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Kanisan
2020–2024
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Lo-Fi Beats
Lo-fi beats is a mellow, largely instrumental microgenre that blends hip hop drum programming with jazzy harmony and a deliberately "imperfect" sonic patina. Typical tracks feature gently swung drums, warm Rhodes or piano chords, soft bass, and textures like vinyl crackle, tape hiss, and room noise.
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Lo-Fi Hip Hop
Lo-fi hip hop is a mellow, sample-driven offshoot of hip hop that emphasizes warm, imperfect textures, simple loops, and relaxed grooves over virtuosic rapping or dense production. Producers often foreground tape hiss, vinyl crackle, and bit-depth artifacts to evoke a cozy, worn-in feeling that…
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Lo-Fi Study
Lo-fi study is a mellow, instrumental branch of lo-fi hip hop optimized for focus, reading, and coursework. It blends soft, dusty drum grooves with jazzy chords, simple looping melodies, and warm tape-style saturation to create a calm, non-intrusive atmosphere.
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Study Beats
Study beats is an internet-era microgenre of instrumental hip‑hop designed to facilitate concentration, reading, coding, and late‑night work.
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Sad Lo-Fi
Sad lo‑fi is a mellow, intimate offshoot of lo‑fi hip hop and bedroom production that centers on bittersweet harmonies, minimal drums, and a hushed, homespun sound. It often emphasizes tape‑like warmth, vinyl crackle, and gentle noise floors that turn small imperfections into expressive texture.
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Lo-Fi Sleep
Lo-fi sleep is a soothing microstyle of lo-fi hip hop and ambient music designed for restful listening, unwinding, and falling asleep.
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Lo-Fi Chill
Lo-fi chill is a mellow, downtempo, sample‑driven microgenre that blends the relaxed pace of chillout and downtempo with the dusty textures of lo‑fi recording aesthetics and hip‑hop beatmaking.
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Lo-Fi Jazzhop
Lo‑fi jazzhop is a mellow, beat‑driven style that blends the relaxed swing and harmony of jazz with the loop‑based production of instrumental hip hop. It favors intimate textures—vinyl crackle, tape hiss, saturated drums—and simple, hypnotic chord cycles colored by extended jazz voicings.
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Lo-Fi Emo
Lo-fi emo is a DIY offshoot of the emo tradition that blends emotionally direct songwriting with the intimate aesthetics of home recording. It favors tape- or laptop-recorded sounds, audible room noise and hiss, simple guitar figures, and hushed, conversational vocals.
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Chillhop
Chillhop is a mellow, sample-driven offshoot of instrumental hip hop that emphasizes laid‑back grooves, jazzy harmony, and warm, nostalgic textures. Producers favor boom‑bap-inspired drums, soft sidechain swells, tape hiss, and vinyl crackle to evoke a relaxed, intimate mood.
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Ambient Lo-Fi
Ambient lo-fi blends the spacious, texture-driven soundscapes of ambient music with the intimate, imperfect aesthetics of lo‑fi recording and production.
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Beats
Beats is a loose, producer-driven category for rhythm-forward instrumentals built around hip‑hop drum patterns without necessarily being rap songs or featuring vocals.
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Chill Beats
Chill beats is a mellow, predominantly instrumental hip‑hop offshoot defined by relaxed tempos, loop‑based arrangements, and a warm, nostalgic sound palette. Producers favor vinyl crackle, tape hiss, gentle side‑chain swells, and soft saturation that evoke the feel of bedroom recordings and vintage…
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Pet Calming
Pet calming is a functional micro‑genre designed to reduce stress and arousal in companion animals—primarily dogs and cats—during triggering situations such as owner absence, fireworks, vet visits, thunderstorms, or travel.
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Chillwave
Chillwave is a late-2000s microgenre of electronic pop characterized by hazy, retro-tinged synthesizers, lo‑fi textures, understated drum machines, and heavily processed, dreamlike vocals. Its sound evokes sun-faded nostalgia, often referencing 1980s synth-pop and soft rock atmospheres filtered…
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Downtempo
Downtempo is a mellow, groove-oriented branch of electronic music characterized by slower tempos, plush textures, and a focus on atmosphere over dancefloor intensity. Typical tempos range from about 60–110 BPM, with swung or laid-back rhythms, dub-informed basslines, and warm, jazz-tinged harmonies.
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Boom Bap
Boom bap is a foundational East Coast hip hop style defined by hard, punchy drums—“boom” for the kick and “bap” for the snare—laid under sample-based loops from jazz, soul, and funk records.
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Lo-Fi
Lo-fi is a music aesthetic and genre defined by an embrace of audible imperfections—tape hiss, clipping, room noise, distorted transients, and uneven performance—that would be treated as errors in high-fidelity recording.
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Hip Hop
Hip hop is a cultural and musical movement that emerged from Black, Latino, and Caribbean communities, centering around rapping (MCing), DJing/turntablism, sampling-based production, and rhythmic speech over beats. It prioritizes groove, wordplay, and storytelling, often reflecting the social…
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Instrumental
Instrumental is music created and performed without sung lyrics, placing the expressive weight on melody, rhythm, harmony, and timbre produced by instruments.
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Albums
2024
Edda 2
Kanisan, Dario Lessing, Claudia Lessing
Lo-Fi
Lo-Fi Beats
Lo-Fi Hip Hop
2022
Edda
Kanisan, Dario Lessing × Claudia Lessing
Boom Bap
Chillwave
Downtempo
2022
Les jours d’après
Mau & Kanisan
Boom Bap
Chillwave
Downtempo
2021
mist, shadows & i
Kanisan
Boom Bap
Chillwave
Downtempo
2020
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Boom Bap
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