Seattle drummer Chris Icasiano gathers MCs, jazz musicians and others for ‘Jazz, Hip-Hop and the Avant-Garde’ at Lo-Fi Performance Gallery.

Amplitude - Lo-fi Hip Hop Mixes This lo-fi beats playlist makes you want to dance, but just a little. It's uplifting with nice jazzy surprises.

Buzz words like “Chill Hop” and “Jazz Hop” don’t quite capture the essence of this new genre that has no rap in it but is catching on with studious Gen-Z teens, as well as stressed Gen ...

Those producers pulled from the recording methods of jazz players, which in turn, has had an outsized effect on the creation of lo-fi hip-hop.

Lo-fi is a genre that typically blends elements of hip-hop, jazz and dream pop through a stripped-down production process that centers the raw material of a song to create a smooth, relaxed sound.

Lo-fi music, recognized as a product of hip-hop, house, and jazz music, is a genre of music especially popular on free music sharing websites like SoundCloud.

Lo-fi music spans a wide spectrum of sound – varying based on whether it draws its influences more from jazz, blues, classical, rock, hip-hop or electronic music.

Lofi hip-hop is here to stay. The instrumental blend of traditional hip-hop and jazz has notably made its mark on Spotify, where the “Lofi Fruits” playlist by indie record label Strange Fruits ...

But can jazz incorporate hip hop in a major way — and can that have a major influence on the jazz audience? Riggins sees more and more hip-hop fans becoming hip to the jazz connection.

On an internet built around excess, lo-fi hip-hop channels have created a community for minimalist escape.