Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Cure & The Cause [Ambient Mix] - Fish Go Deep, Tracey K
2. One Love - Sara Tavares
3. Down But Up - Ganga
4. Northwest - Aim
5. Intoxicated - Groovecatcher
6. Still Here - Aural Float
7. Give Me Loving [mantra mix] - Goloka
8. Rain Down Love [After Hours Mix] - Freemasons, Siedah Garrett
9. Little Man - Cagedbaby
10. African Girl - Nayo
11. Watersong - Fous de la Mer
12. Hide Me [Al Usher Dance Mix] - Grandadbob
13. Fragment Two... the First Picture - Kenneth Bager, Julee Cruise
14. Tricks - Cicada
15. [CD-ROM Track]

Disc 2:

1. Seven Cities [Ambient Dub] - Solar Stone
2. Finally [Lenny Ibizarre Mix] - Kings of Tomorrow
3. Koop Island Blues - Koop
4. Party Animal - No Logo
5. Love Is Flowing to Love - Billie Godfrey, , Mitchell & Dewbury
6. Supernova - Yukijobo
7. I Wanna Go [Afterlife Remix] - Jannae Jordan, Stereo Mutants
8. All That Men Think About - Track N Field
9. Lonnie's Secret - Owusu & Hannibal
10. Taking Me Over - Schmoov!
11. Drive Me Crazy - Secret Stealth
12. Modern Stalking - The Lovebirds
13. Magic Sky [Riccione Mix] - London Heavy Disco Revue

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #192837 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-15
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Enhanced, Import
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Album Description
Two CD set on the dance-tabulous Hed Kandi label. Serve Chilled focuses on sunny, brighter chill tracks rather than the more acoustic, introverted tradition of the darker side that's common on their Winter Chill compilation. It's the perfect companion for an afternoon in the sun, by the pool, on the beach, savoring beautiful Balearic sunsets or even for the morning after! This set serves up Lounge, soulful Jazz, Balearic Electronica and chilled Latin of the highest quality. Features 4Hero, Jazzanova, Nouvelle Vague, Max Sedgley, Sandboy and many others. 2007.

Customer Reviews

Hed Kandi - Mark Doyle = Forgettable...
I absolutely loved the first three installments of this series, but since it's "rebirth" last year, I've been completely disappointed with the selections. Apart from a few good tracks (Koop, Aim, Kenneth Bager), this compilation is pretty lackluster. I've been waiting for another Winter Chill album since 2005, but with the direction Serve Chilled has taken since Mark's departure, I can only imagine that it would also be a disappointment.

So... what happened??
Amazing how good the previous review is! Short, quick, to the point (admittedly unlike mine) and it's one I agree with 100%. Hedkandi's Serve Chilled has a warm history to me. I remember where I was when I first got volume 1... in the Virgin Megastore in Las Vegas (not sure if it's even there anymore) some 7 years ago. I loved it, and when I forgot it on an airplane on my way home from Vegas (it was all for work, unfortunately) I sprinted back to the airplane and found it under the seat. The crew thought I was nuts. But I digress. Serve Chilled was 'reborn' last summer after a 5 year hiatus, and back then I was rather disappointed at the decision to can it. Afterall, you had such a nice blend of new music and uknowns. There was filler, but there also quality and a real identity to the music.

And then you've got tihs one and the last one which have been beyond disappointing given the label. I mean... what happened?? This one is particularly bad, loaded with filler and just boring music that doesn't go anywhere except painfully in one year and mercilessly out the other. There were maybe two or three songs in the two disc set that were stand-outs - solar Stone's "Seven Cities", which was a thumping trance jam back in 2000 or so & reborn into a chillout masterpiece, ironically, in the same year/summer of the the last good Serve chilled series back in 2001. And then there's Koop's "Koop Island Blues", which is a sensational jazzed up track. To be hoenst I didn't mind Secret Stealth's "Drive Me Crazy". Didn't like the music as much, but the woman's voice - has a bit of a Chaka Khan vibe to it so she's certainly got a bright future! But... my word... you've got some pretty daft material here otherwise. Before, sometimes you'd at least get a few good ones on disc one and a better set on disc two but here, they're all pretty rough. "Party-Animal", "Taking Me Over", etc. - you know how sometimes, boring music can give you a head-ache? This is it.

Recommend against this one. Without Mark Doyle, they've lost their eye (and maybe more accurately their ear) for good tunes. They still have the same approach - unmixed, full tracks. But when the songs are bad, it's more of a curse that they're full-length. I always liked the Serve Chilled series better than Winter Chill since it wasn't nearly as warbly with the vocals. There was a snap to volume three with S-Tone Inc's Arejar, Atjazz's "Harmony" and Cantoma's cut too. The music was a little more complex, much more thought-out and while you did have the typical Hedkandi album filler, there was enough good stuff between to hold your interest. But this... Do yourself a favor and try to get the older ones if they're not through the roof $$$ wise. As for Hedkandi - C'mon, guys - get it together!!!

Let's not generalize ...
Mark Doyle has my gratitude for launching and nurturing this beautiful series, but they've gone on to do some great things since his departure. Hed Kandi: Serve Chilled 59 is a well-blended cocktail with some outstanding numbers ("Beautiful Otherness"), and Hed Kandi: Beach House 60 is as much fun as the Doyle-era Beach Houses I've got . That doesn't prevent this one from being depressingly monotonous. Some of it's all right, but nothing stands out and the general ambiance of boredom contaminates even acceptable numbers. Try again.