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, both recent and classic. Although no longer scheduled on MTV Europe 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, typically on Saturday and/or Sunday between 03:00 and 06:00 a.m. CET. Throughout the '90s and the '00s, the show consistently maintained its original format, i.e. a non-stop selection of experimental and rarely seen music videos. Classic artists played on Chill Out Zone since its heyday 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 3Lux and X-Mix video series released by !K7 was aired on a regular basis.
MTV Adria (South-Eastern Europe) was the last of the MTV channels in Europe to schedule the show, where it was scheduled every Friday and Saturday night until September 17, 2017.