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Lo fi hip poducer3/23/2023 ![]() Oh and a side thing, if anyone has any articles / videos / books that talk about Nujabes, please sharee I can't seem to find much on the internet about him (which is why i ended up with Dilla Time.)Īs a producer, I consider myself a veteran in the style that is now known as "lo-fi". Only realised this lately as i read more into the artists themselves. Like some of the comments here were mentioning, it really is so important to know the history and background of a genre, then do your own thing with it. It's cool to read about and HEAR their attempts to "soul-ify" their sound by sampling older jazz/soul records, and I'm hoping to try that too (sampling old stuff into beats). Uyama hiroto's up there too □ Been reading about Dilla lately too in Dilla Time which I picked up not too long ago, having heard his name over and over whenever Nujabes is mentioned as the "godfather of chillhop". That's all thanks for reading.Īctually on the topic of "finding a playlist", i literally just found a spotify playlist while searching for "Nujabes and J Dilla" which i thought would be nice to share :)īeen into nujabes for quite awhile now around a year having collected some of his records too (Modal Soul, First Collection, Metaphorical Music) and also got into Haruka Nakamura (His album Twilight). ![]() I am saying that we should forget the 'appearances' and the anime video clips and focus on the lesson nujabes tried to teach us. I love this community but sometimes I think we should rethink how we approach music creation. Why can't lofi be more like the instrumental jazz hip-hop that nujabes was creating? It has some other quality, the quality of a master at sampling, picking the best sounds with incredible ease and fluidity. Nujabes is considered the father of all of this but his beats don't have super loud kicks and snares with static effects on it, it's got main melody, a chorus section etc. I think it's better to forget all the aesthetics related to lofi and just think more about the music. Sometimes it's a really good sample layered with the perfect snare layered into another sample making a loop that's unforgettable. What I am saying is that lofi sometimes is a lot more then just static with side chained kicks and messy high hats. But the most popular lofi is just background beats and people pay no attention to it and for a good reason too. ![]() The youtube channel Steezyasfuck reflects my taste for lofi as the albums uploaded on it are heavily influenced by 90's boom bap. It gives us another frequency to tune in and tune out.I've been listening to lofi for quite some time now and I must say that the general quality of it is pretty good if you know where to look. Particularly the excess of what it means to be alive in a world where the volume is always being turned up, up, up. Listening to one of Lewis’ streams or getting lost in a nine-minute Kid Cudi melody that’s been reformatted to fit the genre’s delights, as I often do when writing, doesn’t ask much of us. They greet the ear like a soft, gooey whisper. Some YouTube channels have a variety of lo-fi hip-hop soundtrack themes like video games, TV shows, and movie soundtracks-nothing is really off limits.”īut even as the genre draws from all around it, the real marvel of lo-fi hip-hop on YouTube is its partiality to minimalism, its desire for less. “One song can have a classical melody, while the next song can have a jazz melody, and then the next song can have more of a pop or a rock theme. “This flexibility in a lo-fi hip-hop playlist means that you can traverse multiple genres of music within the same genre,” he says. In one of Lewis’ earliest uploads, he speaks at length about “the #1 skill needed by developers” (the answer might surprise you).įor Lewis, the widespread appeal of the genre has a lot to do with its inherent adaptability. ![]() On it, topics span the basics of HTML and how to make an iframe on a webpage. Code Pioneers started, he says, out of a concern for people who were “suffering layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts due to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.” As the description on the site makes clear, the page is for anyone who wants to learn the particulars of coding. Lewis is a full-stack web developer and has worked in IT for more than a decade. The songs, which Lewis says ordinarily have a “nice mellow rhythm that is somewhere between 70 and 95 bpm” (beats per minute), often work as background filler while doing any number of tasks: working, studying, meditating, biking, cooking, or in the case of those who visit Lewis’ page, coding. Like all of the selections Lewis featured in his first video, songs are typically relaxed and slow-feeling, contain no lyrics, and are so impressively low-key that it’s easy to forget music is even playing. Officially, the genre is called lo-fi hip-hop, and the essence of its sound spurns surplus.
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