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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.
- Late 2000s, United States
Jun 3, 2021 · Chillwave stuck as a term to describe this more indie-focused synthwave cousin, a retro sound with roots in similar ’80s electro-pop to synthwave, but with a more psychedelic aesthetic than the polished neon sheen of synthwave.
- Future Music
Jun 25, 2019 · Chillwave also eventually led to vaporwave, another widely mocked and vastly influential form of electronic music. And while chillwave was largely a rebuke to rock music (Bundick, Hawk, and Palomo ...
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....
- Colin Joyce
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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- Emilie Friedlander
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 ...
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 ...
