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Lo-fi techniques are espoused by some genres outside the indie rock world, particularly by black metal artists, where the very low-quality of the recording has become a desirable quality, said by fans to convey a rawness and depth of feeling otherwise unattainable.

Some fans deliberately seek out extremely lo-fi concert bootlegs, such as the Dawn of the Black Hearts, which are of very low quality.

DIY punk is also well noted for its trend toward lo-fi sound, produced for the most part on inexpensive four-track machines such as the Tascam, and copied from tape to tape on home recording equipment, degrading the quality still further.

In DIY punk lo-fi is prized mainly because it indicates a rejection of the values of commercialism.

No-fi takes the lo-fi and DIY aesthetic to extremes, or at least a different location on the sound spectrum.

Fusing the disheveled, DIY and loose playing punk sound and the lo-fi recording style with unconventional playing and tuning of instruments, to not only create lo-fi recordings but also " lo-fi " playing and song structures.