It's been 13 years...wow.

Figured I'd drop a link, maybe someone would appreciate it.

Keep in mind, this written when I was 16. Made a couple songs a year or two after, so there was a lot of learning to do back then with Logic Pro. I think it turned out ok for not having taken classes on this stuff.

Makes me want to buy a keyboard and start writing again...

It's kinda eclectic, I was going through a stage trying to find myself through music at that time in my life. So it's kind of a mix between chillwave/IDM/electonic. Definitely some heavy Tycho influences.

:)

https://soundcloud.com/marumeth/aphelion

https://open.spotify.com/album/3mghRO2or8NmV6BU7eoEbc?si=1UiEylHkQ0Ca-Y5tU_eK3w

I've been listening to chillsynth (Hotel Pools, Krosia, HOME, A.L.I.S.O.N., the Electronic Gems and Odysseus YT channels, etc.) for years, and since that music is also called chillwave sometimes (I guess due to its connection to synthwave and vaporwave), I recently discovered this genre, and that it's a different thing entirely from the aforementioned stuff. So I read the Wikipedia article, looked up the top artists and I've been been listening to Neon Indian, Washed Out and Toro y Moi. Really good stuff, and to a fan of lo-fi nostalgic indie pop/rock like Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, later Arctic Monkeys, Phoenix etc. it scratches that itch perfectly.

What I don't get however is why according to Wikipedia chillwave never took off and remained underground and internet-based (one journalist even called it a "historical footnote in music history"). After reading that, I was surprised to discover that it sounds exactly like the kind of thing that would have been very popular in the late 2000s/early 2010s, like something hipsters would have listened to or that you would hear in the soundtrack of a movie like 500 Days of Summer. It's not even that different from some other mainstream genres, e.g. the artists I mentioned. So why do you think it never took off? What elements in its music prevented it from resonating with mainstream audiences?