Downtempo/Trip-Hop is one variant, blending chilled hip-hop beats with noirish, jazzy vocals. Most musical styles have some form of chill variant, especially if they've been around for a while. Starting off as a mood, chill vibes started to permeate other genres. Which is also where we get our first hint why this music's so vital. These chill-out rooms were meant as a respite from the overwhelming stimulation of the big rooms. London's Heaven Nightclub featured the first high-profile chill-out room, where ambient music like Brian Eno would mix with progressive House, Techno, and Trance, from artists like The Orb, Orbital, or The KLF. Chill-out music stemmed from the chillout rooms in raves and dance clubs. Because it's been used to describe legit musical movements, as well, that have some defining aesthetics we can expound upon.Ĭhill music is a shortened version of 'chill-out music,' which was an honest-to-goodness musical style in the late '80s and '90s. The word 'chill' is the variable that's going to help us solve this equation.
So let's go ahead and dig into its etymology a bit in search of a definition. Which is to say, it doesn't have a hard-and-fast definition, or even a consensus on its musical characteristics. If 'chill music' is a genre, of any kind, it may be the first postmodern musical genre. The term chill as a musical descriptor came to prominence in the '90s, as information technology was really getting going in earnest.
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