Lofi Chilled Vinyl Hip Hop Beats featuring day break over the River Thames in the best city in the world - London England. Enjoy for work, study or sleep.
Get away from the pressure of life and relax as the sound of good old analogue vinyl envelops you.
This is 100% original music composed by me.
I hope you enjoy.
Love
LoFi Guy x
LOFI MUSIC BACKGROUND
Lo-fi music is a subgenre of DIY indie rock that has been around since the late '80s. With cassette tapes and recorders being inexpensive, lo-fi musicians were able to create their own unique sound with limited resources.
The lo-fi sound is characterized by a gritty, unpolished aesthetic.
The first band to use the term "lo-fi" was probably Beat Happening with their debut album in 1984. The genre has been linked to indie rock and DIY punk culture as well as shoegaze, noise pop and dream pop groups of the 1990s.
One artist who became notorious for his lofi music style was Beck Hansen, who at sixteen years old recorded his first cassette tape under the name βLoserβ after he experienced rejection from various bands on St Marks Place in New York City's East Village where he briefly lived. His recordings were relatively primitive, but they soon found success due to his unique composition style.
The rise of YouTube has seen resurgence of interest in lo-fi music with the lofi rocker aesthetic and DIY punk culture.
Historically, lo-fi music has been relative to technological advances and the expectations of ordinary listeners.
Of course, lo-fi music is now produced electronically as opposed to using old-fashioned cassette tapes but computer synthesizers are so good that they closely match the original style and feel of the old analogue recordings. .
A term that has existed since the 1950s, "lo-fi" is a sound production less good in quality than "high fidelity." The definition of lo-fi was derived from Oxford English Dictionary as: "a sound production which emphasizes simplicity and lacks improvements that increase audio clarity, such as editing and smoothing".
In 1977, music educator R. Murray Schafer defined lo-fi as an unfavorable signal-to-noise ratio β a measure of the relative levels of desired and undesired qualities in a system such as an audio system or recording.