Lofi Worlds is live. It's a free space lofi music site where you pick a world, press enter, and a slow, dark lofi track starts while the scene plays out in pixel art. You can watch a hurricane turn on Earth from a station window, or sit in a pilot's cabin while the jump drive tears through hyperspace. It runs in your browser, on a laptop or a phone.
Space lofi music for studying and sleep
All 31 tracks are original and were made for Lofi Worlds. They're darker and slower than most lofi playlists, closer to ambient space music with a beat under it, so they stay in the background while you work or fall asleep. Songs fade into each other when a track ends, and the worlds keep looping, so you can leave a tab open all night.
It works well as a lofi website for studying. Open one tab, pick a world you like, set the music a little louder than the ambience and get to work.
What you can do on board
- Travel between worlds. The arrow keys and the worlds list take you anywhere, and the dice button picks a world at random. The route runs from low orbit around Mercury out to a black hole, with stops at the Moon, Gale Crater on Mars, Jupiter's moon Io and a rainy megacity.
- Pick any song. Open the songs list and choose a track, or let them play on their own. The guided tour plays one song per world and travels outward from the Sun.
- Mix the ambience. Each world has its own sound under the music, like rain in Neon Rain, wind on Mauna Kea, the marsh at Cape Canaveral or the jump drive in hyperspace. It has its own slider, so you can turn the music down and keep the rain.
- Go full screen. It fills a phone or a spare monitor, and you can drag the player bar anywhere on the screen.
- Throw the cat's yarn. The ship's cat lives in 28 of the 29 worlds, from the cabin in Between Worlds to the sidewalk in Neon Rain, and by the black hole it floats in a tiny space suit. Throw its ball of yarn and the cat goes after it. Now and then a mouse runs through, and the cat hasn't caught one yet.
- See who's listening. The comms panel shows how many people are tuned in right now.
Real places, drawn as pixel art
Most worlds are real places, drawn from mission photos, and the facts that scroll across the ship's screens are checked. Pluto's pale heart is the one NASA's New Horizons spacecraft photographed on its July 2015 flyby. The Pillars of Creation world is based on the Webb telescope's 2022 portrait of the Eagle Nebula, which sits 6,500 light-years away. The about page lists every world and every song.
Frequently asked questions
Is Lofi Worlds free?
Yes. It's free, with no ads and no sign-up. Open lofiworlds.com, press enter and the music starts.
Can I use Lofi Worlds to study?
Yes. It's built for studying and sleep. Pick a world, set the music and the ambience where you like them, and leave it running in a tab or full screen while you work.
Does it have rain sounds?
Yes. Neon Rain is a rainy city at night with the rain on its own slider, and every other world has a sound of its own, like wind or the jump drive.
Can I use the music in my videos?
Please ask first. The music is original and belongs to Lofi Worlds, so write to [email protected] and tell us what you have in mind.
Sources
- Pluto, NASA Science.
- NASA's Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation, NASA Science, October 19, 2022.
