Millionyoung
The world of music blogging has been breeding some unlikely stars over the years and most recently, full on music genres. The chillwave movement has been both enjoyed and dismissed as a passing fad without much creative elbow room. The latter would be debatable after witnessing two of the more up and coming chillwave artists flying down the pipe, Millionyoung and Teen Daze.
Teen Daze
Teen Daze
Teen Daze
First up, scrawny young Canadian producer Teen Daze entered the stage armed with a synthisizer and laptop to take on the slow moving Rickshaw audience. Teen Daze’s music is an incandescent and warm disco-tech styled music that focuses as much on atmosphere as he does on the dance aspect of chillwave. Playing mostly songs off his Four More Years EP, which is a one of the more effulgent and illustrious EPs to be released this year, he seemed to be having fun on stage, which reflected on the crowd and got them moving.
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[mp3] Teen Daze – Beach Dreams from Beach Dreams (2010)
Millionyoung
Millionyoung
Closing the night was South Florida’s Mike Diaz (aka MillionYoung) and his signature nostalgia-based smeary synths and complex danceable pace. Starting the night solo but joined on stage by a backing band who gave his songs more life than the normal bedroom laptop side of chillwave. Especially with the clever cover of Gorillaz’s Clint Eastwood. One observation of the act was that the band is more intelligent and elaborate than most turn of the year electronic acts. They blend closer to the ingenuity of Caribou than the playful simplicity of Neon Indian. There’s soul instilled in his music and it’s not hard to notice live.
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[mp3]Millionyoung – Perfect Eyes from Replicants (2010)
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