If you want to try your hand at building a lo-fi track, then beats are a solid place to start. The good news is that these beats don’t need to be complex - in fact they really shouldn't be. This means ...

These playlists, single-hours-long videos with multiple tracks, all songs with the same theme, are often accompanied by simple, looping animations or slideshow visuals that capture a particular mood, ...

Streams of chill, endless hip-hop beats set to visuals of animated characters have taken over YouTube, beloved by millions of users who listen to these videos while working or trying to fall asleep.

It’s a well-established fact that tuning into “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” turns the average person into a superhuman academic whose powers of concentration are rivaled only by ...

Any change to YouTube’s “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” represents a powerful disruption to whatever order the internet possesses. The eternal stream of the world’s most dedicated ...

Are you really a student if you’ve not done a late night study session soundtracked to an unending lo-fi beats playlist on YouTube? According to Google Trends, searches for the term “lo-fi” on YouTube ...

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I’ve written in many places, some wonderful, others makeshift or uncomfortable. I’ve written on trains and in hotel rooms, at ergonomically perfect desks and on laptops balanced on my knees. I once ...

Like all mutating scenes, the lo-fi movement in hip-hop began as something far different from what it has become. In the beginning, it was purely an aesthetic choice. Beatmakers like J Dilla, Nujabes, ...

Longtime heads who fell in love with lo-fi beats and delicately craft it themselves are starting to panic. Obsessives on the Reddit forum for lo-fi beats, which banned AI submissions late last year, ...

Hatsune Miku fans will soon be able to work and study alongside her via a new collaboration, transforming even the dullest work environment.