So, here’s a fun fact for you. Lo-fi music, originally spelled “low-fi” according to Wikipedia, was a term used to refer to low fidelity music. As compared to high fidelity music, lo-fi tunes had ...
This documentary is both a look at a small, obsessive film club that formed in the early ’90s in South Korea and an origin story of the director Bong Joon Ho, who was in the group. By Brandon Yu When ...
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, ...
The Netflix documentary tracks the path of the titular film collective, and shows off director Bong's crucial true first film, a stop-motion gem titled "Looking for Paradise." Paradise is ever elusive ...
Shangri-La Records has announced the second season of its “Lo-Fi in Hi-Fi” series, a monthly listening event celebrating “the deeply influential yet insufficiently documented Memphis hip-hop scene of ...