Hypnagogic pop
| Hypnagogic pop | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Mid 2000s |
| Derivative forms | Vaporwave |
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Hypnagogic pop is a music genre that developed in the mid 2000s in which underground artists drew on the music, recording formats, and popular entertainment of previous decades (in particular, the 1980s) to explore elements of cultural memory and nostalgia. The term was coined by journalist David Keenan in an August 2009 issue of The Wire to describe "pop music refracted through the memory of a memory". The term was sometimes deployed interchangeably with "chillwave" and "glo-fi".
In an August 2009 piece for the The Wire, journalist David Keenan coined the term "hypnagogic pop" to refer to a developing trend of 2000s lo-fi and post-noise music in which artists from varied backgrounds began to engage with elements of cultural nostalgia, childhood memory, and outdated recording technology. Among these artists were The Skaters, James Ferraro, Spencer Clark, Zola Jesus, Ariel Pink, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Pocahaunted. He employed the psychological term hypnagogic as referring to the space "between waking and sleeping, liminal zones where mis-hearings and hallucinations feed into the formation of dreams." According to Keenan, these artists began to draw on cultural sources subconsciously remembered from the 1980s and early 1990s while freeing them from their historical contexts and "hom[ing] in on the futuristic signifiers" of the period. Keenan summarized hypnagogic pop as "1980's-inspired psychedelia" which engages with forgotten capitalist detritus of the past in an attempt to "dream of the future."
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