chillwave hot 100, part one

 

As I created this mix for Roge Corp, I decided to add little comments to each track, stating which album the song came from (or if it was a single) along with the year it was released. One of the included tracks, Girlfriends' Over Me (1989 Tape Version), is a song that vanished from Soundcloud long, long ago. Thankfully I ripped it ages ago and saved it on my external harddrive, preserving it and including it on multiple mixes, even uploading it again to YouTube. However, the artwork associated with it was something I could never recover. Hell, I couldn't even figure out how I found the track for the longest, or where it originated...until tonight. The Girlfriends track originated from a label called Young Girls Tapes, which...terrible to try to Google, please make sure you put the label name in quotes and add Bandcamp or something to it for the LOVE OF GOD. Their Tumblr doesn't pull up through Archive, and the Facebook page didn't seem to get cached anywhere. The Soundcloud page, however, is still wonderfully preserved (though nothing plays), and I FINALLY FOUND THE ARTWORK AGAIN, which I have now chosen to use for the cover of this mix, and all future mixes in this series I call chillwave hot 100. 

These mixes will contain my favorite chillwave and adjacent songs found between 2011 and 2014, songs that appeared on my radar via What.CD's chillwave/balearic/synthwave tags I followed, or posted by Mr. Nonsense of Chillwave/Glo-Fi/Hypnagogic Pop Facebook page fame (miss you, homie, xoxo Lux), or through blogs like Dayvan Zombear and Stolen Lynx (not their original URL, sadly the first one was taken down). For some of you, this may be an introduction to things you've never heard before. For some, this may be a trip down memory lane. Some of these are quite obscure, so much so that I can't really find information on them at all anymore (see: first paragraph). Maybe this will be the reveal of otherwise lost media. Here's the tracklist for part one:

1. Seahawks - Tramadol Beach

2. Jeans Wilder - International Waters

3. Seziki Tetrasheaf - Clops

4. BEWILDERBEAST - Slow It Down

5. Valotihkuu - Bedroom Pop

6. Dreams - 4Runner

7. BILLY COMFORT - WONDER OF WE feat. STEFFALOO

8. Dreams West - Saturn Valley

9. Hype Williams - Blue Dream

10. Sand Circles - Stellar Waves

11. Eleventeen Eston - Panulirus Cygnus

12. Monster Rally - The Birds (Pts. 1-2)

13. Outlands - Com Ocean
14. Le Tropical - Sea Dreams
15. Girlfriends - Over Me (1989 Tape Version)
16. I Va & Jakeel - La XIX Ra
17. Ssaliva - Moth To The Flame
18. Ferrari Jackson - Miami Breeze

Click here to download the mix, and let me know what your favorite track is. I'd love to hear your input. May this summer be the summer of the chillwave revival!