a little more heavy but you can still experience the music is still pretty calm it’s just a little more upbeat. Lizzie’s Balloon does just that. It’s the calm upbeat track. LOL! It’s perfect for chilling in the summertime!

I’ve been a huge fan of Dzihan & Kamien since the late 90s. They are excellent at crafting awesome chill out tunes with downtempo beats while adding some worldly flair to them. Just listen to Just You & I and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Well here with Mojamore, Dzihan & Kamien keep the downtempo beats going perfectly. Mojamore is the perfect moody, chill out track that you can have in the background of your summer chilling. You can even hear the tabla while listening. Remember they do throw in the world music touches which this is not really world music! It fits perfectly in this collection almost in the middle. The beats are certainly there but they are not obnoxious. They are just mellow! Mojamore, Dzihan & Kamien is off of their latest double CD Lost & Found.

Nobody Else by Maya Jane Coles flows perfectly after Mojamore by Dzihan & Kamien. This now is a vocal track, moody and laid-back for chilling around. After I first heard of Nobody Else by Maya Jane Coles I immediately had to check out who Maya Jane Coles was. I loved her somewhat eerie voice and wanted to hear more songs by her. I discovered she’s got some great electronic music and discovered awesome stuff from her.

Up next is Save Me Tonight by Goloka. A hypnotic, vocal driven chill out electronic cut that’s. The beats are certainly bigger here but they beats are mellow enough to qualify as a chill out track. I love Goloka and Save Me Tonight by Goloka was the first track that introduced me to their music and since I’ve heard of Save Me Tonight by Goloka I’ve fallen in love with their sound. It’s quite nice. Save Me Tonight by Goloka is off of their excellent album Afterglow which also includes Ain’t No Game, Blue, Thinking About You and Give Me Lovin. Excellent album worth checking out.

myloveismusic by Ralph Myerz does not need any introduction. It’s excellent sexy downtempo and chill out electrornic music that you count on from Ralph Myerz either solo or with Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band. They are certainly innovators of this style of electronic downtempo and chill out cuts and will obviously continue what they do best.

Going forward the tracks start increasing in beats a bit and kind of take on a very disoish flavor. Not disco you can dance to and not old school disco cuts. This is Nu Disco! I recently discovered 6th Borough Project and all I can say is their sound is awesome. I love disco music and I love Nu Disco and boy I can say If The Feelings Right by 6th Borough Project is an excellent Nu Disco cut. It’s off of their amazing first album One Night In The Borough and it rocks. One Night In The Borough has a very chill vibe to it. It’s not one of those banging electronic albums. It’s more sexy and mellow and sure there are cuts that can get you grooving but it’s not frenetic whatsoever. If you are into disco then this is your cup of tea. Love the sound! Check out Back To Me off of One Night In The Borough and you’ll see what I mean!

The songs get sexier and sexier with Cicada’s Elle Et Moi off of their excellent, excellent Golden Blue album. Wow this was such an underrated album that deserves to be discovered and heard. The vocalist with Cicada use to be vocalist for GusGus the 90s electronic act that was signed to 4Ad Records. I know they are still around but Heidrun Bjornsdottir does such an amazing job with Cicada that Golden Blue has become one of my favorite albums of the 2000′s. For more sexy mid tempo electronic cuts by Cicada check out Tricks, The Things You Say and All About You. You will certainly love them and the rest of Golden Blue.

By now you are realizing that this Best Summer Chillout Playlist is a really sexy one too as the next cut by CFCF called Invitation To Love is just that. It’s a beautiful and sexy slow groove that is just laid-back for lounging in the summer heat with warm wind blowing on your skin. Right??? Invitation To Love by CFCF is off his excellent album Continent which also includes a Nu Disco cover version of Big Love by Fleetwood Mac. You’ll love it I’m sure of that. Check it out here on my Disco Love Playlist, Nu Disco Now! 

The next cut was just a fluke discovery. I found it off of Select 2010 – Music For Our Friends By Claude Challe & Jean-Marc Challe and it’s one of those Buddha Bar type CD collections but I loved it enough to include on this playlist. Fame by Petrol sounds like a Liza Minelli type is singing the song but it’s much more than an old fashioned easy listening jazz cut. It’s a funky, bouncy electronic cut. Love it! And if you love Buddha Bar Collections then you will love Select 2010 – Music For Our Friends By Claude Challe & Jean-Marc Challe!

We’re down to two more cuts and this perfect mix of laid-back electronic cuts in the Best Summer Chillout Playlist comes to an end. Absynth (Marcus Worgull Remix) by Woolfy vs Projections continues on this perfect mix with a very laid-back somewhat haunting Nu Disco cut.

Finally we’ll finish off with a fun very chill classic cut Camino Del Sol (Todd Terje Remix) by Antena. This of course is a remix by Todd Terje who I really am a fan of. Todd Terje has perfectly remixed this classic early 80s cut and brought it into todays sound.

There you go your Best Summer Chillout Playlist. Enjoy!

Calm by Beach Hoppers
Pacific Breeze by Coyote
Loving You by Lemongrass
Lizzie’s Balloon by 45 Dip
Mojamore by Dzihan & Kamien
Nobody Else by Maya Jane Coles
Save Me Tonight by Goloka
myloveismusic by Ralph Myerz
If The Feelings Right by 6th Borough Project
Elle Et Moi by Cicada
Invitation To Love by CFCF
Fame by Petrol
Absynth (Marcus Worgull Remix) by Woolfy vs Projections
Camino Del Sol (Todd Terje Remix) by Antena

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Here’s a romantic and sexy playlist that I’ve put together. More French themed tracks and pretty downtempo and chill which I think is perfect for Valentines Day right? Well this mix is perfect. I start and end with French speaking ladies doing a spoken word thing. I figured that would be perfect for this. The tracks contains jazzy, sexy cuts from folks like Gare Du Nord, Eva Be and Lemongrass. As well as some lo-fi mellow electronica from the likes of Sebastian Tellier and Ambrosia.

You’ve also got some dub and lounge thrown in there as well – mixed well. Check it out and see what you think of the tracks. Feel free to comment let me know.

Chocolat by Zofka
Belle by Alif Tree
Room 69… Moi by Gare Du Nord
Trouble Boy (Eva Be’s Trouble Girl Remix) by Eva Be
Boy With The Beautiful Hair by The Easy Access Orchestra
Rendez-vous by Lemongrass
Come Along With Me by Bitter:Sweet
La Seconda Volta by Max Leonidas
Kiss Me by Private Show
Blue Coast (Ecko Remix) by Lalann

Slip Into Something More Comfortable by Kinobe
Pomme by Sébastien Tellier
Playground Love by Air
Fino Allorizzonte by Luis E.Bacalov
Monday Again by DJ Rodriguez
Mein Freund Harvey (Sugar Daddy) by Touch & Go
Until The Morning by Thievery Corporation
Ambrosia (Bertrand Burgalat Cover) by Ambrosia
Romantica by Dalida

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For this mix I decided to pull some dark, moody ambient cuts. Music that sounds really cold. Chilled. I was looking for tunes that contained sound effects of thunder, lighting and rain within some of the tracks. That is the deal with Fyresvatn by Asle Bjørn. It’s mellow, ambient and full of light sound effects. It’s the thunder sound effects that really get the track going. It’s pretty chill and laidback. It definitely moves though until it winds down to rain and ocean waves sound effects. Which nicely fades us into the next track. Winter by Lippok & Morgenstern a mellow, acoustic ambient track. Really quiet. Perfect for cold evenings at home to chill to while you are wrapped in a blanket. I like the piano touches in it as well. It’s certainly really mellow. Up next we have the spacey piece called Angel Face by Aaron Jasinksi. It’s certainly got a nice downtempo, idm thing going for it with the clicks and pops of the electronics. It mixes well right after the Lippok & Morgenstern piece. Boards of Canada fitts perfectly in this mix. Their music is quite dark and cold. Very electronic. So the next piece is Left Side Drive. I lvoe this track as it’s quite thought provoking – makes me think for some reason and it’s a nice mood driven piece. I like the slow beats though. I absolutely love Boards of Canada. Their music is some of favorite music and they are perfect for chilling to in the background.

We then head into some vocal experimentation by M83. I like this piece as it’s mostly beatless but it’s cold and dark. It sounds like it’s lifted off of a movie soundtrack. It works well here right after Boards of Canada. Almost makes you want to cry – thinking you are watching this sad, sad story and one of the main character just died. Perfect track! Next up is a modern classical piano piece with operatic voices. Very dark and cold. It feels like we are in a different scene in this film and now our only main character is trying to put their life back together. This is quite the powerful piece. Works nice here right after M83.

Avia doing Why Should I Cry is somewhat quirky. I thought twice about putting this piece here and I almost didnt but thought I didn’t want to make this mix way too dark so this works here. It’s mello downtempo track and with some slow scratching effects throughout with the vocal repeating Why Should I Cry – Now You’re Gone. Works right?

L’amour Et la Violence the next track by Sebastian Tellier is pulled from his Sexuality album. I figured this mellow piano piece would work here. It’s mostly piano and then his vocals until it gets into this lo-fi seventies sounding piece – something that sounds like it’s lifter from A Clockwork Orange. I love it. I actually really love Sexuality – it’s an amazing album and the producer Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo from Daft Punk did an excellent job at the production of this album. It’s my favorite album from the last several months and I keep listening to it over and over. It’s perfection.

Lots of minimal vocal pieces in this mix with light, minimal beats added to the tracks and that’s just what Mangia Amore by Marsmobil is. It actually does get going and get fast but it’s still quite minimal and dark and cold.

With the next track I decided to get a little warmer. Forgotten Places by Alif Tree seemed like the perfect track to do that segue and it works. It’s jazzy downtempo with beautiful vintage sounding female vocals. I wanted to change the direction of the mix so this tune does that very well. I wanted to play some laidback, downtempo soulful house and Naked Music’s Pleasure Seeker was calling to fit in this mix so it was the perfect track to follow Pleasure Seeker. It’s sexy, cool yet warm with laidback vox. Romantic is another word that comes up when I hear this track.

The rest of the mix goes into some light acoustic fair with electronic background and ambient touches. This was the best decision to wind down the mix. I especially love U-Turn (Lili) by Aaron. It’s sounds like the Coldplay track that never was. And of course Dead To The World by Röyksopp is the perfect tune to end this mix with. Perfect mellow climax. Enjoy!

Fyresvatn by Asle Bjørn
Winter by Lippok & Morgenstern
Angel Face by Aaron Jasinski
Left Side Drive by Board Of Canada
Coloring The Void by M83
Fragment 1 by Rougge

Why Should I Cry by Avia
L’amour Et la Violence by Sébastien Tellier
Mangia Amore by Marsmobil
Forgotten Places by Alif Tree
Pleasure Seeker by Naked Music
Vodka by China Bear
La Vitrine by Julien Ribot
The Question by Andy Caldwell
U-Turn (Lili) by Aaron
Twice by Little Dragon
Dead To The World by Röyksopp

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