Lo-Fi

[pavuol]

As title suggests, post your favourite tracks, which you enjoy despite its "lower quality" (or just because of that).
Can be anything, Lo-Fi as an intentional approach (like subgenres almost) as well as unintentional - (amateur) live recordings, (home) demos, "vintage"/historic recordings (objectively limited with available tech.) etc.

PS: if you embed media, always write artist/title in plain text as well

 

[pjug]

Not the worst sound quality, but not great either. Maybe just right for what it is.

 

[daftcombo]

Loke Wilson - "Prune Slicker"

 

[paulraphael]

I believe production included a tube mic preamp and a cassette deck (used as an effects unit), with everything cranked to 11. One of my favorite albums from its time. In my humble opinion they might have overdone the acoustic guitar overdrive a notch or two ...

(Neutral Milk Hotel, "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," from album of same name. 1998)

 

[pozz]

• (1995) Maeror Tri – Myein

Done on tape with extreme use of loop effects.

 

[TimW]

Bee Thousand by Guided by Voices

 

[TimW]

Ode to Quetzalcoatl by Dave Bixby

 

[q3cpma]

Belkètre - (1996) Ambre Zuèrkl Vuorhdrévarvtre
Can't be found on the web, sadly.

 

[TimW]

Fell Asleep by Barlow

 

[Moderate Dionysianism]

Can't be found on the web, sadly.

http://opiumhum.blogspot.com/2015/03/belketre-ambre-zuerkl-vuorhdrevarvtre.html

 

[q3cpma]

http://opiumhum.blogspot.com/2015/03/belketre-ambre-zuerkl-vuorhdrevarvtre.html

Thanks. Doubt it can pass as fair use, but I also doubt the artist will care if you download it.

 

[fieldcar]

When you have children for a mastering engineer and producer. "Let's just compress and clip the shit out of this song"... CUZ LOUD! I like the song, but I usually just listen to tribute versions instead of the original.

vinyl rip is a bit more dynamic with the high hats, but they still saturate the crap out of the loudest parts of the song.

 

[Olli]

Levy - Rotten Love

 

[Moderate Dionysianism]

Thanks. Doubt it can pass as fair use, but I also doubt the artist will care if you download it.

Yeah I doubt it too, but LLN isn't really my cup of tea so I'll spare myself the moral dilemma
But surely, the scene produced a lot of releases that would fit on this thread

 

[Olli]

Hüsker Dü - Masochism World live (Eight Miles High single B-Side)

 

[Moderate Dionysianism]

De Ambassade - Verloren

Vuota - Short Breaths

And of course this thread needs some Jandek - the sublime combination of Lo-Fi and Lo-Skill

Jandek - Ready for the House

 

[daftcombo]

De Ambassade - Verloren

Dollkraut, Excellent!


Extremely low fidelity from the 2010's lo-fi electro wave:

NGLY - "Speechless tape"

 

[mhardy6647]

Not the worst sound quality, but not great either. Maybe just right for what it is.

Great, great music is what it is.
I never thought it sounded all that bad, FWIW, TBH, YMV, and all that initialistic rot.

Now. The Moody Blues' Go Now. THAT sounds bad. Bad.
This is one of the very, very few pieces of music that sounds so horrible that I am actually inhibited from listening to it as a consequence.

 

[Moderate Dionysianism]

NGLY - "Speechless tape"

WOW that's dope too! I really dig this style where the 'danceable' stuff is buried in fuzz and gloomy synths

this thread is the ultimate nostalgia trigger...

Самцы Дронта - Сумерки [BC] [BC - remaster]

Wilburn Burchette - Witch's Will [BC]

Дя - Тысячи дорог [archive.org]

Koudlam - Eagles of Africa [BC]

Los Iniciados - La Marca de Anubis [BC]

Dobri Isak - Ona se igra nožem

Smorzando - Lied 1 (from 'Smrad') [BC]

t.u.m.s.a. - Ziedu pilsētā nebija

Fluorescent Heights - Eternal Rhythms [BC]

 

[danadam]

Sparklehorse - Maxine (also known as "Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain")