@cambraca just found this.
Kinda a shame, but I agree it's better to let it go than to force it.
So long, #GenreOfTheWeek
#GenreOfTheWeek
It's been close to 50 weeks of #GenreOfTheWeek awesomeness, and I'm extremely grateful for all who have been involved in it. However, it's become more and more difficult for me to maintain the project so I've been thinking about stopping.
If anyone is interested in picking it up, I can commit to keeping the archive up-to-date (at https://info.musicians.today/genre-of-the-week). Is anyone interested? I think it's OK to let it die, too; all good things eventually do.
> If there is one shared touchstone for lo-fi hip-hop, it's probably Madvillainy. [1]
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mj4SWRn9ywrwGZ4q1U1_242e9r9TrLjLM
> The Japanese artist Nujabes, often called the "godfather of lofi hip hop", is also credited with driving lofi's growth with his contributions to the soundtrack for the popular anime Samurai Champloo. [1]
🔊 #NowPlaying Samurai Champloo OST by Nujabes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC7-opq4Gik&list=PL5SLM04DnpDOFU8zr6dpYYeIO-NaF7lHk
#TheOliviaTremorControl originated as a band called Cranberry Lifecycle, which was formed in Ruston, Louisiana in the late 1980s by Hart and his high school friend Jeff Mangum. The two moved to Athens, and reworked Cranberry Lifecycle songs as a new band called Synthetic Flying Machine. After Doss joined, Mangum left the band to pursue a solo project that eventually became Neutral Milk Hotel.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPVo0iU7Ks&si=4xjW5IwSWVWLtjuV
#ofMontreal is an American indie pop band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontperson Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance between Barnes and a woman "of Montreal".
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lgBh0CHYemw&si=jr-tVevYeB1Czux3
#NeutralMilkHotel formed in Ruston, Louisiana, by musician Jeff Mangum. The band's music featured a deliberately low-quality sound, influenced by indie rock and psychedelic folk. Mangum wrote surreal and opaque lyrics that covered a wide range of topics, including love, spirituality, nostalgia, sex, and loneliness. Band members played a variety of instruments, including non-traditional instruments like the singing saw and uilleann pipes.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3ellq2IWhYA&si=PrfjyS1oAKoN2JYw
#GenreOfTheWeek #LoFi #TheMinders
The Minders are an American band closely associated with The Elephant Six Collective. Started by Martyn Leaper in Denver, Colorado in 1996, the band's original members included Leaper on guitars and vocals, Rebecca Cole, on drums, Jeff Almond on guitar, and Marc Willhite on bass.
Leaper formed the Minders in Denver along with Robert Schneider and Hilarie Sidney from The Apples in Stereo.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vQgQqqwYjqQ&si=PGRxr5cEkviA7ZhF
#GenreOfTheWeek #LoFi #ElfPower
The band began as a four-track recording project of Rieger, Carter, Raleigh Hatfield and Dave Wrathgabar, later of Fablefactory. These recording sessions eventually resulted in the first incarnation of their debut album Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs. The band's line-up expanded when Rieger and Carter recruited Elephant Six musician Bryan Poole, also known as The Late B.P. Helium.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jIgElv-9aHM&si=1WW_XfT-pnToP8mu
#GenreOfTheWeek #LoFi #CirculatorySystem
A psychedelic rock musical ensemble formed by musician/painter Will Cullen Hart, and featuring Derek Almstead, Suzanne Allison, Peter Erchick, John Fernandes, Charlie Johnston, and Heather McIntosh.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=JXD1lOGJZu4&si=gkdRFfHn0y58sVdN
The band was formed by Miles Kurosky and Bill Swan in San Francisco in 1996, while the pair were working in the same office. They discovered that they shared similar musical tastes and, disregarding some mutual dislike, decided to form a band. This early incarnation of Beulah recorded a song every six weeks for 16 months on their four-track recorder.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XuDhj3qlNqM&si=1I5hRDN0puvbDBzl
#GenreOfTheWeek #LoFi #TheApplesInStereo
The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist/producer Robert Schneider, who writes the majority of the band's music and lyrics.
Their sound draws comparisons to the psychedelic rock of The Beatles & The Beach Boys during the 1960s, as well as to bands such as Electric Light Orchestra & Pavement, and also draws from #LoFi, garage rock, new wave, R&B, bubblegum pop, power pop, punk, electro-pop & experimental music.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGMji0Zzis&si=w526JwJs2Se2Gp4O
The Elephant 6 Recording Company is a loosely defined musical collective from the United States. Notable bands associated include:
the Apples in Stereo
Beulah
Circulatory System
Elf Power
the Minders
Neutral Milk Hotel
of Montreal
the Olivia Tremor Control.
Bands in Elephant 6 explore many different genres and share interest in psychedelic pop, particular from the Beach Boys, the Beatles, and the Zombies.
Their music sometimes features intentionally #LoFi production.
What better place to start than this?
https://www.youtube.com/live/jfKfPfyJRdk?si=c3z3VDrMda-w1fCd
📢 #GenreOfTheWeek, which is next?
🔊 #NowPlaying Jagadhodharana | O.S. Arun | Purandara Dasa
#GenreOfTheWeek A lovely electric #mandolin ensemble in the #carnatic tradition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of7aZDtF6aE
#GenreOfTheWeek There's a wonderful tradition of #carnatic music played on fretted electric guitar. One of my favorites is Prasanna. Apart from traditional music he's also delved into western music, for example, with his Electric Ganesha Land. Here's a clip of him in a traditional context but it's well worth digging into his entire catalog.
#GenreOfTheWeek is #carnatic music of India! Carnatic music is of the Southern India tradition. Although similar to the Hindustani style of the north, it is a distinct path in its own right, older, and arguably more complex.
📢 Aaaand the next #GenreOfTheWeek is 🥁:
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