The New LoFi Mixtape

It’s June everybody! And we’ve got a brand new mixtape filled with summer sounds from around the world. This month’s mix includes new tracks from Khruangbin, Nightmares on Wax, Pool Boy, Molly Lewis, Baba Stiltz, Minyo Crusaders, Private Agenda, LDRDO, and many many more.

Follow the links below to find out more about each artist on the mix and how to support them.

And last but not least, check out our brand new Translucent Yellow version of our 10 year anniversary album that has just dropped last month: https://thenewlofi.com/tnlf-tya-yellow/

June 2022 Mixtape

By the way, The New LoFi has turned ten years old and we are celebrating with a 10-track compilation featuring 10 of our favorite musicians from the past decade. If you want to get involved, order the limited-edition blue vinyl here.

It’s May already! Can you believe it? I hope you are ready to leave your musical comfort zone for a couple of hours this month. We have new music from Quantic, Tycho, Sea Glass, Photay, Chip Wickham, Boyan, Silver Lake and many more. There’s even a few older tracks on the mix this month from the likes of Akasha and Vono Box.

Check out the links below to find out more about each artist on the mix and how to support them.

May 2022 Mixtape Playlist

By the way, The New LoFi has turned ten years old and we are celebrating with a 10-track compilation featuring 10 of our favorite musicians from the past decade. If you want to get involved, order the limited-edition blue vinyl here.

This month we have new music from Kokoroko, Yukihiro Takahashi, Surprise Chef, Babe Rainbow, The Psychedelic Aliens…. and many more musicians with names you’ve never heard of

We’ve gone slightly off-script with this month’s mix by adding quite a few tracks from the 60s and 70s.

From Japanese soul to North African Jazz we’ve dug deep into the crates to pull out some absolute gems, including tunes from Abdou El Omari, Yukihiro Takahashi, and the Egyptian legend, ​​Salah Ragab & his Cairo Jazz Band. There’s is a lot of nostalgic 70s sound in the mix this month. Music that aims to sweep you away on a cloud of psychedelic keyboards and yearning hornwork. Like the third track, called “In Mind” by the excellently named Yannis Dreamlake and “The Sweet Enoughs”

But let’s be honest… sometimes it’s good to go back through time to see where a lot of the music from today is being inspired from. And there is plenty of new music on the mix as well. There are new tracks by Kyoto Jazz Massive, Cochemea, Aver and Move 78. And I think It’s very easy to see how their music was inspired by these sounds of the 60s and 70s.

See if you can spot what’s new and what’s old on the mix.

April 2022 Mixtape Playlist

By the way, The New LoFi has just turned ten years old and we are celebrating with a 10-track compilation featuring 10 of our favorite musicians from the past decade. If you want to get involved, order the limited-edition blue vinyl here.

This month we have new music from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Pete Tong, Athlete Whippet, Luxxury, Scoobert Doobert, and a cover of “House of the rising sun” by a band called Pijama Land.

By the way, The New LoFi has just turned ten years old and we are celebrating with a 10-track compilation featuring 10 of our favorite musicians from the past decade. If you want to get involved, order the limited-edition blue vinyl here.

This month we have new music from Maya Jane Coles​​, Anish Kumar, Sofia Kourtesis, Fred again.., The Knocks, Romy (from the xx) and a very interesting electronic rework of a Nelly Furtado track from the late 2000s.

And here are some links:

Has Natalie Bergman made God-rock cool again?
Noa Erni teams up with German Jazz Trio Triorität to reinterpret The Mental Traveler album
UK-based producer Elijah Nang explores the Japtronic side of his sound with his new spin-off album, Gaijin 3000
Dream Pop meets Pop Noir on the new EP from New York based duo, R. Missing
Manu Chao’s album, Próxima Estación Esperanza
and finally, the last track on this mix features a really interesting remix that was inspired by an old Nelly Furtado track. Check out the original music for Nelly Furtado’s track “Say It Right” (featuring Timbaland) I can’t believe how dated it looks now.

By the way, The New LoFi has just turned ten years old and we are celebrating with a 10-track compilation featuring 10 of our favorite musicians from the past decade. If you want to get involved, order the limited-edition blue vinyl here.

Happy NEW YEAR! For the first mixtape of 2022, we thought we would do something a little different. This mix goes back through the last year of podcasts and picks out all of our favorite dance songs from the series. It’s like a best-of dance compilation of the mixtape podcast. A soundtrack for your stay-at-home New Year’s Eve dance party. 

We revisit tracks from Solomun, Disclosure, Flight Facilities, Groove Armada, Fred Again, Kraak & Smaak, Afro Jack, Soulwax, Tensnake, Maya Jane Coles, Haai, Will Clarke, ALL the best dance songs from the year. 

Hope your enjoy the mix. Happy New Year! 

By the way, The New LoFi has just turned ten years old and we are celebrating with a 10-track compilation featuring 10 of our favorite musicians from the past decade. If you want to get involved, order the limited-edition blue vinyl here.

Merry Christmas everyone! We’re very happy to announce that the annual bonus Christmas Mixtape is here! This year’s bonus mixtape features a classical Christmas compilation. All the biggest names in classical music — Mozart, Handel, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Holst, Bach, and many many more.

Okay, okay, I know this isn’t the type of music that you normally come to The New LoFi to listen to, but hear me out. These composers and this collection of music represents some of the most well-known and archetypal Christmas music of all time. A lot of the pop Christmas songs we know today will have been inspired in some small way from the compositions presented here.

But I get it, this kind of music isn’t for everyone. It’s not the collection of chart topping Christmas pop songs that you might be used to. Perhaps you could try putting it on as a background soundtrack to your gift wrapping. Or play it low to accompany a fancy dinner. Or, if you just can’t handle the classical 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, 30s, 40, 50s Christmas Mixtape, or The Christmas Mixtape 2000!

Merry Christmas!

The New LoFi Mixtape is also available on iTunes, Acast, Stitcher, and Amazon Podcasts

It’s the last mixtape of the year! This month’s mixtape includes new music from Khruangbin, Afrojack, Sufjan Stevens, The Landing, James Chatburn, Los Bitchos and this fantastic Turkish Trio called Islandman (check out their Karavan Sessions video below). December’s mixtape settles you in with some feel-good indie music which blends into some psychedelic jazz and chill house. That gives way to some West African influences towards the middle of the mix until we make our way to some house and techno towards the end. That new Afrojack collaboration with Black V Neck is a banger. When that bouncy Dutch house bassline drops, it’s hard not to nod your head to it. And surprisingly, the original sample was taken from the 2000s hit, “No Hands” by Waka Flocka Flame. Check the video for the original below.

Hope you enjoy the last mixtape of the season. Look out for the bonus Christmas mixtape in a couple weeks time.

Do some virtual swimming around the Marechiero with Nu Genea’s video for their latest single, “Marechia”

Here’s the original video for “No Hands” by Waka Flocka Flame

Islandman – Karavan Sessions

By the way, The New LoFi has just turned ten years old and we are celebrating with a 10-track compilation featuring 10 of our favorite musicians from the past decade. If you want to get involved, order the limited-edition blue vinyl here.

December 2021 Mixtape Playlist

For the November Mixtape, we slow things down as winter takes hold in the northern hemisphere. The music is more introverted… soulful. Well at least that’s how the mix starts off.

We’ve got new tracks from Nightmares on Wax, Jungle, Diplo, Kraak & Smaak, Bonobo, Soulwax, Monster Rally, and DJ Numark. But before you start listening, check out the brand new animated video for Helado Negro’s new single, “Gemini and Leo.”

Helado Negro – Gemini and Leo

This month we also have a terrific cover of the 90s classic “Everybody Everybody” (originally performed by Black Box). It has been reimagined on this mix by Björn Wagner and DJ Nu-Mark as a chilled out banger. DJ Nu-Mark enlists the German funk music ensemble, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band to bring a summery island feel to the 90s dancefloor anthem. But before you listen to the new version of the tune, you should reaquiant yourself with the original song (and video). It’s brilliant.

Black Box – Everybody Everybody

By the way, The New LoFi has just turned ten years old and we are celebrating with a 10-track compilation featuring 10 of our favorite musicians from the past decade. If you want to get involved, order the limited-edition blue vinyl here.

November 2021 Mixtape Playlist

This month James is back in his usual coffee shop in south London bringing you a mix of upbeat indie and autumnal electronic. October’s mixtape includes new music from Disclosure, Fred again.., Logic1000, Joy Orbison, DJ Seinfeld, Jacques, Baalti, Clairo and ​​Rival Consoles.

but before you check out the music, have a look at these two fantastic new videos pulled from songs in this month’s mix:

Jacques – Vous (directed by ALICE KUNISUE)

ÌXTAHUELE feat. KADHJA BONET – MANNA 

And lastly, The New LoFi has just turned ten years old and we are celebrating with a 10-track compilation featuring 10 of our favorite musicians from the past decade. If you want to get involved, order the limited-edition blue vinyl here.

October 2021 Mixtape Playlist