Wall Street Journal explores the Chillwave genre and credits Carles from Hipster Runoff for coining the term. Read the whole article here.
“New Wave-sounding samples and ambient music is often interlaced with dance-y beats, and the approach to recording is decidedly lo-fi. Carles explained the genre this way in a post last summer: Chillwave, he wrote, ‘sounds like something playing in the background of an old VHS cassette that you found in your attic from the late ’80s/’90s.’”
