You know what it's like to get emails that look too good to be true? I
don't normally follow them up (how many lotteries can I really win in a
week?) but last week I heard from Moby's team, asking if he could make
us an exclusive mix for us to play on Chill.

A couple of "is this for real?!" conversations later, and it's on the way!

We've always been big fans of the man whose first albums became a widely
used soundtrack to everything cool, and shaped the sound of music people
make to chill with today.…

From 10pm tonight on Chill, we're featuring the new album by Oi Va Voi, some chilled covers for a summer night, and lots more acoustic loveliness:

Stevie Scott - Life's Not That Simple
Oi Va Voi - Every Time
Agnes - Release Me (acoustic)
The Weepies - World Spins Madly On
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (acoustic)
Oi Va Voi - Magic Carpet
Iain Archer - We Can All Be Friends
Jason Mraz / Colbie Caillat - Lucky
Ingrid Michaelson - You And I
Oi Va Voi - Dusty Road
Missy Higgins - Warm Whispers
Angus & Julia…

I am very excited that we have TWO brand new shows starting tonight on Chill. They have been a very long time in the making, under the careful craftsmanship of Chiller Cabinet maker Ben Eshmade.

Ben has been working with chilled artists to produce unique events called "Arctic Circle" for some years now, and he has been finding amazing soundtracks and songs along the way.

The music is all beautiful, but some didn't quite fit the Chiller Cabinet. In fact, it is so varied that it didn't really fit one show at all - so Ben made two:

"The Hut"…

We'll be featuring new music from the master songwriter Eg White - he has previously written for the likes of Duffy, James Morrison, Natalie Imbruglia and - picking up an Ivor Novello award on the way - he wrote Leave Right Now. Eg's solo album is a bit more leftfield, but the songs are real growers, and you'll hear lots of them on Chill tonight.

Here is the full tracklist:
Actionslacks - Simple Life
Eg White - Broken
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Laura Higgins - You Won't Fail
Sufjan Stevens - Sofia's Song
Eg White - But…

It's new! It's our fastest growing thing! I'm so excited about it, I dropped sticky food on my exclamation mark key!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (etc)

www.helpyouchill.com is a new site we have set up for Chill listeners and fans to share what helps them chill. It's different from all of our other pages, because everyone who joins gets their OWN page to fill up with the stuff which helps them chill - music, photos, videos, words… If it helps you chill, you can share it there (with obvious common sense rules about copyright… if you own it or can use it under Creative…

Lights! Camera! Action! And… sing!!??

Chill gets a feature this coming Sunday on BBC1, and you will never guess what programme it's on…

Songs of Praise has a Bristol special this weekend, and I had the pleasure of being interviewed for it. They were looking for Bristol-based Christians working in the media, and it turns out they also loved Chill when they heard it. So I took them around the studios where we put things together, they filmed me making a podcast, we chatted about how Chill works, and how life, work and faith fit together for me.

They also…

Just a quick update to let you know our email address has changed to chill@helpmechill.com

The old address will stop working soon, so please update your address book if we were in there, and keep in touch!

Thanks,
Bern

If you feel like some acoustic music to wind down after a stressy Monday, come and join me tonight for Simple City on Chill, where I will be mostly playing:

Orba Squara, Guillemots, Elvis Costello, Tina Dico, Regina Spektor, Richie Havens, Tom Baxter, Gavin DeGraw, The Bad Plus, Neutral Milk Hotel, Alucidnation and Panic At The Disco. Yes, Panic At The Disco. (It will be chilled and acoustic, promise…!)

Full details + lots more ideas for acoustic tracks to chill with, and places to get them right now…

Thank you for all of your messages about the corrupted audio tracks which were causing so much lack of chill on Chill! By all accounts we seem to have dealt with most of them now - I've picked up lots from your emails while scanning through the affected audio server (over 10,000 tracks in all - and I've checked nearly 9,000 of them so far) There are still a few to go, and it might be that some of those tracks which only play rarely have a few surprises in them, so keep letting us know if you hear anything…

I feel like I'm getting full on humble pie today. You may have heard some bad audio problems on Chill in the last couple of weeks, and I need to explain and ask for your help.

Recently the audio servers which contain our vast collection of chilled tunes had a very un-chilled day. They broke. The engineers in our building did a brilliant job of keeping Chill on air, and we ran with a shorter playlist for a few days. Then we had great news - they had restored the audio from the servers, so we could go back to…