Lo-fi hip-hop videos garnered more views in 2020 than in any previous year, according to YouTube Music. But even with more than 1 billion combined views, those numbers don’t tell the full story.

Step 4: Programming and arrangement is just as important to the lo-fi aesthetic as sound selection. By triggering a click sample with an unclocked arpeggiator, we’ve created a wonky, out-of-time ...

Today’s viral lo-fi music has a few distinct characteristics, according to a MasterClass guide to lo-fi. One characteristic is a drum loop, either of live drums or a sample, usually set to a ...