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Chillwave

Chillwave 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 lyrics (frequent topics include the beach or summer), psychedelic or lo-fi aesthetics…

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Cultural origins
Late 2000s, United States
Derivative forms
Cloud rap · vaporwave
Other names
Glo-fi · hypnagogic pop · dream-beat
Stylistic origins
Bedroom pop · dream pop · lo-fi · hauntology · psychedelia
Typical instruments
Vocals · synthesizer · sampler

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Musical origins

Etymology and hypnagogic pop

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Decline

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Chillwave

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Edges113
Triples179
Avg. degree1.98
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Chillwave

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related to Musical origins · 33
Chillwave → Abebe, All, Allene Norton, Animal Collective, Ariel Pink, Beach Boys, Before, Boards, Canada, Casino Versus Japan's, CD, Cellars, Critic Adam Harper, Darla Records' Blissed Out, Dilla's, Discussing, Donuts, Ducktails, Fennesz, He
related to Summer of Chillwave and early vanguard · 24
Chillwave → Alan Palomo, All, Although, Brooklyn, Bundick, Chaz Bundick, Created, Ernest Greene, Feel It All Around, Gary Low's, Greene, Greene's, July, Moi, Neon Indian, New York, Portlandia, RBMA's Sian Rowe, Songs, Southern
Stylistic origins · 20
Chillwave → ambient, Bedroom pop, downtempo pop, dream pop, electronic, electropop, funk, hauntology, indie pop, indie rock, light rock, lo-fi, new wave, new-age, post-noise, psychedelia, R&B, shoegaze, synth-pop, yacht rock
related to 2008 financial crisis, summertime, and escapism · 19
Chillwave → A/C, Another, Brooklyn-centric, Eric Grandy, Hawking, It, It's, Its, Jon Pareles, One, Pitchfork, Referencing, So, The New York Times, The Stranger, They're, This, TV, Vulture's Frank Guan
related to Etymology and hypnagogic pop · 16
Chillwave → AnCo/GrizzBear/etc, August, Carles, Chill Bro Core, CumWave, David Keenan, He, Hipster Runoff, Is WASHED OUT, It, July, Most, Neon Indian/Memory Cassette, Pitchforkwavegaze, The, The Wire
related to Decline · 15
Chillwave → And, Bundick, December, Explaining, Millionyoung's, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, One, Pitchfork's, Reed Fischer, Replicants, Some, The, The Village Voice's Christopher, Weingarten, Writing
related to Internet music genres and validity · 10
Chillwave → According, Garin Pirnia, In, Internet, Palomo, Pirnia, The Guardian's Emilie Friedlander, Twitter's, Whereas, YouTube
related to Vaporwave · 10
Chillwave → Amplifying, Ariel Pink, It, James Ferraro, Last, Marxists, One, Reddit, Vaporwave, Writers
related to Glo-fi · 9
Chillwave → Glo-fi, In, Simon Reynolds, That, The, The Guardian, The Quietus, Times, While The New York
Other names · 3
Chillwave → dream-beat, Glo-fi, hypnagogic pop

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music pop vaporwave genre 2009 artists early hypnagogic lo-fi like sound acts album term one 1980s glo-fi internet nostalgia summer

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ChillwaveCultural originsLate 2000s, United States1.00infobox
ChillwaveDerivative formsCloud rap1.00infobox
ChillwaveDerivative formsvaporwave1.00infobox
ChillwaveOther namesGlo-fi1.00infobox
ChillwaveOther nameshypnagogic pop1.00infobox
ChillwaveOther namesdream-beat1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsBedroom pop1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsdream pop1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originslo-fi1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originshauntology1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originspsychedelia1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originselectronic1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsindie pop1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originssynth-pop1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originselectropop1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsshoegaze1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsnew wave1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsR&B1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsambient1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsfunk1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsindie rock1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsnew-age1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsyacht rock1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originslight rock1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originsdowntempo pop1.00infobox
ChillwaveStylistic originspost-noise1.00infobox
ChillwaveTypical instrumentsVocals1.00infobox
ChillwaveTypical instrumentssynthesizer1.00infobox
ChillwaveTypical instrumentssampler1.00infobox
Chillwaveis amusic microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s0.90text

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