Chillstep – the gentler end of dubstep
Whenever I went to parties I always used to gravitate towards the chillout room. I would, of course, make my tour of what was going on, but there was always a fascination with the chill room. I have an abiding love of the gentler end of things – I do still love my big bouncy and darker, harder end of things, but still. Thus, I suppose it was inevitable that I would end up roaming around that reasonably recent end of music called chillstep. Unfortunately there is no proper wiki for it. You never know I may end up doing something myself. But still …
Phaeleh – I still really enjoy my 2 step and so, another inevitability – there are regular hints of 2 step within his stuff, an occasional flavour of intelligent dnb and more.
Other serious artists within the field include The Glitch Mob, Modestep, Submotion Orchestra, Blackmill, Synthetic Epiphany, ID3, Fracx, Ghosts of Paraguay and more …
Chillstep music – Listen free at Last.fm.
Chillstep came about as dubstep was modified in its move forwards by those bringing other sensibilities. People such as Phaeleh return to ideas of 2 step beats. Dubstep, itself, was part of a move on from the older 2 step garage musical genre. In some cases full on chill and ambient flavours are present. In other cases there is very much of a dub feel and so you see such things as psydub and cyberdub included. There is a lot of vocal content, at time with almost an indie, nusoul and pop vibe running through.
Ghosts of Paraguay – Official Site.
Other favourites of mine are Submotion Orchestra from Leeds, Ghosts of Paraguay, Synthetic Epiphany, Liquid Stranger and more. The hints of intelligent dnb, triphop, electrodub, full on chill, orchestral notes, dub itself, – these are all qualities that draw me in.
futurhood av on mixcloud (me, of course – silverback dj)
the aromatiq chillstep playlist
some of our other work – the entertaining toolbox
f4mmedia on wix
the webstore on artery
an f4mmedia webstore
youtube – f4mmedia – business and more
youtube – futurhood av – arts and entertainment, music videos and more
on deviant art – resources, prints
colours heard 
December 19, 2014 at 5:26 am
Chillstep is where it’s at. It’s all I want to produce lately is chillstep, chillgressive, psystep etc.