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Chillwave (AKA: Glo-Fi, Dream-beat) is a style of Indietronica characterized by its emulation of the vintage aesthetics and musical styles of the 1980s/1990s as a means of evoking a sense of nostalgia. Its use of older analog musical styles are altered through modern recording technologies (laptops, samplers, etc.) and techniques to create a hazy dreamlike atmosphere. Common production elements include reverb, sidechaining, ducking, filtering and cutting / pasting. .