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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.
Aug 21, 2019 · Chillwave: a momentary microgenre that ushered in the age of nostalgia. In a summer riven by financial meltdown, a niche trend for lo-fi retro pop couldn’t have seemed more...
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Oct 14, 2019 · More than any one specific artist or album, though, chillwave’s greatest influence turned out to be itself. In the immediate wake of The Summer of Chill sprang forth innumerable projects, most...
Aug 23, 2019 · At their core, chillwave acts made pop music, so they were applying those sounds more to dance music, shoegaze tropes, the skeletons of quiet storm, or to brittle...
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Jul 14, 2011 · Unbelievably, goofily, Carles was right: Chillwave is “the first successful genre launch in 10-20 years.”. To mark the auspicious development, Vulture traveled to the far indie-rock corners of ...
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Aug 1, 2017 · Proliferation of internet, non-commercial music was made ultra-possible by channels, such as Majestic Casual, Fhinq Music, TSYN and a horde of copies all on YouTube, sourced by the artists via Soundcloud and Bandcamp. This then later evolved into, of course, pop and EDM.
Chillwave (originally considered synonymous with glo-fi and hypnagogic pop) is a music microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s. It loosely emulates 1980s electropop while engaging with notions of memory and nostalgia.
