Lo-Fi Life
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Lo-Fi Life is a brand new webzine/podcast dedicated to homemade music. The focus is on DIY solo artists who record great music in their home studios w
From the Producer
I created Lo-Fi Life in November of 2006 because I could.
After going on hiatus from my day job, I re-released my first album, which was recorded live mono-to-minidisc and released on handmade cassettes in 1998. With next to no budget, I found a cheap (but kickass) inkjet printer that prints CDs and an even cheaper standalone duplicator and began making my own CDs. The equipment, materials, barcode and online distribution setup fees to release the album to the world cost me around $300.
DIY is freedom.
I have spent the last 8 years or so shuttling between the acoustic folk open-mic culture, the jam-band/improv culture and the online loop-based remix culture, so I know a bit about DIY. I have enjoyed many low to medium budget albums by local artists, and my preconceptions about what would pass as a major release was shaken by Chris Whitley’s Dirt Floor. As I have started digging deeper and looking for more artists that share the same approach as me, I have found a new world of music staring back at me - Patrick Brayer, Daniel Johnston, Jandek. I feel a shift in perception, an awakening of sorts.
So I started this site to document and share my findings and to provide a little exposure to artists like myself who are out there doing it for the love, and hopefully enough money to pay for ink and blank CD-Rs.
About the Author
I think my primary strength is songwriting, although I sing, play multiple instruments and produce as well. Beyond music, I write poetry, twist some Photoshop knobs to tweak my digital photos, and dream of someday finishing the Science Fiction novel I started a few years ago. In addition to my work as a singer/songwriter (Clifton Lee Johnston), I also produce remixes and more experimental original music as Public Ritual, run my own multimedia and commercial music company/label (Mood Ring Media) and hopefully find time to write legibly here.
After going on hiatus from my day job, I re-released my first album, which was recorded live mono-to-minidisc and released on handmade cassettes in 1998. With next to no budget, I found a cheap (but kickass) inkjet printer that prints CDs and an even cheaper standalone duplicator and began making my own CDs. The equipment, materials, barcode and online distribution setup fees to release the album to the world cost me around $300.
DIY is freedom.
I have spent the last 8 years or so shuttling between the acoustic folk open-mic culture, the jam-band/improv culture and the online loop-based remix culture, so I know a bit about DIY. I have enjoyed many low to medium budget albums by local artists, and my preconceptions about what would pass as a major release was shaken by Chris Whitley’s Dirt Floor. As I have started digging deeper and looking for more artists that share the same approach as me, I have found a new world of music staring back at me - Patrick Brayer, Daniel Johnston, Jandek. I feel a shift in perception, an awakening of sorts.
So I started this site to document and share my findings and to provide a little exposure to artists like myself who are out there doing it for the love, and hopefully enough money to pay for ink and blank CD-Rs.
About the Author
I think my primary strength is songwriting, although I sing, play multiple instruments and produce as well. Beyond music, I write poetry, twist some Photoshop knobs to tweak my digital photos, and dream of someday finishing the Science Fiction novel I started a few years ago. In addition to my work as a singer/songwriter (Clifton Lee Johnston), I also produce remixes and more experimental original music as Public Ritual, run my own multimedia and commercial music company/label (Mood Ring Media) and hopefully find time to write legibly here.
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