Genres / Chillout

Chillout (sometimes also chill out, chill-out, or simply chill), a term derived from a slang injunction to relax, emerged in the early and mid-1990s as a catch-all term for various styles of relatively mellow, slow-tempo music made by contemporary producers in the electronic music scene. The genres associated with chill-out are mostly Ambient, Trip-hop, Nu Jazz, Ambient House, Chill Trance, New Age and other sub-genres of Downtempo-a major branch of Electronic music. Sometimes the Easy Listening sub-genre Lounge is considered to belong to the Chillout collection as well.