Lofi

Lo-fi is an aesthetic in music production which uses low fidelity recording practices. Its use is usually due to the artist’s financial limitations. Many lo-fi artists use inexpensive cassette tape recorders for their music. The term was coined by WFMU DJ William Berger who dedicated a half hour segment of his program to home recorded music throughout the late ’80s under the name Lo-fi…
As a term to describe a musical genre, lo-fi is mainly associated with recordings from the 1980s onwards .