HELP ME SORT THE "WHEAT" FROM THE "CHAFF" IN THIS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED GENRE KNOWN AS "CHILLWAVE"

oh my god

teen inc is "chillwave"?

Mark McGuire is not chillwave.

So says RateYourMusic.com!

c'mon dude

durian!

can't tell if ilxor is going for death by sb here or what but whatever

the only three chillwave groups i've paid any significant attention to are washed out, ducktails & tanlines & washed out is by far my fav of the bunch. i think "feel it all around" is def "the track" of chillwave

Really?

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can't tell if ilxor is going for death by sb here or what but whatever

Nah... well, kinda, but it's a legitimate question that would be much more SRSLY ASKED if it wasn't phrased in ALL CAPS, right?

minks are my fav on this list of seemingly unconnected artists

like nite jewel and ducktails. and washed out, though less so. after that, who the fuck knows. durian is the fruit that smells.

Nah... well, kinda, but it's a legitimate question that would be much more SRSLY ASKED if it wasn't phrased in ALL CAPS, right?

considering there was a reasonabley straightfaced attempt to 'take on' chillwave in another thread that wouldve come up when u started this one its hard to take u srsly itt

this is kinda a terrible list of 'chillwave' artists (& some of these are just a joke) but that com truise ep kills

n e way ive posted about this too much, already, but the idea that 'chillwave' or however you want to group this stuff is so inherently worthless/ridic that it exists only for msg board lolz is p tiresome and uninteresting atp, right? like ok cool u dont like this shit, good for u for steadfastly mainting the purity of yr taste in the face of relentless buzz or w/e but 'chillwave', as a punchline, is p 2K9 imo

minks are my fav on this list of seemingly unconnected artists

Minks don't sound like ''chillwave'' at all. They sounds like 80s underground/college-rock revivalists. I like them, too.

Nah... well, kinda, but it's a legitimate question that would be much more SRSLY ASKED if it wasn't phrased in ALL CAPS, right?

― ilxor is awesome what the fuck are you guys on about (ilxor), Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:53 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

so why'd you post this in all caps then? why didn't you go ask on the other chillwave thread? looks like you really want those SBs

real life (memory tapes remix) - tanlines
is this wonderful thing
so each gets a vote

ill ride for com truise teen inc nite jewel

washed out is pretty good, for some reason i got really into the remix where lush life rapped over one of his tracks

keep on r'in yr m ilxor

gold panda "lucky shiner" yes

what is this list even, do some research

From this list: Monster Rally

no vital vittles, no cred

no Corona Lite, no cred

I don't think I've heard 90% of this list, but that Gold Panda album is great. I wouldn't have thought it "chillwave" but I guess that's what he gets for using the word Panda in his name.

bloody panda is my favorite chillwave band

this is the first chillwave track I have unreservedly enjoyed since Memory Tapes' Seek Magic:

http://stereogum.com/541552/cfcf-it-was-never-meant-to-be-this-way-games-remix/mp3s/

bloody panda are no Death Sentence! Panda

but death sentence! panda aren't chillwave, they're dubstep

are you sure bloody panda isn't rapegaze?

you could have merged Toro y Moi w/ Les Sins and Neon Indian w/ VEGA, since Bundick and Palomo have great tracks in both of their respective projects so it makes little sense to differentiate between them

and: loool @ Damiano CZ, where the hell did you pull that list from? not like he ain't chillwave but I certainly didn't expect him to pop up. if it wasn't for him I'd vote for TyM, since Chaz Bundick seems to be the most talented guy on this list

first polish chillwave ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_CypxYtadQ

pretty next level to be a real person imitating a sock instead of the other way around

this is the first chillwave track I have unreservedly enjoyed since Memory Tapes' Seek Magic:

http://stereogum.com/541552/cfcf-it-was-never-meant-to-be-this-way-games-remix/mp3s/

i think the whole games ep is really dope although its 'darker' than their remix stuff

yeah some of this list is p lol & obscure - mathemagic have like one split 7" on atelier ciseaux????

i'm voting for LONG HOT SUMMER BY THE STYLE COUNCIL

original chillwave yo

Most of this stuff is really not very good. I very much love Washed Out's Life of Leisure, however.

Mark McGuire
Ducktails
Memory Cassette
Washed Out
Neon Indian

I own and love stuff by all of these guys, as noted above - I really wouldn't put McGuire under "chillwave", nor would I Ducktails.

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rip

all chaff

that com truise ep kills
― Lamp, Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:09 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Washed Out or Neon Indian

nite jewel ftw.

memory tapes is the only one i heard at that was kinda fuzzy and nice

u ppl (+ whiney) just dont get it - chillwave is just whats real anything could be chillwave but not everything is chillwave - its a feeling/aesthetic/interpersonal brand

that said i think that monster rally 7" is fun but its not chillwave

are ppl just gunna call this stuff indie a few years down the line or will 'chillwave' be a lasting tag used to categorize music based on its aesthetic similarities.

yeah in hindsight the extent of ilm chillwave cynism was kinda lame. saw this p chillwavin duo at a vernissage a couple weeks back and even though they were pretty bad, i was thinking like maybe its kind of a cool sound to explore, as a brief obsession at least, and i was just being a crank

also came upon this quote yesterday & it made me ponder my own cantankerousness of late

But my basic test for whether ILM is still good - that everything gets a fair hearing from at least some of the people here - hasn't been failed yet.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, January 24, 2003 5:22 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark

will 'chillwave' be a lasting tag used to categorize music based on its aesthetic similarities

i dont think so - feel like 'chilwave' is/was/will always be haunted be the inverted commas surrounding it - i do think it might have been useful way of grouping together and thinking about a bunch of bands that had certain preoccupations in common. even more than just being a sound theres a way of assembling/curating/presenting music that seems v 2k9/2k10 & what ppl generally call 'chillwave' was the best of collecting that sensibility in one place...

idk - plax & i had a thread where he kinda talked abt chillwave seriously & tht abt antecedents, values, forms &c but ilm is typically p hostile to anything that might be 'trendy' that isnt rap music & also i mostly just like posting youtube vidz

Chillwave is just a name for a trend. According to this list, it encompasses a lot of practice some of it productive and some of it repugnant/abysmal. A lot of it does not require much effort and it sounds that way and the amateur hour aspect of it is annoying. But there is some good stuff. I dunno it's easy/fun to make fun of it for obvious reasons but only a few posters seem to have been constantly/cynically going at it. In short, "take it or leave it" (like all music).

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nite jewel are pretty shit

yeah, i never got into nite jewel. surprised by the results here. you'll see it by washed out is genuinely one of my favorite tracks of the last couple years

Nite Jewel? Is that even chillwave? More sort of Arthur Russell inspired bedroom disco IMO. Didn't even realize that was a choice.

i believe this dumb list is the fault of rym'ers

i miss the old chillwave

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/drive-fast-these-10-states-have-a-major-speeding-problem/

dafuq

gorilla vs bear still make interesting EOY lists though!

This was a good genre

Agreed
I have to get around to checking out the acts on the poll I haven’t heard during my next lost weekend