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Chillwave. Chillwave (originally considered synonymous with glo-fi and hypnagogic pop) is a music microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s. It is characterized by evoking the popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s while engaging with notions of memory and nostalgia. Common features include a faded or dreamy retro pop sound, escapist ...
- Late 2000s, United States
Aug 23, 2019 · Chillwave Was the First Great Genre of the Internet Era. A guide to the best songs from the late-aughts movement of hazy pop artists like Toro y Moi, Washed Out, and more. CJ. by Colin Joyce. HF ...
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Aug 21, 2019 · The tag described a new crop of melodic dream-pop artists such as Washed Out, Neon Indian, and Memory Cassette – artists that on paper were very different from a rock group like Best Coast, with ...
Aug 1, 2017 · For many chillwave artists, this is because the samples were familiar sources, such as Clio – Faces or Gary Low – I Want You or Pineapples – Come On Closer. The 1980s italodisco and synthpop was a musical wave that was quickly being cycled back but redone in 2009.
Chillwave was a term invented by thought leader/influencer Carles 2 on his Hipster Runoff blog to classify a type of music loosely defined by summertime imagery, analog production, and heavy usage of samples. 3 It really only existed from the summer of 2009 to the beginning of 2011, around the time when no one was sure how much of Hipster Runoff was a gag and how much was sincere tastemaking.
Jun 25, 2019 · Millionyoung – “Cynthia”. Millionyoung wasn’t one of the greatest chillwave acts, but it was certainly a definitive one. Guy from Florida making mumbly, vaguely dancey, vaguely poppy songs ...
Oct 14, 2019 · The neon pop of the 1980s—a decade in which most chillwave practitioners spent some time in a literal embryonic state—looms large, as it did with the late-’00s internet-native dance subgenre ...
