Window Glow

[#Genre: Instrumental, Lofi, Downtempo, Kawaii Future Bass] [#Excluded Genres: Metal, Trap, Industrial] [#Instrumentation: Lo-passed Rhodes piano, dusty MPC-style drums, ambient vinyl hiss, analog synth textures, fluttery glitched vox chops (light), tape-saturated bass, kawaii bell sparkles as fills only] [#Mood: Wistful, cozy, sleepy with cute flutters — introspective but playful in pockets] [#Dynamics: Soft volume rides, lofi compression pumping on the mix bus, broken rhythm quantization] [#Vocal Technique: None (instrumental) — filtered vocal samples used as rhythmic snippets, not melodic center] [#Tempo: 78 BPM — swing groove with room for half-time feel] [#Key: D Minor or C Major with modal coloring — mostly mellow, hints of whimsy via lydian shifts or borrowed chords] [#Effects Chain: RC-20 heavy on wow/flutter, cassette-style saturation, soft phaser, noise floor textures, stereo-widened mids, mono-compatible bass] [Intro: 8 bars — solo lo-passed Rhodes with tape hiss + off-grid ambient foley loop (pages flipping, distant rain)] [Verse A (Lofi Core): Drums enter, lazy swing, muted snare textures, vinyl crackle, sidechain tape wobble] [Bridge A: Slight harmonic shift, crackle drops out — ambient pads and reversed textures swell gently] [Drop A (Soft Bounce): Add kawaii bell sprinkles and tiny sub stabs, but rhythm stays relaxed — no hard synth leads] [Verse B: Return to full lofi — detuned chords, ghost notes on snare, mellow bassline, vocal chop accents fade in/out] [Breakdown: Ultra-minimal — solo piano, hiss, tape stop fx at end] [Bridge B: Reintroduce reversed melodic fragments and ambient layering — crackle returns with mid-saturation boost] [Drop B (Final Bloom): Slightly fuller lofi + kawaii mix — bells echoing piano, subtle vox glitches, filtered saw pad layered softly] [Outro: 4 bars — tape hiss solo with faint highpass melody fading into silence]