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Chill-out music (sometimes also chillout chill out or simply chill) is an umbrella term for several styles of electronic music characterized by their mellow style and mid-tempo beats — chill being derived from a slang injunction to relax.Chill out music emerged in the early and mid-1990s in chill rooms at dance clubs where relaxing music was played to allow dancers a chance to chill out from the more emphatic and fast-tempo music played on the main dance floor.The genres associated with chill-out are mostly ambient trip-hop nu jazz ambient house and other sub-genres of downtempo.