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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.
Jun 25, 2019 · Guy from Florida making mumbly, vaguely dancey, vaguely poppy songs like “Cynthia” that reveled in being flat-out vague and sounded pretty darn good if you’re four beers deep in a swimming pool.
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 funk rhythms.
- Colin Joyce
Jul 14, 2011 · He’s indisputably right: Chillwave — a catchall term for recent practitioners of fuzzed-out, dance-ready, nostalgia-inducing tunes — was born out of a Hipster Runoff blog post in the summer of...
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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.
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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.
