Ideally the listener will enjoy it so much that the repeating nature of the loop will be the selling point of the track and not its weakness. The centerpiece of every lofi beat is the melodic loop. In hip hop, artists usually have a 'boom-bap' sound (heavy bass, drums and simple synth melodies), and lofi hip-hop artists attempt to emulate this sound. A subgenre of hip hop music based on nostalgia for the early days of the art-form. Lyrics are usually kept to a minimum or non-existent. Most songs created by lofi musicians are composed of samples taken from old records. Beat makers and hip hop artists are considered lofi musicians, as are some modern 'chillstep' musicians. Most lofi music is instead created electronically, with musicianship being shunned in favor of a more simplistic approach to music. It was released in 1982, and consists of smooth jazz songs with an electronic synthesizer.
The most popular example is the album 'Amber Time' by Harold Faltermeyer. The term lofi is relatively new, and most people associate it with the soft, mellow music that was commonly played in coffee shops, waiting rooms and as relaxing background music in the 70s and 80s. The word lofi is in reference to the 'low fidelity' of the magnetic tape recordings versus vinyl records. Lofi music is a type of music that was developed with the creation of recording equipment that could record sound on magnetic tapes.
