mardi 16 mars 2010
Chillout Music Definition
Chillout Music is based around a Generation X sub-lifestyle and represents a way of being. It is about flowing through life just like the music flows and floats into our feelings and emotions. It is about being with your friends and sharing moments of pleasure. Some people say chillout music has its roots in early ambient music. To some degree, we agree. The music is built for relaxation and formulated for calmer, lazy moods - hence the name 'CHILL OUT'. It takes its distinctive melody and harmony influences from classical orchestras, vocal soloists, early ambient, jazz, new age, laid-back hybrid techno, the best of the 80's, electro-acoustic, spanish guitar, etc. Chillout has a reputation for slow, soft, warm, emotional beats that you would associate with images of sunsets, martini lounges, Café del Mar, the beach bars of Ibiza and modern art. You could say it is even fashionable. When it caught on, the world and the major record labels jumped on a chillout bandwagon. It was widely used in commercials by car manufacturers to market to Generation X in North America, Europe and beyond.
EXAMPLES: Some Chillout Music Artists include: Tangerine Dream, Moloko, St. Germain, Blue States, Thievery Corporation, Mr. Scruff, dZihan & Kamien, Lux, Afterlife, Rae & Christian and Jose Padilla (former resident DJ of Café del Mar).
AUTHOR: Shane Keller Copyright (c) www.deepintense.com. All rights reserved.
