“Summer of chillwave? Wait. What exactly is chillwave anyway?

“It generally has an ‘80s influence, which is definitely pretty heavy in my stuff,” said Ernest Greene, a.k.a. Washed Out, one of the acts being touted as part of the trend. New Wave-sounding samples and ambient music is often interlaced with dance-y beats, and the approach to recording is decidedly lo-fi. Carles explained the genre this way in a post last summer: Chillwave, he wrote, “sounds like something playing in the background of an old VHS cassette that you found in your attic from the late ’80s/’90s.”

"Chillwave (sometimes referred to as Glo-Fi) is a debated genre of music where artists are often characterized by their heavy use of effects processing, synthesizers, looping, sampling, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines."

Here are some of the artists in the chillwave genre:
Washed Out
Neon Indian
Weird Tapes/Memory Cassette/Memory Tapes
Universal Studios Florida
Toro y Moi
Telepathe
Slamm 3D
roi
Harbour
CFCF
Nite Jewel
Small Black
Air France
jj
Vega
Sail a Whale
Delorian
Kisses
Lone
Memoryhouse (not related to Memory Tapes projects)
Pure Ecstasy

That's a list I took from another site, it's a good intro in the genre.

Here's a good playlist.
http://deftjams.wordpress.com/2009/...ative-playlist/

Anyone else listen to this stuff? ”