The core nature of lofi is of course low fidelity. These artists treaded uncharted ground through purposefully incorporating imperfections in their works – the kind that truly challenged the listener even after they gained the ears of a more commercial audience.įast-forward to now, the rise of lofi hip hop / chill study beats has consequently changed the way many perceive the overall term of lofi, especially if we consider the association with hip hop. In the past, acts such as Ariel Pink, Beck, and even Portishead were tagged with the coveted label of lofi. What’s the first thing that pops into your head when I mention the term “ lofi”? The chances are high that ‘ study beats’, ‘ lofi hip hop’ or even an image of an anime girl who’s hyper focused on her studies crosses your mind.
This article is ours ( Lu and Ivo's) take on the lofi hip hop genre and trying to put our knowledge and observations into what we hope ends up a well-written and informative article, especially for those who are not that caught up with what's been going on.
While we're not a beat niche website, a great deal of the artists we follow and cover starting 2014/15 dwell or started off as lofi producers. It gives us another frequency to tune in and tune out.While when we started Stereofox back in 2013 the instrumental and beat-driven music on the website was rather scarce, it wasn't long before we uncovered the peacefulness lofi and chillhop music were bringing on the table. 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.
#LO FI HIP HOP MOVIE#
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.
#LO FI HIP HOP HOW TO#
On it, topics span the basics of HTML and how to make an iframe on a webpage.
#LO FI HIP HOP CODE#
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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