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Chill out (sometimes also chillout, 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 term "Chill out music",
as well as the genre itself, originated in chill rooms that were set
up by DJs off to the edge of club dance floors to give patrons a
chance to take a break from the hectic dance vibe and chill out with
this style of music. Chill out as a musical genre or descriptive is
synonymous with the more recently popularized terms "smooth
electronica" and "soft techno" and is a loose genre of music blurring
into several other very distinct styles of electronic and lo-fi music.
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