Chill Out Zone

The Chill Out Zone was a long-running TV show which first appeared on MTV Europe in late 1993. Its main focus lied on ambient music, laidback house, trip hop, jungle and chillout trance and other forms of underground experimental music, both current and classic.

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 1995. From January 1999, each European region (at the time comprising UK, Nordic, Central, South and 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.

Although no longer scheduled on the main MTV Europe feed (by then only aimed at countries without a specific local version) since August 2010, the show was still carried by a small number of localized MTV feeds across Europe every weekend in the early morning hours until 2017, typically on Saturday and/or Sunday between 02:00 and 06:00 a.m. CET. 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 3 decades on air include: 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 and X-Mix video series released by !K7 would appear on a regular basis.

MTV Adria (South-Eastern Europe) has aired the show until summer 2017, it was programmed every Friday and Saturday night. Especially during its last 5 years on air, MTV Adria's Chill Out Zone unearthed thousands of rare classic clips from the MTV vaults in London, the vast majority of which hadn't been played on the show since the 1990s or early 2000s.

As of 2021, the show is airing on in France. The show runs for two hours on Sundays. This program is a continuation of MTV Pulse's Chill Out Zone, that used to air in 2000's and 2010's.

In late 2021, the show has premiered on MTV Russia. It airs every Friday night and has a runtime of 40 minutes.

A show with a similar concept, Amp, is airing on MTV Japan every Friday night.

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