Lo fi house

[chava]

none of this is music though is it its just mood-board stuff

I don't exactly know what you mean, but as I quite dislike "proper music" I take it as a good thing

 

[Corpsey]

none of this is music though is it its just mood-board stuff

Do you like ross from friends

 

[luka]

i hope not. i cant endorse anyone with that name. i wont listen to it just to be on the safe side.

 

[Corpsey]

I don't think you'd like it tbf

You'd hate it

 

[muser]

😬

 

[DLaurent]

I can't remember the last time I danced, my problem really. "It takes the physical to create the physical". I like STLs drum sounds particularly though.

 

[boxedjoy]

this stuff is really hard to mix in a set - it sounds so anaemic when you mix it into something that's more finessed. But "mood board" seems right - I think this stuff is to be enjoyed as texture rather than functional dance music.

Also, making this stuff is very deliberate - it's probably harder to make something sound so lo-fi when you're using Ableton at this point.

 

[thirdform]

Not true. Jamal Mosse and Traxx are as visceral as dance music gets in that 80s industrial/house/synth disco/nu beat lineage.

Don't care much about the rest of the people posted in this thread though, so youse might be right about them.

 

[thirdform]

this one is mental, wait for the keys come in, real queasy psychodelic afrofuturism.

 

[boxedjoy]

I don't really think of that stuff as lo-fi in the same way as this DJ Seinfeld/Ross From Friends/Eddie The Dog From Frasier Not The Original One That Died But The Replacement Dog/whatever. That stuff seems alive with purpose whereas this newer scene feels deliberately inwards-gazing, much more in thrall to Kompakt etc

 

[thirdform]

 

[boxedjoy]

I mean it's obviously not glossy or sophisticated and has some similarities but it's a different thing to me

 

[thirdform]

I don't really think of that stuff as lo-fi in the same way as this DJ Seinfeld/Ross From Friends/Eddie The Dog From Frasier Not The Original One That Died But The Replacement Dog/whatever. That stuff seems alive with purpose whereas this newer scene feels deliberately inwards-gazing, much more in thrall to Kompakt etc

oh ok fair enough. I can't really tell you about what happened to Kompakt after 2011 really, think Immer three was the last comp I got from them and wasn't very impressed.

 

[thirdform]

the first immer is still great though.

Real millennial euro optimism hours before that became a cliche (for me)

 

[thirdform]

its def of its time but fuck it hits all the buttons in the right spot for me.

 

[boxedjoy]

I think Total 12 was the last one that was halfway decent, but I'll shamelessly defend the peak years of emo trance widescreen techno I danced to in the 00s

 

[thirdform]

It's weird because I'm a massive cologne head, the 90s stuff before kompakt is basically some of my favourite music for me @boxedjoy

But when they got into all that The Field over the ice stuff I can't really with them anymore.

But wholly hell all the dr. walker stuff is still on another level, pure alien boogie.

 

[thirdform]

I think Total 12 was the last one that was halfway decent, but I'll shamelessly defend the peak years of emo trance widescreen techno I danced to in the 00s

tbf if you have any mixes of that stuff i might give em another chance.

There's one i really like but not sure if it's on kompakt, it's one that i think @trilliam will really dig - gabriel ananda - doppelwipper. mental tune.

 

[thirdform]

this one.

i love how cliche germanic it is. like a kind of rigid funkiness.

 

[boxedjoy]

The Field and DJ Seinfeld etc are all big with the people I know who grew up loving early 90s indie and then discovering dance music (and drugs). I'm unreasonably fond of some of this stuff ("unreasonable" = "my reasons are not good", not outsize) I'm coming to it from being into shoegaze indie and the textural crossover.