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chillwave

noun

Etymology

From chill + -wave. Coined tongue-in-cheek on the blog Hipster Runoff in 2009.

  1. derived from *gel-✻ — “to be cold”
  2. inherited from *kaliz✻
  3. inherited from *kali✻
  4. inherited from ċiele
  5. inherited from chele
  6. suffixed as chillwave — “chill + wave”

Definitions

  1. A genre of music of the late 2000s, characterized by effects processing, synthesizers,…

    A genre of music of the late 2000s, characterized by effects processing, synthesizers, looping, sampling, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines.

    • As music created and shaped by the lens of blogs, music forums, and other forms of online comment, chillwave was subject to a backlash almost as soon as it had been labeled and defined.

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