Low bit

Low bit

Low bit (short for low bitrate, also known as lobit) is a musical aesthetic characterized by lossy data compression artifacts caused by encoding songs at low bitrates. Artists making low-bit music believe that if a song is good, it can be appreciated at any bitrate or on any speakers.

Overview

The low-bit style emerged as an avant-garde reaction to the perceived bitrate snobbery in the organized music piracy (on peer-to-peer networks) and net label scenes. It also shares a strong do-it-yourself ethic with punk ideology.

Low-bit music is distributed primarily through net labels. Unlike most net labels, many low-bit labels do not focus on representing a single music genre. Instead, the catalog of each label reveals the personal tastes of the curator.

Because of the small file sizes of low-bitrate encodes, it is possible to download an entire EP from a low-bit label in the same time it would take to download one song from a standard net label. This makes low-bitrate releases accessible to listeners who have only a dialup modem as well as conserving space on portable music players with limited memory.

See also

* Netlabel

External links

* [http://dozerblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/netlabel-profile-20kbps-rec.html an English-language interview with mathias of 20 kbit/s]
* [http://www.experiment.ru/articles/132 a Russian-language interview with mathias of 20 kbit/s]

Active low-bitrate labels

* [http://20kbps.sofapause.ch/index.htm 20 kbit/s] - godfather of lobit
* [http://gorehole.org/abuliaConcepts/index.htm abulia concepts] - experimental chiropody and lowbitrate
* [http://gorehole.org/bootlegs/ bootlegs for real life] - bootlegs and mix sets @ 13 kbit/s
* [http://www.daheardit-records.net Da ! Heard It Records] - 8-bit, circuit bending, low-bit, chiptune ... net-label
* [http://robot-dreams.com/fp fashion proof] - new face from the east coast of America
* [http://www.gainlad.com/ gainlad] - playful chip music and techno out of south America and worldwide
* [http://mp3death.us/ mp3death] - run by a net label pioneer who started broke bunnie in 1996
* [http://robot-dreams.com/nahc NORTHAMERICANHARDCORE] - punk rock, noise music, hardcore techno, and other raw sounds
* [http://www.archive.org/details/starsinrehab stars in rehab] - run by an old school Demoscene member


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