Chillwave
Okem
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Haters gona hate, but I've been enjoying some of this. 
Anyone who fears that all the best genre names have already been taken might have had their suspicions confirmed while reading recent blogs describing a loosely defined new sound: lo-fi but pop; dance-influenced but bedroom-based; summery but melancholic. The dominant mood of songs such as Memory Tapes' Bicycle, Neon Indian's Deadbeat Summer and Washed Out's Feel It All Around is a kind of woozy nostalgia, with half-remembered 1980s pop pushed through a psychedelic filter.Within weeks of these songs appearing last summer, the fledgling sound was given names by turns pretentious (hypnagogic pop), twee (lo-fi) and plain ugly (chillwave, coined in jest but the most popular of the three).Because its practitioners were geographically scattered and somewhat hermetic, it was at first an entirely blog-based phenomenon. In this hothouse atmosphere, trends are pronounced over almost as soon as they have begun. One blogger even wrote last autumn that chillwave had "probably peaked this September to coincide with nostalgia over summer 2009". Summer 2009? Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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nice, I remember hearing this for awhile, probably 2009, what a badass shot at the end of that video - rainbow, flying, clouds, & water. dayum.
nice nice stuff, been feeling that LP for a minute
loner dreams come alive!
thanks for the discovery
This and the 1st video are winning. I think we're witnessing what will be looked back on as a new genre of music. There's a bunch of this stuff coming out too. Bugged out hybrid of sampling/live/lo fi/etc. I'm all about it. A lot of it is crap and derivative, but there's some gems out there. I'm just ready for some new shit.
Like some Memory Tapes as well.
I'm sure they probably were, it also gets called Glo-fi.
I see the BoC similarities but always found them lacking something. I think it's the 'beats'. The synths, melodies etc are really well done, but their drums/rhythms always just plain ruin it.
Indeed. The hard work they undoubtedly put in being ruined by the somewhat cut-and-shut nature of the beat interface.
I accuse The Rurals of similar crimes, albeit on a more petty scale - their poorer beats are at least mixed less intrusively. And their chords are lusher.
Vrai Tetes: Speak on the ouput of:
Hatchback
Sorcerer
electro-surfer beats?
Yacht-tronica? See also; Windsurf.
What I've heard I quite like. You kind of know what you're going to get from any act that takes its name from a Stevie Nicks song.
Best Coast for sure.
Maybe not exactly tailored to this glo-fi/nu gaze stuff, this mix has quite a few bits and bobs that sound right.
Pandemonium Jones - Splendid Moments 2009
Atlas Sound - Shelia
Lotus Plaza - A Threaded Needle
Bear In Heaven - You Do You
Flaming Lips - Silver Trembling Hands
Neon Indian - Mind, Drips
Washed Out - Feel It All Around
Junior Boys - Parallel Lines
Animal Collective - My Girls
Delorean - Seasun
Memory Tapes - The Green Knight
Small Black - Despicable Dogs
Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)
Boris - Black Original
Wavves - Vermin
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Evil, With Evil, Against Evil
Volcano Choir - Still
Lucky Dragons - We Made Our Own Government
Banjo Or Freakout - Breath Out
Beach House - Norway
Mt. Eerie - Between Two Mysteries
Fourtet And Burial - Moth
Dan Deacon - Wet Wings
Kurt Vile - Beach On The Moon
Also this is good.
Live show was only ok. The opening group, Small Black, somehow affiliated with Washed out, was not so hot and played for way too long. Washed Out was cool enough, but I think the crowd can only get so enthused when the only thing live about the show are his effected/affected vocals. Pretty uplifting music, though.
I wish I knew about this long enough ago to cop the Washed Out 7"
^^^ early adopter.
kinda almost
For some reason reminds me of that.
IT TIGHT