Chicane Presents Sun:Sets Vol 609

Chicane Presents Sun:Sets

Nick Chicane hosts the 609th episode of Sun:Sets, navigating a week marked by travel disruptions and music industry frustrations. The episod

Key takeaways

• Nick Chicane missed a scheduled performance in Northern Ireland due to air traffic control system failures.
• The episode features a rare, potentially unreleased track by Chicane involving a re-recorded version of Vancouver Sleep Clinic's 'Someone to Stay'.

Main topics

• Electronic music mix
• Music industry politics and AI

Notable quotes

My job is here to give you an hour of calm in a stressful world.

Conclusion

An engaging episode that balances melodic escapism with a candid look

Transcript preview

Speaker 4 (0:05) Join us on a journey from the beach to the dance floor. Chicane presents Sunset. Speaker 5 (0:29) This is Speaker 4 (0:30) Sunset. We're Speaker 5 (0:43) the Sunset Nation. To Speaker 4 (0:57) turn up the tempo. Speaker 5 (1:04) With Chicane. Speaker 2 (1:08) Hello people, welcome back to my studio by the sea for the 609th episode of Sunsets. I hope you've had a good week. Better than mine. Anyway, I managed to miss a gig in Northern Ireland on Monday after the air traffic control system went down again here. That's the second time in two weeks, guys. Some massive apologies to anyone who was hoping to come and see me there. I'm really sorry, guys. It was out of my control. We'll try and make sure. We put something aside in the diary as soon as possible. And I've had all kinds of stresses in the music world this week, which we'll talk about a little bit later. So the week did not get off to a cracking start. But enough of my problems. My job is here to give you an hour of calm in a stressful world. In the next 60 minutes, we're going to be listening to some tunes from Bon Iver, Dusky, BT, Hello Machines, Eric Pridz and many more. I'll be playing you something of mine. That's probably never going to get ever released, which is a bit of a talking point. And this might be the only time you're going to hear it, so stick around for that. And we've got our usual soundtrack selection, which comes this week from an old episode of Top Gear. But first up, we're going to be starting with a rather beautiful piece written by ambient music pioneer Brian Eno and his protégé, Fred again. For those of you who don't know, Fred was basically Brian's T-boy. for a very long time and I think they lived very close to each other. This is taken from their 2023 collaborative album Secret Life and this is called Radio. Speaker 2 (12:54) Right, the one and only BT there with overview effect. Before that, a track which appeared on the Netflix film Don't Look Up, which was quite a movie actually, a few years back. That was Bon Iver. I love that. We played that load, Second Nature, and I, of course, did a Bon Iver cover for my last album. Right, it's time for this week's soundtrack selection. Where's my... Seeing as we haven't done a jingle yet... Speaker 2 (13:21) It's time for