Lofi hiphop
What is lofi/lo-fi/low fidelity music?
Lofi is a sound recording which intentionally contains technical flaws to make the recording sound more 'authentic' (think oldschool casettes, vinyls).
Types of technical flaws include: distortion, hum, backgroudn noise, limited frequency response,...
Lofi is the opposite of Hifi which achieves accuracy and transparency, the purest quality.
What is lofi hiphop?
Lofi hiphop is well... hiphop lofi.
A slow hiphop beat, the lofi touch, jazz samples, hiphop vocal samples,...
Some artists who definitely inspired this genre: DJ Shadow, Wu Tang Clan, Mobb Deep.
The concept may seem a bit odd but I was instantly hooked.
This music never fails to put you in a chill mood. I really hope it stays a small subgenre and never goes mainstream, because we all knows what happens when a genre becomes mainstream..
Below is a great youtube livestream.
Lofi artists featured:
90sflav : https://soundcloud.com/90sflav
¢hange: https://soundcloud.com/ygphilly
ÆkaSora : https://soundcloud.com/akashh_495
A D M B : https://soundcloud.com/admbmusic
aimless : https://soundcloud.com/aimless-beats
Alembic : https://soundcloud.com/alembicmusic
altitude : https://soundcloud.com/altitvde
ameba : https://soundcloud.com/yungameba
Aso : https://soundcloud.com/aricogle
athena : https://soundcloud.com/her-athena
atlas : https://soundcloud.com/atlas
nosentances : https://soundcloud.com/nosentences
axiom : https://soundcloud.com/axiomaticproductions
badsummer : https://soundcloud.com/badsummer1930
bassti : https://soundcloud.com/bassti_music
BEN BEAL : https://soundcloud.com/benbeal
Bhonstro : https://soundcloud.com/bhonstro
bitte Please : https://soundcloud.com/bitteplease
Blues : https://soundcloud.com/blues
BLVK. : https://soundcloud.com/yungmai
Bonsai child : https://soundcloud.com/bonsaichild
bsd.u : https://soundcloud.com/bsdu
bzkt. : https://soundcloud.com/b_z_k_t
caleb belkin : https://soundcloud.com/calebxbelkin
Casi lofi : https://soundcloud.com/casilofi
Charlie too human : https://soundcloud.com/charlietoohuman
Christopher Kulis : https://soundcloud.com/christopherkulis
Chuckee : https://soundcloud.com/orangesodabandit
Ciano : https://soundcloud.com/pontociano
Cold : https://soundcloud.com/coldhp
Craetion : https://soundcloud.com/craetion
dreamentact : https://soundcloud.com/dreamentact
Driver : https://soundcloud.com/driver-beets
Drwn : https://soundcloud.com/drwn_dot
eevee : https://soundcloud.com/eveline-eevee
E66S : https://soundcloud.com/e66s
elifilosov : https://soundcloud.com/elifilosov
Elijah Nang : https://soundcloud.com/nang-food
emune : https://soundcloud.com/emune
Ezekey : https://soundcloud.com/zeke-seamans
falcxne : https://soundcloud.com/falcxne
fantompower : https://soundcloud.com/fantompower
flamingosis : https://soundcloud.com/flamingosis
flavors : https://soundcloud.com/flayvors
Flughand : https://soundcloud.com/flughand
fujitsu : https://soundcloud.com/fujitsuu1
gavin : https://soundcloud.com/rottenspeller
Gfbeats : https://soundcloud.com/glutenfreebeats
geerad : https://soundcloud.com/geerad
guru griff : https://soundcloud.com/gurugriff
greafer : https://soundcloud.com/greafer
halberd : https://soundcloud.com/halberd-3000
hamzah : https://soundcloud.com/hamzah-zulqadar
hmsurf : https://soundcloud.com/hmsurf
I eat plans for a living : https://soundcloud.com/vegandude1111
idealism : https://soundcloud.com/idealismus
illoquence : https://soundcloud.com/illoquence-1
in love with a ghost : https://soundcloud.com/in-love-with-a-ghost
it’s ok : https://soundcloud.com/basicjo
j^p^n : https://soundcloud.com/fuckthisurl
Jack CC : https://soundcloud.com/jackcc
jarjarjr : https://soundcloud.com/jarjarjr
jasperino : https://soundcloud.com/jsprno
Jetson : https://soundcloud.com/highimjetson
jhfly : https://soundcloud.com/jhfly
jinsang : https://soundcloud.com/jinsangbeats
joey pecoraro : https://soundcloud.com/joeypecoraro
Juan rios : https://soundcloud.com/juan-rios-beats
junyii : https://soundcloud.com/junyii
k?d : https://soundcloud.com/whoskid
kaizen : https://soundcloud.com/bess-one
katuchat : https://soundcloud.com/katuchat
kdn : https://soundcloud.com/kdn_trap
keem the cipher : https://soundcloud.com/keemthecipher
kendall miles : https://soundcloud.com/kendallmilesmusic
killedmyself : https://soundcloud.com/killedmyself
killerbee : https://soundcloud.com/prodbykillerbee
knowmadic : https://soundcloud.com/knowmadicbeats
Konteks : https://soundcloud.com/konteks
killerbee : https://soundcloud.com/prodbykillerbee
knowmadic : https://soundcloud.com/knowmadicbeats
Konteks : https://soundcloud.com/konteks
kreaem : https://soundcloud.com/kreaem
krygan : https://soundcloud.com/kryganbeats
kumo : https://soundcloud.com/kumobeets
fushou : https://soundcloud.com/fushou
ldst : https://soundcloud.com/ldst
killerbee : https://soundcloud.com/prodbykillerbee
knowmadic : https://soundcloud.com/knowmadicbeats
Konteks : https://soundcloud.com/konteks
kreaem : https://soundcloud.com/kreaem
krygan : https://soundcloud.com/kryganbeats
kumo : https://soundcloud.com/kumobeets
fushou : https://soundcloud.com/fushou
ldst : https://soundcloud.com/ldst
LeNonsense : https://soundcloud.com/lenonsensebeats
leaf beach : https://soundcloud.com/levfbevch
leavv : https://soundcloud.com/leavv
lil death : https://soundcloud.com/d_e_a_t_h
Limes : https://soundcloud.com/limes-3
loprofile : https://soundcloud.com/deemwan
Lost son : https://soundcloud.com/thelawstson
luv.ly : https://soundcloud.com/lv-ly
lxced : https://soundcloud.com/lxced-4
m a n n y : https://soundcloud.com/mannysp
made in m : https://soundcloud.com/madeinm
ntourage : https://soundcloud.com/madeinm
mago : https://soundcloud.com/magotox
matador : https://soundcloud.com/lordmatador
mataro : https://soundcloud.com/mataroo
matissmo : https://soundcloud.com/matissmo
smuv : https://soundcloud.com/asmuvone
Mittens : https://soundcloud.com/xmittens
moow : https://soundcloud.com/moow-beatmaker
Mounika : https://soundcloud.com/mounika-beat
mt.fujitive : https://soundcloud.com/mt_fujitive
mt.marcy : https://soundcloud.com/mt-marcy
Nochi : https://soundcloud.com/nochibeats
Nohidea : https://soundcloud.com/nohidea
Nymano : https://soundcloud.com/nymano
Olli : https://soundcloud.com/totototoro
Paisley : https://soundcloud.com/paisley
panthurr : https://soundcloud.com/panthurr
pax : https://soundcloud.com/pictochat
Philanthrope : https://soundcloud.com/philanthrope1
plcmnt : https://soundcloud.com/plcmnt
pneumoniker : https://soundcloud.com/pneumoniker
prima : https://soundcloud.com/primabeats
purpan : https://soundcloud.com/purpan
quickly, quickly : https://soundcloud.com/quicklyquickly
Rituvls : https://soundcloud.com/rituvls
Rook1e : https://soundcloud.com/byrook1e
RUDE : https://soundcloud.com/itsrudeboy
ryoga : https://soundcloud.com/ryogaaa
Slumgod : https://soundcloud.com/slumgodtharocka
saib : https://soundcloud.com/saib_eats
saiko : https://soundcloud.com/saikotropic
samashi : https://soundcloud.com/samaxshi
Samwise : https://soundcloud.com/samwiiise
schizmbeats : https://soundcloud.com/schizmbeats
scribe : https://soundcloud.com/de-scribe
secret crates : https://soundcloud.com/secret-crates-beatsforsalee
Seneca B : https://soundcloud.com/senecabeats
shamana : https://soundcloud.com/shamanabeats
shinobi : https://soundcloud.com/yungshinobiii
simon eng : https://soundcloud.com/iamsimoneng
sinh : https://soundcloud.com/sinhbeats
sl.drft : https://soundcloud.com/sldrft
sleepdealer : https://soundcloud.com/sleepdealerbeats
smoke trees : https://soundcloud.com/smoke_them_trees
smuv : https://soundcloud.com/asmuvone
soho : https://soundcloud.com/soundsbysoho
somar : https://soundcloud.com/somarbeats
Sophie meiers : https://soundcloud.com/sophie-meiers
squid ethics : https://soundcloud.com/squidb3a
Sunday : https://soundcloud.com/sunday-beats
stan the beatsmith : https://soundcloud.com/stanthebeatsmith
sugi.wa : https://soundcloud.com/sugiwa
sulu : https://soundcloud.com/yungsulu
Sun Yehoshua : https://soundcloud.com/sunyehoshua
sweetbn_ : https://soundcloud.com/sweetbunmusic
Swum : https://soundcloud.com/swumbeats
The Deli : https://soundcloud.com/the-deli
tides : https://soundcloud.com/tidesmusiq
toj : https://soundcloud.com/tojjj
tomcbumpz: https://soundcloud.com/tomcbumpz
tomppabeats : https://soundcloud.com/tomppabeats
Toonorth : https://soundcloud.com/countbazzy-2
Tusken : https://soundcloud.com/sandpeoplecologne
TV Blonde : https://soundcloud.com/tvblonde
Victor : https://soundcloud.com/victormusique
Virtue noir : https://soundcloud.com/virtuenoir
weird inside : https://soundcloud.com/weirdinside
win32 : https://soundcloud.com/win32
with u’ : https://soundcloud.com/nwithu
wun two : https://soundcloud.com/wun-two
wünsche : https://soundcloud.com/samuelwunsche
xmittens : https://soundcloud.com/xmittens
Post below lists all the tracks I've heard so far in the livestream (I'm still in the process of discovering lofi hiphop artists)
What is lofi/lo-fi/low fidelity music?
Lofi is a sound recording which intentionally contains technical flaws to make the recording sound more 'authentic' (think oldschool casettes, vinyls).
Types of technical flaws include: distortion, hum, backgroudn noise, limited frequency response,...
Lofi is the opposite of Hifi which achieves accuracy and transparency, the purest quality.
What is lofi hiphop?
Lofi hiphop is well... hiphop lofi.
A slow hiphop beat, the lofi touch, jazz samples, hiphop vocal samples,...
Some artists who definitely inspired this genre: DJ Shadow, Wu Tang Clan, Mobb Deep.
The concept may seem a bit odd but I was instantly hooked.
This music never fails to put you in a chill mood. I really hope it stays a small subgenre and never goes mainstream, because we all knows what happens when a genre becomes mainstream..
Below is a great youtube livestream.
Lofi artists featured:
90sflav : https://soundcloud.com/90sflav
¢hange: https://soundcloud.com/ygphilly
ÆkaSora : https://soundcloud.com/akashh_495
A D M B : https://soundcloud.com/admbmusic
aimless : https://soundcloud.com/aimless-beats
Alembic : https://soundcloud.com/alembicmusic
altitude : https://soundcloud.com/altitvde
ameba : https://soundcloud.com/yungameba
Aso : https://soundcloud.com/aricogle
athena : https://soundcloud.com/her-athena
atlas : https://soundcloud.com/atlas
nosentances : https://soundcloud.com/nosentences
axiom : https://soundcloud.com/axiomaticproductions
badsummer : https://soundcloud.com/badsummer1930
bassti : https://soundcloud.com/bassti_music
BEN BEAL : https://soundcloud.com/benbeal
Bhonstro : https://soundcloud.com/bhonstro
bitte Please : https://soundcloud.com/bitteplease
Blues : https://soundcloud.com/blues
BLVK. : https://soundcloud.com/yungmai
Bonsai child : https://soundcloud.com/bonsaichild
bsd.u : https://soundcloud.com/bsdu
bzkt. : https://soundcloud.com/b_z_k_t
caleb belkin : https://soundcloud.com/calebxbelkin
Casi lofi : https://soundcloud.com/casilofi
Charlie too human : https://soundcloud.com/charlietoohuman
Christopher Kulis : https://soundcloud.com/christopherkulis
Chuckee : https://soundcloud.com/orangesodabandit
Ciano : https://soundcloud.com/pontociano
Cold : https://soundcloud.com/coldhp
Craetion : https://soundcloud.com/craetion
dreamentact : https://soundcloud.com/dreamentact
Driver : https://soundcloud.com/driver-beets
Drwn : https://soundcloud.com/drwn_dot
eevee : https://soundcloud.com/eveline-eevee
E66S : https://soundcloud.com/e66s
elifilosov : https://soundcloud.com/elifilosov
Elijah Nang : https://soundcloud.com/nang-food
emune : https://soundcloud.com/emune
Ezekey : https://soundcloud.com/zeke-seamans
falcxne : https://soundcloud.com/falcxne
fantompower : https://soundcloud.com/fantompower
flamingosis : https://soundcloud.com/flamingosis
flavors : https://soundcloud.com/flayvors
Flughand : https://soundcloud.com/flughand
fujitsu : https://soundcloud.com/fujitsuu1
gavin : https://soundcloud.com/rottenspeller
Gfbeats : https://soundcloud.com/glutenfreebeats
geerad : https://soundcloud.com/geerad
guru griff : https://soundcloud.com/gurugriff
greafer : https://soundcloud.com/greafer
halberd : https://soundcloud.com/halberd-3000
hamzah : https://soundcloud.com/hamzah-zulqadar
hmsurf : https://soundcloud.com/hmsurf
I eat plans for a living : https://soundcloud.com/vegandude1111
idealism : https://soundcloud.com/idealismus
illoquence : https://soundcloud.com/illoquence-1
in love with a ghost : https://soundcloud.com/in-love-with-a-ghost
it’s ok : https://soundcloud.com/basicjo
j^p^n : https://soundcloud.com/fuckthisurl
Jack CC : https://soundcloud.com/jackcc
jarjarjr : https://soundcloud.com/jarjarjr
jasperino : https://soundcloud.com/jsprno
Jetson : https://soundcloud.com/highimjetson
jhfly : https://soundcloud.com/jhfly
jinsang : https://soundcloud.com/jinsangbeats
joey pecoraro : https://soundcloud.com/joeypecoraro
Juan rios : https://soundcloud.com/juan-rios-beats
junyii : https://soundcloud.com/junyii
k?d : https://soundcloud.com/whoskid
kaizen : https://soundcloud.com/bess-one
katuchat : https://soundcloud.com/katuchat
kdn : https://soundcloud.com/kdn_trap
keem the cipher : https://soundcloud.com/keemthecipher
kendall miles : https://soundcloud.com/kendallmilesmusic
killedmyself : https://soundcloud.com/killedmyself
killerbee : https://soundcloud.com/prodbykillerbee
knowmadic : https://soundcloud.com/knowmadicbeats
Konteks : https://soundcloud.com/konteks
killerbee : https://soundcloud.com/prodbykillerbee
knowmadic : https://soundcloud.com/knowmadicbeats
Konteks : https://soundcloud.com/konteks
kreaem : https://soundcloud.com/kreaem
krygan : https://soundcloud.com/kryganbeats
kumo : https://soundcloud.com/kumobeets
fushou : https://soundcloud.com/fushou
ldst : https://soundcloud.com/ldst
killerbee : https://soundcloud.com/prodbykillerbee
knowmadic : https://soundcloud.com/knowmadicbeats
Konteks : https://soundcloud.com/konteks
kreaem : https://soundcloud.com/kreaem
krygan : https://soundcloud.com/kryganbeats
kumo : https://soundcloud.com/kumobeets
fushou : https://soundcloud.com/fushou
ldst : https://soundcloud.com/ldst
LeNonsense : https://soundcloud.com/lenonsensebeats
leaf beach : https://soundcloud.com/levfbevch
leavv : https://soundcloud.com/leavv
lil death : https://soundcloud.com/d_e_a_t_h
Limes : https://soundcloud.com/limes-3
loprofile : https://soundcloud.com/deemwan
Lost son : https://soundcloud.com/thelawstson
luv.ly : https://soundcloud.com/lv-ly
lxced : https://soundcloud.com/lxced-4
m a n n y : https://soundcloud.com/mannysp
made in m : https://soundcloud.com/madeinm
ntourage : https://soundcloud.com/madeinm
mago : https://soundcloud.com/magotox
matador : https://soundcloud.com/lordmatador
mataro : https://soundcloud.com/mataroo
matissmo : https://soundcloud.com/matissmo
smuv : https://soundcloud.com/asmuvone
Mittens : https://soundcloud.com/xmittens
moow : https://soundcloud.com/moow-beatmaker
Mounika : https://soundcloud.com/mounika-beat
mt.fujitive : https://soundcloud.com/mt_fujitive
mt.marcy : https://soundcloud.com/mt-marcy
Nochi : https://soundcloud.com/nochibeats
Nohidea : https://soundcloud.com/nohidea
Nymano : https://soundcloud.com/nymano
Olli : https://soundcloud.com/totototoro
Paisley : https://soundcloud.com/paisley
panthurr : https://soundcloud.com/panthurr
pax : https://soundcloud.com/pictochat
Philanthrope : https://soundcloud.com/philanthrope1
plcmnt : https://soundcloud.com/plcmnt
pneumoniker : https://soundcloud.com/pneumoniker
prima : https://soundcloud.com/primabeats
purpan : https://soundcloud.com/purpan
quickly, quickly : https://soundcloud.com/quicklyquickly
Rituvls : https://soundcloud.com/rituvls
Rook1e : https://soundcloud.com/byrook1e
RUDE : https://soundcloud.com/itsrudeboy
ryoga : https://soundcloud.com/ryogaaa
Slumgod : https://soundcloud.com/slumgodtharocka
saib : https://soundcloud.com/saib_eats
saiko : https://soundcloud.com/saikotropic
samashi : https://soundcloud.com/samaxshi
Samwise : https://soundcloud.com/samwiiise
schizmbeats : https://soundcloud.com/schizmbeats
scribe : https://soundcloud.com/de-scribe
secret crates : https://soundcloud.com/secret-crates-beatsforsalee
Seneca B : https://soundcloud.com/senecabeats
shamana : https://soundcloud.com/shamanabeats
shinobi : https://soundcloud.com/yungshinobiii
simon eng : https://soundcloud.com/iamsimoneng
sinh : https://soundcloud.com/sinhbeats
sl.drft : https://soundcloud.com/sldrft
sleepdealer : https://soundcloud.com/sleepdealerbeats
smoke trees : https://soundcloud.com/smoke_them_trees
smuv : https://soundcloud.com/asmuvone
soho : https://soundcloud.com/soundsbysoho
somar : https://soundcloud.com/somarbeats
Sophie meiers : https://soundcloud.com/sophie-meiers
squid ethics : https://soundcloud.com/squidb3a
Sunday : https://soundcloud.com/sunday-beats
stan the beatsmith : https://soundcloud.com/stanthebeatsmith
sugi.wa : https://soundcloud.com/sugiwa
sulu : https://soundcloud.com/yungsulu
Sun Yehoshua : https://soundcloud.com/sunyehoshua
sweetbn_ : https://soundcloud.com/sweetbunmusic
Swum : https://soundcloud.com/swumbeats
The Deli : https://soundcloud.com/the-deli
tides : https://soundcloud.com/tidesmusiq
toj : https://soundcloud.com/tojjj
tomcbumpz: https://soundcloud.com/tomcbumpz
tomppabeats : https://soundcloud.com/tomppabeats
Toonorth : https://soundcloud.com/countbazzy-2
Tusken : https://soundcloud.com/sandpeoplecologne
TV Blonde : https://soundcloud.com/tvblonde
Victor : https://soundcloud.com/victormusique
Virtue noir : https://soundcloud.com/virtuenoir
weird inside : https://soundcloud.com/weirdinside
win32 : https://soundcloud.com/win32
with u’ : https://soundcloud.com/nwithu
wun two : https://soundcloud.com/wun-two
wünsche : https://soundcloud.com/samuelwunsche
xmittens : https://soundcloud.com/xmittens
Post below lists all the tracks I've heard so far in the livestream (I'm still in the process of discovering lofi hiphop artists)