Video: Hermione’s lofi beats to relax/study to [ Harry Potter lofi album ]

Some of the tracks are your typical lo-fi fare with a guitar/piano playing a simple variation on one of the leitmotifs from the film soundtracks, others have more elaborate instrumental sections and deviate a little from what you’d expect when considering the lo-fi/chillhop genre; less emphasis on percussion and repetition, more emphasis on melody and musical ornamentation.

When it came to the mixdown I decided to go for a warm, gentle sound without much sidechaining. The idea was that it’d be evocative of a well worn cassette tape from the 90s, back when the events of the Harry Potter books took place. Messing around with the instrumentation was fun too - lots of harpsichords, celestas, recorders, etc. In terms of genre I wanted the album to have a recognisable but slightly unusual sound in the same way that Rowling’s wizarding world is both familiar and foreign at the same time.

TRACK LIST:

1. harry thought that magic was very good
2. loud slow soft bird
3. perfectly rounded night
4. merpeople and mud
5. incandescent weasley
6. breaking of a thousand magical educations
7. witches are not climbing
8. hermione can’t dance
9. hocus pocus adolescence
10. snow plinth wizard blossoms
11. regal lupine lily raindrops

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