Smooth & Contemporary Jazz
Now Chill/Lounge Music is added to the list.This is a cross between mostly ambient, trip-hop, nu jazz, ambient house, New Age and other sub-genres of down-tempo. Sometimes the easy listening sub-genre lounge is considered to belong to the chill-out collection as well. Chill out music emerged in the early and mid-1990s in "chill rooms" at dance clubs in Europe, 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.