14/06/2024
Now here's a mix for adventurous lovers of raw sounds! 🎧🤠
https://soundcloud.com/djmixanthrope/lo-fi-africa-vol-1-muffled-marvels
In the snobby hi-fi age where most ears are used to polished studio-quality productions, one can be quick to discriminate against songs on the base of their phonographic imperfections. What a loss!
Gorgeous music was and is still being made that doesn’t match the „modern“ listener’s standards. Well, not everybody can afford the fanciest recording/mixing/mastering gear or know how to operate it best, and not all songs get properly archived and preserved over the years… but every listener can try and get past the initial wall of a perceived "crappy" sound to enjoy the marvellous music that lies behind it. It’s a matter of re-training the ears, adjusting expectations, putting content before form. Life is too short to miss out on all the wealth out there!
This mix explores a wide spectrum of styles with lo-fi aesthetics in African modern music collected in all possible formats over several years. Most of the selected songs are un-streamable and un-buyable anywhere.
Get ready for over-compressed vocals, digital clicks, muted drum-machines, distorted cymbals, tinny synths, fuzzy bass… and oh, that divine tape hiss! Let us embrace the sonic imperfections to better appreciate the musical gems the world — and especially the African continent! — has to offer.
Something might be sometimes sound too loud or too quiet, a little uncomfortable and out-of-place… have faith in the noise, trust the artists, dig the music!
