https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UbxJ6fnVXw
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voguzpV4KJc
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:29 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arE4pDj1jcw
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
stan brakhage is a chillwave hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bnXAG_CCVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg4mnPq9f3k
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
#bedroom#artist#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cbWesnWfHk
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
chillwave paradigm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u70hXTJqgM
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Chillwave casts its chill nets wide
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I dont really get how most of this stuff differs from twee indie of the last 20 odd years.
it kinda doesnt? thats the point? i mean i feel like the most of the stuff that 'started' chillwave was unabashedly more masculine & hippie-ish than sarah records or w/e but the big difference is probably just that now cheap synths/laptops are the focal instrument rather than guitars
this is the first time ive realised how straight-up most of it is, the freak element seems to have been slimmed down to delayed vocals/shoddy recording
haha well there's weirder stuff that could probably get classified as 'chillwave' considering how loose plax & i are being itt but i tend to think of chillwave as an attempt to translate some of the sounds/textures + aesthetic concerns from 'weirder' psych/drone/freak stuff of the past few yrs into a 'pop' format
― Lamp, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
nice def. but i think it kinda cuts out the unifying *concerns* of chillwave wrt nostalgia and how that is synthesized via emphasis on paratextuality etc.
also w33d
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
that is, its not "john hughes movies soundtracks" its "watching john hughes movies on crappy vhs/shitty quality stream while stoned in the afternoon"
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
also the extent to which chillwave might be more of a curatorial aesthetic (via balearic) so that lamborghini crystal and wild nothing are both w/n the framework w/o necc sharing a lineage.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
also i srsly <3 that cherry chapstick upthread Lamp
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yah 4 sure...
the most important things abt chillwave are probably a) the yearning for escape into the 'idealized past'/childhood/pop culture nostalgia b) sense of aimlessness/unbeing/displacement as stand-in for current social/economic anxieties cf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79xL0iW2UCk
― Lamp, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UhwRXqlrFE
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread got me through a tedius day of data entry. thanks!
― peacocks, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XyCIvjKaaM
― plax (ico), Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
also i dont think we've mentioned real estate so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC3sa9RIo2I
― plax (ico), Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i taught my friend the word chillwave yesterday. he doesn't know anything about the 'scene' but he hangs out with this dude whose band is on mexican summer. for maximum lolz i told him to ask the guy if he want to go smoke a doob on the beach and listen to some chillwave
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 19 August 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
a few days late, but this is the omd proto-chillwave tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob6CJLrirks
― that habit kick man (r1o natsume), Thursday, 19 August 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Games, a duo consisting of a dude from Tigercity and the Oneohtrix dude, a supergroup among chillwaveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bd1RhWNOIo
― V79, Thursday, 19 August 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
those are both awesome. hadnt heard of games.
― plax (ico), Thursday, 19 August 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
this track is awesome too, I love that staccato part at around 1:40
I can't embed this, but make an effort and click the link, I like the song very much: http://softpowers.bandcamp.com/track/strawberry-soup
― V79, Thursday, 19 August 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
that games track/vid is really rad & i usually h8 the oneohtrix dude
saw them when they were playing w/woods & didnt really vibe them...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBoFiNSRJIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Is5Il8NMU&feature=related
― Lamp, Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
loooove these guys, apaz they're really young or something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlE84gN1mkc
― trade practices cat (electricsound), Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I would buy all of these musics.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
also fun is hitting play on 7 or 8 of these at once.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Pearl Harbor are great. The ep on Mexican Summer is such a wonderful treat. They recently changed their name to Puro Instinct, so be warned.
http://www.myspace.com/puroinstinct
― van smack, Thursday, 19 August 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
good to know!
― trade practices cat (electricsound), Thursday, 19 August 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJkd1MGUJxU
― van smack, Thursday, 19 August 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I really don't think Sun Araw is at all chillwave. Many xposts above.
― van smack, Thursday, 19 August 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
that track kind is but the whole not not fun aesthetic which i guess is kinda the fort thunder aesthetic feels like the springboard for chillwave more than 'actual chillwave'. mb 'weirder' and 'druggier' but not that far off, really, in the end.
okay looks like there isnt any high wolf shit on youtube but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_osEoo84U
― Lamp, Friday, 20 August 2010 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
hey plax have u heard the beach fossils s/t? listening to it again right now & its v v pleasing
― chill.wav (Lamp), Friday, 20 August 2010 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i like it but it works better on a track by track basis, as an "album" it's wayyy to samey
― trade practices cat (electricsound), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
too
― van smack, Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:30 PM (Yesterday)
btw this is not in the spirit of this thread. i think its important that chillwave means a lot of things, kinda prefer this end of it to the more straight up "indie in a windtunnel" aesthetic tho obv i like both. (see my above def. for what ~chillwave means to me~)
also wrt beach fossils, i dont think i've heard any of the stuff from the last few posts before. but that outer limits thing is pretty great.
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
haha its kinda debatable whether beach fossils despite the misleading 'beach' are really all that chillwave & not just w/e were calling indie but i mean theyre songs are called shit like 'youth' and 'vacation' yknow?
& it does get a little same-y 11 tracks are probably too much but i really really like "daydream" and "youth"
― chill.wav (Lamp), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link
well im glad i didn't post that coil track that i was all "proto chillwave" abt y/day itt
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
now that we have the chill-police on our backs
looooool is it this one?????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yipzvcbW9WI
― chill.wav (Lamp), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i've prolly heard the wrong tracks but coil seem about as unchill as it gets
― trade practices cat (electricsound), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i mean coil area all bad vibes, but at the heart of it all is dreamy and woozy but in a heat stroke way i think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAKKoQUsXXM
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:27 (thirteen years ago) link
lamp that one you posted is so great btw!
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
yah plax the whole musick to listen to in the dark disc is really good! v proto-chillwave imo
― chill.wav (Lamp), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link
another proto chillwaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_tGoy3Cdw
― trade practices cat (electricsound), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
and even moreso on this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqJpSwii0hE
'81 and '86 (i think) respectively
― trade practices cat (electricsound), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
one thing about real estate that pisses me off is that drum sound that a lot of chillwave acts have but that they do the worst version of that i've heard.
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
hope the chill-police won't get after me for posting this unorthodox piece of chillwavehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1bkFvWUM14
oh, and I really dig that Outer Limits Recording tune, sounds like Daft Punk trapped in your basement
― V79, Friday, 20 August 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i hated beautiful swimmers until i started thinking of them as chillwave and i really like them in that context!
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link