The Chillwave, also known as Glo-fi, is a musical variety whose artists are often known for the high use of processors of effects, sintering, looping, samplers, and vocals with enough effects with simple melodies.
This music combines 2000 trends and retro music from the 80s and Indie and Ambient. It often sounds like "summer music". It is said that the term Chillwave originated in the blog of Hipster Runoff (pseudonym Carles), in his program of 'radio blog' with the same name.
Kevin Liedel of "Slant Magazine" listed the characteristics of the subgenre as a "faded panorama of sounds, onirically lyrical reflections." The New York Times described the genre in this way: "They are soloists or minority bands, often with a laptop in its epicenter, and they exploit the memories of the electropop of the 1980s, with rebound, refrains of dance music (and sometimes with weaker main voices). It is an era of musical recession: low budget and danceable.
His musical predecessors are diverse and include SynthPop of the 80s, Shoegaze, Ambient, concrete music and various types of music from outside the West. The genre is also a first example of changing the idea of defining the birth of a musical movement by its geographical location, as has traditionally been done, focusing instead on how the groups were linked and defined several currents through the Internet .
The Wall Street Journal quoted Alan Palomo of Neon Indian on the genre: "Whereas before the musical movements were determined by a city or place where the bands congregated, 'now it is simply that a blogger or a journalist finds three or four random groups around the country with some elements in common, relates them and calls it a genre.
Despite the stylistic similarities noted above, Palomo and other activists have questioned whether the chillwave really constitutes a musical genre. George McIntire of the San Francisco Bay Guardian described the origin of the chillwave as the "agony of the blogosphere" and called the term "shabby, a label stamped to say grainy, bailongo, lo-fi, music inspired by the 1980s" and a " prejudice to any band associated with it.
The first bands to fit into the genre are Toro Y Moi, Tycho, Yppah, Neon Indian, and Washed Out. "All I Wanna Do" by the Beach Boys from their 1970 album Sunflower could be considered the first Proto-Chillwave song, The Beach Boys directly influenced Animal Collective, and among many other bands of this subgenre. Observers noted that Panda Bear, especially in his 2007 Person Pitch album, presaged the movement. (Although Panda Bear emphasizes looped sounds and sound collages, as opposed to the chillwave's emphasis on programmed vintage synthesizers.) In addition to Panda Bear's solo work, Animal Collective are featured as movement prophets.
Artists:
Bull and Moi ,Tycho ,Yppah, Neon Indian, Washed Out, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Keep Shelly In Athens, Small Black, Com Truise, Mansions on the Moon, Eightcubed, and Youth Lagoon, ExtxE etc.
