Radio X Chilled

Radio X Chilled explores the quieter side of the Radio X sound, mixing laid-back songs with acoustic performances and relaxed alternative music. It launched in September 2024 alongside Radio X 90s and Radio X 00s. Its organising idea is the character of the music rather than a particular decade, allowing different generations of artists to share a more restrained programme.

The broadcaster describes a range that includes stripped-back versions of indie songs and 1990s trip-hop. Oasis, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Courteeners, Stereophonics, Kings of Leon, Radiohead and the Verve are among the artists identified for the station. Their inclusion connects the service with the familiar Radio X repertoire while giving gentler performances and less forceful arrangements more room.

An acoustic version can bring a song's vocal line and melody forward, while a trip-hop recording approaches a relaxed mood through rhythm and texture. These are different musical routes to the same broad atmosphere, and both fall within the station's stated brief. Radio X Chilled is consequently not limited to electronic ambient music or to a collection of slow pop ballads.

The channel launched as part of Global's September 2024 expansion of Radio X, which also introduced dedicated services for the nineties and noughties. Chilled takes a different route through that musical catalogue: an artist's gentler side matters more than the release decade. Available through Global Player and digital radio in its coverage areas, it gives quieter indie and alternative recordings a continuous station of their own, with acoustic detail and spacious production central to the sound.