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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZI0fZOQng

spring is happening

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missed u arouned here l8ly, hope london is treating you well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9P-pNUKga8&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWYRLnl1bLQ&feature=related

every moment repeats itself endlessly, but nothing lasts 4ever

i guess thats a sort of lazy binary, trading in pseudo profundity, but i still think that tension is really interesting, really complicating. in one of the lucksmith songs i linked he sings about "the days ive thrown away & the hours i am keeping" & i think thats an important dichotomy btw seeing time as endless & unvarying and yet feeling overwhelmed by impermanence, by the weight of time passing. again the present is this listless expanse like the sunny july day @ the water in that julia kent piece, but the past & future are lurking...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZT0wlH4y8k

so dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YpiUL8KIfE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnzASdm7R4Y

idk i might have already posted this, not chillwave but that hasnt really bothered any of us so far so w/e. was thinking abt how this (cassette only lol) release by aybee kindof elides w/ the housier end of chillwave. The hiss of mystical new age meditation tapes found in a charity shop bin. was thinking about house and ambient house and music as a functional thing and how that intersects w/ these meditation tapes and how this functionality is in some way linked w/ the kind of invocation that chillwave seems haunted by. creating a space for (x). The connection/disconnection between mind and body, body and sign. A heartbeat rising from inside the machine.

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

yeah this star slinger record is really fun

my mom's hanging w/toro y moi right now

chillwave momz

momz just like to chill

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P2Xdfx-EGc

every night/the same party

so jax howd your mom like toro y moi should i go to the show in a couple weeks?

also plax i emailed you abt some stuffffff

thinking abt the debacle that the weeknd thread turned into; tryna keep it chill w/o keeping it vacant searching for the throughlines in the stuff i dig, in the way things unfold themselves & sing of their secret selves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW0maCLTEqo

lamp i didnt get any emails abt stuffff

Chillwave the new balearic.

Who is that youtube above?

Gonna go meet my therapist for the first time.

ive been craving chillwaves pop moment lately, & missing the cautiously upbeat sentiments buried under tape hiss & delays that i was hearing in some of the trax from last year. idk here are five tracks ive really been listening too this month, sorry if thats sorta self-agrandizing

dale earnhardt jr. jr. - nothing but our love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm1p3jl-7b4
this is 'older' at least in the universe of five blog posts a day + unlimited mediafire d/lers but i keep coming back to this song - its central sentiment of 'dont try/dont try so hard/my love is easy' and the way the track squiggles and sways against the vocal harmonies makes me sad but i like how self-aware & essentially knowing the singer is. 'we get more than we deserve' indeed

cool runnings - i am you (starslinger remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxLXj2FOCc
dominique & the new star slinger ep reminded me of this song, which i think is fantastic. the remix adds the echo & as much space as the endless blue sky but ties it the simplest thump. its a good example of how 'chillwave' songs can use static structures & a 'poor' range to make something catchy & pop & feeling

peaking lights - key sparrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVgFaAZn8cc
the titular sparrow is 'much too common' & 'nothing special' but this is my fave track on the new album & its laidback sunny melancholy is perfectly pitched imo. a hazy ode to trying and failing, a recognition of limitations

young athletes leauge - glossed over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUsMqqpdJy8
haha kinda dont have much to say abt this i think the bones of the track sound like the sorta thing u cld make on the playstation two mtv music generator game

death and vanilla - ghosts in the machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YWnqdPE-S0
a friend told me that this is a p direct reference of some 80s thing but i cant remember what she sd. i hear a noir morricone filtered through early english dream pop. i dont think it really matters tho bcuz this is such a perfect marriage of emotional intent & technical skill the track just glides. i think its really beautiful

i like the death & vanilla stuff a lot

have you heard the new peaking lights? i think youd dig it quite a bit. ive cooled a bit on the puro instinct record although i think theres still some great stuff there

it's in my list to check out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BacPDrDeY8U

i no its already bloggd out but 4 posterity

r.i.p.

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

may have been posted before, but this came to me in a dream last night and now I just can't. stop. repeating!

yeah the star slinger record is one my favorites right now. that and the forma record are the only really chillwave-y things that ive been listening to, really. unless i can shoehorn in selebrities 'secret garden' :/

man i miss plax so much :////

i dont know if anyones even still reading this thread but:

new archers by the sea cassette on blackest rainbow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnDt_YYf8dc

dead gaze's somewhere else 7":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8maO_L_TjqY

also two releases that i cant find vidz for: jonas reinhardt has something coming out on nnf that seems promising (cosmic synth meditations) & the wyrd visions/castlemusic split lp particularly the castlemusic side which is incredible chillfolk

Defo still reading this thread Lamp, enjoying most of your contributions thoroughly. U R NOT ALONE

should maybe start a new thread so it doesnt end up in the chllwve genre ghetto but the new com truise album is out soon & is p fukken good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USAr9xNz1jM

oh also i bought that jonas reinhardt album on sunday (BRAGGIN) but havent really had much of a chance to listen to it... also picked up a new celer release on blackest rainbow :D

jonas reinhardt album

the one on not not fun? it's good, though it's not quite as impressive as the last kranky one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auUTARn51ro&feature=related

s0 good

thinking too much lately abt the difference btw thinking & doing/feeling & knowing & all the lost spaces btw 90s r&b and dance music & the current fuzz of low interest buzztapes where ppls betrayed confidences and better intentions mark their graves and mistakes w/ black flag logos

pseduomythic gangsters in last years dresses

i miss the ocean....

this feels like it belongs here

http://soundcloud.com/elplacebo/cut-copy-need-you-now-jonas

^jonas reinhardt remixing cut copy

it's awesome

I quite like Jonas Reinhardt and that remix is great. Thanks for posting that.

have u heard this album belong - common era
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wu5Smvch0ZI/TbgzDURs5eI/AAAAAAAAAgM/BB97IbyPyfQ/s1600/Belong_Common%2BEra.jpeg
its mb more darkwave or something than chillwave but really beautiful & good, the vocals are breathy & lush though not evil at all. apparently they have been around for a while making ambient stuff, some long moments of that. there might be a million albums of stuff that sounds just like this (esp today) but, i haven't heard it. kind of perfect very simple, so few constituents & a really constant but deep movement thruout

i think i might have given a cursory listen 2 the belong album a few months ago but if i did it failed to leave much of an impression. will give it another go since its on my hd

flopson have u heard the grimes chicks stuff? is she big in mtl?

i do like grimes stuff, i bought a cdr a while ago that is pretty good cant seem to find it. only time i hear chillwave atmospherically here is on the pa at the loft where i first saw her, & seems to be more & more going on there lately. sounds more like 90s trip hop to me than most stuff here. my fav local chillwave thing is d'eon, sometimes pretty clubby & silly, 90s house, breakbeats, some of its close to the starsling stuff upthread

ive only heard a coupla d'eon trax but i liked their knew-age atmosphere. yeah grimes isnt really 'chillwave' but you were here & i was here & the only other darkwave threads are like hysterical whinegasms w/ ALL CAPS SARCASM soooo

time wharp - 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LvXZTWwARU

really feeling this guys stuff lots of interest in the intersection of memory/technology. some of his more recent stuff is p abrasive but i think this song is kinda ~pop~

ghost mountain aka stephen farris - eye rings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jRbQgLxN9E

dude has a new vhs out (!!) but this is still my favorite thing hes done that ive heard~ kinda in line w/ that star slinger/clams casino/true panther sounds playing with breakbeat thing. not really exceptional but its fun

john maus - believer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMku-GbafEg

still not sure how i feel about this record but this song is a total jam. actually have been thinking about it a lot but idk

don't know if this guy fits in here but he's friends with john maus on myspace?

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

like the john maus it's like joy division meets neu 86

john maus has been mentioned by so many people whose taste i find terrible that i am flabbergasted it is not completely awful, that song above is quite good indeed

this band vondelpark i've been loving them like a lot. I feel like i want to start a thread about them but they've just released a couple of things. they live just up the road from me in peckham apparently but they have this shrouded in tumblr internet-absence thing going on so I dont actually know what they look like or anything. this song reminds me of staying up to watch movies on tv at my parents house during the summer holidays. like when the house is quiet and dark but everything feels close and humid. it feels bleary eyed and yearning. Its feeding into the feelings i'm having about this summer a lot and in a way i don't think i can articulate right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWFv0gw4m-M

i thought it was just one guy?

mars waters - where the sun sets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKF8A1z53RY&NR=1

i guess 'surf rock' is kinda a big thing now but its p subtle here, just a steady and wistful thud, feel like this spots the comfort and wonder in being 'totally generic'

borden, ferraro, godin, nalo & lopatin - twilight pacific

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S7aFTb-J9Q&feature=related

space and time are two different things ooooh space and time are two very different things...

pedro magina - kickflip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb9z2CWEJls

have i posted this before? this tape is one my fave things so far this year, squelchy and mournful synth jamz layer on layer

Pedro Magina tape is on Spotify (shockingly):

http://open.spotify.com/album/11FCwSzCHKQ2ZNOYGS4Hxx

Why do Ford & Lopatin get tagged as chillwave? I seriously dont' understand that at all.

this probably is more of tumblr post but its origins are in ilx so:

i've been thinking a fair bit about the discussion/argument that i had w/ whiney on i guess another thread about the value of 'chillwave' & particularly about the way 'nostalgia' functions as an important emotional and aesthetic throughline w/in the 'genre'. upthread i ref'd lovecraft saying 'the past is real. it's all there is' & i think this is vital to understanding in large part whats attractive/'relevant' about chillwave/the larger cultural moment. like i was reading robertson davies today and he was saying something about how 'history is the way we make sense of the present' but how do we make sense of a present that is largely indistinguishable from the past?

this evening i was djing a party where they wanted '90s classics' and it was both disconcerting and unremarkable to see ppl barely out of their teens dancing along to mid-90s house classix; there was little to no divide btw the people who might be old enough to remember the songs i was playing fondly & the people for whom these songs should have little personal/historical meaning... isnt one of the consequences of technology to help divorce cultural artifacts from history? or put another way: if i still have access to the cultural products and ephemera of my childhood via youtube, torrents, ebay &c &c isnt my affection/consumption of them essentially present-tense?

i mean plax has been smarter/more eloquent about this but i think the more retro-steeped parts of 'chillwave' are partly about confronting a past that constantly surrounds us and dealing w/ the difference in emotional states btw 'then' and 'now'. or more clearly in talking about how the past never leaves us both emotionally (we still have access to those memory/feelings) or culturally (i still hear/see those songs/vidz) it makes explicit how pervasive our personal histories are, and how lonely that feels. taking the new washed out record for example i think you can hear this lack of delineation btw modern/historical - the music doesnt really seem to speak formally of any specific moment in time while also sounding vaguely 'dated'. but also taking the lazier, more direct signifier type of thing e.g 'i named my band MIRCO MACHINES remember MICRO MACHINES' this is also a kind of confirmation, of course i remember micro machines, i could buy them on ebay if wanted, theres no mystery or distance but a basic affirmation. i think whiney would probably scoff at this but when our shared culture is so fragmented that kind of confirmation, that we exist at the same time, is kinda valuable/meaningful?

i quoted proust too itt but this isnt about creating madelines but about erecting signposts in a time when memory and experience are almost interchangeable. & this all comes back to my posts about anxiety, in this equation the future stands resolutely outside our xp but the past is perfectly ours, knowable and controlled. so it becomes a refuge.

idk thats pretty convincing but im not sure "the past is perfectly ours" i think the fraught knowability/unknowability of the past is central to how i grasp this whole thing. like the pieces are there but you can never put them back together again.

yeah i think your right i was p drunk when i wrote this, not that i dont stand behind the central idea but its not totally coherent... there are tensions i guess btw the past as lost eden and the past as slave to the present, thats part of whats driving the music really

man vondelpark is p great - really into 'california analog dream' its kinda like a mid 00s indie rock song stretched taut and irradiated

i dont where else to post about this but ken seeno's tape on nna 'invisible surfer on an invisible wave' is so fucking great just these incredible expanses of synth and space but firmly rooted in the 'natural'. i guess it probably belongs on the knew age thread but i like this thread better and knew agers are just chillwavers in the morning anyway