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There's also lo-fi hip hop, where adding bad radio, tape or vinyl static to songs is basically a given (as the name kind of implies I guess). I think it makes

There's also lo-fi hip hop, where adding bad radio, tape or vinyl static to songs is basically a given (as the name kind of implies I guess). I think it makes a kind of sense, in the same way white noise can be soothing

Cthulhu_ 6y ago
lo-fi basement dweller black metal is another one, I mean feast your ears on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFnjWS4cpU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFnjWS4cpU. Ironically, that album has been released on everything; cassettes, FLAC, 4 lp wooden box set, and a wooden USB stick with 128kbit MP3. The medium is part of the art? Anyway, taste aside I can appreciate this particular artist and their work, it's a lot of midrange noise but the musical elements (mostly percussion tbh) emerge from the swamp with a good listen.
- arp242 6y ago
  A very long time ago some of the Darkthrone tracks I downloaded from Napster were corrupted and had glitches/noise in them. I didn't know they were glitches, and I listened to this for years and thought it sounded great. I actually regret not having those "damaged" MP3s any more. 60s-era blues is another good example. The recording equipment at the time certainly wasn't bad, but it was not yet perfected. It added a certain sound to recordings from the time that I kind of miss in later recordings.
  - jasonjayr 6y ago
    Way back when mp3 encoders weren't very good, I could hear some of the compression artifacts that were common in the commonly used reference encoder. I pointed out that sound to someone who thought it was part of the song and forever cursed them with also hearing them everywhere. It's like learning about kerning ...
    - Stratoscope 6y ago
      Or leaming about keming... You may enjoy these pieces a local ceramic artist made for me: https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb
      - sonofhans 6y ago
        That yellow tin is just ... evil. You are a bad person and you should feel bad :D
    - c5karl 6y ago
      Compact Disc audio is uncompressed.

Cthulhu_ 6y ago

lo-fi basement dweller black metal is another one, I mean feast your ears on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFnjWS4cpU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFnjWS4cpU. Ironically, that album has been released on everything; cassettes, FLAC, 4 lp wooden box set, and a wooden USB stick with 128kbit MP3. The medium is part of the art? Anyway, taste aside I can appreciate this particular artist and their work, it's a lot of midrange noise but the musical elements (mostly percussion tbh) emerge from the swamp with a good listen.

arp242 6y ago
A very long time ago some of the Darkthrone tracks I downloaded from Napster were corrupted and had glitches/noise in them. I didn't know they were glitches, and I listened to this for years and thought it sounded great. I actually regret not having those "damaged" MP3s any more. 60s-era blues is another good example. The recording equipment at the time certainly wasn't bad, but it was not yet perfected. It added a certain sound to recordings from the time that I kind of miss in later recordings.
- jasonjayr 6y ago
  Way back when mp3 encoders weren't very good, I could hear some of the compression artifacts that were common in the commonly used reference encoder. I pointed out that sound to someone who thought it was part of the song and forever cursed them with also hearing them everywhere. It's like learning about kerning ...
  - Stratoscope 6y ago
    Or leaming about keming... You may enjoy these pieces a local ceramic artist made for me: https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb https://geary.smugmug.com/Art/i-qCBqjqb
    - sonofhans 6y ago
      That yellow tin is just ... evil. You are a bad person and you should feel bad :D
  - c5karl 6y ago
    Compact Disc audio is uncompressed.