The only program to feature electronica, ambient and synthesizer music is MTV's Chill Out Zone, airing on Saturday nights / Sunday mornings from 3 - 5 am. The program is also repeated on the new MTV Dance channel.

The Chill Out Zone have an e-mail service whereby they send out the playlist of the previous week's show. Here's what's been played so far if you are interested. You can also subscribe to the list yourself by sending a message to the address chilloutzone@mtvne.com.

7/12/97

BETH ORTON - Best Bit (Deconstruction)
WILLIAM ORBIT - Gringatcho Demento (BMG)
FINN COREN - The Sick Rose (Bard)
LAILA FRANCE - Bilitis (Bungalow)
UNITED FUTURE ORGANISATION - The Planet Plan (Mercury)
LUNOHOD - Voyage (45 Records)
HEADPHONES - Words (Goldhead)
RUN WRAKE - Nice Way
FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - We Have Explosive (Virgin)
RUN WRAKE - The Race
PRIMAL SCREAM - Burning Wheel (Creation)
BIM SHERMAN - Solid As A Rock (Beggars Banquet)
PIZZICATO FIVE - It's A Beautiful Day (Matador)
ALEC EMPIRE - The Report (Digital Hardcore)
PHOTEK - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu (Virgin)
RMB - Break The Silence (RCA)
MOVE D - Trist (Question AV)
NAID - Blastjarnan (Stockholm)
FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - Max (Virgin)
BOYMERANG - Soul Beat Runna (EMI)
THE GRID - Floatation (East West)
TELETUBBIES - Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!' (BBC)
SPACE CURLS - Wannabe (Columbia)
THE ORB - The Blue Room (Recorded live for MTV's Most Wanted)
SPACETIME CONTINUUM - Kairo (Question AV)
FOREVER SWEET - A1 (L'Age D'or)
DEATH IN VEGAS - Dirt (Deconstruction)

31/8/97

Daft Punk - Burnin' (Virgin)
Jimi Tenor - Take Me Baby (Warp)
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World (A&M)
Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie (Student Version - Vron Harris) (China)
Tricky - Overcome (Island)
Single Gun Theory - Fall (Nettwerk)
Jam & Spoon ft. Plavka - Find Me (Sony)
U.F.O. - His Name Is... (Mercury)
Peter Gabriel - Zaar (Virgin)
Chicane - Sunstroke (Disco Citizens Mix) (Edel)
B.T. - Embracing The Sunshine (East West)
Jon Hassell - Voice Print (WEA)
U2 - Last Night on Earth (First Night in Hell mix) (Island)
Best Boy Electric - Dawning (Amber Records)
Warp Records - (Corpus Porpoise Postumous Nun Polhemus)
Ken Ishii - Echo Exit (R&S)
Salt Tank - Olympic (London)
End of Orgy - Orange Original (Jean Manuel Moreau)
Spooky - Aphonia (A&M)
Arj Snoek - People Know (L'Age D'Or)
The Orb - Asylum (Island)
Speedy J - G-Spot (Warp)

10/8/97

William Burroughs - Thanksgiving (Island)
Spooky - Schmoo (Polygram)
Arj Snoek - People Know (L'Age D'Or)
Super Discount - Le Patron Est Devenu Fou! (Different Recordings)
Daft Punk - Da Funk (Virgin)
Wizards of Ooze - Dusty Pieces (Creastars Europe)
Arthur - Lose Your Mind (Pinnacle)
David Holmes - Gritty Shaker (Go Beat!)
808 State - Olympic (ZTT)
Way Out West - Blue (Deconstruction)
Dimitri From Paris - Sacre Francais (East West)
Apollo 440 - Liquid Cool (Sony)
Brian Eno - Fractal Zoom (Leisure)
Primal Scream - If They Move Kill 'Em (Recorded live for MTV Europe)
Zion Train - Dance of Life (WEA)
Sabres of Paradise - Wilmot
Massive Attack - Karmacoma (Virgin)
My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Creation)
Tortoise - Glass Museum (Cityslang)
Morcheeba - Never An Easy Way (China)
E.B.N. - Watch Television (TVT)
Sweet Exorcist - Testone (Rhythm King)
Scanner - Arc (Question Av)
Higher Intelligence Agency  - Pink Green (Question Av)
Deep Space Network - Zenn La (Question Av)
Biosphere - Cloudwalker (Studio K7)

3/8/97

JAY JAY JOHANSON - So Tell The Girls I Am Back In Town (BMG)
18 WHEELER - Stay (Radio Orbit Remix) (Creation)
FINITRIBE - Brand New (London)
B.T. - Flaming June (East West)
ESPIRITU - Man Don't Cry (Deconstrution)
KAT ONOMA - La Chambre (EMI)
LAURENT GARNIER - Flashback (Play It Again Sam)
THE STARSEEDS - Parallel Life (Millennium)
MOUSE ON MARS - Cache Coeur Naif (Too Pure)
JET - Silver Pod (April)
INFORMATION - Nightwheel (Beatservice)
BOMB THE BASS - Sandcastles (Island)
TRICKY - Makes Me Wanna Die (Island)
SPACETIME CONTINUUM - Simm City (Question Av)
WARP RECORDS - (Lifespan) (Warp)
SVEN VATH - Caravan of Emotion (Studio K7)
ATTICA BLUES - Tender (A&M)
BLUE PEARL - Mother Dawn (Big Life)
BJORK - Venus As A Boy (One Little Indian)
WORKSHOP - I Wish I Had You (L'Age d'Or)

27/7/97

DIVINE WORKS - Ancient Person of My Heart (Virgin)
VENTURA - Birds (Roadrunner)
BALLY SAGOO - Tum Bin Jiya (Sony)
TDF - Rip Stop (WEA)
JIMI TENOR - Sugar Daddy (Warp)
DUB PISTOLS - Westway (Deconstruction)
KREIDLER - Reflections (Kiff/SM)
SPIRITUALIZED - Let It Flow (BMG)
TRANSWAVE - Land of Freedom (Distance)
SOUTH CONNECTION - E-Shock (Lab Records)
ZONE 12 - Moody Pan Pipes (Tumi)
PHOTEK - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu (Two Swords Technique) (Virgin)
REQ - Subcultures (Skint)
YVES DERUYTER IV - Calling Earth (Streetheat Music)
HE SAID OMALA - Post Code Orange (Origin)
WIRE - In Vivo (Mute)
CAN - Mushroom (Mute)
MIKE DEARBORN - Deviant Behaviour (Studio K7)
OVAL - Textuell (Mille Plateaux)
RED SNAPPER - 3 Strikes and You're Out (Recorded live for MTV's Party
Zone)
AFA - Fossili (I Dischi del Mulo)
LABRADFORD - Midrange (Blastfirst)
AMORPHOUS ANDROGYNOUS - Mountain Goat (Virgin)

22/6/97

Howie B - Angels Go Bald (Polydor)
Future Sound of London - We Have Explosive (Virgin)
Scala - Slide (Too Pure)
Seefeel - Fracture (Warp)
MC Solaar - Gangster Moderne (Polydor)
Sens Unik - Paquito (Four Music)
Bobo In White Wooden Houses - Travel in My Mind (Motor Music)
Ben Harper - Whipping Boy (Virgin)
Mazzy Star - Flowers in December (Polygram)
Ingrid Schroeder - Paint You Blue (East West)
Babyfox - Curlylocks (Roadrunner)
Primal Scream - Star (Creation)
Faithless - If Loving You is Wrong (Champion)
Oceanhead - Eyemotion (EMI)
Delerium - Euphoria (Nettwerk)
Orphei Dranger - The Singing Apes
Radio Massacre International - Roxette Lost In Space (Centaur)
Towa Tei - Happy 
U.F.O - His Name Is.... (Mercury)
Lightning Seeds - You Showed Me (Attica Blues Vocal Mix) (Epic)
Headphones - Words (Goldhead)
Dead Can Dance - The Carnival is Over (4AD)
Juno Reactor - God is God (Blue Room)
The Age of Love - The Age of Love (Jam & Spoon mix) (React)
Johnny Moy - Squirt (Red Records)
808 State - Ooops (WEA)

18/5/97

MONO - SILICONE (Echo)
HOOVER - 2 WICKY (Sony)
SONIC YOUTH - LITTLE TROUBLE DOLL (Geffen)
SUNCLUB - FIESTA (Sony)
SPOOKY - BAMBOO (A&M)
TDF - RIP STOP (WEA)
DEVO - WHIP IT (Virgin)
JAY JAY JOHANSON - IT HURTS ME SO (BMG)
JIMI TENOR - TAKE ME BABY (Rough Trade)
PRIMAL SCREAM - KOWALSKI (Creation)
END OF ORGY - LA TRAINEE D'ECUME (Jean Manuel Moreau)
END OF ORGY - ETIENTE (Jean Manuel Moreau)
SCANNER - ARC (Question Av)
HIGHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCY - PINK GREEN (Question Av)
PAUL VAN DYK - FORBIDDEN FRUIT (EAST OF EDEN MIX) (Volume)
JACKSON - DRACULA IS ON A GOOD DAY (Unlimited Witch)
HAL FT. GILLIAN ANDERSON - EXTREMIS (Virgin)
NAID - MODIR (Stockholm)
JUNO REACTOR - GOD IS GOD (Blue Room)
TRANSGLOBAL UNDERGROUND - TEMPLEHEAD (Beggars Banquet)
TRICKY - MAKES ME WANNA DIE (Island)
ANDREA PARKER - ROCKING CHAIR (Mo'Wax)
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS - EASY SKANKING (Island)
ULTRAMARINE - HAPPY LAND (WEA)
DEATH IN VEGAS FT. RANKIN' ROGER - TWIST AND CRAWL (Concrete)
MORCHEEBA - TRIGGER HIPPIE (China)
COWBOY JUNKIES - BLUE MOON REVISITED (BMG)

11/5/97

THE ORB - ASYLUM (ISLAND)
HEADPHONES - WORDS (GOLDHEAD, SWEDEN)
MOLOKO - WHERE IS THE WHAT IF THE WHAT IS... (ECHO)
ROCKERS HI-FI - GOING UNDER (KRUDER & DORFMEISTER MIX) (DIFFERENT DRUM)
DREADZONE - CAPTAIN DREAD (VIRGIN)
THE BUBBLEMEN - THE BUBBLEMEN ARE COMING (BEGGARS BANQUET)
MOUSE ON MARS - CACHE COEUR NAIF (TOO PURE)
DEAD CAN DANCE - THE HOST OF SERAPHIM (4AD)
SNEAKER PIMPS - 6 UNDERGROUND (ONE LITTLE INDIAN)
ETHER REAL - ZAP
BARNES + BARNES - FISHHEADS
DUB PISTOLS - WESTWAY (DECONSTRUCTION)
NATURAL ESSENCE - INJURY (SIRKUS)
KRAFTWERK - TELEPHONE CALL (EMI)
EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - BLUME (WARNER BROS.)
HELGE SCHNEIDER - FITZE FITZE FATZE (EMI)
BETH ORTON - SHE CRIES YOUR NAME (HEAVENLY)
CESARIA EVORA - PETIT PAYS (BMG)
HEX - GLOBAL CHAOS (NINJA TUNE)
COIL - WINDOW PANE
FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON - CASCADE (VIRGIN)
JUNGLE BROTHERS - STRAIGHT OUT OF THE JUNGLE (POLYGRAM)
THE ALOOF - FAVELAS (EAST WEST)
OLIVE - YOU'RE NOT ALONE (REMIX) (RCA)

27/4/97

TRICKY - Makes Me Wanna Die (Island)
SNEAKER PIMPS - 6 Underground (One Little Indian)
BJORK - Possibly Maybe (One Little Indian)
JIMI TENOR - Outta Space (Warp)
MORPHINE - Buena Buena (Rykodisc)
THE GRID - Diablo (BMG)
MOBY - Hymn (Moby's Own Hymn) (Mute)
ASSAD - Glad To Be (BMG)
HUGO RACE & THE TRUE SPIRITS - Saw The Lights Go By (Normal)
WINK - Higher State of Consciousness (Polygram)
PSYCHIC WARRIORS OV GAIA - Out Now! (KK Records)
YAMO - Stereomatic (EMI)
M/D/M/A - I Need You (Pure Logic)
YOTHU YINDI - Timeless Land (BMG)
ZONE 12 - Moody Pan Pipes (Tumi)
AFA - Fossili (I Dischi de Mulo)
MIND OVER MIDI - Bakterial Soup (Beatservice)
ALEX REECE - Feel The Sunshine (Island)
ALEX REECE - Candles (Island)
BEST BOY ELECTRIC - Dawning (Amber Records)
SLAB - Roof Bubble Rumble (Hydrogen Jukebox)
END OF ORGY - Derive Evidente (Lama Pelliculaire)
STAKKER/APHEX TWIN - Extract (5) from the Westworld film (Warp)
STAKKER/APHEX TWIN - Extract (6) from the Westworld film (Warp)

4/5/97

STAKKER/APHEX TWIN - Extract (7) from the Westworld film (Warp)
ENIGMA - Principles of Lust (Virgin)
DREAMCATCHER - An Ocean of Joy (Island)
PRESSURE DROP - You're Mine (Leftfield Vocal Mix) (Logic)
BABY FOX - Rain (Roadrunner)
ROLLO GOES SPIRITUAL FT. PAULINE TAYLOR - Let This Be A Prayer (Champion)
BANDULU - Changing World (Pinnacle)
GENERAL LEVY - Unique (Renk)
SOUNDMAN & DON LLOYDIE - Greater Love (Sour)
APOLLO 440 - Astral America (Sony)
M-BEAT & JAMIROQUAI - Do You Know (Renk)
RUTHLESS RAP ASSASINS - Just Mellow (EMI)
LAURENT GARNIER - Astral Dreams (Polygram)
TAV FALCO - Love's Last Warning (Intercord)
SLAM - Positive Education (Soma)
JOEY BELTRAM - Game Form (Arista)
CJ BOLLAND - Starship Universe (London)
FLORA PURIM - What You See (B&W)
DEATH IN VEGAS FT. RANKIN ROGER - Twist and Crawl (Deconstruction)
FATBOY SLIM - Santa Cruz (Skint)
HERBIE HANCOCK - Dis is Da Drum (Polygram)
ATTIC ATTACK - In the Path of the Whale (Prism)
ULTRAMARINE - Kingdom (WEA)
COCTEAU TWINS - Love's Easy Tears (4AD)

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