Definitions
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- noun a period of
quiet ,rest andrelaxation especially after aparty etc
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Examples
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I first heard his stuff back in my College Radio days (yo, WRBC, what's up?), before people were calling the kind of music he makes "chillout" or "downtempo" - there wasn't really a name for it, it was just part of the spectrum of electronic music.
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I first heard his stuff back in my College Radio days (yo, WRBC, what's up?), before people were calling the kind of music he makes "chillout" or "downtempo" - there wasn't really a name for it, it was just part of the spectrum of electronic music.
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I have since kind of moved away from a lot of this style of music - have you looked at the "chillout" section of a music store lately?
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I have since kind of moved away from a lot of this style of music - have you looked at the "chillout" section of a music store lately?
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Billboard's charts, including rock, contemporary and country, organized into themes such as "chillout" or "workout."
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Due to its innate listenability, and the immense crossover popularity of acts like Kruder & Dorfmeister and Zero 7, 'chillout' became the inescapable soundtrack of choice for trendy dinner parties and overpriced boutiques, and has in recent times been left in the dust as a genre of interest, oversaturated via umpteen club, restaurant, bar and boutique compilations that have reduced electronic downtempo to an indistinguishable, beige wall of sound.
PopMatters Christine Kakaire 2009
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It features a variety of playlists from Billboard's charts, including rock, contemporary, country, and others organized into themes such as "chillout," "workout" and more.
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It features a variety of playlists from Billboard's charts, including rock, contemporary, country, and others organized into themes such as "chillout," "workout" and more.
DV Hardware 2009
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Aimed at the "time-pressed" that presumably don't have any particular preferences when it comes to music, there's rock, contemporary, country, "and others" organised into themes such as "chillout", and "workout".
Pocket-lint.com 2009
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The fact that it's trip-hop is mainly unexpected because its memory was bludgeoned into an unholy late-90s mess of Kosheen and Morcheeba, turning the genre's innovations into "chillout" music for the sort of dinner parties where discussion centred on what to do with that Jerusalem artichoke in your weekly organic veg box.
Yasmin, Emeli Sandé and Maverick Sabre are taking a trip back into trip-hop 2011
feelsurreal commented on the word chillout
(CHIL.owt) n. A quiet period after a party; a post-rave gathering that features slow music and a calming ambience; soothing, hypnotic music.
January 8, 2009