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Although it's easy enough to dirty up your beats by applying distortion and destructive processing to drum loops and drum machines, the true lo-fi noisenik goes one step further in the interest of ...

In the mid-2010s, when I was in high school, the genre known as lo-fi beats was like a brain cleanse for all my time spent mainlining Minecraft and YouTube. The music was tender, with drums sizzling ...