Los Angeles-based producer and multi-instrumentalist, Auxjack, makes beats that evoke the same naturalism and feeling of meditation as all great lofi music. His beats are defined by his tendency to eschew samples and compose beats from scratch, with an organic, bottom-up approach that showcases both his formal training and his decades of musical experience. Auxjack’s holistic style of lofi draws both on his upbringing playing in pop-punk and emo bands as a teenager and on his thousands of hours sitting in the engineer’s chair; he earned a Grammy nomination for his work as a vocal and horns engineer on J Cole’s album “2014 Forest Hills Drive," and he works closely with acts like New Jersey indie pop artist, joe p, and Boston rapper, Sammy Adams.