This month’s mix features a wandering collection of jazz, indie and electronic. Look out for new singles from Floating Points, Four Tet, Session Victim, Gillian Moss, Clive From Accounts, Bentley, Nia Archives, and Leon Vynehall. Only one video from this month’s mix: the fantastic animated joint for “Take A Trip” by Brijean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6XYF8W61sQ&ab_channel=BrijeanVEVO Check out…
Over lockdown, the prolific electronic producer, Robot Koch, launched an ambient side project under a new moniker called Foam and Sand. After months of not being able to tour, Koch hunkered down and started experimenting with tape loops in his Los…
Last week, James and Dave took over the airwaves in London to play some underground jazz on Voices Radio. The one-hour slot covered a new guard of jazz musicians — the artists who are subverting and evolving the genre. Think:…
Tokyo-based producer, Yasuhiko Fukuzono (aka aus) finds inspiration everywhere — field recordings, snippets of everyday life, old vinyls, imagined melodies. As a sound designer, and record label boss, Fukuzono has a diverse range of audio influences that he pours into…
For his new album, Origins, Minnesota-based producer Chris Bartels takes on the role of singer-songwriter for the first time under the moniker: Elskavon. Origins is vast, yet intimate. Fluttering yet cohesive. Tattered yet clean. Bartels describes it as a little…
Last year in June we featured the summer sounds of LA-based producer, Kowloon. This month he’s back with a brand new single called “This Dream” that explores the winter side of his music. As you can probably imagine by the…
We’re trying something new in 2023. For the first time, The New LoFi will be hosting a radio show in London. James will be curating a list of underground jazz, soul and psychedelic music. From the new guard of American…
Dacus’ voice acts as a salve to the fresh wounds of youth, steady and low, soothing the raging storms both inside and out. Her band rises and falls between garage-rock fuzz and quiet intimate moments. Effortlessly connecting with her audience through sing-a-longs and whimsical banter, Dacus shifts from rockstar to bunk-bed BFF with the flick of a chord change.
I was first introduced to Dave Brubeck in a “History of Jazz” class in the early 90s. Before that point, jazz was music that my grandparents listened to. Hearing “Take Five” for the first time changed that. Paul Desmond spoke…
It’s funny how this global pandemic has found ways to bring us all closer together despite all of the pain and suffering it has caused. Closer together virtually of course. Because while the Coronavirus would like nothing more then to…
For the album, Hewitt set out to document his experience of lockdown in New York City. As New York became more and more deserted, he went out with a field recorder to report how the sounds of the city changed. And while the premise was rooted in documenting the present, the project was very heavily influenced by the minimalist Japanese kankyō ongaku movement from the 1980s.