When, in a couple of months time, 'I Love 2001' finally makes it to our TV screens it will no doubt be remembered as the year the music industry discovered chillout and learned in an instant how to repackage back catalogue and sell it by the bucket load.
Chillout compilations are a hugely successful formula, but now the trick's been learned it's been repeated until the point of nauseous tedium.
Since mid summer music journalists have been approaching their mail bags drenched in a chilled sweat lest they unwrap yet another compilation called 'The comedown collection', 'Chilled until frozen' or 'Turn on, tune in, chill out'.
So the arrival of 'Chillout Forever' in the post was not exactly a joyous occasion.
But once you've got over the title this, like many of its ilk, contains a reasonable collection of tracks.
Highlights include Bent's 'Always', Royksopp's 'Eple' and Block 16's 'Find An Oasis'. Norman Cook's even donated an exclusive Fatboy Slim track, 'Talkin' About My Baby'. But whether any of it really qualifies as chillout is another matter.
The real value of this particular chillout collection, though, is, er, its value. True they haven't crammed as many songs on the CDs as they could have done, there being only 10 tracks on each one, but it's a three CD unmixed package, which isn't bad for under a tenner.
Now, where have those old skool hardcore compilations got to…
