FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“The road is long and the drivers are storied”
Bob Root’s 27-Track Masterpiece Honors Cody Johnson, Jose Padilla, and DJ Michael Maretimo While Creating Something Entirely New—And Your Emotions Will Never Be the Same.
“This is not chill music. This is not house music. This is not ambient. It’s all of them. It’s none of them. It’s something that didn’t exist until Bob Root of ChillTravelers decided that thirty years of carrying a secret soundtrack in his head was thirty years too long.”
November 8, 2025, Santa Fe New Mexico USA – There’s a moment in music history when a genre doesn’t just evolve—it *transforms*. When artists stop trying to fit into existing categories and instead create entirely new emotional territories by standing on the shoulders of giants who came before.
Welcome to Neo Effects—the genre that emerges when chill gets a pulse, when deep house discovers meditation, when ambient music learns how to make you want to move.
THE EMOTION YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU WERE MISSING
Close your eyes. You’re experiencing something impossible. Your body wants to move, but your mind wants to dissolve into pure peace. You feel energized and completely calm at the same time. Excitement and serenity are dancing together in your chest. You’re simultaneously grounded and floating.
That’s the Neo Effects experience.
NFX is music for the contradictions of being human. It’s for the moments when you need to feel *everything* at once—the joy and the contemplation, the energy and the ease, the forward momentum and the eternal now.
This is what happens when you refuse to choose between intensity and tranquility.
FROM HONORING THE MASTERS TO CREATING THE FUTURE
Bob Root’s musical pilgrimage is a love letter to the artists who showed him what music could *become*.
Cody Johnson taught him that authenticity is the most powerful force in music. That raw, honest emotion cuts through everything else. That real connection happens when you strip away pretense and just *feel*. Root absorbed Johnson’s lesson that the deepest impact comes from songs—and sounds—that refuse to compromise on truth. “Soundtrack to your life.”
Jose Padilla revealed the art of painting entire worlds with sound. His legendary Café del Mar sets demonstrated that chill could be sophisticated without being cold, that you could create sonic landscapes so vivid that listeners could taste the salt air and feel the Mediterranean breeze. Padilla showed Root that relaxation music didn’t have to be boring—it could be deeply considered, meticulously crafted, and absolutely *alive*.
DJ Michael Maretimo perfected the Balearic philosophy: that rhythm and contemplation aren’t opposites, they’re partners. That groove and meditation can coexist in the same moment. That you can make people want to move while simultaneously want to surrender. Maretimo’s genius was understanding that chill doesn’t mean static—it means intentional, purposeful, emotionally resonant movement.
Root took these three pillars—authentic emotion, sophisticated soundscaping, and Balearic groove philosophy—and asked a revolutionary question: What if we combined all of this into something they couldn’t have imagined?
The answer is NFX. Twenty-seven tracks where gratitude becomes innovation.
WHEN CHILL BECOMES SOMETHING MORE
For years, “chill” meant one thing: relax, unwind, fade into the background. But Neo Effects rewrites that entire equation. This is chill with the heart of Cody Johnson. Chill with the sophistication of Jose Padilla. Chill with the groove of DJ Michael Maretimo.
This is chill with intention. Chill with movement. Chill with *soul*.
It’s the sound of driving through the night with absolute clarity. Of creating art when inspiration strikes at 3 AM. Of moments when you feel more alive than ever while simultaneously at complete peace. It’s aggressive yet mellow. Driving yet relaxing. High-energy fusion with meditative roots.
Traditional production methods couldn’t capture these contradictions. But Neo Effects doesn’t try to resolve them—it *celebrates* them. It says: Yes, you can feel multiple things. Yes, music can be both. Yes, the future of sound is complex, layered, and emotionally honest in the tradition of the masters who came before.
WHAT LISTENERS EXPERIENCE
Press play, and here’s what happens:
Your pulse quickens, but your shoulders drop. Your mind sharpens into focus, but your anxiety dissolves. The music moves *through* you—not just *at* you. It invites your body to respond while it invites your spirit to surrender.
Some moments float like meditation in motion. Others pulse with the urgency of a heartbeat you didn’t know you needed. All of it carries the Neo Effects signature: simultaneously sophisticated and soulful, modern and timeless, innovative and emotionally authentic.
This is music for people who refuse to be categorized. Who know that the richest human experiences don’t fit neatly into boxes. Who want their soundtracks as complex as their inner lives.
TWENTY-SEVEN GATEWAYS TO FEELING
NFX isn’t just an album—it’s an invitation into a new emotional vocabulary. Twenty-seven tracks that take you through landscapes you didn’t know existed, each one a different flavor of that impossible sensation: excitement wrapped in serenity, intensity seasoned with peace, motion anchored in stillness.
Every track works as a standalone journey. Together, they form a complete manifesto for what chill becomes when it evolves—informed by the masters but pointing toward the future.
This is the music for sunset drives when the world looks different. For late-night creative breakthroughs. For moments when you need to feel deeply alive and completely at rest simultaneously. For the people who’ve always known that the best emotions are the ones that refuse to choose.
THE NEW SOUND OF EVOLUTION
While the music industry celebrates genre-bending, Root went further: he created a new genre entirely. One that honors everything that came before—the authentic soul of Cody Johnson, the sophisticated landscapes of Jose Padilla, the purposeful grooves of DJ Michael Maretimo—while pointing toward everything that comes next.
Neo Effects says: Authenticity doesn’t have to be loud. Sophistication doesn’t have to be cold. Energy doesn’t have to mean chaos. Relaxation doesn’t have to mean stagnation.
It says: Music can be all of it. And you can feel all of it. And that’s not a contradiction—that’s transcendence.
AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE YOUR EMOTIONS NEED IT
NFX is streaming now on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and 150+ platforms worldwide.
Search for ChillTravelers (no space—because revolutionary genres don’t need them).
Fair warning: Once you experience music this emotionally intelligent—music that understands the full complexity of what it means to be human while honoring the artists who paved the way—ordinary chill might start feeling a little… ordinary.
The sound Bob Root has been carrying for thirty years is finally out in the world. It’s not what the industry expected. It’s something better.
It’s what the future of emotional music sounds like.
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ABOUT CHILLTRAVELERS:
ChillTravelers is the creation of artist Bob Root, who spent thirty years hearing music that didn’t exist yet and ten years perfecting it. NFX represents the birth of Neo Effects—a new genre that evolves chill, deep house, and ambient into something emotionally unprecedented, informed by the mastery of Cody Johnson, Jose Padilla, and DJ Michael Maretimo. It’s music for the full spectrum of human feeling.
LISTEN NOW:
Search “ChillTravelers” (No Space) on your favorite streaming platform
Visit: chilltravelers.com
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*Neo Effects: When a genre evolves from honoring the past, and your emotions finally have permission to be everything at once.* Bob Root
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