Various Artists - Chillwave Hits (2011)

WARNING: this is not an official CD, but a compilation made by me. This is an imperfect attempt at making a chillwave compilation. There are certainly songs that I haven't missed, and some others which are great but couldn't fit for a reason or another (for instance, Ducktails hardly fits here, although Beach Point Pleasant is a great song that I definitely recommend if you can get past its experimental appeareance). Chillwave is a "genre" coined in 2009. It is defined as low fidelity electronic music harking back at '80s synth-pop and dream pop. However, many of the artists are so different between them that the genre is hardly valid, but one thing is for sure: at least some of these artists won't go away too fast. But even some of the rather mimetic bedroom artists that surfaced in the last 2 years have some songs great for chilling out in the summer. Enjoy! Tracklisting: 1. Neon Indian - Terminally Chill (3:30) 2. Washed Out - Feel it All Around (3:12) 3. Toro y Moi - My Touch (2:32) 4. Memory Cassette - Asleep at a Party (4:16) 5. Nite Jewel - What Did He Say (4:28) 6. Memory Tapes - Stop Talking (7:05) 7. Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer (4:03) 8. Teen Daze - Four More Years (3:13) 9. Small Black - Despicable Dogs (3:55) 10. Houses - Soak it Up (4:04) 11. Blue Hawaii - Belize (3:42) 12. MillionYoung - Sunndreamm (4:35) 13. Toro y Moi - Blessa (2:43) 14. Blackbird Blackbird - Pure (2:21) 15. Memoryhouse - To the Lighthouse (3:26) 16. Clive Tanaka y Su Orquestra - I Want You (So Bad) (6:30) 17. Com Truise - Sundriped (4:06) 18. Casa del Mirto - Acafulcro (2:15) 19. Keep Shelly in Athens - Fokionos Negri Street (3:44) 20. Hard Mix - Late Night Visions (2:40)

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Villeroy (2011-06-23)

Since I can't edit my torrent description for some reason, here are some more release notes:
All files are MP3, obviously of various bitrates. I used sites like Last.fm and RYM to check out which songs are more popular, but sometimes I had to pick less-known tunes which I considered better.
Previously I have done a preliminary version of this compilation, with a somewhat different tracklisting (including, for instance, Baths and Gold Panda, who are hardly chillwave, but were tagged as such somewhere).
Artists I would also recommend, chillwave or almost chillwave: 18 Carat Affair, Sumsun, Teams, Rangers, Monster Rally, Lay Bac, Big Spider's Back, and there are lots more which I don't personally found interesting...