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

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.

totally feeling these layered/screwed audio/visual experiments

http://muzak.arawa.fm/wordpress/wordpress/?p=1457

Yeah those were nice. I especially liked "don't ask me" and "save a prayer"

damn, if me and my bros had owned recording equipment throughout undergrad we would've been a chillwave band :( regrets...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQOluwl5aA

proto-chillwave?

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

so i'm slowly working my way through sun araw, have not yet heard any of the magic lantern stuff, but HOLY SHIT heavy deeds is incredible. this and on patrol = some of the best and most immediately enjoyable psychedelic guitar music i've heard in ages, up there with back dice, oneida and grouper for quality 21st century production of stretchy head tones.

does previous sun araw come anywhere close to this level of effortless free-form drip & drool?

Most things with the label attached don't grab me at all, but I really love this ditty I came across yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0gh1oLOpGU

Is this conceivably chillwave? I may have to reassess all the pointers I've pointedly ignored over the past year...

Heavy Deeds is probably my favorite of his. A total monster. You should try to find a copy of Beach Head asap.

have not yet heard any of the magic lantern stuff

you need to get on that too - have it

Proto-chillwave:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=leonard+cohen+democracy&aq=f

yeah how to dress well are also great, i <3 that video for decisions

i've had this how-to-dress-well disc on almost constant repeat for a few days now. i had zero interest in it, then -- totally on a whim -- downloaded it and was blown-away. it sounds nothing like my image of "chillwave," though. it sounds like HTDW are doing for late-80s r&b what burial did for late 90s/early 00 uk electronic dance genres.

give me "ghostly-reimaginations" of almost any genre; ghostly grunge; ghostly teenpop; ghostly hair metal.

http://chillwitchnamemagic.com/

hipster neil young jumping the bandwagon

Featuring eight simplistic “state of the world” songs performed alone by Young on his untamed guitar, Le Noise has been fashioned (via producer Daniel Lanois) into a chillwave record

five chillwave classics ive been thinking about lately:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Gxy7idkXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-57mBUi7g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_WBAlp69bU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzLPV18ZxiU

i was at noise show a couple of weaks ago and there was a band that had a dude playing a nintendo ds korg synth over some feedback, a disco loop and a minor threat record.

it wasnt v chill but i made me glad to be alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS513FRfbwE