i know everybody else has already forgotten abt it but can we have one chillwave thread that isnt entirely ¡LOLwave! or w/e

now that we have the chill-police on our backs

looooool is it this one?????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yipzvcbW9WI

i've prolly heard the wrong tracks but coil seem about as unchill as it gets

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

lamp that one you posted is so great btw!

yah plax the whole musick to listen to in the dark disc is really good! v proto-chillwave imo

another proto chillwaver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_tGoy3Cdw

and even moreso on this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqJpSwii0hE

'81 and '86 (i think) respectively

otm

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.

hope the chill-police won't get after me for posting this unorthodox piece of chillwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1bkFvWUM14

oh, and I really dig that Outer Limits Recording tune, sounds like Daft Punk trapped in your basement

i hated beautiful swimmers until i started thinking of them as chillwave and i really like them in that context!

I have a feeling some of this stuff is not too far removed from the melodic old electronica I listen to all the time, like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GFZe-NYKBw

Any full album recs more along the electro side less on the guitary side?

yeah i guess. dont forget. chillwave is a ~~vibe~~ there are no real rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNYJtZPL_dM

^ feel free to throw me off yr beautiful thread, but this song has always been the indie Boys of Summer for me

tbf i think lamp and i have done our best to keep this thread safe from the types that would throw ppl off it! also lol, 80s pop tunes badly ripped from blurry videos are like chillwave 101.

from my friends fb

"so chillwave is basically badly recorded dreamy synth-pop" ?

u should link him to this thread unless he is a db

yah plax the whole musick to listen to in the dark disc is really good! v proto-chillwave imo

― chill.wav (Lamp), Friday, August 20, 2010 7:36 AM (14 hours ago)

also i dled this on ur rec. and also i always want to listen to more coil and otfm! title of this album is otm too.

btw this is the best toro y moi track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LfKBP7Q_PM

well Blessa is arguably the most chill of his tracks
if I had to choose the best, it would either be EDEN, Dead Pontoon (both posted way upthread) or Timed Pleasure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHqW2EPTcmE
he made so many great tracks anyway

this thread is v cool guys, i dig it.

Any full album recs more along the electro side less on the guitary side?

a lot of the dancier chillwave stuff leans towards almost being space disco but:

blondes "touched" ep
active child "curtis lane" ep
hatchback "colors of the sun" (proto)
delorean "subiza"
com truise "cyanide sisters" ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU14bd92P2g&feature=related

Thank you!

also if you can track down the label sampler by israeli label ak duck "3 years of"

blondes "touched" ep
hatchback "colors of the sun"

love both of these, did not occur to me to think of them as chillwave.

i wasnt sure whether i would get away w/ blondes before but i salute yr fearlessness lamp

label sampler by israeli label ak duck "3 years of"

i have this, don't remember where it came from and haven't listened to it. now i will!

i associate "chillwave" with "balearic." is that totally off-base?

they are both quite chill

yeah, but now i'm thinking one's more chill "chill" and the other's more chill "yacht."

one is more chill "laptop screen" the other is more chill "yacht"

chillin in the blue monitor light and cooling fan hum

label sampler by israeli label ak duck "3 years of"

i have this, don't remember where it came from and haven't listened to it. now i will!

― suggest bandt (electricsound), Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:31 AM (10 hours ago)

i think these guys were digging on ariel pink really early on, its kind of an alternate history of chillwave idk ymmv

Yeah I've often confused Chillwave with Balearic as well except that chillwave is usually more lo fi and druggier sounding.

I still get confused as to what Delorean is classified as because they've always struck me more as Balearic than Chillwave.

And people like Dam-Funk and Onra aren't considered Chillwave, are they?

~sad man on him beach~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqQLbWS4CQo

wrong thread?

"i associate "chillwave" with "balearic." is that totally off-base?"

im glad someone brought this up. they share a very similar dna. hazy dreamy music that is made for comedowns or chilling out.
the ocean is a prominent metaphor that drives both genres. they also both share a love of nostalgia. "smooth" sounds are also operative for both genres. the only difference is that balearic is meant for dancing at 4 am as you are coming down, chillwave doesnt seem to have much dancing in the cards.
altho conceivably one can dance to washed out. i think thats where the difference lies, one genres is driven to dancers, while the others is geared towards rockers, but sonically i hear tons of overlap.

am considering getting into sun araw on the basis of this on patrol thing which is excellent. it is exactly what i think chillwave is supposed to be about, ideally (or was supposed to be about, back when it was pure and before hipsters came and ruined it). anyway, i understand from this thread that the categorization of sun araw as chillwave is somehow controversial and part of a contested zone. so am i out of step with consensus in thinking that sun araw is totally chillwave? or how do i get into other stuff that is like this, if maybe there is a thread for that instead?

to think that this music has anything to do w/people that aren't hipsters is just crazy talk

i mean, have you even seen what sun araw looks like?!

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/22960365/Sun+Araw+CASIOSUN.jpg

no hipsters they are the enemy of all that is pure and true. have you not heard?

guy on left is a train engineer (clearly) and woman has temple of the spirit concerns in mind. hipsters care only about the ways that cocaine can be hidden in shoes.

xposts no

I am sure someone will tell me I'm doing it wrong but I'm going to pretend chillwave = slightly sad slightly repetitive basic-timbre synth music.

but it does make me think of those microphones records (i may be the only person alive wholl still cop to liking those...)

I still dig them a bunch, not so much the Mt. Eerie material. Wouldn't call "The Moon" chillwave though.

i think of chillwave as spreading out from those sad repetitive vibes to include all the stuff that would sound good on the same playlist and also that those vibes issue forth from. like obviously some anco and black dice, but lots of guitar stuff too because ducktails come on essential to my comprehension. sad, evocative, nostalgic, basic, blurry, homemade, hissy, repetitive, washed out, beachy, summery, chill. not necessarily synths tho. it's not about being narrow.

Wouldn't call "The Moon" chillwave though.

i linked it because i think it fits really well into this idea of proto-chillwave i have - mb not sonically although the intro is p close - particularly the way he portrays nature/the ocean as both isolating & freeing ("the roar of waves, the pounding surf, two bodies on the earth/ it was intense just getting to be there next to you") + the yearning for escape into the past ("i drove up to the city at night and found the place where you grew up") and the wilderness ("i finally felt like I was breathing free").

also i mean a song about love + chilling on a roof & watching the moon + death?

to think that this music has anything to do w/people that aren't hipsters is just crazy talk

lol

i think thats where the difference lies, one genres is driven to dancers, while the others is geared towards rockers, but sonically i hear tons of overlap.

imm 'chillwave' is kinda hard to define 'sonically' since its a little all over the map although repetition + distortion + synths + space are all important. what makes chillwave stuff different from balearic is the pronounced melancholy streak that chillwave has it wears it anxieties a lot more openly

n e way heres a vid about what chillwave means to me:

http://vimeo.com/12381217

Plaxico is the John Peel of chillwave.