Chill Out Zone
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| Genre | Music |
| Country of origin | Europe |
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| Running time | 45-180 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | MTV Europe |
| First shown in | Europe |
| Original release | November 1993 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Party Zone |
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The Chill Out Zone is a long-running music video program that was first aired on MTV Europe in late 1993. Its main focus lied on ambient music, hip hop, laidback house, trip hop, jungle, chillout trance and other forms of underground experimental music, both current and classic.
Format[edit]
Throughout its entire history, the show always preserved its original format, consisting of a non-stop selection of experimental and rarely seen music videos. Classic artists played on Chill Out Zone throughout its three decades on air include The Future Sound of London, Radio Massacre International, Aphex Twin, The Orb, Orbital, William Orbit, Massive Attack, Portishead, Lazonby, Josh Wink and Biosphere. Chill Out Zone was also the only program on TV where a number of excerpts taken from the classic '90's 3Lux and X-Mix video series released by !K7 Music would appear on a regular basis.
Until 1998, the show featured the same playlists across the whole of Europe, with only minor occasional differences occurring in specific regions as MTV Europe began to regionalize its feeds across the continent in 1997. From January 1999, each European region (at the time comprising the United Kingdom, Nordic, Central, South and the rest of Europe) started compiling completely separate playlists on Chill Out Zone, although all of them still shared the same direction in terms of music output.
Broadcast history[edit]
The show was first aired on MTV Europe in November 1993. Beginning in January 1999, localized versions of Chill Out Zone began to air on MTV channels all over Europe, as MTV Europe began to regionalize its feeds in 1997. The show stopped airing on MTV Europe in August 2010, with regional versions of the show continue to air up until 2017.
MTV Adria, which was the last channel MTV channel in Europe to air Chill Out Zone before 2020, had aired the show until 2 July 2017, which it was aired every Friday and Saturday night from 03:00 CET until 06:00 CET. During its last 5 years on air, MTV Adria's Chill Out Zone had unearthed thousands of rare classic clips from the MTV archives in London, the vast majority of which hadn't been played on the show since the 1990s or the early 2000s.
After a three-year absence, Chill Out Zone began airing again on 31 August 2020 on MTV Hits in France, under the name Chill Out, and on 10 December 2021 on MTV Russia under its original title. The program also began airing on MTV Germany (formerly known as MTV Central) on 12 March 2022.
Similar programs[edit]
Amp, a dance/electronic music-oriented TV show that was originally aired on MTV in the United States from 1996 until 2001, shares a similar concept and format to MTV Europe's Chill Out Zone and Party Zone. The show is currently airing on MTV Japan every Saturday at 2:00am JST.
From 2008 until 2011, VH1 Europe aired a version of Chill Out Zone on a nightly basis. On the weekend of 10 January 2014, VH1 Adria aired a special program dedicated to chillout electronic music under the name Chill Out Weekend.
MTV Chill Out Zone, a streaming television channel that's based on the program of the same name, was launched on Pluto TV in Germany on 29 July 2022. While it features a similar format to Chill Out Zone, its playlist is primarily focused on alternative/indie, chillout trance, hip-hop/R&B, laidback house, and trip hop music from popular and lesser-known artists/bands such as Beck, Booka Shade, Childish Gambino, Dusky, Empire of The Sun, Flume, Hot Chip, Jamie XX, Lykke Li, Radiohead, Spooks, The Internet, and Warpaint.
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