Latte Chill Music

Tag: chill beats

  • What is Lo-fi?

    Lofi or Lo-fi, aka low-fidelity, most commonly refers to the sound quality and therefore defines a genre of audio composition. Let me go deeper on that topic later.

    Side note: I am offering you some free lo-fi music beats to listen to, while you are reading this article. In case Spotify is not your flavour, I am adding a Youtube link to the bottom as well. So scroll down before you start if you wish to listen to some background music.

    Definition of Lo-fi

    Whereas generally speaking about ‘lo-fi’, it has received some other meanings over the past years. If you just click on Wikipedia. Besides Lo-fi music, which is number 1 in most countries, you immediately find the Lo-fi disambiguation page. This page helps us check other possible meanings and Wikipedia search results with the word lofi.

    Many of those refer to my original point: Lofi music, hip-hop, band, etc. Even Lofi Girl refers to a YouTube channel (formally known as ChilledCow) that is quite well-known to the fans of the genre.

    A bit about Photography

    On the other hand, it may also refer to photography. In this sense finally, we are not to cover music but the concept remains almost the same. Low fidelity – the imitation of low quality. I have to state though that the aim of “low quality” is never to produce “small” photos on Instagram but to offer a warm, grainy vibe.

    We almost hint that the photo is imperfect. As if they were done by a toy camera or an old film camera. But (in my case) I work with an Honor 20 Pro smartphone camera and I process my photos with Snapseed and/or Lightroom. It depends on my mood and what I wish to achieve.

    Characteristics of Lo-fi generally

    In case you wish to deep dive a bit. Although I do my best to share articles time-to-time with you. But you may also read great ones here.

  • [Single] Rust Borough

    Rust Borough is the last single from Sapphire album. Click on the cover and grab it for free.
    The song is a lo-fi beat but the upbeat type of. Fully composed with PO-33 KO. A little pocket sampler released by Teenage Engineering. It was composed during my trip to Lefkada if I recall it well. Therefore pretty minimalist as I did not use DAW or even Koala Sampler.

    The cover of Rust Borough on the other hand features a photo from my trip to Tokyo. It was in 2019. We shot many photos randomly with my wife. Some turned out to be perfect cover materials for my releases. I edited it with Snapseed and used Adobe smartphone apps either. I mean for the titling and adding some texts.

    As for the song: Rust Borough is inspired by a Pokémon game. You may guess which. I replayed it after like 10+ years. As a result I started working on some beats and later released them. Sapphire is like the first part of a duo album. More to come in 2022 I promise. Keep following, not to miss what happens after Rust Borough. Enjoy lo-fi house like beats for free by following me on my channels.

  • [Single] Meteor Falls

    Meteor Falls by Latte Chill

    Meteor Falls is a new single released on the 27th of December. The title song is a lofi chillout beat produced with PO-33 KO on the go. I was inspired by the game of Pokémon Sapphire and replayed it after so many years. Spoiler: one more single to come, all songs are going to be fully free.

    Until then enjoy Meteor Falls and the complete Sapphire album. And buy me a ko-fi if you can.

    Bit more about Meteor Falls

    The song as mentioned above was produced on the go. We travelled with my wife to Lefkada by fall. I took my PO-33 KO along with myself to the journey and kept composing beats. As a result, I ended up sketching a dozen of beats I started to use up as part of my releases. I have a couple of more to go. Sapphire features many of the songs. Ruby, that may come somewhere in 2022 will also feature sketches.

    I felt challenged to work on beats without a DAW. Almost finishing them in one go. 4 lines for melodies and drums. That is what PO-33 can offer. That really offered my a frame how to think during the production. I mean to my point of view lo-fi beats are generally simple. But limiting ourselves to 4 is a different matter.