lo-fi study beats

they do work for working and studying and especially grading

Yeah that's the annoying thing. This stuff isn't without merit but it shouldn't be mixed up with more complex sorts of music. But whatever, I'm embarrassed here to be that concerned about genre labels.

Hadn't realized that ChilledCow is a label. I remember when they had to change their art loop from what they took from Studio Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart... early 2018

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo-Fi_Girl

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on the chilledcow wiki, the genre is down as lo-fi hiphop, click that and you get ...

Chillhop
"Lo-fi hip hop" redirects here. For the genre of jazz-influenced hip-hop, see Jazz rap. For the genres of hip-hop characterized by low sound quality, see Mumble rap, Memphis rap, and Cloud rap.

lol

"That channel Sund4r posted has a “live chat” going; never seen that on YT before."

Live chats are definitely part of YouTube livestreaming channels. I've seen it before with concerts or e.g. last year's virtual Canada Day.

Not to mention people playing Minecraft.

Is there just some big factory where one person makes a bunch of these beats and then assigns artist and track names at random?

ive seen articles over the years speculating about spotify filling out their first-party playlists for things like "chill jazz"/"peaceful piano"/whatever by paying people a flat fee to create original tracks that are then credited to fake artists, with spotify owning the master rights. i guess its the 21stC equivalent of library music, in 30 years i wonder if there will be Numero-style comps of such stuff

One Eye Open OTM about this being like contemporary library music. It also kinda reminds me of Weather Channel music, though that stuff tends to be more like smooth fusion

Remember Weather Channel music guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnkjvKv5R84

AOTY in The Wire iirc

Adult Swim is probably an important link too, when they started commissioning Flying Lotus to do bumpers between animation, and the current college studiers were kids.

I read a couple high school essay-level Medium articles on the origins of lo-fi hip-hop, mostly pretty bad (defining "low fidelity" and mentioning Dilla then jumping right to the current crop of channels and producers). But there were some illuminating bits, about Youtube introducing that 24/7 mode, those big channels and the anime girl, Nujabes being the Dilla of the genre (aside from Dilla being the Dilla of the genre), and some other specific producers getting name-checked.

Minecraft soundtrack music is exactly like this, yes.

tempted to start making this music just so I can add in a few tracks with subtly disturbing melodic shifts and ruin everyone's studies

im tempted to start making this music so i can have a successful youtube channel with little effort

Too late in the game to enter know I think. There’s thousands of clones and I’ve only seen less than 10 channels that are successful with it and they’ve been at it for years now.

Now not know stupid autocorrect

In addition to the precursors already mentioned, I think these 2 artists deserve mentioning:
Wagon Christ, "Throbbing Pouch" album specifically (1995)
Fat Jon, "Wave Motion" album specifically (2002)
Like this would fit right in on one of these Playlists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYKrp_VE0lY

a former ilxor makes ambient techno playlists that work better for this purpose i think.

do tell?

it's not a controversial one, at all. an estimable and interesting person. but i don't think they hang around here or want to be namechecked.

two of the artists i've learned of through this playlist, and liked, are special request and bella boo.

therefore you might go as far as to link? please?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2JhdzQsWXG8Ku6hdROqbc6?si=0be241835bce4a60

my word

thanks

Corey <3

chilledcow changed their youtube username to Lofi Girl. smart branding move i think.

also i saw this recently lol https://hard-drive.net/lofi-hip-hop-radio-girl-still-fails-test-after-four-years-of-studying/

'Probably somewhere in Italy' – nah, I'm pretty sure that's Lyon in the background.

My (second grade) kid asked recently - "Is it OK if I use YouTube while I do homework, to play quiet music that's made for studying?"

That's so adorable.

morris, did you break out in tears of joy at that moment?

because i did, just reading your post.

the algorithm finally bumped this into my background and i probably got two hours in before i looked up and went, wait what the fuck am i listening to here

got him

I was listening to the Youandewan 2016 album and saw different people refer to it as good study music. It's certainly good music.

somebody made a two-hour vince guaraldi compilation and uploaded it to youtube as a single video and all the comments are about how great it is to study to

Minecraft soundtrack music is exactly like this, yes.

tempted to start making this music just so I can add in a few tracks with subtly disturbing melodic shifts and ruin everyone's studies

They recently added some more tunes in the 1.18 update too.

I do like the occasional xmas lo-fi song. There's an "Oh Christmas Tree" version I particularly like, will have to try and find out the source.

lol this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbfVLyKtLLc