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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 21, 2019 · It was the first song to give me that sensation. By the following month, it had a name. “Feel like I might call it ‘chill wave’ music in the future,” proclaimed the pseudonymous blogger ...
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Jun 25, 2019 · Neon Indian – “Terminally Chill”. Most chillwave artists bristled at being tagged with the term, but Alan Palomo’s got no plausible deniability — behind “Should’ve Taken Acid With ...
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 ...
Jun 3, 2021 · The term chillwave was coined by a writer known simply as ‘Carles’, aka Texas native Carlos Perez, founder of music blog Hipster Runoff. Launched in 2007, it was part of a broader blog scene at the time, when new music could be broken by bloggers and the influential aggregator site Hype Machine.
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Dec 23, 2020 · Top 10 Most Underrated Synthwave Songs Of All Time. 5 “Hometown” by French 79. Simon Henner, French guitarist of the Kid Francescoli project, decided to create a solo project in the year 2014. And thus, French 79 was born. Since then, Simon’s music has become a true staple of modern Synthpop.
Aug 1, 2017 · Most notably “chillwave” was coined by the satirical, ironic blogger Carles of the defunct Hipster Runoff (2008-2013) who wanted to gather the impression and feeling of the music that “chillwave” created. Because the internet became a much easier place to release and review music, and at larger amounts than ever, chillwave was a direct ...
