No doubt, but I don't think Chill Out really fits what I'm talking about here, KLF were never really part of this "scene". And I don't think the early 90s records of artists like Banco de Gaia or Exquisite Corpse or Psychick Warriors of Gaia or Cosmic Baby were meant to be ironic, or at least I don't see any irony either in the presentation or the music itself. I mean, the inner sleeve of Exquisite Corpse's Inner Light quotes that famous (though apocryphal, but I doubt EC knew that) speech by Chief Seattle in its entirety, and the sleeve for Banco de Gaia's Last Train to Llhasa has some political commentary on China's suppression of Tibet. I think most of those 1990s producers were quite sincere (if sometimes misguided) in using these signifiers.
― Tuomas, Friday, 4 October 2013 08:16 (ten years ago) link