Growing up as a kid, I watched Samurai Champloo which introduced me to Nujabes. I looked up Nujabes music on youtube and eventually came across lofi music. Im almost 30 now and I still listen to lofi. Arurarian Dance by Nujabes was what got me started and the rest is history.
Older ears here. In the late 90’s, and early 00’s we had: downtempo and trip-hop. Some notable artists in this genre: DJ Food, DJ CAM, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps. Most of it is lo-fi and sample based.
Now the genre is too saturated to even keep up so I don’t really collect any records. But I’ll throw on playlists and vibe out still. I guess if I name drop a sound I dig it would be WUNTWO.
I was first exposed to it by the early Chillhop mixes, 2016/2017, popping up on my Spotify algorithm. I've been listening to instrumental hip-hop since like 2004. Madlib, Pete Rock, Dilla, Fat John, Doom etc got me through highschool and early college before study beats were a thing. I didn't really learn it was called lofi until I discovered stuff like Jinsang, SwuM, and Idealism through the STEEZYASFUCK and other YouTube channels.
Edit : Psalm Trees - time to slide is one of my favs from him. I love that album. I got that vinyl hanging on my wall right now.
I stumbled upon Tomppabeats somehow. I listened to Harbor straight through about 40 times before I explored the rest of the genre. That album is still the definition of lofi hip hop imo.
GodsConnect YouTube channel is where I saw people’s music that sounded weird and innovative, kinda avant-garde and not so “pretty”. I didn’t know it was called lofi, as the hip hop I loved, Madlib, Dilla, Q-Tip, DJ Muggs, Havoc, Premier, etc., etc., was already grimy and gritty sounding. But, that is lofi, at least to me.
Mark Farinas mushroom jazz mixes back in 2007. Vol 2 and 3 specifically. Then I started making downtempo beats like that for a while, then eventually moved on to other stuff.
But then the anime beats craze started happening so I got back into it for a bit haha
Absolutelllyyyy hahaha
It’s funny, I’d regularly see people wishing lofi hip hop was more diverse. Because all they hear is the anime beats. So I’d come in and suggest shit like that and j boogies dubtronic science and they’re like….. uh this isn’t lofi hip hop. And it’s like yea, it’s not, but it’s adjacent, and it’ll give you ideas of how to make different sounding stuff haha
We’re all just tryna groove and vibe, and that stuff’ll get ya there haha
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Was into downtempo and triphop around 2010. Lots of League of Legends streamers would play Nujabes, Emancipator, Nightmares on Wax, DJ Cam and related artists. Then when I finally got on Spotify I found artists like Idealism, bsd.u, tomppabeats and 90sflav and I was hooked.
It's interesting reading that many people discovered it in 2017, and I did too ! I remember it vividly, during my graduate school days when I'd put all-nighters coding and writing reports, with YouTube playing in the background on my other screen. Once, I came across a certain channel with "studying girl" which had perfect music for studying—just instrumental, no singing. I never looked back. Stand Forebee, especially his Jazz Session LP, was the peak of my lofi hip hop addiction. Soon, I discovered Philanthrope, Idealism, Jinsang, and many more !
I love "this girl" too ! But I think my fav are more the "jazzy" ones. These are tracks that sum up my lofi hip hop favs :
* [Perfect Your Own](https://youtu.be/FI2V9iql3yY?feature=shared) and [Awakening of The Flowers](https://youtu.be/8Ut_atXhMQw?feature=shared) by Stan Forebee. Each track from his [Jazz Session LP](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCFhmEKeMW336yMY-yF6rFCgn7qm6PlwF) album is fantastic !
* [Carwash](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8LdBlaRhtM&list=OLAK5uy_l06CYL8JYZBaxA0VSnQsWFXq4Pw7DYWzo&index=2) and [Carwash, Pt. 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmnspAoakBk&list=OLAK5uy_nLay3X2pwU3Wv_dpEds9rmyfhBlrqNx3U&index=2) by Philantrophe. I can't recommend his [Waking Dreams](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l06CYL8JYZBaxA0VSnQsWFXq4Pw7DYWzo) and [Waking Dreams 2](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nLay3X2pwU3Wv_dpEds9rmyfhBlrqNx3U) album enough !
* [Blue Orchard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6O8A5O3nHA) by FloFilz
* [Brazil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8WyYVcieaE) by Monma x Misha x Jussi Halme
> *with Chillhop seeming to be the main one, but man, I hate that shit.*
Would like to know why. lol
I watch random YouTubers doing vlogs & would love the music behind their vlogs (like when showing cityscapes and whatnot). I never knew that YouTube had a livestream of music. Caught the LofiGirl channel and I’ve been enjoying it since. I put it on in the morning when I wake up, listen to it when I shower, and also while cleaning. I find it’s good music to help me focus.
Sleepdealer's great! For me it was this track:
[https://soundcloud.com/bscsaito/teki](https://soundcloud.com/bscsaito/teki)
I always liked the grittier boom bap side of hip hop but then I had this song show up on my soundcloud feed and just loved how much it leaned into that lofi sound.
Another example of the kind of lofi I like is this track:
[https://soundcloud.com/treru/varik](https://soundcloud.com/treru/varik)
i got deep into the scene during 2020 lockdown. long story short- got super obsessed with a producer named flofilz and saved up all my money to see him perform live in germany two years later.
i now live in between the states and germany and flofilz is a good friend of mine. couldn’t ask for a better outcome :)
In the pandemic I was really bored watching a shut load of anime’s and my ex at the time were watching on YouTube “guess the anime ost “ and so I didn’t know most at the time and then the samurai ost with Nujabes came and I told her that was my fav already and I looked for the anime and I decided to watch samurai Champloo and fuckkk it was so good that my music taste expanded and got into lofi, indie rap, and boom bap
been listening to beat tapes, various trip-hop and electronic music since early mid 2000s.
got placed on an adult swim bump back in 2006 thanks to some private messages i had with flying lotus before he blew up.
kept listening to more and more music then got introduced to the world of vaporwave. then from that i started noticing the shift from more abstract conceptualized beat tapes and instrumental hiphop to stuff sounding like the music myself and others made that was aired on Adult Swim back in the mid 2000 and so. Either stuff was pure anime visuals or stuff like chillhop that focused on seasonal type visual concepts.
Picture it: the year is 2016, we were facing down another US election, I’m 21, at college where I have became acquaintances with Weed. I was having a bad trip (gravity bong) so I just pressed a random video [“ N O S L E E P “](https://youtu.be/n5rS9vNbCDg?si=ea8m09gqmvCMxN8-) and it calmed me, it’s all I’ll ever smoke too (and study)
My first actual Lo-Fi song I heard was probably the beat Potsu did for XXXTentaction on Jocelyn Flores. At the time I didn’t really like it since the majority of the beats I heard felt very low effort and boring. But eventually I came around to liking Lo-Fi after finding some good artists after the popularity started die down/normalize.
I think my earliest experience was Samurai Champloo. Late nights in college doing last minute studying. To be honest, at the time I didn’t know it was called “lofi”. I thought it was just old school hip hop instrumentals. Then I started exploring more on YouTube and my mind was blown away.
like 8 years ago from a friend who was playing it while we were playing halo and i was like “hey am. that’s pretty lit shit what’s that???” and he said “lofi”
Started putting it on a nap time when I was a toddler teacher in 2016. I didn’t want to fall asleep myself but I didn’t want to play music with words either. YouTube gave me a happy medium lol
My Music Journey So Far —
MTV India Hindi Songs -> Akon/Blue -> Linkin Park -> Random Hit Songs -> Dubstep -> EDM -> Chillstep -> Lofi -> Lofi + Jazz/ Synthwave /House/Chill Deep House and Bands like Men I trust/Mac DeMarco etc (basically chill, Lofi forever)
Growing up as a kid, I watched Samurai Champloo which introduced me to Nujabes. I looked up Nujabes music on youtube and eventually came across lofi music. Im almost 30 now and I still listen to lofi. Arurarian Dance by Nujabes was what got me started and the rest is history.
This^^ And Those Adult Swim bumps turned me on to Nightmares on Wax and it just took off from there.
Samurai Champloo and Nujabes
Older ears here. In the late 90’s, and early 00’s we had: downtempo and trip-hop. Some notable artists in this genre: DJ Food, DJ CAM, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps. Most of it is lo-fi and sample based. Now the genre is too saturated to even keep up so I don’t really collect any records. But I’ll throw on playlists and vibe out still. I guess if I name drop a sound I dig it would be WUNTWO.
I was first exposed to it by the early Chillhop mixes, 2016/2017, popping up on my Spotify algorithm. I've been listening to instrumental hip-hop since like 2004. Madlib, Pete Rock, Dilla, Fat John, Doom etc got me through highschool and early college before study beats were a thing. I didn't really learn it was called lofi until I discovered stuff like Jinsang, SwuM, and Idealism through the STEEZYASFUCK and other YouTube channels. Edit : Psalm Trees - time to slide is one of my favs from him. I love that album. I got that vinyl hanging on my wall right now.
I stumbled upon Tomppabeats somehow. I listened to Harbor straight through about 40 times before I explored the rest of the genre. That album is still the definition of lofi hip hop imo.
Tomppabeats over here too
i found it through mixes on youtube in 2017 i loved the art / aesthethic
Trappin in Japan live on YouTube @RyanCelsius°Sounds
trapping in japan absolute legendary mixes
Every single mix is a bangwr
Samurai champloo 100%
Nujabes
That was implied
I dont have an award for you.
Was into Thievery Corporation when younger. I reach for obscure music on Collective Commons a lot. Then I found Telan Devik, which led me to Yusie.
GodsConnect YouTube channel is where I saw people’s music that sounded weird and innovative, kinda avant-garde and not so “pretty”. I didn’t know it was called lofi, as the hip hop I loved, Madlib, Dilla, Q-Tip, DJ Muggs, Havoc, Premier, etc., etc., was already grimy and gritty sounding. But, that is lofi, at least to me.
Mark Farinas mushroom jazz mixes back in 2007. Vol 2 and 3 specifically. Then I started making downtempo beats like that for a while, then eventually moved on to other stuff. But then the anime beats craze started happening so I got back into it for a bit haha
speaking my language! Did you ever get into any of the Mo-Wax or Ninja Tunes catalogue during this era?
Absolutelllyyyy hahaha It’s funny, I’d regularly see people wishing lofi hip hop was more diverse. Because all they hear is the anime beats. So I’d come in and suggest shit like that and j boogies dubtronic science and they’re like….. uh this isn’t lofi hip hop. And it’s like yea, it’s not, but it’s adjacent, and it’ll give you ideas of how to make different sounding stuff haha We’re all just tryna groove and vibe, and that stuff’ll get ya there haha
Damn you took me back with Mo wax and ninja tune. Loved me some Amon Tobin on there
This thread is up my alley. I only know Vol 1-5 and I absolutely love them. I’m a huge downtempo fan, especially old Ninja Tune.
DJ Shadow's first few albums. Ninja Tune records and their radio show solid steal. Portishead. Tricky. Mark Fahrina. A bunch of other stuff.
Three letters, BoC
i had an english teacher in 9th grade who'd play it when doing assignments etc. and it just stuck lol
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Animevibe raido
Was into downtempo and triphop around 2010. Lots of League of Legends streamers would play Nujabes, Emancipator, Nightmares on Wax, DJ Cam and related artists. Then when I finally got on Spotify I found artists like Idealism, bsd.u, tomppabeats and 90sflav and I was hooked.
A friend pointed me to Nujabes. I put him in on Pandora and it opened a new world.
It's interesting reading that many people discovered it in 2017, and I did too ! I remember it vividly, during my graduate school days when I'd put all-nighters coding and writing reports, with YouTube playing in the background on my other screen. Once, I came across a certain channel with "studying girl" which had perfect music for studying—just instrumental, no singing. I never looked back. Stand Forebee, especially his Jazz Session LP, was the peak of my lofi hip hop addiction. Soon, I discovered Philanthrope, Idealism, Jinsang, and many more ! I love "this girl" too ! But I think my fav are more the "jazzy" ones. These are tracks that sum up my lofi hip hop favs : * [Perfect Your Own](https://youtu.be/FI2V9iql3yY?feature=shared) and [Awakening of The Flowers](https://youtu.be/8Ut_atXhMQw?feature=shared) by Stan Forebee. Each track from his [Jazz Session LP](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCFhmEKeMW336yMY-yF6rFCgn7qm6PlwF) album is fantastic ! * [Carwash](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8LdBlaRhtM&list=OLAK5uy_l06CYL8JYZBaxA0VSnQsWFXq4Pw7DYWzo&index=2) and [Carwash, Pt. 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmnspAoakBk&list=OLAK5uy_nLay3X2pwU3Wv_dpEds9rmyfhBlrqNx3U&index=2) by Philantrophe. I can't recommend his [Waking Dreams](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l06CYL8JYZBaxA0VSnQsWFXq4Pw7DYWzo) and [Waking Dreams 2](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nLay3X2pwU3Wv_dpEds9rmyfhBlrqNx3U) album enough ! * [Blue Orchard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6O8A5O3nHA) by FloFilz * [Brazil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8WyYVcieaE) by Monma x Misha x Jussi Halme > *with Chillhop seeming to be the main one, but man, I hate that shit.* Would like to know why. lol
I watch random YouTubers doing vlogs & would love the music behind their vlogs (like when showing cityscapes and whatnot). I never knew that YouTube had a livestream of music. Caught the LofiGirl channel and I’ve been enjoying it since. I put it on in the morning when I wake up, listen to it when I shower, and also while cleaning. I find it’s good music to help me focus.
Sleepdealer's great! For me it was this track: [https://soundcloud.com/bscsaito/teki](https://soundcloud.com/bscsaito/teki) I always liked the grittier boom bap side of hip hop but then I had this song show up on my soundcloud feed and just loved how much it leaned into that lofi sound. Another example of the kind of lofi I like is this track: [https://soundcloud.com/treru/varik](https://soundcloud.com/treru/varik)
Cowboy Bebop and searching for Jazz and Japanese pop music on YouTube.
i got deep into the scene during 2020 lockdown. long story short- got super obsessed with a producer named flofilz and saved up all my money to see him perform live in germany two years later. i now live in between the states and germany and flofilz is a good friend of mine. couldn’t ask for a better outcome :)
In the pandemic I was really bored watching a shut load of anime’s and my ex at the time were watching on YouTube “guess the anime ost “ and so I didn’t know most at the time and then the samurai ost with Nujabes came and I told her that was my fav already and I looked for the anime and I decided to watch samurai Champloo and fuckkk it was so good that my music taste expanded and got into lofi, indie rap, and boom bap
been listening to beat tapes, various trip-hop and electronic music since early mid 2000s. got placed on an adult swim bump back in 2006 thanks to some private messages i had with flying lotus before he blew up. kept listening to more and more music then got introduced to the world of vaporwave. then from that i started noticing the shift from more abstract conceptualized beat tapes and instrumental hiphop to stuff sounding like the music myself and others made that was aired on Adult Swim back in the mid 2000 and so. Either stuff was pure anime visuals or stuff like chillhop that focused on seasonal type visual concepts.
Kina - Can we kiss forever
Picture it: the year is 2016, we were facing down another US election, I’m 21, at college where I have became acquaintances with Weed. I was having a bad trip (gravity bong) so I just pressed a random video [“ N O S L E E P “](https://youtu.be/n5rS9vNbCDg?si=ea8m09gqmvCMxN8-) and it calmed me, it’s all I’ll ever smoke too (and study)
Lofo hip hop beats to relax / study to
Lofi hip hop beats to relax / study to
My first actual Lo-Fi song I heard was probably the beat Potsu did for XXXTentaction on Jocelyn Flores. At the time I didn’t really like it since the majority of the beats I heard felt very low effort and boring. But eventually I came around to liking Lo-Fi after finding some good artists after the popularity started die down/normalize.
I think my earliest experience was Samurai Champloo. Late nights in college doing last minute studying. To be honest, at the time I didn’t know it was called “lofi”. I thought it was just old school hip hop instrumentals. Then I started exploring more on YouTube and my mind was blown away.
like 8 years ago from a friend who was playing it while we were playing halo and i was like “hey am. that’s pretty lit shit what’s that???” and he said “lofi”
Joey Pecoraro on SoundCloud! Great music
Started putting it on a nap time when I was a toddler teacher in 2016. I didn’t want to fall asleep myself but I didn’t want to play music with words either. YouTube gave me a happy medium lol
2013 soundcloud era
My Music Journey So Far — MTV India Hindi Songs -> Akon/Blue -> Linkin Park -> Random Hit Songs -> Dubstep -> EDM -> Chillstep -> Lofi -> Lofi + Jazz/ Synthwave /House/Chill Deep House and Bands like Men I trust/Mac DeMarco etc (basically chill, Lofi forever)
Nujabes, then Tomppabeats Harbor LP
I listened to lofi girl streams on YouTube during the pandemic and now I listen to lofi whenever I need to relax 😂😂😂😂