The New LoFi Mixtape

New music featuring Jungle, Vegyn, Fabiano do Nascimento, Sam Gendel, Godtet, Lucien Johnson, John Carroll Kirby, Scoobert Doobert, Keegan Del Rio, Echo Thrills and many more.

This month, TNLF goes in with over an hour of House, Techno and Drum & Bass to kick off spring. New music from Chase & Status, Four Tet, Floating Points, Vegyn, Joy Anonymous, Joy Orbison, The Blessed Madonna, Passerines, Bryan Softwell, Niel Frances, Leon Vynehall, HAAi, and many many more

This month we are carrying on with the eclectic music from all over the world with a mix of psychedelic French indie, Turkish funk, and American desert rock. It’s sort of an evolution of last month’s mix of tropical exotica and jazz.  But this mix has a low key swagger all the way through.

New music from Jungle, Kraak & Smaak, Jamie xx, Greg Wilson, Gianni Brezzo, Vegyn, YIN YIN, Soul Wun, and many more

The best electronic music from 2023 in one mix. Featuring tracks from Jungle, FISHER, Chemical brothers, Gorillaz, Boys Noize, Joy Anonymous, Skrillez, Disclosure, Will Clarke, and so many more.

Indie rock Christmas music from the likes of Elliott Smith, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Rufus Wainright, The Walkmen, Fleet Foxes, Julian Casablancas, Deer Tick, The Kinks, Best Coast, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and of course, The Pogues.

To give you a bit of a pick me up in the darker months, we’ve got over an hour in some of the best house and techno that has been submitted to the blog in the last couple of months. New music from Barry Can't Swim, Joy Anonymous, Sofia Kourtesis, The Chemical Brothers, Needs No Sleep, Mira Nait, James Blake and a very interesting remix of Depeche Mode’s track “Personal Jesus”

This month we keep the autumnal music rolling from last month with another hour of jazz, soul and psychedelic from around the world. New music from Say She She, Sven Wunder, Surprise Chef, Yazmin Lacey, Planet Ibiza, Elephant Stone, Louie Rubio, Web Web, and many more.

From psychedelic indie to Arabic funk, October's mixtape includes over two hours of jazz, soul, and rock from around the world. Featuring new music from Kokoroko, Babe Rainbow, Sven Wunder, Nick Marks, Dougie Stu, Dina Ogon, Maribou State, and Matthew Halsall.

For September we've got new music from Boys Noize, Disclosure, Fisher, Skrillex, Jax Jones, Nia Archives, CIISNERO, Jungle, Emma-Jean Thackray, Wax Motif, edapollo, Mild Minds, Davide Marsala, Sofia Kourtesis, and a fantastic new Bicep remix of “Glue” by Blake Strange.

James is back in South London to record the new mixtape for August. Featuring new music from Crystal Fighters, Laura Misch, Devendra Banhart, Fever Ray, SAULT, Move 78, Daao, Freyja Garbett and Nu Genea. This mixtape is a real wormhole of audio. It starts to go in one direction and then switches it up to a completely new vibe. I think you’ll like it.

James records the new mixtape from bed as he gets over the norovirus with nearly two hours of electronic music featuring new singles from Rival Consoles, Barry Can’t Swim, DJ Seinfeld, Peggy Gou, Confidence man, Daniel Avery, Banyan, Scasca, Swimming Paul and an up-and-coming electronic artist called simple: Nicolas

This month's mixtape features new music from Little Dragon, LA Priest, Altin Goon, Stella, Biig Piig, Peggy Gou, Teen Daze, Django Django, Confidence man… It's an absolutely packed line up this month. And we’ve also got a couple new remixes from Soulwax, Self Esteem, and Tame Impala.

This month we’ve got new music from Sofia Kourtesis, Bonobo, The Blessed Madonna, Ross From Friends, Fred Again.., Skrillex, and Underworld. Check out full playlist below.

New music from Janko Nilovic, Charif Megarbane, DJ Istanbul or a band like Altin Gün and many more

James is in East London this month to share a new mix of music in the sub genre of Jazz Exotica. We’ve got almost two hours of new music jazz, soul and psychedelic music from El Michels Affair, Sudan Archives, Photay, Sven Wunder, Surprise Chef, Tenderlonious, and Biig Piig

This month's mix features a wandering collection of jazz, indie and electronic. Look out for new singles from Floating Points, Four Tet, Session Victim, Gillian Moss, Clive From Accounts, Bentley, Nia Archives, and Leon Vynehall.

Happy New Year! As is tradition, we are releasing the first mixtape of the year on New Year's Eve. This month's mixtape is a compilation of all the best electronic music from 2022. We're revisiting tracks from Floating Points, Four Tet, Maya Jane Coles, Clive From Accounts, Slow Rotation Inc., Axel Boman, Fred Again.., The Blessed Madonna, Sofia Kourtesis and many more. And for all of you kids tha...

James heads to a snow covered Walthamstow Forest to record the intro for this bonus Christmas mixtape. For the holiday season bonus mixtape this year, we've got all the best big band Christmas music. You’ve got your Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Peggy lee, Louis Armstrong, Andy Williams, Doris day, Burl Ives, Stan Kenton, and many many more.

This month we’ve got new music from Little Dragon, Poolside, The Frightnrs, ODESZA, Scoobert Doobert, Nia Archives, Sea Glass, Soft Double, Albatrauss and Portugal. The Man. This month we’re returning to form with the mix by creating a sort of musical journey across genres. The aim is to take you just a bit out of your musical comfort zone. There's indie, there's breakbeat, there's tropical, there...

This month James takes us on a two and a half hour journey through the world of underground psychedelic jazz, soul and tropical exotica. Featuring new music from Jazzanova, The Sorcerers, Chip Wickham, Florence Adooni, Sam Wilkes, Kolumbo, Frowein Pedersen, Frank Dukes, Los Bitchos, Bentley, and Surprise Chef.

If last month was a journey through Autumnal music during the daylight hours, then this month is an exploration into the darker side of the season. This is Autumn after the sun goes down.

This month James waxes lyrical about his childhood growing up among the pine barrens. Also, a line up of autumnal indie music featuring new music from Parquet Courts, Loyle Carner, James Wyatt Crosby, Metronomy, Donkey Kid, Sworn Virgins, Common Saints, Sven Wunder, and two tracks from Pine Barons.

This mix is like a continuation from last month. The mix starts off with a bit of chilled-out daytime disco and balearic beats to warm you up. Then it dives into some festival-grade electronic music. Featuring new music from, AMEME, LUXXURY, Mura Masa, Channel Tres, Shy Girl, Sofia Kourtesis, Harry Romero, Roosevelt, and much more.

Last month the mixtape was a celebration of the start of summer. But while last month’s podcast was a mix of summer jazz, surf rock, reggae and island music, this month is a combination of balearic beats, melodic techno, and sunny summer house music. New music from Nubya Garcia, JUNGLE, Fred Again.., BICEP, Axel Boman, Joy Orbison, HAAi, Four Tet, Jon Hopkins, and many more