The New LoFi Mixtape

The July mixtape is all about low-key summer jams. The mix has new music featuring Damon Albarn, Island Wastrel, Vegyn, AIR, Sholto, Chitinous Mandible, Beach For Tiger, Assaf Spector, and John Carroll Kirby. From indie and jazz, to ambient and psychedelic soul… this month’s mix is like a tropical soundtrack groove to summer.

The mixtape is also on Spotify now! If you want to listen to some of the songs on this month’s podcast (as well as tracks from other mixtapes from this year), go check out The New LoFi Mixtape on Spotify.

And just before we get into the music, here are a few videos featured on the mix this month:

The new Africa Express single, “Soledad” featuring Damon Albarn

A collage animation for the new Hot Mustard single, “Melt The Wind”

Common Saints – Equinox

By the way, Björn Yttling (Peter Björn and John) has taken over the Jazz Underground this month. If you are even a little bit jazz curious, check out how Björn takes us on an instrumental odyssey through the underground sound of jazz. Have a listen here, or follow the Jazz Underground playlist on Spotify.

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The Monthly Mixtape is also available on Spotify and iTunes.

If you love The New LoFi, you should also check out our Ten Year Anniversary album in beautiful translucent yellow vinyl. Available in a limited-edition marbled blue vinyl as well. If you want to give the record a sample before you buy, have a listen on our special anniversary mixtape podcast here.

July 2025 Mixtape Playlist

If you are looking for a chilled out, soul-filled indie mix for summer…. you’ve come to the right place. This month’s mix features an eclectic mix of soul, indie, habibi funk, Middle Eastern psych, Japanese folk and laid-back jazz. We’ve got new music from Lykke Li, Sven Wunder, Move 78, Surprise Chef, Joe Armon-Jones, Chip Whikham, Alexander Flood, Vinyl Williams, Sholto, Rachel Kitchlew, Rubblebucket, Unessential Oils, and many many more.

It’s dripping with lowkey summer vibes to shift you into summer.

The mixtape is also on Spotify now! If you want to listen to some of the songs on this month’s podcast (as well as tracks from other mixtapes from this year), go check out The New LoFi Mixtape on Spotify.

And just before we get into the music, here are a few videos featured on the mix this month:

“Make It Work” by Papooz and Erlend Øye

The incredibly trippy new video for “Rattlesnake” by Rubblebucket

Psychedelic video for a psychedelic song — the video for Nice Biscuit’s new single

The beautifully shot new video for “on est pareil” by Céline Dessberg

More trippy psychedelia from the mind of Vinyl Williams

Sherine Osman directed this gorgeous video for Kazdoura’s new single, “Khayal”

Barefoot motorcycle riding in the jungle for Salin’s new music video, “Current”

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The Monthly Mixtape is also available on Spotify and iTunes.

If you love The New LoFi, you should also check out our Ten Year Anniversary album in beautiful translucent yellow vinyl. Available in a limited-edition marbled blue vinyl as well. If you want to give the record a sample before you buy, have a listen on our special anniversary mixtape podcast here.

This month we’ve got over two hours of indie electronic music featuring new tracks from Avalon Emerson,  Σtella, Neil Frances, Young Franco, Barry Can’t Swim, Polo & Pan, Nimino, Gilligan Moss, Swimming Paul, Lindstrøm, Getdown Services, bad tuner, and so many more.

Also, check out Sholto’s selection for this month’s Jazz Underground playlist. He adds his flavor of cinematic 60s and 70s inspired jazz to the mix — and it’s fantastic.

The mixtape is also on Spotify now! If you want to listen to some of the songs on this month’s podcast (as well as tracks from other mixtapes from this year), go check out The New LoFi Mixtape on Spotify.

And just before we get into the music, here are a few videos featured on the mix this month:

Get super chill with the “Kids Go Down” video from Chinese American Bear.

The official video for Young Franco’s new track “Lose Control” is more of a visualizer… but it’s still addictive to watch.

Neil Frances teams up with dreamcastmoe for some nostalgic drip.

The new Σtella video for “Adagio” is a beautifully written little mini movie.

Jelani Blackman’s new video for “Let Me Talk To You“

Song of the summer: “I Only Smoke When I Drink” by Nimino

Flashing lights? “All I Am” by Ninajirachi

Nostalgia drip: the video for “Different Time” by Swimming Paul

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The Monthly Mixtape is also available on Spotify and iTunes.

If you love The New LoFi, you should also check out our Ten Year Anniversary album in beautiful translucent yellow vinyl. Available in a limited-edition marbled blue vinyl as well. If you want to give the record a sample before you buy, have a listen on our special anniversary mixtape podcast here.

This month we’ve got over two hours of jazz, soul, indie, and all sorts of other stuff for you. The mix features new music from Delicate Steve, Polo & Pan, Gianni Brezzo, Brijean, Phoebe rings, Lars Fiil, Sholto, Kokoroko, Eric Hilton, Daniel Ögren, Calibro 35, Jimi Tenor, Zero 7, and so many more.

But before we get into the music, here are a few links in support of a few of the artists featured in the mix this month:

This month’s bonus track:
MONO NO AWARE (cover) “かむかもしかもにどもかも！

This excellent video for “I’ll Be There” by Delicate Steve never fails to make me laugh

Also amusing: the new music video for “Real Colors” by The Nanners

“Make Way For The Sun” by O & The Mo

“Selenge” by Céline Dessberg

LA LOM performing their new track “Alacrán” (which means “Scorpion” in English)

Something’ Something’ by King Pari

“Discomania” being performed live by Calibro 35

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The Monthly Mixtape is also available on Spotify and iTunes.

If you love The New LoFi, you should also check out our Ten Year Anniversary album in beautiful translucent yellow vinyl. Available in a limited-edition marbled blue vinyl as well. If you want to give the record a sample before you buy, have a listen on our special anniversary mixtape podcast here.

This month we’ve got nearly two hours of house music lined up for you. New music from Caribou, Franc Moody, Brijean, Bakermat, Starya, Riva Starr, Cole Knight, Butcher Brown, Yero, Suncream, Gilligan Moss, and many many more.

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The Monthly Mixtape is also available on Spotify and iTunes.

If you love The New LoFi, you should also check out our Ten Year Anniversary album in beautiful translucent yellow vinyl. Available in a limited-edition marbled blue vinyl as well. If you want to give the record a sample before you buy, have a listen on our special anniversary mixtape podcast here.

This month we join James in East London in search of some of his favorite New York food: bagels. I know this isn’t a food blog, but a good New York-style bagel has pretty much been impossible to find in London… that is, until we tried Paulie’s Bagels. So I thought I had to share here.

When I had this generously filled bacon, egg, and cheese bagel in my hand, it was like I was back in Brooklyn. If you are looking for a little taste of NYC, I highly recommend looking this place up.

(I’m not sponsored by these guys, by the way. Just love a good New York Bagel).

Alright, back to the music. This month we have two hours of what can only be called a bit of escapism. It’s two hours of jazz, indie electronic, funk and tropical psychedelic to fill your soul. It features new music from The Ironsides, Sven Wunder, Pearl & the Oysters, Mulatu Astatke, Doctor Bionic, Goose Down, Lars Fiil, Sweatson & Klank, The Groovy Nobody, and many many more.

Get involved!

(before you get into the music, here are some videos from the music on this month’s mixtape

Pearl & The Oysters pyscedelic visuals for their new single, “Side Quest”

Pachyman’s live session from recording “Switched-On”

The retro Hermanos Gutierrez video for their track “Barrio Hustle”

And last, but certainly not least, the very hilarious video for God Colony & Roy’s single, “Loss is not Infinite”

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PS: Go buy the new album from The Ironsides!

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The Monthly Mixtape is also available on iTunes.

By the way, you should check out our Ten Year Anniversary album in beautiful translucent yellow vinyl. Available in a limited-edition marbled blue vinyl as well. If you want to give the record a sample before you buy, have a listen on our mixtape special podcast here.

As is tradition, we’re dropping the Jan mixtape a bit early this year. We’ve rounded up all of our favorite dance music that was submitted to the blog in 2024 and putting it on this tidy little mixtape for you. We release it early if you wanted to supplement your New Years Eve dance party with a few more tracks.

Thank you all for being amazing fans of the blog for another year running. We look forward to discovering and supporting new music with you in the new year.

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The Monthly Mixtape is also available on iTunes.

By the way, you should check out our Ten Year Anniversary album in beautiful translucent yellow vinyl. Available in a limited-edition marbled blue vinyl as well. If you want to give the record a sample before you buy, have a listen on our mixtape special podcast here.

It’s that time again. It’s that festive time of year! Which mean that it’s time for The New LoFi bonus Christmas mixtape! 

This year we’re going to the movies! The 2024 holiday mixtape is all about Christmas movie soundtracks. From Home Alone to Elf; Miracle On 34th Street to The Grinch; It’s A Wonderful Life to The Polar Express — there’s a soundtrack sample to all the most loved classic Christmas movies in this mixtape.

So get yourself a cup of Christmasy hot chocolate, snuggle up on the sofa in the living room, and pop this “Christmas at the Movies Mixtape” on your stereo. Maybe play a fun game of “can you guess which movie” while you’re listening, or just enjoy the holiday movie soundtrack cheer. Either way, we hope you this mixtape gets you into the Christmas spirit.

If Christmas movie soundtracks aren’t your vibe during Christmas, you should check out some of our Christmas Mixtapes from previous years: The 80’s Christmas Mixtape, A LoFi Christmas, A Whiskey Soaked Indie Rock Christmas Mixtape, A Classical Christmas Mixtape, The Christmas Mixtape 2000! or our most popular mixtape: The Big Band Christmas Mixtape.

And if Spotify is your music platform of choice, we’ve put all the Christmas Mixtapes on our Spotify channel for you to shuffle up the Christmas spirit there.

This month we’re featuring new music from Barry Can’t Swim, Sholto, The Offline, Lewis OfMan, KIDSØ, The Sorcerers, Theatre of Delays, 3030, Phree Direxion, TVLI, Arky Waters, Skallee & Wagz, A/S/L, and many more.

As you can probably tell from that list of artist, this month we’ve got a full range of genres represented — from indie, funk, soul to house, disco and ambient electronic.

Shout out to some of the new musicians being featured on the blog for the first time including (the new grammy-nominated musician and producer Tali (aka TVLI). We’ve featured his new track “Tempest” on the mix, which sees him returning to his piano roots on this fantastic ambient electronic overture.

We also want to welcome Tim Laws and DJ Toney White (aka Skallee & Wagz) onto this mixtape, with their infection disco house sound. The British dance music duo stormed onto the scene with their hit single “Office Chick” in 2017 and have been spreading the good vibes across the dancefloor ever since. We’ve featured their brand new single, “What You Try’na Do” on the mix this month for a little bit of a disco dance punch in the face (in a good way).

We’ve also got a few fantastic Afro-house tracks on the mix this month from producers like Imbuwa, 3030 and African music collective: Bantwanas. The 3030 track we feature is a Curol remix that mixes African and Brazilian sounds into the beat. Curol is one of the most prominent voices in Brazilian Afro-house and is known for her authentic sound that combines Brazilian percussion with powerful grooves. There is also a track entitled “Johera” (by an Australian producer called Arky Waters) that crafts in that tropical Afro-beat sound. “Johera” blends breakbeat electronica with swelling techno influences.

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The Monthly Mixtape is also available on iTunes.

By the way, you should check out our Ten Year Anniversary album in beautiful translucent yellow vinyl. Available in a limited-edition marbled blue vinyl as well. If you want to give the record a sample before you buy, have a listen on our mixtape special podcast here.

And don’t forget to use the discount code, XMAS10, to get $10 off the album.

December 2024 Mixtape Playlist (coming soon)

This month we’re featuring new music from Floating Points, Salvatore Ganacci, Jewel Kid, Hamdi, ATRIP, The Blessed Madonna, Peggy Gou, The Streets x Overmono, Skrillex, TOKIMONSTA, Cedric Gervais x Nile Rodgers, Photay, and many more…

The mix goes from indie pop with an electronic edge, to some nostalgic 80s house, to some straight up house and disco (including a couple of 70s and 80s disco covers), before the mix rounds off into some acid house, tech house, break beat.

But before we get into the mix, here are some of the videos featured on the playlist:

The Monthly Mixtape is also available on iTunes.

By the way, you should check out our Ten Year Anniversary album in beautiful translucent yellow vinyl. Available in a limited-edition marbled blue vinyl as well. If you want to give the record a sample before you buy, have a listen on our mixtape special podcast here.

And don’t forget to use the discount code, XMAS10, to get $10 off the album.

November 2024 Mixtape Playlist