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| Remembering Chillwave
Sitting in a hand-me down 90s Plymouth parked outside my gf's house, I see a light go out, her parents will be asleep soon. Smoke drifts from my fingers out the window carried on the reverb drenched current of languorous lo-fi indie rock seeping from my stereo. The college radio program tells me it's the birth of a new style of music.::::::::::::::::::~~~~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~~~~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::
At once oneiric and wistful the fuzz-drenched swath of air beckons me to wander through a haze of reverie while gentle pop synths bloom and crushed snares triangulate my personal experience within a liminal past-present hauntological space. Crooning through the hazy mirage of pop's past to it's potential futures instrumented by a digitally mediated nostalgia-of-the-now. Such a near stabilized energetic-sonic arrangement could only become more particular and minimized in it's sound, either toward the sterility of lounge muzak, or continue covertly as the vector for inverted-future alt soundscapes articulated with more vitality towards the Culture's A E S T H E T I C cathexis.::::::::::~~~~~~:::::::::::~~~~::::::::::::::~~~~~~~:::::::::::::::::
---------------------The year was 2009--------------------
Chillwave was stillborn | | 1 |  | Neon Indian
Psychic Chasms
Spinning this and felt like writing about a memory from a time just before the internets current collective memory | | 2 |  | Memory Tapes
Seek Magic
How do you narrativize the 2010s in indie pop/rock/electronic? | | 3 |  | Vektroid
Starcalc
Is it a simple cannibalizing by Vapor | | 4 |  | Washed Out
Life of Leisure
was chillwave just a convenient empty signifier for nascent proto-trends to come | | 5 |  | ODESZA
Summer's Gone
a sort of genealogical music pit stop | | 6 |  | Surfing
Deep Fantasy
before all of electronic music fragmented for a few years and rearranged itself into little micro-fiefdoms | | 7 |  | Yukari
Echo
What do you think? | |
Azazzel
06.30.23 | forgot how much formatting here sucks |
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