@cambraca just found this.
Kinda a shame, but I agree it's better to let it go than to force it.
So long, #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
Madvillainy is the only studio album by American hip hop duo Madvillain, consisting of British-American rapper MF Doom and American record producer Madlib. It was released on March 23, 2004, on Stones Throw Records. The album was recorded between 2002 and 2004. Madlib created most of the instrumentals during a trip to Brazil in his hotel room using minimal amounts of equipment: a Boss SP-303 sampler, a turntable, and a tape deck. Fourteen months before the album was released, an unfinished demo version was stolen and leaked onto the internet. Frustrated, the duo stopped working on the album and returned to it only after they had released other solo projects. While Madvillainy achieved only moderate commercial success, it became one of the best-selling Stones Throw albums. It peaked at number 179 on the US Billboard 200, and attracted attention from media outlets not usually covering hip hop music, including The New Yorker. Madvillainy received widespread critical acclaim for Madlib's production and MF Doom's lyricism, and is regarded as Doom's magnum opus.
> 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
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