chillwave, glo-fi, lo-fi, gorillavsbearcore, hipsterwave, pitchforkcore etc

[gfunkdocta]

^i dl'd it off waffles, if that's wut u mean

[Macwich]

hahaha. anyone get the washed out high times tape?

just bought it last night. ernest greene's marketing game is on point, i haven't bought music in years. but the fact that its a tape makes me want to get all nostalgic.

i remember recording shit off the radio on those things- every song i had was tagged with "Hot 103 presents..." or some bullshit

[chchchip]

i used to sit in my room for hours listening to the radio hoping to hear some shit song. haha. good memories.

gfunk or macwich you got a link to that tape?

[Macwich]

pretty sure i posted a nodata link on the first page but heres a mediafire if thats dead

Washed Out - High Times (2009).rar

[chchchip]

ahh whoops forgot to look there. my bad. thanks though.

[daphneYOUfindME]

washed out high times is amazing, definitely get it.

[Macwich]

^it was alright. the Life of Leisure EP he dropped before it was infinitely better.

that being said, Belong is one of his best tracks and its only found on high times

[american_hearts]

can't get into High Times. Like, at all. Life of Leisure, though? I want to fuck that record.

[onemancult]

this shit is starting to get boring to me. like its cool background music and all but its lacking depth/character as the scene grows and more tunes come out.

someone needs to darken this style up a bit, like some fucking paranoidwave or something... something to listen to in the dark while walking through a barren city.

[alexryb]

^ i agree that some of the acts are lacking inspiration. memory tapes and millionyoung are the two i feel are really using innovation to solidify the genre. after the initial excitement, a lot of this chillwave business DOES lack depth and character, especially toro y moi (in fact, he's only really good on a few tracks, some of them including "flections" don't even fit into the "chillwave sound.")

a darker tone would be really interesting. onemancult, you might be interested in the group former ghosts, who we talked about earlier in the thread. they're kind of like the joy division to chillwave's new order.

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[dontlookup]

Also Cold Cave, not really chillwave but has a Joy Division/New Order sound. Since we're on that topic..

[american_hearts]

OMC's onto something important, which is that the sound itself doesn't lend itself to progression. It's all about the dubstep thread now, especially with kids like guido and gemmy doing exciting stuff with the genre. loving guido especially right now, and stuff like Beautiful Complication and Chakra have chill elements but with a darker, buzzy, grimy undertone.

side note: I'm not about Cold Cave. At all. Everything that guy's done since AN has sounded like a copy of a copy.

[Magsåvningsreserven]

love the cold cave tracks with caralee singing, thought the album was decent though.

[Macwich]

(click)

Tanlines - Real Life (Memory Tapes Remix) <--from GvsB

[alexryb]

^ So Great

[debaser]

Also Cold Cave, not really chillwave but has a Joy Division/New Order sound. Since we're on that topic..

gotta namedrop blessure grave while we still on that joy division/new order tip

[chchchip]

memory tapes remixes phoenix's 1901:

http://media.nme.com.edgesuite.net/audio/2010/jan/1901%20%28Memory%20Tapes%20Mix%29.aif

[american_hearts]

that's near unlistenable. jesus, what the fuck is happening there?

this, on the other hand, brightened my day:

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[Magsåvningsreserven]

dayve is that hot bitch, doesn't look nervous there either or he's hiding it well. or he was lying.

[alexryb]

the "1901" remix is a joke apparently. one of my hipster bros confirmed

he posted on his tweeter page that it's to "annoy yr lil sister" or something.

hahahaha

[alexryb]

in other news, i think i might get a shirt that says:

gay 4 memory tapes bro since 2k9

[chchchip]

american hearts you going to any of the washed out shows in march? hes playing at the two shows at the mercury lounge.

[Macwich]

the "1901" remix is a joke apparently. one of my hipster bros confirmed

hahahaha

Memory Tapes reworks one of the best/most ubiquitous songs of last year, and the results are predictably great.

ive lost all respect for this blog now.

Also, The Silent League "Yours Truly 2095 (Memory Tapes Version)" <from WE'RE TAPES

[chchchip]

don't hate on gvsb now.

anyone got a link for the new millionyoung ep?

[alexryb]

i got the cassette but there was a problem with the digital download so i had to email the label. but the tracks are only like $5 on itunes, so i bought them haha

[alexryb]

somewaves / somewhere comp

http://www.deliciouscopitone.com/2010/01/somewaves-somewhere-compilation

gr8 stuff. not sure if you consider it chillwave, but this thread is morphing into the hipster thread. so listen with your big open (probably American) mind

[chchchip]

all the songs do have something to do with waves so that must count towards something. ha. ive heard a couple of the songs on there. memoryhouse is the only band that i recognize on there thats sorta chillwave. but whatever, always down for new jams even if it isn't chillwave.

[american_hearts]

american hearts you going to any of the washed out shows in march? hes playing at the two shows at the mercury lounge.

I'll be at the Monday show. I'm excited for this, especially to see what he does with Small Black as a backing band. Also, it's almost guaranteed I'll hear my favorite WO track (the small black remix)

[chchchip]

Nice. Ill be in the city when hes playing so I'm going to try and make it to one of them. You already got your ticket?

[alexryb]

millionyoung - be so true ep