Venerable British movie star Michael Caine is set to release three compilations of chill-out music. From the man’s own website:

“My record “Cained” comes out in September. This is a compilation of Chill music from my vast collection. I have to confess that I am a secret disc jockey and have been making tapes and CDs for myself and my friends for over 40 years.”

Holy crap! How did such a project come to be?

“It was weird the way this record came about, I was having dinner with Elton John at his house in Nice and he had on background music and as we were going through the dinner several of my favourite Chill records were played and I kept naming the tune or the artist much to Elton surprise and he asked me how I knew about this kind of music and I told him and he got me a three record deals. As they say in show business it is not what you know it is who you know. Have a listen I hope you like it.”

Will do, Sir Caine. (And thank you, MetaFilter.)