Label Catalog

Autumn Theory Records

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Autumn Theory Records is an independent label pushing lofi hip hop, jazzhop and a bit of lofi house. Since day one it has linked up with over 300 artists, bringing their unique sounds into a steadily growing catalog. What started as a physical only label shifted in 2020 when COVID hit. The label went digital, reaching more people and keeping the music flowing worldwide. The focus is on smooth, mellow beats for any vibe, but Autumn Theory is not just about the sound: it helps artists grow their reach and connect with listeners everywhere. The mission is simple: share music that feels just as good as it sounds, while supporting the artists who make it all happen.

Beat Tree Records

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Beat Tree Records is an organic beats label built on a simple idea: instrumental music made by human hands. Part of the Alt Jazz Records collective, it brings together producers who play and craft their beats rather than rely on presets and loops.

Beat's Tailors

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Beat's Tailors is a collective and label based in Bologna, bringing together musicians, producers, and graphic artists who share a love for Hip Hop culture and samplers. The label's signature sound chases sharp, incisive rhythms with Jazz influences, while keeping the laid-back charm and atmosphere typical of Lo-fi Hip Hop. Its roster now counts more than 60 artists from all over the world. In just a few years, Beat's Tailors has made a name for itself on the national and international beat scene, in part through live events and collaborations with names like Apollo Brown, Okvsho, and many others.

Bougie Records

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Bougie Records is a label founded by Mike Beating, the producer and curator behind a wide network of sleepy lofi playlists. The label is a home for calm, late-night instrumental music: it focuses on the gentle, drifting side of lofi beats made for winding down, falling asleep, and quiet hours. Bougie Records launched to the public in January 2025.

Boutique

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BOUTIQUE is a label for carefully curated instrumental music: melodic beats, chillhop and atmospheric lofi made by a roster of producers like softy, flowray, Leavv, Sátyr, Cap Kendricks and Loop Schrauber. The label takes a quality first approach to its releases, summed up by its own motto: if it's not here, it's not ready. Every track is a deliberate, finished piece rather than a quick drop. Founders: therooq and Cap Kendricks

Brunch Collect

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Brunch Collect is an independent label and creative collective founded with the vision of supporting and promoting high-quality, genre-blending instrumental music. Rooted in a passion for Lofi HipHop, ChillHop, and Jazz-inspired beats, we are dedicated to giving artists the freedom to express their unique sounds. With an ethos centered on collaboration, accessibility, and community, we strive to create a platform where talent can thrive without barriers. At Brunch Collect, we believe in nurturing creative freedom and amplifying the voices of independent artists to bring their music to the world.

Cali Soul

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Cali Soul Records launched in 2024 by Ol Wallace with a mission to deliver soulful jazz and chillhop music. Already working with artists like HM Surf, Erwin Do, Calvin Bennett, and many more, the label has quickly gained millions of streams and built a thriving community.

Cat Café Records

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Cat Café Records is a lofi label built around one of the warmest cultural metaphors the genre could borrow from, the cat café. A real place in Japan where people drink coffee, pet cats, and slow down for a while. That's the entire thesis here. The label wants to be exactly that kind of room, but in audio form. A welcoming, cozy spot where the listener can step out of the day and feel a little softer. The musical lane is clear: instrumental lofi, chillhop, jazzhop, study beats. Warm, cozy, easy to live with. They want music that fits naturally into their cozy playlist world while still carrying its own personal voice. That last part matters. They're not building a generic background lofi conveyor, they're looking for tracks with character delivered inside a soft, comfortable frame rather than an experimental one.

Chill Beats Music

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Chill Beats Records is one of the world’s premier LoFi imprints, home to a genre-defining roster and a catalogue that reaches millions of listeners across the globe. We live and breathe LoFi, curating the perfect soundtrack for study, chillout, and creative flow. From laid-back jazz-infused instrumentals to smooth bossa-inspired grooves and timeless LoFi hip-hop beats, every track is crafted to set the mood. It’s music that blends mellow rhythms and warm textures into endlessly replayable vibes, ideal for study sessions, background listening, or just relaxing into the moment. More than a label, Chill Beats Records stands at the heart of the global LoFi community, where groove, style, and simplicity come together.

Chill Ghost

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Chill Ghost is a Lo-Fi & Chillhop record label based out of London, founded by two producers who decided that there needed to be a fairer and more artist-friendly record label in the space. Releasing music nowadays means trying to dodge constant pitfalls and sometimes straight-up scams. Chill Ghost aims to combat these problems by educating its followers and providing a transparent release process for artists.

Chill Owl

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Chill Owl is not really a label, but a dedicated playlist curator with its own ecosystem across streaming platforms. The whole brand revolves around curated listening experiences rather than pushing releases like a traditional label. Their main strength is themed playlists. Instead of one broad “lofi” bucket, they build separate spaces for different moods and use cases: jazzhop, sleep focused lofi, cosmic and dreamy atmospheres, gaming beats, study sessions, meditative vibes, and more. Each playlist feels like its own little world, which is useful for artists because you can target a specific aesthetic instead of submitting blindly to “general lofi.” You can immediately understand the direction just from the playlist concepts themselves: calming zen energy, sleepy nighttime ambience, spacey imagination driven moods, background music for gaming, or soft study and coffee shop vibes. Chill Owl basically covers most of the functional and lifestyle side of the lofi spectrum, without positioning itself as an ultra niche curator.

Chilled Chilla Records

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Chilled Chilla Records is a young indie lofi label out of Leipzig, Germany, founded in 2025 by Ralf Kircheis and Toni Heinzel. The whole project is built around what they describe as a passion for smooth, soothing soundscapes. That isn't just a tagline, it's the compass of the label. Nothing harsh, nothing showy, nothing rushed. Music that feels like an exhale.

Coastal Chill Records

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Coastal Chill Records is a lofi label founded by Conor, a Southern California native and lofi producer in his own right (releasing as CMJ). Born and raised on the coast, Conor built the label around the chill, relaxing music he loves, and around fixing the things he saw working with other labels. That experience shaped a few core principles that guide how the label operates: 1. Plain English contracts, so artists fully understand what they're signing 2. Artist friendly royalty splits, because artists are the core of any label and deserve fair pay 3. Education on royalties, helping artists navigate confusing music business law and collect everything they're owed 4. Timely distribution, getting tracks out with plenty of runway to pitch editorial playlists and land placements

Common Theory Records

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Common Theory Records is an instrumental hip hop label based between Ghent and Munich. Even that geography says a lot about their identity: this is a very European approach to beat culture, shaped more by jazz influences, musicianship, and underground production traditions than by the typical “coffee shop lofi” formula. The scene they operate in is much closer to the classic beat scene lineage inspired by figures like J Dilla, Madlib, and Stones Throw Records than to modern streaming focused background lofi. Their world is rooted in instrumental hip hop as an art form, not just passive listening music.

Corduroy Collective

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Flagship playlist blending jazzy beats and golden era sounds. Vinyl-textured aesthetic with nostalgic analog warmth.

DQBT Records

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Japanese-themed lofi label known for compilations like Shizuoka Views, Sakura Season, and Rainy Nights of Otaru.

Dog Tapes

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Raw and experimental lofi with boom bap roots and melancholic textures.

EverDream

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EverDream Records is a young lofi label built around its Discord community rather than a traditional website or blog. Its public presence is intentionally minimal: a Linktree, Instagram, Spotify playlists, and Discord as the primary point of contact. This feels less like an unfinished setup and more like a deliberate choice. Discord is not just another channel here, it's the heart of the project, where submissions, conversations, and the entire release pipeline come together. The name itself captures the label's identity perfectly. EverDream suggests an endless dream, and that atmosphere runs through everything they do. The label leans into the softer, more drifting side of lo-fi, the kind of music that isn't trying to energize the listener but gently pull them somewhere else. It's a space built for immersion, reflection, and getting lost in the moment.

Flawsome

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A young niche lofi project called Flawsome. Even the name reflects the core philosophy: a blend of “flaw” and “awesome,” built around the idea that imperfection is what makes something beautiful. That fits naturally with the roots of lofi culture, where tape hiss, vinyl crackle, warmth, and rough textures were never treated as flaws, but as part of the charm. Their public presence is still very minimal: mainly an Instagram page and a Google Form for submissions, without a full website, Linktree, or Discord community yet. That is pretty typical for an early stage indie curator project in the lofi scene, where the first priority is building a catalog and audience before expanding the infrastructure around it.

Fortune Cookie

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Fortune Cookie Records is a community driven lofi label founded in 2022, built around the motto "forever inspired." Its mission is to be a haven for creative, like minded people, operating by artists for artists, fostering talent and backing forward thinking ideas. The sound leans toward upbeat, uplifting lofi instrumental beats, and the label puts real weight on storytelling, clear artist communication, fair and transparent contracts, and a genuine appreciation for its community and culture. Fortune Cookie Records is part of the ASAP Collective.

Hi.Mood.Records

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Hi.mood Records brings you a roster of diverse artists, maintaining a perfect balance and variety of sounds. As an independent record label, our mission is not only to represent artists, but also to curate and host various playlists for every mood. Our playlists offer a broad-spectrum of background music to soundtrack your everyday life, as well as foreground music to get you hyped and in the zone. We offer playlists for working out, dining with friends, gaming, studying, meditating and so on.

Homework Radio

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Homework Radio is one of the old school pillars of the YouTube lofi scene. They emerged during the early wave of the genre, back when lofi was just starting to grow into a global phenomenon, and over the years became a trusted name for both listeners and artists. This is not a new niche curator trying to find its identity, but an established platform with history, reputation, and deep roots in the culture of online lofi.

Insert Tapes

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Insert Tapes is a lofi label where cassette culture is not just a marketing aesthetic, but the core of the entire brand identity. Even the name says it directly: “insert tape.” They actively release music on physical cassette tapes and vinyl, selling them through their store and Bandcamp as a central part of the experience rather than as optional merch attached to streaming releases. The focus feels deeply rooted in tactile listening culture, collector mentality, and the nostalgic side of lofi, where the physical format matters almost as much as the music itself.

Kicker Records

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Kicker Records is a beat-scene label born out of friendship. British beatmaker Konteks (known for City Samba, Dusty, and producing Bittersweet Baby for blackwave.) joined forces with French collective Hip Dozer (running since 2014, the crew that broke Cookin Soul, SoulChef, FloFilz and DJ Cam). After four years of working closely together, they put a label between them, and you can hear it: Kicker sounds like a project run by people who aren't trying to reinvent the genre, they've just been living in it for years. The name doesn't reference music at all, it nods to skateboarding. A kicker is the ramp that gives you the lift for a clean trick. The metaphor reads itself: the label exists to give a push to up-and-coming beatmakers, to help them land bigger tricks. That sets the tone from the start, horizontal, friendly, supportive, not corporate. The aesthetic, in their own words, is "the cream of beatmaking". Konteks is described as a true digger, mining hip-hop with a capital H: lo-fi, boom-bap, downtempo, ambient, jazzhop. This isn't functional study-lofi made to sit in the background, it's instrumental music with real production taste, sample flips, and a jazz sensibility.

Kindbrew Records

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Kindbrew Records is an artist owned label focused on lofi, jazzhop, and chillhop. Even the name sets the mood right away: “kind brew” feels like a warm cup you put on in the morning or late evening to slow down and relax for a bit. Their slogan, “chill beats to be kind to,” pushes that idea even further. The whole identity revolves around music as a form of softness and self care, creating a comforting atmosphere rather than chasing hype or high energy aesthetics.

Leveza Records

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Leveza Records is built around a single, unusually clear idea: lofi as a path to inner stillness. The name comes from the Portuguese word leveza, "lightness", and that word is the whole label. Lightness in the music, lightness in what they want the listener to feel, lightness as a goal. They sit in a specific corner of the genre, lofi ambient with nature sounds. Not chillhop, not jazzy boom-bap, not study-coffee beats. Their releases are layered with rain, rivers, birds, water, wind, zen bowls, piano, guitar. The aesthetic is closer to meditation and sound healing than to the typical lofi YouTube radio. Their stated mission is direct and almost therapeutic: "emotional music that gently calms, deeply relaxes, and positively heals the soul". The audience they're speaking to is the person trying to fall asleep, the one meditating, the one needing a break from notifications, the one designing a calm study or work space. That's a sharper niche than most lofi labels touch.

Lofi Alumni

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Lofi Alumni came onto the Lofi Hip Hop Music scene in 2023, guided by a mission to create authentic beats that embody the laid-back and positive vibes of the genre, while simultaneously improving our day to day living conditions through philanthropic endeavors. Founded by Ray Santos (aka Cloud E Daze) in Springfield, Ohio, Lofi Alumni is dedicated to sharing Lofi Hip Hop with a global audience while continuously enhancing the experience for fans of the genre. At the heart of Lofi Alumni's ethos are a set of core values that shape every aspect of the label's operations. With a commitment to fostering genuine connections, philanthropic endeavors, and promoting positive change in the world, Lofi Alumni strives to elevate the Lofi music community through acts of goodwill and support for artists.

Lofi Cafe Records

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Dreamy, sleep-friendly soundscapes for winding down and studying. Custom artwork for every release.

Lofi Castle Records

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Lofi Castle Records is a small, hands on indie label built around two ideas that don't get said out loud often enough in the lofi scene: the artist comes first, and the music is allowed to feel a little soft and storybook, not "elevated chill" branded by a design agency. The "castle" in the name is the giveaway. It's a small kingdom for sleepy, relaxing music, with a warm, almost bedtime atmosphere. Aesthetically the label lives in one specific corner of the genre, sleepy lofi and relaxing beats. Not chillhop for workouts, not jazz hop for the café, not study music with crisp percussion. The sound they're after is warm, organic, mellow, soft, the kind of music you actually fall asleep to without realizing.

Lofi Chill Records

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Fresh lofi hip-hop for everyday chilling. Lofi Jazz Records operates as sub-division label for jazzhop and uptempo grooves.

Lofi Jazz Records

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Fresh jazzhop, uptempo, and groovy instrumentals with unique artist artwork.

Lopills

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Established label with a large artist roster (30+ producers). Cozy, bedroom-producer-friendly with warm analog feel.

Lunora Records

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Lunora Records is a young lofi label whose whole aesthetic promise is packed into the name itself. Lunora reads directly from luna, the moon, and lands on a soft ending that feels more like a dream than a word. Everything the label points at, night sounds, moonlit rooms, contemplative mood, quiet after hours, is already sitting in that first breath. The territory is the nocturnal, dreamy, slightly cinematic corner of lofi. Not chillhop for the workout, not study beats with crisp drums, not sleepy ambient stretched into a full sleep track. This is lofi for the late hours when the city is winding down and the light in the window is the only thing still on. Soft textures, warm harmonic beds, restrained percussion, melodies that drift the way moonlight does.

Mono Spiral Records

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Mono Spiral Records is a French independent label built around a clear mission: *“building a timeless catalog where every release tells a story.”* Rather than chasing playlist placements or feeding the release conveyor belt, the label focuses on creating a body of work that can outlast algorithmic trends. That kind of long term thinking is rare in the lo-fi scene, where many labels operate one release at a time. Mono Spiral approaches its catalog as a cohesive artistic statement. The concept is embedded in the name itself. *Mono Spiral* evokes a monochromatic spiral, movement centered around a single point while continuously going deeper. That is exactly how the label feels: one aesthetic direction, one emotional palette, one evolving narrative unfolding release after release. Every artwork, every sound, and every artist becomes another turn of the same spiral. One of the label’s strongest assets is its visual identity. As they describe it, there is a *“strong visual identity and a deep sense of storytelling, where music and visuals intertwine.”* This goes far beyond simply having attractive cover art. Mono Spiral treats releases as audiovisual experiences, where imagery and sound are designed to complement each other. The result is not just a collection of tracks, but a series of self contained worlds that listeners can step into.

Mutombo Records

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German label inspired by 90s basketball culture. Vinyl releases and merch store. Laid-back soundscapes with rhythm and swagger.

New Peace Music

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Chill beats collective releasing soothing lofi instrumentals.

OIYO Records

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German-based indie label with Believe distribution, releasing quality lofi across streaming platforms.

Oceangazer Records

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Oceangazer Records is an independent label for ambient music and lo-fi beats, and the name does most of the work of explaining who they are. Oceangazer, one who gazes at the ocean. Not "ocean waves" (that would be motion), not "ocean deep" (that would be dark). Just gazing. That's the emotional posture the label is built around. Slow, patient, contemplative attention to a vast expanse. The territory is sleepy, meditative lofi that leans deep into the ambient side of the genre. Their playlists name the aesthetic themselves: Lofi Dreams, Lofi Zen Garden. Nothing "study beats to focus to", nothing punchy or upbeat. This is lofi as a contemplative posture, the kind of music that asks the listener to slow their breathing and look at something for a while.

Overgrown Tapes

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Overgrown Tapes is one of the most evocatively named labels in the lofi scene, and the name does almost everything before the music plays. Overgrown meaning nature reclaiming space, vines on a fence, moss on a window, lush green creeping back into something forgotten. Tapes meaning the warm, slightly degraded analog tradition lofi has always lived in. Put together, the label sounds like a cassette someone left out in the grass long enough for the world to grow over it. That's exactly the aesthetic. The territory is dreamy, atmospheric lofi, the kind that feels overgrown rather than tightly produced. Lush textures, hazy melodies, music that drifts the way fog does. It isn't punchy chillhop, it isn't snappy study beats, it's the corner of the genre where you stop hearing individual instruments and start hearing a space. The label is driven by Mondo Loops, one of the recognized names in dreamy lofi. That matters. The person at the wheel is a producer with a clear aesthetic and a real catalog of his own, not a label runner managing a brand from a spreadsheet. It shows in the curation, the playlists, the community feel, the consistent atmosphere from release to release.

Pueblo Vista

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Lofi label and playlist curator accepting release submissions via form. Submission requirements: - Unreleased material only - SoundCloud private link only (no Dropbox / WeTransfer / Google Drive) - 4+ tracks (EP/Album). Singles considered only for compilations if approved. - Sample-free or samples must be creatively transformed - Do not submit the same project twice Required fields: email, "Artist – Song Title", music link (SC private), full legal name (needed if released), optional message. Response time: 2–3 weeks if interested. No reply = not selected, free to resubmit a new project anytime. Available release slots: 3–6 months out due to submission volume. If you need a faster release, consider going solo. Singles are funneled into compilations; full releases are EP/album only.

Purity Label

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Purity is an independent lofi label with a brand attitude that's almost unusual in the genre, restraint. The entire website is a single page with one line: "an independent label for lofi beats & more". No manifesto, no overproduced about us section, no aesthetic essay. The label is confident enough in what it does that it doesn't have to say much about it. The name does the work. That word, purity, is the whole compass. In a lofi scene that usually piles on aesthetics (vintage anime girls, late night windows, lo-fi room visualizers, busy plugin stack production), Purity stakes out the opposite move. Clean sound, clean image, clean intent. Lofi distilled down to what actually matters, the beat, the texture, the mood, with nothing trying to win attention.

Purple Theory Records

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Oslo-based label exploring abstract sonic realities since 2023. Textured, colorful beats with a focus on musicianship.

Retro Jungle

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Retro Jungle Records is an independent Jazz Hip Hop Record Label founded in 2017 by Félix Schmidt (aka DLJ), artist, music composer and sound designer from France. Goal is to release high quality music and compilations on the streaming platforms and on vinyl, with fair deals for our artists and creating long term relationships with them. Work with a lot of international artists from the Hip Hop / lofi hip hop scene, but also with ambient, jazz, rap or indie pop artists. Not forgetting the talented illustrators and motion designers we work with, who participate to create Retro Jungle’s universe thanks to unique artworks.

Serendipity Music

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Serendipity Music is a young label founded by lst.drm, an artist with a solid reputation in the chillhop scene. This is not some curator starting from zero, it’s a beatmaker who’s already gone through the scene from the artist’s side many times over, and is now building the kind of home he’d personally want to release music with. Even the name captures the spirit of the genre perfectly. Serendipity is that happy accident of finding something you were not even looking for. That’s exactly how people listen to lofi. You put on a playlist in the background, then suddenly one track catches you off guard and you instantly check who made it. The label is built around that feeling. Giving artists the chance to become that unexpected discovery for someone, instead of disappearing into the endless noise of streaming platforms. Right now Serendipity Music is still shaping its identity, and honestly, that is part of its strength. No corporate distance, no conveyor belt demo submissions, no “send your track through this form and maybe we’ll get back to you next month.” It feels personal. Warm. Horizontal. Artists speak directly with the founder, not with some “demo intake manager.”

Settle

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Settle defines itself in five words on the homepage: "a feel good music company". Not a label, not a curator, not a collective, a company built around feeling good. That framing alone tells you most of what you need to know: the project doesn't try to compete on jazz credibility, beat-scene depth, or genre experimentation, it competes on warmth and emotional payoff. The whole identity is carefully selected lofi hip hop to help you work, study, or relax. Settle stays right in the central lofi lane and owns it without apology. Mixes have names that read like exhales: Soft Lofi Mix, Chill Lofi Mix. Nothing flashy, nothing performative, the bet is on consistency and trust.

Soave Lofi

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Part of Soave Records. Dutch label spreading good vibes through lofi and sun-kissed melodies. Also releases house and dance music. Active 2026 with sample packs. Demo submissions: via LabelRadar only. Soave reviews demos through their LabelRadar portal. Their website demo page redirects there. Submission windows are infrequent. LabelRadar opens/closes submission slots periodically rather than continuously. Always check the portal for current status before submitting; outside of open windows the form will not accept demos.

Soothe Wave

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Danish lofi project — playlist curator + collab-based releases. Founded by three producers: Jonas Hoffmann Buelund (Hoffy Beats), Tony Andersen, Jimmi Nielsen. Run mood-specific playlists across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TikTok (Sleep Lofi, LoFi Jazz, Coffee Shop LoFi, Morning Focus, Meditation, etc.).

Sphere Of Hip-Hop

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Hip-hop & instrumental music magazine since 1997, evolved into a label, playlist network and 24/7 radio. Core aesthetic: jazzy boom bap, instrumental hip-hop, lo-fi jazz beats, jazz rap, study beats. International roster (USA, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Indonesia). Evening Stroll, sleeping with shoes on, Mehr Enayati, Saint Rumi, Theo Juarez, YJKL, konb. Editorial placements on Spotify's Lo-fi Beats (5.35M followers), Jazz Vibes, Mellow Lofi Morning; BBC Radio support via Focus Beats. Part of an alliance with Alt Jazz.

Stereofox

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Music discovery platform turned record label, publisher and sync agency. Curating music for 10+ years via stereofox.com, releasing since 2018. Millions of monthly streams, vinyl releases with Rakamakafon, support from BBC Radio, KCRW, CLASH Mag, COLORS Berlin. Roster includes Toshiki Soejima, Nahokimama, dreamdvst, Mesklun, .EEhOU, Softy, TromBobby, Y A N A. Offers 360° support: digital + physical distribution, publishing/licensing (worldwide royalty collection), sync library with pre-cleared tracks, bespoke music production, creative & marketing.

Svalur Music

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Svalur Music is a wellness focused independent label whose brand is packed into a single, beautifully layered word. Svalur is Icelandic. Literally it means "cool" in the temperature sense, chilly, crisp, the coolness of Nordic air. But it also carries the modern sense of "cool", laid back, at ease. The label leans on both meanings at once, and that duality is the whole personality of the brand. Something quietly stylish, softly composed, and cooled off from the noise around it. The wellness focus is the key to understanding what Svalur actually is, and what separates it from the standard lofi label pack. Lofi and ambient are part of the catalog, but they sit inside a larger wellness vision rather than defining it. The music is chosen for what it does for the listener (soothing, grounding, restoring, slowing things down), not just for its genre tags. That framing puts Svalur closer to a curated wellness experience than to a pure playlist funnel, and lets the roster stretch across whatever fits the overall calming vision.

TAVAE

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Lofi/chill imprint of French label & music agency Estrela Records (founded 2022 by Margaux and Ludovic Raymond). Estrela is an independent label collective that has released 1,500+ tracks with 700M+ streams. TAVAE is their dedicated brand for emerging lofi/chill talent. Tagline: "Chill beats · Lofi · Live performance, we make the music we love." Approach: collaborative artist development model inherited from Estrela. Strong focus on playlist growth via Meta Ads + Soundlink. TAVAE's promoted playlists outperform artists' other tracks on Spotify algorithm and boost radio exposure. So the value prop is less about prestige catalog, more about real listener acquisition through paid playlist marketing.

The Jazz Hop Cafe

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UK-based jazz hop music label and merch store. Started as one of the genre-defining YouTube channels for lofi jazz mixes, now a fully operational label with vinyl, CD, cassette and merch business. Tagline: "freshly roasted lofi jazz beats". Slogan reference: their YouTube reach is famous (the "favourite cafe, jazz lofi mix" featured Sphere of Hip-Hop's Evening Stroll, for example). Send tracks via Google Drive or private SoundCloud link, all material must be unreleased. Currently accepting for artist Compilation releases (so the entry route is compilation, not solo signings via the public form). What they want: Primary genres: jazzy lofi, jazz hop, jazz rap, swing hop beats. Secondary genres: anime lofi, midnight lofi, asian lofi, folk lofi, space lofi, various cultural lofi themes. Not accepting: chillhop with electric guitars (explicitly stated as a no right now). Catalog approach: strong release cadence (multiple drops per month), supports artists with physical formats (vinyl, CD, cassette) and a robust merch line tied to the brand.

The Lofi Playground

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Indie lofi curator and emerging label, brand built around the concept of "calm beats in the background of a peaceful playground". Audience is the classic study/chill segment. Flagship asset is their main Spotify playlist "Lofi Beats (to study/chill to)" with ~6.5K saves plus a mirrored Apple Music playlist.

The Retune Project

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Lofi label operated by J Fletch (artist on Sphere of Hip-Hop, hence the Alt Jazz alliance connection, demos shared across labels via the common Google Form). Tagline: "Pioneering artist ownership in lofi music." Core promise: artist retains majority share of their music, label sees itself as a service layer, not as the owner of the work. Approach: runs a network of lofi playlists and pushes them with paid Facebook + Google Ads to drive real, organic-quality listeners (their wording: "100% organic results, real time data to improve advertising"). So the model is closer to "playlist growth + label services" than to traditional A&R. What they want: lo-fi, chill hop, sleepy beats, jazz hop and adjacent genres. Explicitly state any size of artist gets the same consideration ("any artist no matter how big or small receives the same consideration").

Through Manhattan Records

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Through Manhattan Records is a young lofi label (est. 2024) built around one of the most musically loaded cities on earth. The name does almost everything before the music even plays. Through Manhattan is movement, the feeling of drifting past brownstones at night, catching the smell of corner bodegas, late jazz spilling out of a basement bar, fire escapes, the rumble of the train coming up from underground. The label is making music for that walk. The sound sits in a specific corner of the genre, jazz lofi and lofi hip hop with the dusty warmth of old vinyl records.

Through The Trees Records

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Clear niche positioning: “lofi with roots.” This isn’t a generic chillhop label, it’s a focused and carefully curated aesthetic built around real instruments, acoustic guitars, and folk inspired lofi vibes. If your sound leans more toward polished or “plastic” lofi, this probably isn’t the right fit. The filtering already starts at the self identification stage.

Widen Island

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Widen Island is a Lofi music blog and community, a Spotify Playlists portal with tips and tricks in lofi and Bedroom pop music production, samples, drum kits. We enjoy curating music and thrives to write articles about what we love the most. Lofi hip hop music productions and independent lofi Artists. We are also a lofi Label and we releases songs within the lofi hip-hop jazzy lofi genre primarly. Goal is to give more exposure to some amazing lofi artists.

Zad Collective

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Lofi label founded by zad, one of the more recognizable artists in the scene. The label itself is still relatively small and early in its growth, but it already carries the audience and reputation of its founder behind it. Their slogan captures the whole philosophy perfectly: “the label where every song tells a story.” The focus is not on functional background music for studying, but on emotional storytelling through sound. Every release is expected to convey a scene, a feeling, a specific atmosphere. The overall vibe is dreamy and sleepy. Their direction leans more toward late night listening, falling asleep, and emotional immersion. This is not coffee shop chillhop or groove driven jazz hop. It’s atmospheric lofi with an emphasis on mood, texture, and narrative.