TEXT I USED FOR EXPERIMENTING
By mixing heart touching piano, organic percussions and realistic ambient sounds and textures, idealism manages to reach deep into the hearts of the listeners, and take them on a self-reflecting musical journey.
Emerging from the lofi/chill hiphop community, idealism has found a way to take the genre even further, by focusing on making the listener feel multiple emotions in one track, by combining techniques from ambient, jazz, blues and hiphop.
Idealism has played drums most of his life, but only recently has he picked up the piano. In 2 years, idealism has managed to create a new original style, and has gathered a large fanbase, that always eagerly waits for a new release.
As stated by Dope Approach, from an article on 'amaranthine' EP:
" One of the things we most like about Idealism’s latest offering, in fact, we could say this for most, if not all of his work – Is the emotional impact it has on the listener, allowing you to transcend to a place beyond time and space – as far into the dreamscape as possible. It is the ideal escapist sound, reserved only to those in the ‘know’ "
His main musical inspirations range from artists like Atu, Submerse, Harris Cole, Carmack, Mndsgn; to movie soundtracks, like the one from 'Spirited Away' by Studio Ghibli; to even video games, like The Legend Of Zelda.
Combining all of these and his life experiences, idealism created the massively successful 'hiraeth' EP, which was #1 in the Piano category of Soundcloud within two weeks of its release.
His latest release, 'amaranthine' EP, combines ambient, lofi hiphop, and synthwave, to create a piece of work that is not only original and interesting to listen to, but it also showcases idealism's flexibility to change styles and try out new things.
FINAL TEXT
I decided not to use a long text as the spaces won't be significant. Therefore, I use
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MUZAKA AND GOLFERS / A COOL PLACE TO HANG OUT" which are the two tracks that I have chosen.
- more significant spacings
- more related to the album
- easier to read when it is duplicated and stretched
FONT TESTING
I looked up fonts from dafont.com and found these three fonts that i thought suits well with the lo-fi beats aesthetic. Flatline looks electrical, while Error and Hacked look glitched. I then used them on the text in Illustrator. I expanded the text and stretched the text to make the spaces more obvious to form significant rivers.
FONT: ERR0R
As the typeface itself has a lot of spacing between each stroke, it did not work as the rivers cannot be seen clearly.
FONT: HACKED
The spaces are more significant than Err0r, but not perfect.
FONT: FLATLINE
I can easily see rivers created. I may go for this font.
After doing more and more research
FONT: VAPORWAVE TEXT/ AESTHETIC TEXT
Uppercase artist name
ＩＤＥＡＬＩＳＭ 雨ずホ
ＩＤΞΛＬＩＳＭ （雨ずホ）
【ＩＤＥＡＬＩＳＭ】
Lowercase artist name
ｉｄｅａｌｉｓｍ ワ宛雲
ｉｄｅａｌｉｓｍ （ワ宛雲）
【ｉｄｅａｌｉｓｍ】
Upper case track names
ＮＡＧＡＳＨＩ コず欧
ＮΛＧΛＳＨＩ （コず欧）
【ＮＡＧＡＳＨＩ】
ＬＯＮＥＬＹ ゼビ゚
Ｌ♢ＮΞＬＹ （ゼビ゚）
【ＬＯＮＥＬＹ】
Lower case track names
ｎａｇａｓｈｉ フ内凹
ｎａｇａｓｈｉ （フ内凹）
【ｎａｇａｓｈｉ】
ｌｏｎｅｌｙ 曖横挨
ｌｏｎｅｌｙ （曖横挨）
【ｌｏｎｅｌｙ】
At last, I decided to go for uppercase for the artist name and lowercase for the track titles. This is because it is the artist who has produced the two tracks and I thought that the two songs should be something that is under the name of the artist's.
NUMBERS
lo-fi chill beats playlist was posted April 23rd, 2013 by Chillhop Music, a channel devoted to showcasing the style featured in such playlists (shown below). The playlist has gained over 2.8 million views.
April 23rd, 2013
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