agree with lobster theremin and e-beamz as key labels.
more key labels:
-- 777 recordings
https://777recs.bandcamp.com/album/youtube-rips-777-03
somewhere between lo-fi and the berlin techno sound
-- lost palms (and to a lesser extent, parent label shall not fade)
triangulating lo-fi, breaks and more traditional US and french house sounds
https://shallnotfade.bandcamp.com/track/her-touch
https://shallnotfade.bandcamp.com/track/at-night
https://shallnotfade.bandcamp.com/track/loose-wood-ross-from-friends-remix
― the late great, Saturday, 22 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
I saw their mate DJ Boring play at a festival earlier this year and he really was just playing the most shameless early 90s handbag house and R&B remixes
like you mean lo-fi remixes of handbag house and r+b tracks? or just straight-up handbag house and handbag house remixes of r+b?
One thing that all PR has evidently been very keen not to mention is that Ross From Friends is apparently Andy Weatherall's son?
hmm
― the late great, Saturday, 22 December 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
something striking about this scene is that a lot of it - especially the stuff that is the best/worst of it, in terms of being most shamelessly beholden to the style - isn't on any label, let alone available on vinyl
very much the blog house of the 10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZOzKR7Pyk
― the late great, Saturday, 22 December 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
zone of fruitless intensification but with like ~vibes~ instead of drum programming
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, April 16, 2018 6:03 PM (eight months ago
this kind of nailed it except that ZFI is a fake concept invented by music critics, should be called "zone of i've run out of novel things to say about this"
clearly the ethos of this music is that there's no such thing as too much nostalgic tape hiss
― the late great, Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
the comments threads on this nørus video are great reading btw
― the late great, Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Straight up. In any case while I haven't delved especially deep into this stuff it doesn't feel especially lo-fi to me?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
that's interesting
not sure a deep dive is warranted - there really is an endless amount of mediocre lofi house business out there on youtube
this EELF channel for example has about 700 videos across the two playlists below, i spent a good half hour listening to snippets and literally none of the tracks (well, besides that nørus track i already posted) were memorable
still, some fun to be had scrolling through to see how bad the names get (dj sabrina the teenage dj?)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGAiPcpZleRCSp5McUwDXrdaU-7ZZ44Fx
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGAiPcpZleRC3ru-dz-xbbyWsyg3BF62E
― the late great, Saturday, 22 December 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
OK I'm fully prepared to believe that each and every one of those artists is more lo-fi than Ross From Friends/DJ Seinfeld/DJ Boring.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 22 December 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
so what's your objection to the lo-fi tag?
― the late great, Saturday, 22 December 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Okay Matt’s comment about Ross From Friends being an heir to the Andrew Weatherall fortune got me really excited to start recommending The Haunted Dancehall to all my lofi-obsessed friends as supplemental material, but a cursory Google of the topic seems to reveal that all the websites where the connection comes up take pains to clarify that, while his dad is a figure with 90’s rave connections and the last name “Weatherall”, he’s not that specific Weatherall.That said the other thing Matt brought up about DJ Boring playing straight-up unvarnished handbag in a DJ set still has me excited, it’s my personal opinion that we need more handbag in the world of 2018.
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Saturday, 22 December 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
ok fine mid-fi
― brimstead, Saturday, 22 December 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
so wait, is Andrew Weatherall his dad or not?
― frame casual (dog latin), Saturday, 22 December 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
I don't hear his stuff as lo-fi, that's an unfortunately off putting tag for an artist with an unfortunately off putting name who happens to make FANTASTIC music
― frame casual (dog latin), Saturday, 22 December 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
Yeah I feel like LIES or something is real lo fi dance
Ross seems to have hifi aspirations
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Sunday, 23 December 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
Does it bang on a club system is how you can tell
― brimstead, Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:09 (five years ago) link
this really is a fabulous thread title. can i just listen to the good lies stuff 4 ever and never have to deal w dj belvedere.
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:25 (five years ago) link
Listen to baltraWait maybe he's not lofi
― brimstead, Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:27 (five years ago) link
okay thas good
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:32 (five years ago) link
on the topic of being disapointed by non-lofiness of lofi house djs' sets, last summer my friend and i saw someone on lobster theremin (can't remember who) dj and they played tech house all night. well we left after an hour but i assume they'd continued
― flopson, Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:39 (five years ago) link
tech house can be awesome tho
― macropuente (map), Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:45 (five years ago) link
not sure if theyre lofi house but i really like the name DJ Fart in the Club
― flopson, Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:48 (five years ago) link
Feel like things like bergsonist and moma ready are sorta lo fi, but not really ... chill? at all and so don’t get lumped in
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:58 (five years ago) link
LIES and the other labels that got called lo-fi splintered off into a bunch of different sounds embracing industrial, EBM, etc that are more varied and interesting than the youtube house that ended up inheriting the genre tag
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 23 December 2018 06:27 (five years ago) link
How is it surprising that ppl who produce tracks that won't work in clubs... spin tracks that do work in clubs
― brimstead, Sunday, 23 December 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
did this already get discussed 10 years ago on the hipster house thread
― brimstead, Sunday, 23 December 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
I don’t even know what counts as lo-fi house tbqfhwy but I quite like this one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vNuhO_cl-7I
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 23 December 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
*nerd voice* neither the fidelity of their recording nor of their equipment is low
― mh, Monday, 24 December 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link