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A Brief History of Lo-fi music 

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Lo-fi (also typeset as lofi or low-fi; short for low fidelity) is a music or production quality in which elements usually regarded as imperfections in the context of a recording or performance are present, sometimes as a deliberate choice.
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0:00 Intro
00:35 Lo-Fi characteristics
01:16 Early Lo-fi
4:12 Outsider Music
6:25 R. Stevie Moore
7:30 Lo-fi in Punk, Postpunk and Hardcore
9:18 UK: Early Lo-fi Indie-pop
10:29 New Zealand: Flying Nun Records and the Dunedin sound
12:38 US: K Records and Beat Happening
14:04 90s Indie-rock and Slacker Culture
20:23 Elephant 6: Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control
22:08 Lo-fi in Hip-hop
24:04 Lo-fi debate: Analog vs digital; Authentic vs fake
26:28 End
#lofi #lofihiphop #nujabes #danieljohnston #outsidermusic #nickdrake #elliottsmith #kurtcobain #cassetteculture #neutralmilkhotel #dinosaurjr #lizphair #pavement #diymusic #modestmouse
Acts related: The Beach Boys, Brain Wilson, The Velvet Underground, Moby Grape, Skid Spence, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Outsider music, Sparklehorse, The Shaggs, Frank Zappa, Kurt Cobain, Daniel Johnston, Buil to Spill, Jandek, BJ Snowden, Wesley Willis, R. Stevie Moore, Ariel Pink, Half Japanese, The Raincoats, Young Marble Giants, The Fall, The Soft Boys, Hüsker Dü, Zen Arcade, Television Personalities, Cassette culture, Cassette underground, DIY, The Cleaners from Venus, Martin Newell, Marine Girls, The Pastels, The Vaselines, Sarah Records, Flying Nun Records, the Dunedin sound, The Clean, The Verlaines, The Chills, Chris Knox, Tall Dwarfs, The Great Unwashed, The Bats, Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sebadoh, Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Magnetic Fields, the Mountain Goats, Liz Phair, Calvin Johnson, K Records, Homestead Records, Beat Happening, Mecca Normal, Unrest, Modest Mouse, The Halo Benders, The Microphones, Lou Barlow, Dinosaur Jr, J Mascis, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, Guided by Voices, Bee Thousand, Slanted and Enchanted, Duster, Silver Jews, The Grifters, Will Oldham, Archers of Loaf, Alien Lines, Robert Pollard, Slacker-rock, Beck, Polvo, Ween, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo, Beulah, of Montreal, Elephant 6, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Nas, Wu-tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, J Dilla, Nujabes, Boom bap, Mac Demarco, Beabadoobee.
References:
/ an-exploration-of-lo-f...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo-fi_m...
www.iamtunedup.com/little-kno...
faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-5-be...
Sources:
Neutral Milk Hotel footage: • I Will Bury You in Time
Modest Mouse footage: • Modest Mouse Live - Po...
The Microphones footage: • The Microphones - You'...
Ruston, Louisiana footage: • This Is Ruston - Remot...
Streets footage to Paul Daley
Music:
- goosetaf x The Field Tapes x Francis - Carried away
- Provided by Lofi Records
- Watch: • goosetaf x The Field T...
- Download/Stream: fanlink.to/1amstudysession
Thanks for watching! :)

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@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter 9 месяцев назад
Name your fav lo-fi album here! 😁😁😁
@michaelwilson2340
@michaelwilson2340 6 месяцев назад
Although Bee Thousand from Guided By Voices is one of my favorite albums of all time I have to say Vampire On Titus does it for me as well.
@Unhacker
@Unhacker 3 месяца назад
PS: Anything Ty Segall, if that counts.
@100PercentBOOTLEG
@100PercentBOOTLEG Месяц назад
start to finish cassette tape production! open.spotify.com/artist/4RCriKfc7AL1WxFGEBZAwe?si=SY3pz7odSlidr2vHCmZ94Q
@robertmccauley754
@robertmccauley754 Год назад
That smile you gave when referencing Zappa saying The Shaggs are better than The Beatles was so funny! Zappa was indeed provocative.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Did I leave a smile? haha I didn't notice. Thanks for your comment!
@jessop-
@jessop- Год назад
Glad you mentioned sebadoh, one of my favourite bands.
@alaskatoburningmen4549
@alaskatoburningmen4549 Год назад
Love Sebadoh!They had one of the best singers of the genre for sure, Lou. Did you get a chance to delve into the enchanted universe of Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard?They are still releasing several albums per year and touring in their early 60's, still great.
@AdamforPresident2.0
@AdamforPresident2.0 Год назад
I love how you connected lo-fi to so many different genres. Greatly detailed, Stella! Loved the little bit about skiffle especially. You do great work. Keep it up!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Thanks for watching, and your thoughtful comments too! :)
@jonnyodde2363
@jonnyodde2363 Год назад
No offense because your video is really great and I’m so glad you do what you do, but doing a video on lo-fi without even a passing mention of Hasil Adkins is criminal. He should have his own section. Otherwise, keep up the excellent work Stella!
@mikepastor.k6233
@mikepastor.k6233 Год назад
Car Seat Headrest' is a great Slacker Rock band.
@laotzu2917
@laotzu2917 Год назад
Boy Pablo is my favorite. He's impacted so many lives with his melodies and heartfelt lyrics.
@a.c.7573
@a.c.7573 Год назад
Ooh I thought Boy Pablo would classify more as dream pop/shoegaze/bedroom pop? They don't really have a low-fidelity sound but rather a dreamy reverberated one.
@wtfxyandzee
@wtfxyandzee Год назад
You're going through my record collection. I have to say I hadn't connected it all like you have. I just love it. You could do entire episodes on each of the bands/labels/artists you mention here. RIP Hamish Kilgour
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
RIP...what a great band and drummer!
@RinnRuannan
@RinnRuannan Год назад
You have mentioned here some of my favourite music; some of my favourite bands. Yes, 'I Wanna Destroy You' is one of them. I have lost count of how many times I have seen Pavement, and also Stephen Malmus and the Jicks. Olivia Tremor Control's 'Hideaway' is a perfect song. I worked in music in the 1990s. My favourite experiences were with Lo-Fi bands. Kahimi Karie, Comet, Idaho, Cornershop, Stereolab, Evolution Control Committee, Velocity Girl, Novasonic, Indoor Boy...the list is much longer. :) In my experience, some of the best times are when musical instruments and recording equipment are strewn about on every surface of a room, with cables and wires spaghetti-like stretching between. And a headful of ideas to chase. Wonderful video. Happy happy holiday holiday!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
glad it has resonated with you, *I Wanna Destroy You* brofist!!
@davidellis5141
@davidellis5141 Год назад
Hi Stella - Happy Holidays 😊 ! - The Fall were my favorite band in this genere but much respect to Pavement in the 90's & the very oddly talented & disturbed Daniel Johnston. Sometimes , less is best 👌
@merryn9000
@merryn9000 7 месяцев назад
Love this run through! GBV and Tall Dwarfs will always be my favorites I think
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter 6 месяцев назад
Glad you like them!
@dahnilama1417
@dahnilama1417 Год назад
Big Black, songs about f#cking, is an amazing lo fi punk album you might want to check out
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Yes Big Black certainly count, good shout! Mentioned them in the "math-rock" video, quite like a few songs from them!
@thefourthwall6839
@thefourthwall6839 Год назад
The cleaners from venus and the pastels are definitely my favorites. Also, the paisley underground scene in California had a large impact on the bedroom pop sound and is worth mentioning.
@papertoyss
@papertoyss Год назад
Thank you for this video! This music covers probably more than half of my record collection and the music I own generally. One of my all time favorite artists not mentioned on this video is F.M. Cornog aka East River Pipe.
@wlouisharris
@wlouisharris Год назад
Another cool video. Nice mention of more Athens music legends - Neutral Milk Hotel. I was never really big into them, but you should also check out the Olivia Tremor Control. Mangum was in that band prior to NMH. They were really into the lo-fi - Beetles psychedilic influenced music. I think GBV Alien Lanes is the quintessential Lo fi LP. Stereolab Random transient soundburst I thought was also groundbreaking in the lo-fi area. Sebadoh 3 was really good as well as Bakesale. I think my favorite new era low fi indie group is Parquet Courts.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
hahaha are NMH too sensitive for you?
@wlouisharris
@wlouisharris Год назад
@@StellasEncounter I like their release "In the Aeroplane over the Sea". I was just more into the Kindercore scene in Athens at the time - bands like Elf Power, Great Lakes, and Japancakes; then bands like Drive by Truckers and Macha. There really was a lot going on in the Athens/Atlanta scene in the late 90's.
@criztoper2413
@criztoper2413 Год назад
loved the section on elephant 6, very good video, very educational
@theshakeups
@theshakeups Год назад
Very fun video! To answer your question about whether there's anything more hipster than discussing Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' on RU-vid, I suggest checking out the full-length documentary film 'The Elephant 6 Recording Co.' It was released a couple of years ago, but only on VHS through a library-like borrowing system (no streaming). ;) It can be found as a bootleg download for those willing to search, and is a truly amazing document, featuring the likes of the Apples in stereo (probably my fave), Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel. :D
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
I know that documentary, still need to check out! Thanks for your comment!
@robertmccauley754
@robertmccauley754 Год назад
One band I love that I didn't see you mention is Silkworm. If you haven't heard them, I highly recommend giving a listen. And if you do know them, what do you think?
@jonnyodde2363
@jonnyodde2363 Год назад
One of the most overlooked and underrated bands out there. Brilliant.
@ErwinvanMaanen
@ErwinvanMaanen Год назад
Silkworm were certainly a great indie rock band, but I wouldn’t consider them Lo-fi.
@robertmccauley754
@robertmccauley754 Год назад
@@ErwinvanMaanen they're certainly borderline. I could say that about a few others named.
@davidtollefson8411
@davidtollefson8411 Год назад
Great video! Glad you went WAY back. I love I Wanna Destroy You too. I work with a woman who kept talking about how she liked lo-fi, she doesn’t seem like a Sebadoh fan but she was talking about lo-fi chill-hop, a genre or style I’m not real familiar with. So much of this stuff popular here in Portland, still. Saw Windy and Carl open for Chris Knox once, and the Verlaines are awesome too. My personal favorite of the awesome 90’s lo-fi is Guided by Voices, I’ll never forget the first time I heard them. Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes are so good. R.I.P. Spot. Thank you Stella❤.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Thanks for watching! Yes, the lo-fi trend is very popular right now. I love the verlaines! Flying Nun is imo one of the best indie labels, and Dunedin is such a small place population wise.
@DevastatorJr
@DevastatorJr Год назад
Oh this is one of your best videos, check out Jack Logan's 'Bulk' album for some classic 90's slacker rock. Merry Christmas!
@axelazaryan
@axelazaryan Год назад
Hello Friend! I think outsider music deserves a full video! it is an exciting topic. excellent video, a couple of things you name I did not know at all, so I'll find out! Thank you for enriching my universe! By the way, Merry Christmas AND happy new year!! and may 2023 be a year full of beautiful things for you! hugs! and a toast! ps: long live The Shaggs!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
same wishes to you! :) and a toast like from the Archers of Loaf song please, haha!
@axelazaryan
@axelazaryan Год назад
@@StellasEncounterru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YxQ_iRShdeg.html for sure!
@ErwinvanMaanen
@ErwinvanMaanen Год назад
Hi Stella, what a great review! Including such great Lo-fi movements as the New Zealand ‘Dunedin’ scene. To my mind and ears the ‘true’ lo-fi era belongs to a period from the late 1980s to mid 1990s, indeed including deliberate at home and on the couch recorders like Guided by Voices, Mountain Goats, Mecca Normal, Robyn Hitchcock, Kramer, Tall Dwarfs, This kind of punishment, Beck, Sebadoh, Smog, Dump, Barbara Manning…..Many of these artists and more gathered to play at the Fast Forward festivals in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) in 1994/95. I was there. You can still find a documentary on this festival. And two cd’s were published on it by Brinkman records. I would classify experimental recordings as such and keep the Elephant 6 movement (also including bands like The Minders and Olivia Tremor Control) in their own league, not strictly low fidelity but fuzzy. I am still very fond of the original 1990s lo-fi music era.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Thanks for sharing your story about the festival in Netherlands that's not pinkpop! So cool to know there was a lo-fi festival there in the 90s and you being there. I'm jealous!! That's also my fav era too!
@vars666
@vars666 Год назад
Please check out SMOG especially the album's Sewn to the sky and Julius Caesar
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
yes, smog! *wai I can't see anything*
@vars666
@vars666 Год назад
@@StellasEncounter Hahaha especially in your part of the world. An other flying nun band JPS experience and the song Flex. Truly Lo-Fi magic
@resistor27
@resistor27 Год назад
Thirty seven push ups...
@MauriceTituer
@MauriceTituer Год назад
Merry Xmas! I remember when Flying Lizard’s song Money got some mainstream radio airplay, I was « what? ». Great Lake Swimmers early albums are definitely lo-fi, if you like folk. I recommend the song Merge a Vessel. Alongside Ween and The Magnetic Fields, I would add Eels.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
I rem Great Lake Swimmers and liked them, feels very Canada. They've toured in China a long time ago!
@Xcalator35
@Xcalator35 Год назад
Amazing video!! Well done Stella! There are a lot of non-mentioned bands that could fit the label 'Lo-fi' but I remembered Jon Spencer's early band Pussy Galore. Happy 2023
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Hahahah pussy galore! lol!
@Xcalator35
@Xcalator35 Год назад
@@StellasEncounter is true Stella! Pussy Galore were a great (noisy) band!
@lexmiller
@lexmiller Год назад
Great video Stella 👍 I learned a lot.
@Shrimpy08
@Shrimpy08 Год назад
HECK YEAH YOU EARNED A SUBSCRIBER
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
\o/ yay me! Thank you! Have a great weekend!
@lordmoldybutt646
@lordmoldybutt646 Год назад
Thank you for this 👏
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
You're welcome!
@wallac11
@wallac11 Год назад
Fantastic work as usual Stella! Merry Christmas
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Thank you! You too!
@fanstream
@fanstream Год назад
happy new year/merry christmas, stellar stella - such a creative and engaging video!😍😍✨✨ very hipsterish talking about "neutral milk hotel" on youtube :)
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Thank you! You too! :)
@michaelwilson2340
@michaelwilson2340 6 месяцев назад
Would Jesus Urge Superstar from Urge Overkill qualify? It's sound is quite rough. And Bee Thousand is one of my favorite albums of the 90's. Which is ironic since Achtung Baby is also on that list.
@Zoevandyne
@Zoevandyne Год назад
Real cool video. Thanks!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Glad you liked it!
@psirol
@psirol Год назад
always interesting content. brava
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
I try! Thank you!
@James-gp9ip
@James-gp9ip Год назад
Really enjoy your videos. Fun and informative 😊❤really great work you do!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Glad you like them!!
@Lordalba
@Lordalba Год назад
Wow so much work into one video! Good job😊
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Thank you! 😄
@ethanshelburne9821
@ethanshelburne9821 Год назад
Great video, Stella! I would love to see another one covering your top albums of 2022 😊 happy holidays!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Frankly I haven't followed new albums keenly. I should though. I did have a few fav songs and talked about them on Patreon. Thanks! Happy Holidays to you too!
@ThePeaceFrog722
@ThePeaceFrog722 Год назад
this vid is aces! Great work.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Thank you kindly. Have a great weekend!
@deztruct0823
@deztruct0823 Год назад
Your channel is awesome glad RU-vid recommended it!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Welcome aboard!
@AlexHarrison-gc5iq
@AlexHarrison-gc5iq Год назад
I enjoyed this. You really tied this all together and traced the line really well. Left me with a few bands/albums to go away and listen to as well. Love the Smiley Smile mention too! I always really loved that album and I agree it's really influential in it's own way. I feel like it kind of gets ignored in the grand scheme of things (I think this is sadly true of a lot of Beach Boys albums that are not Pet Sounds!) because it's sort of what we got "instead of Smile" or whatever, but personally I love it and am really glad it exists!
@Unhacker
@Unhacker 3 месяца назад
Excellent work!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter 3 месяца назад
Thank you! Cheers!
@swinehorde9118
@swinehorde9118 Год назад
Super comprehensive, as always. Enjoy those wings, Stella!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Thank you, the wings were gooood!
@d4re416
@d4re416 Год назад
Tall Dwarfs are probably my favourite artists of all time, I would highly reccomend their albums, Unravelled: 1981-2002 aswell as Weeville. Two of my favourite albums of all time.
@cruxofthecookie
@cruxofthecookie Год назад
Very interesting. You mentioned a number of bands I am not familiar with, but am gonna check out! I would include Wild Man Fischer in the "Outsider Music" segment and ya _gotta_ mention Car Seat Headrest (all of the bandcamp releases, including most famously Twin Fantasy) :)
@norinickrrostron9001
@norinickrrostron9001 Год назад
Lo-Fi music with its imperfections and unrehearsed feel and rawness makes it naturally beautiful and accessible...its kind of like the musical form of the Japanese philosophy of Wabi Sabi..
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
exactly!
@scottalic4067
@scottalic4067 Год назад
Love the channel! Really great overviews of genre, I know it's difficult to be exhaustive but I had to mention Eric's Trip as a great lo-fi band of the early 90s -- signed to Sub Pop when it seemed like Halifax, Nova Scotia might be the new Seattle (although ET were from Moncton, New Brunswick). Love Tara is an exceptional album, with all of the tape hiss, background noise and vulnerability you could ask for. Phil Elverum has singled it out as a pivotal influence on The Microphones, and it has featured on 'top Canadian albums of all time' lists, in a fairly stacked field...
@meursault74
@meursault74 Год назад
You have to throw an ear at the 3 or 4 first Dominique A albums : un album sourd, la fossette, si je connais Harry … if you want to have another perspective on Lo-fi music…
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Very cool, thank you for the suggestions. Enjoy your weekend!
@AtomPiken
@AtomPiken Год назад
Happy new year Stella! I’m only about halfway through this video and I’m hearing so many songs that Spotify’s algorithm has given me over the last few years. I didn’t realize my essence was lo-if! But yeah I’m usually overdue for a haircut on any given day. What’s your take on Sonic Youth in the pantheon of lo-fi? Lo-fi adjacent? How about Lo-fi electronic like Tycho? Anyway you almost make me want to break out my Tascam 4-track from the 80s.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Sonic Youth is kind of broad and more than just lo-fi. I never thought Tycho as lo-fi, are they?!
@danielbigna5469
@danielbigna5469 Год назад
Hi Stella, this was a fantastic video. You are totally right that lo-fi evolving into a recognisable musical style begins with the earliest blues recordings. Greater attention came when those super cool British musicians of the 1960s got all excited by the likes of Robert Johnson huddled around a single microphone and creating visceral and unclean magic with just voice and guitar. Keith Richards said that Johnson 'was like an orchestra all by himself'. I didn't really appreciate what all this was about until lo-fi became a thing in the 1990s and your inclusion of so many good bands from that era was a joy to watch. A few added thoughts - there is so much to talk about (particularly by unfortunate music geeks with nothing better to do - like myself). Lo-fi recordings of 1960s garage bands are out there in the many thousands. A few comps worth checking out are the 'Back From the Grave' and 'Teenage Shutdown' series. The music can be raw and wild and the accompanying liner notes are often informative and hilarious. Thrilled you are such a fan of Pavement. 'Slanted and Enchanted' is my pick for the greatest album of the 1990s. For me, it captures the entire history of indie rock on one album. Stephen Malkmus has always been interested in exploring those parts of popular music that promote free creative expression and you linking this in the video with all those great New Zealand bands was spot on. On another note, if you listen to the first song 'Hardcore UFO's' on the beautifully unpolished Guided by Voices album 'Bee Thousand', you can hear the tape dropping out about halfway through and the band playing as if nothing had happened. That is a perfect example of a group favouring the songwriting craft over sound fidelity, which sounds pretty good to me. Also, the brilliantly disjointed music of Half Japanese opens up the weird and wonderful world of such collectives as the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) who rejected sound quality and made sonic exploration the key focus. Back in 1986, greasy post-punk band Pussy Galore covered the classic Rolling Stones album 'Exile on Main St' in its entirety. The resulting listen is a clattering sonic mess and as lo-fi as lo-fi gets. You mentioned the Sebadoh song 'Freed Pig' in your video. That song and the album it appears on, 'Sebadoh III', exposes raw emotion over perfected technique and comes out a winner. New Zealand band The Dead C messed about with song structures in total low fidelity. If you can, check out the band's 1989 album 'Eusa Kills' on the Flying Nun label. The Australian alt-music 'supergroup' Beasts of Bourbon recorded and mixed their 1984 debut album 'The Axeman's Jazz' in one day and the vital urgency of the music subsequently seeps from every cigarette and whiskey soaked groove. After watching your video I reached for The White Stripes album 'White Blood Cells', which I hadn't listened to in ages and blasted the song 'Fell in love with a girl'. That song has all the grittiness of Chicago electric blues but also a lo-fi punk rawness that gets the juices flowing. In the free jazz world, Sun Ra was not only an incredibly talented musician who could play just about any musical style in existence, but also practiced a DIY aesthetic by releasing records with hand designed covers on his own Saturn label as well as recording many 45's, something unusual in jazz. Quite a lot of Sun Ra's music is recorded in lo-fi and his attitude was that it was the music that mattered regardless of the sound quality. Sun Ra never succumbed to mainstream expectations and he deserves eternal admiration for that. He was like the ultimate jazz punk! Finally (if you are actually still reading this very lengthy and quite possibly tedious response) try and check out a British dude named Billy Childish. He has recorded a ridiculously large number of albums in low and even lower fidelity in a bunch of different groups going back to the late 1970s. This dude has never sold out a long held commitment to celebrate the brash and minimal musicality and raw power of the 1960s British beat boom that included bands like The Beatles, The Who, The Stones and The Pretty Things. But only the early music of those bands before art-rock and psychedelia became the dominant thing. His super charged garage rock is also a product of the burgeoning mid 70 punk scene and has never bended to any popular musical trend. Billy Childish is totally cool and his music is a major achievement in lo-fi devotion! Apologies for the rambling response, but I'm hoping something is there you might enjoy.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Hi Daniel, thanks for the informative and well-written reply. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and I've learnt a lot from comment! :) Wai donchu use paragraph or ya tryna b aussie Lester Dangs?
@danielbigna5469
@danielbigna5469 Год назад
Hi Stella, thanks for responding. Nice playing around with language there. My response in relation to no paragraphs is 'not Lester just lazy'! It is hard on the eyes so will keep this in mind!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
@@danielbigna5469 You've listened to too much slacker-rock!
@danielbigna5469
@danielbigna5469 Год назад
Ha! Nice again Stella.
@petekutheis3822
@petekutheis3822 Год назад
School's in! Love my teach!!
@4pfdattu605
@4pfdattu605 Год назад
dope video
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
thank you! Have a great weekend!
@vawnjour
@vawnjour Год назад
Kathleen Hanna's solo album Julie Ruin (1997) should be remembered as great album for its DIY production and an early record of bedroom pop
@klaushermann2180
@klaushermann2180 3 месяца назад
Stella you are my Kraft Vairk❤😊
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter 12 дней назад
:3
@Ryantalope
@Ryantalope 10 месяцев назад
There are some terrific songwriters from this genre. R. Stevie Moore being just one example. Countless albums and songs and whilst not all of them are necessarily successful in terms on the end result, there are nevertheless some real gems that are catchy and highly innovative 👌🏼👍🙏🏽🤟👏
@jamesferry1523
@jamesferry1523 Год назад
Awesome video as usual. I think you forgot Galaxy 500, Violent Femmes, Modern Lovers, and probably a lot more, but anyway, wonderful job.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
yeah, The Modern Lovers! Not sure about G500 being lo-fi, though they are one of my favs..
@freddysweet
@freddysweet Год назад
Hello stella! Skiffle is a copy of " jug bands",you will like them , We Can find old awesome footage in yt.hasil adkins is the father of the lofi punks,maybe tom waits too,personnaly they both helped me to stay on my diy way without doubt. You have good taste and interrest in music,i love your work! And i love you too btw 🥳
@rorycathcart3281
@rorycathcart3281 Год назад
this was great! really nice to see my old hometown in your video. I could write a book about the importance of lofi, DIY, home recording on New Zealand underground music. Instead here's a grab bag of thoughts because it's christmas day and I just finished a bottle of champagne. - I don't know how many people know about this but Hamish Kilgour, the drummer for the Clean, passed away suddenly a couple of weeks ago. I never met him but we had mutual friends and he sounded like a solid guy. So that's a bit sad. - Not from NZ but a French/American singer I really like is Soko. Her first album is called I Thought I Was An Alien is great, really pretty and quite sad. She did a beautiful song called we might be dead by tomorrow, it's lovely (although the video is quite nsfw), real tears in your whiskey at 2am. No more home is also very very beautiful and always makes me cry. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4TYGM2f3830.html I'm also a big fan of early albums by Cat Power and by Will Oldham (as Palace Brothers, Palace Music) which are way more lofi and interesting than their respective later stuff. - One of my most treasured musical possessions is an album of songs by Molly Drake, Nick Drake's mother. It's quite old fashioned, just her playing on piano, recorded in the I think the 50s? in their dining room on a tape recorder which must have been quite flash at the time although it clips and flutters like crazy. It's a damning indictment that I only know about her because of her son, because she's absolutely his equal as a singer and song writer. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zEFOceF9gJY.html. Listen to this and be amazed by how much Nick Drake sounds like his mum. I really like Nick Drake, mainly because I'm not a robot. The Peel Session version of Riverman! - The Tall Dwarfs rule. I 100% recommend Hello Cruel World, a compilation of their first four eps, and I love it so much I looked it up on youtube and here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8ppgl9sJUys.html. Tall Dwarfs were the band that got me into making music myself. - Here's a rock and roll story about the time I saw Guided By Voices play the Powerstation in Auckland. Robert Pollard had a stack of crates of beer beside him and at the beginning of each song he'd pull out a bottle, bash the cap off, scull it back and then sing, pull out another one, bash the cap off, scull it back, etc. I have never seen someone drink so much in my life, especially as they played for at least an hour and a half and their songs are all like two minutes long. Meanwhile the drummer had this little tiny child's drum kit, which he was whacking so hard that he was pushing the kick drum away from him so that at the end of each song a roadie would have to run out and move it back into position.... again and again. At the end of the show the drummer dived through his kit and knocked it everywhere, and the rest of the crowd just left. Me and my friend I went with weren't going anywhere so we just stayed hanging out at the front of the stage and the band came over and smoked some pot while the roadie put the kit back together. So then Robert Pollard was like, so, wanna hear another one and they played Smothered In Hugs just to us, which is one of my alltime favourite songs. Honestly one of the best moments of my life. - Another similar rock story. When I lived in Dunedin I worked the door in a bar called Arc which was the main underground music venue at the time. One night I hung out for a while with this random American guy and his wife and ended up talking for an hour about alternative guitar tunings and it turned out to be Lou Barlow who was on holiday. He ended up playing a gig there and it was fantastic, really cool show. - One more. At Arc we used to have an acoustic night every Monday which was mainly for people who were just starting out, but one night Martin Phillips from the Chills played. He'd been in semi seclusion for a few years at that point and I think was wanting to get back into performing again. Afterwards when we'd closed up I was having a beer in the back and he came over and asked me how it had gone. I said it was cool but he hadn't played any of the old songs people had been there for, which I'm sure he was delighted to hear. So he got his guitar and sat and played me all the classics - just me and him - Pink Frost, I love my leather jacket, night of the chill blue.... it was amazing, a total fanboy moment. I was like, god, there are people overseas who would kill to be me right now. Also one time later on my friends' band toured with him and I went along too, and I ended up going to a barbecue at his mum's house. Yup.... The Chills are now pretty active and just toured the States and released another record which is great for people into that kind of thing. - For anyone who likes the holy Dunedin trio of the Clean, the Chills and the Verlaines I really recommend this fantastic all women band called Look Blue Go Purple who are at least their equals, if not even better. But not as well known because they're women, and you know, sexism. So, this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-deElvcqbKJ8.html. The chord changes in this song are incredible. - Similarly unknown are the Christchurch band the Pin Group - this is their single Ambivalence, the first release Flying Nun issued (and another big influence on my music). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hSWJw9VfvIc.html. An absolutely shitty recording, and all the better for it. I absolutely adore these two songs. - It's funny how much the Clean, the Chills and the Verlaines impacted on college rock bands in the 90s. Here the next wave of - mostly - Dunedin bands from the late 80s and early 90s had a much longer lasting influence, especially as the older Flying Nun bands moved more toward slicker studio recording. In 1990 the label Xpressway put out the compilation Xpressway Pile=Up which collected together a bunch of songs by different bands from around then, mainly recorded in garages, living rooms, practice spaces, live performances and it's so good, not a bad track on it. Here's the best one, Randolf's Going Home by Shayne Carter (from Straightjacket Fits) and Peter Jefferies. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UXxj9uNrQr4.html. It's like every night you've walked home by yourself wondering where it all went wrong. But everything on this album is good and it was quietly very influential. - Xpressway was owned by Bruce Russell who is the - self-appointed - key figure in New Zealand experimental music. His band the Dead C pretty much defined New Zealand experimental and noise rock and they did a run of incredible albums in the early 90s - Eusa Kills, Trapdoor Fucking Exit, Clyma Est Morte, The White House, Repent. (Their later stuff though isn't nearly as interesting, to me anyway). Helen Said This is pretty representative of this period, a mix of noise and garage rock, apparently recorded in an actual cupboard. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TQ9mwNkJMaU.html. - In NZ most twee/indie pop bands went for a more slick sound and if they talked about Daniel Johnson it was largely lip service. Here's a couple of bands that did okay for themselves - the Brunettes were this clappy Pet Sounds outfit. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3ipL7twa6xo.html. Lawrence of Arabia do a similar kind of thing. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sIDCRga1LjI.html. And there's plenty more, mostly from Auckland and Wellington, the two biggest cities. I dunno, personally I can't stand this kind of thing but a lot of people seem to like it. Similarly kooky but maybe a little more interesting were this band called Bressa Creting Cake - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sIDCRga1LjI.html. This video is quite disturbing! and because New Zealand is so small my old flatmate is in it, and also I went to high school with them.
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Rory, you're a walking encyclopedia of NZ indie music! It's sad that Hamish Kilgour passed away a while ago, admittedly I was a being stalker for 5mins to search for the reason for his death. I really like your personal story regarding GBV and Sebadoh, being there in NZ! It’s really cool to realize some musician that you like and is just being next to you! TBH, they’re just like the anyone else at the end of day. Also Dunedin, bars, venues, rent, booze, good ol’ days!! I’ll take some time to listen to the links you listed in this comment and am still planning to do a NZ alternative vid sometime, and will certainly research & credit from your comments lol. I really appreciate you taking the time to share your homeland's great indie bands! And I can tell they mean a lot to you. Hope you’re having a nice Christmas holiday with perhaps more champagne (but don’t overdo it!!! You will end up like Hamish!!!) And I look forward to your book regarding NZ lo-fi underground one day. :)
@alaskatoburningmen4549
@alaskatoburningmen4549 Год назад
Awesone stuff dude! Especially love the GBV/Pollard story!They would have only played NZ once i reckon?In 2000? Look Blue Go Purple are my fave Flying Nun/Dunedin band as well, though there are so many great ones!
@alaskatoburningmen4549
@alaskatoburningmen4549 Год назад
Nick Drake's mother!!! Wow, had no idea about her! :)
@rorycathcart3281
@rorycathcart3281 Год назад
@@alaskatoburningmen4549 yeah man Nick Drakes mum is awesome, I actually like her stuff more than his first two records!
@mikecaetano
@mikecaetano Год назад
Lo-Fi Beats sound Hi-Fi to my ears but AM radio stations were still playing pop music when I was a kid, so I suppose for me "lo-fi" extends beyond when it became a style to when it was all there was. When I was fifteen I inherited a ragged collection of records from the sixties that included a mono version of Here Comes The Night, the US version of the 1965 album by Them, i.e. Van Morrison, also known as The Angry Young Them. The shoddy condition of the vinyl added to the lo-fi playback when I listened to it back in the eighties. No scratches but plenty of pops and clicks and hiss. But listening to re-recordings of clear copies of those mono versions its becomes easy to hear that the music was engineered for AM radio playback rather than the high fidelity playback systems ubiquitous today. So I tend to think of that as "lo-fi" initially. And from that perspective the original "lo-fi" rock song might be Buddy Holly "Not Fade Away" from 1957. The drums are played on cardboard boxes on that classic. Special shout outs to The Rolling Stones "Country Honk" (1969) -- you can hear the chickens squawk along with the honk of the horn on the farm truck. The Pretenders "Stob Your Sobbing" (1979) -- the single that launched their debut album. Bruce Springsteen "State Trooper" (1982) -- acoustic guitar and vocal reverb only. Camper Van Beethoven "Take the Skinheads Bowling" (1985) -- simple, quirky, and catchy -- plus a fiddle! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Omg you're the real lo-fi expert and you know so much!! :0 Thanks for commenting and sharing your knowledge!
@stevedixon8116
@stevedixon8116 Год назад
Can't beat the 80s flying nun bands
@alaskatoburningmen4549
@alaskatoburningmen4549 Год назад
Yeah, that era was unparalleled with the amount of great bands on a small geographic surface.Still listen to several, my favourite was Look Blue Go Purple.
@speeduser3597
@speeduser3597 Год назад
For The Fall i think another choice might be Dragnet.
@genepozniak
@genepozniak Год назад
Until a few years ago, I had only known lo-fi from hip hop and trip hop. In this period, I've mostly been listening to independent synth and electric guitar/effect-pedal artists on RU-vid. So, 3 to 5 years ago I was horrified to hear most of them adding static/noise and scratching to their music, which seemed silly to me, as the music was/is produced by high-end synths and editing programs. Also, it depressed me because I associate random noise with entropy and the end of things. :-( I'm happy to say that fad seems to be ending.
@RootEight
@RootEight Год назад
Happy holidays dear Stella I hope you are doing well!! Regarding the Lo-Fi genre, to date it does not attract my attention, cause Hip Hop monopolized that market and I do not like that genre of music, in fact, RU-vid recommends the typical Hip Hop Lo-Fi video for study and although I give it to no recommendation, the algorithm is very stubborn and continues to recommend it.😂 I send you a big hug Master Stella!!!😊✌
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
hahaha I first searched on youtube by "lo-fi" was expecting Pavement or similar, and I was like what's all these! But honestly, those chill beats songs aren't that bad, they can be quite chilling! Thanks for the hug! Same to you! :)
@maxiiic
@maxiiic 7 месяцев назад
вы молодец
@Gary.S
@Gary.S 10 месяцев назад
There is a flop lp on u tube by a band called low fi all so a solo open mike act under same name real rear ❤ ps love youre vids
@mcnardigan
@mcnardigan Год назад
HEY, VERY COMPLETE! BUT YOU FORGOT FANTASTIC LOFI BANDS AS UNREST, AIR MIAMI, THE SOFTIES, NUMBER ONE CUP...I HAVE ALL THAT VINYL RECORDS AND I CONTINUE MAKING LO FI MUSIC WITH MY BANDS HERE IN SPAIN: KAITEN AND ART & BEAUTY, A LITTLE PROMOTION FOR MY BANDS IS NOT BAD HAHAHA HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
THANKS FOR LISTING THESE WONDERFUL LOFI BANDS AND ESPECIALLY THE ONES FROM SPAIN! I LOVE AIR MIAMI AND UNREST! I LOVE SPAIN! FELIZ NAVIDAD!
@tetsuians7905
@tetsuians7905 Год назад
Helium
@matthewtop
@matthewtop Год назад
0:10 MY HARD TIME!
@mikepastor.k6233
@mikepastor.k6233 Год назад
The Frogs'
@snukabrown6159
@snukabrown6159 Год назад
Pika pi!!!
@davideferrario316
@davideferrario316 Год назад
I am confused😆😆 Indie pop = jangle pop, twee pop [bubblegum jangle pop], paisley underground [psychedelic jangle pop], chamber pop (magnetic fields, jellyfish), Dunedin [lo-fi jangle pop], Madchester [psychedelic jangle pop + acid house + funk], neo-psychedelic pop (dandy warhols, madder rose, bettie serveert, tripping daisy), noisy power-pop (material issue) Indie rock = feedback pop (jesus and mary chain), lo-fi rock (less jingle-jangle than dunedin) [pavement, eels, guided by voices], noisy garage-pop (pixies, dinosaur jr, affected, archers of loaf), shoegaze, grunge before mainstream (green river, big F), garage-punk (mudhoney, the hives, gluecifer), non-jamming space-rock (hum, spacemen 3), space-pop (yo la tengo), math rock (polvo, don caballero, us maple), neo-psychedelic rock (mercury rev, dadamah, terminals), neo-acid rock (crystalyzed movements), slowcore (codeine), neo-raga rock (cornershop), neo-roots rock (american music club, antietam, camper van beethoven) Experimental/avant rock = frank zappa, krautrock, post-rock, noise rock, jamming space-rock (hash jar tempo), chamber rock (univers zero, art zoyd), chamber punk (Consorzio suonatori indipendenti "cupe vampe"), avant-prog (henry cow), Collage-rock (Bran van 3000, vampire rodents, stabscotch), no wave, minimal-rock (polyrock).
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
hahahaha you listed it all!! *feels enlightened*
@paul-denis4748
@paul-denis4748 Год назад
You're so damn cute !
@StellasEncounter
@StellasEncounter Год назад
Thank you, I do try! Have a great weekend!
@christopherm9037
@christopherm9037 Год назад
💥 *PromoSM*
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