The man who actively promoted chillout to the masses was DJ Jose Padilla. He was a great mixer and experimenter. His hours-long sets included reggae, trance, lounge, and chillout. He conducted his electronic sound experiments at the legendary Cafe del Mar. His chillout (music) is still popular today among fans of unhurried, relaxing beats. Many representatives of trance culture use chillout to dilute their tracks.

The most popular artists are Tunguska E.M.S., Café del Mar, Chicane, Andre Tanneberger, and many other DJs. With the new millennium, trance and lounge culture seeped into the expanses of our homeland as well. A lot of progessive performers started to work in this style. Today there is a radio wave “Record Chillout” with the program with the same name, broadcasting on Sunday nights. The host is Artem Dmitriev, an erudite young actor with a velvet voice and a great knowledge of the history of electronic music.

The Spanish bar Cafe del Mar was the birthplace of this light style, and today it’s a kind of Mecca for lovers of relaxation and gurus of modern chillout. Every year it attracts famous performers, DJs play their sets and make visitors chill out to the fullest extent. Ministry of Sound, London’s club, became the setting for a new wave of relaxing electronic music. Subsequently this club began to organize grand chillout festivals in Ibiza. Every year the chillout program is included in the festivals taking place in Goa.