Monday, October 7, 2024

The Late Night Lofi compilations

One night in late 2010, my ex and I decided to drive back to our hometown in the middle of the night instead of waiting to do so in the early morning. The air was brisk and his window was broken and permanently cracked. It was a very foggy evening, a bit spooky actually and extremely dangerous, and his radio was broken, which gave me a lot of time to think while continuously scanning for deer. This song kept playing in my head, and I thought about making a cool mix based upon that very creepy, sorta lo-fi sound that this particular Tobacco track and this eerie, foggy drive really epitomized, but what to call it? "Late Night Lofi" was what popped into my mind. Alas, I never made that mix, but the words "Late Night Lofi" stuck with me to use one day. 

As I mentioned in the International Telecom post, I found vaporwave in 2011 and finally understood it after hearing Midnight Television's self-titled album. From there, I was on the prowl for anything that sounded like what I'd heard through Laserdisc Visions and Midnight Television. I did find a couple of albums via Midnight Television's short-lived blog, Moonlit TV Dinner, and I did find others through lurking around Facebook pages and groups, as well as stalking people's Last.fm accounts. After a year of finding gems and falling in love, I chose to make a mix of the songs I'd considered to be highlights and tracks that sounded like the concept of "driving at dusk and continuing on well into the night", and decided that Late Night Lofi would be the absolute perfect name for this mix of 'whatever the fuck this genre is'. Newbreed, gunk, etc. 

Here we are, 12 years later, and I just released the seventh installment of the series. Late night lofi has also been adopted into a genre (because of course I was gonna use my own mix name and inspiration when releasing luxury elite albums!) and even has become its own festival, which is extremely flattering and hella cool. Never did I envision this to happen when I created the first mix, any of this. Anyway, here are all of the mixes, and I'll make sure to post the download links for each one. Enjoy.

Late Night Lofi, originally posted to Tumblr on 06/04/2012

1. Mimics - Palmeaters
2. Wasted Nights - Slow Mirror
3. Lasership Stereo - Digital Rain
4. Future Airwaves - Vision
5. Computer Dreams - Information Superhighway
6. Dreams West - Super Gran Turismo
7. 18 Carat Affair - New Jack City
8. Sand Circles - Downtown Holdup
9. Outer Limits Recordings - Driving At Night
10. Midnight Television - Jazzercise
11. Magnétophonique - City Lights

Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/aen9zhjiqmwaxkt/LATENIGHTLOFI.zip

Late Night Lofi II, originally posted to Tumblr on 12/09/2012

1. bittertv - クルーズライナーVOYAGER
2. Wasted Nights - Feelings
3. Computer Dreams - Drips
4. saharasunset - en jean
5. Dreams West - Distant
6. VHS Logos - Dial 89,3
7. orchids&flowers - Midnight Hour
8. Lasership Stereo - Circuit Heroes
9. Local News - Tonights Special Guest
10. SAFE MODE - 00002
11. esc 不在 - tonight on hbo
12. Hayao Yamaneko - The Ancients Called It "Lucifer-Alpha"
13. Diskette Romances - Emerson J. Banks
14. 骨架的 - Fantasy
15. 18 Carat Affair - Cybernetic
16. Walter Christian Rothe - Verena
17. Midnight Television - All Night

Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/zgr1n9w1k4i99d9/LATENIGHTLOFIII.zip

Late Night Lofi III, a mix for One O'Clock originally finished on 01/16/2013 but posted on 05/28/2013

1. Hayao Yamaneko - Dreams Two
2. Miami Vice - Empty Mall Lobby
3. VentureX - Smooth
4. hbocinemax - midnight vision
5. ECO VIRTUAL - Valley Breeze
6. luxury elite - swimming
7. Lasership Stereo - Sweet Rain
8. malewarlock - inoui
9. SAINT PEPSI - GIMME YOUR LOVE

Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/akshiykqrd7irz3/LATENIGHTLOFIIII.zip

Late Night Lofi IV, a mix for Neon Nights aired on 05/08/2014

1. Visaプリペイド - Mizushima
2. ULTRA ウルトラ - クレジット u p g r a d e ° 21
3. VentureX - Vacation
4. b o d y l i n e - television insomnia
5. VECTOR GRAPHICS - DIRTY LOOKS
6. Fé Mora - farewell
7. Computer Dreams - Waiting
8. Dystopian Chic - 5:19AM jam
9. DONT/ BE/ 正方形 - Nucle
10. Public Spreads the News [also written as Linckoln Public Library] - Movin' On Up
11. Miami Vice - Evening Broadcast
12. Lasership Stereo - Tides
13. General Translator - 当社PROTAGONIST(GENERALトランス)のためのインタールード
13. Convenient Integrative Moods - Structured Nighttime Activities
14. ショッピングワールドjp - NIGHTTIME SURF
15. INTERNET CLUB - DIGITAL FOG
16. Hong Kong Express - 夏天愛
17. SAINT PEPSI - de salle
18. luxury elite - cold
19. 18 Carat Affair - What If...
20. ESPRIT 空想 - summer night
21. TIME SLIME - LOVE
22. bbrainz - be good
23. CYBEREALITYライフ - オーロラ3.0
24. collegeparty - underwater archaeology
25. Kodak Cameo - The Strip at Midnight

Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/gjlm2whbisjc86g/LATENIGHTLOFIIV.zip

Late Night Lofi V, posted to Twitter on 12/01/2020

1. Young Muslim - Super GT
2. b o d y l i n e - nite waves (VHS)
3. gh0st - 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝒾𝓃'
4. COSMIC CYCLER - showroom
5. Silver Richards - Happy Hour
6. SYLLABUS - Up Late Again
7. BABEFAKE - Evening
8. bl00dwave - Crystal Building
9. plastique - Indigo
10. Sport3000 - Sport
11. 18 Carat Affair - Timeshares
12. Noir FM - Hazy Entrance
13. SAINT PEPSI - silhouettes
14. Kodak Cameo - Card Shark
15. Lasership Stereo - Showroom
16. 死夢VANITY - lovely reveries
17. luxury elite - private
18. GLITTER FORTRESS - MIDNIGHT
19. INTERNET CLUB - DIGI-NOIR
20. Mediterráneo Mall - Al Aire Libre
21. vcr-classique - busy life
22. t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - 魅惑的な目

Download linkhttps://www.mediafire.com/file/kpz1t4w2sf7bfxv/LATENIGHTLOFIV.zip

Late Night Lofi VI, posted to Twitter on 04/14/2023

1. Ashleigh Sullivan - 抱擁とキス  ˹ xoxoxo ˼
2. MiraiCult - ミーハージャンクショップ
3. Notorious Secret - The Moon and You
4. FutureFunkRocker - Candle Light
5. Kodak Cameo - Don't Go
6. 𝙡𝙮_ - Track 2
7. Aexion - Fireflies
8. TUPPERWAVE - All Night Long
9. 私たちのNIGHT - love hotel
10. 世界は80年代に終了しました - 本当の恋人
11. Seabaud - 陽光 微笑 Sunshine Smile
12. forbidden memories - roses
13. BABEFAKE - Blue Shadow
14. Turboway - 貿易収支 TRADE BALANCE
15. Nmesh - HI-RISΞ HΞARTBRΞAK
16. Persona La Ave - Special Boys
17. SAINT PEPSI - Dreams
18. NEW GAIA - Last Glimpse
19. bl00dwave - BODY
20. Mabisyo - The Cigarette Never Goes Out

Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/peqt8pcd81hp2p6/latenightlofivi.zip

Late Night Lofi VII, posted to Twitter on 10/06/24

1. Basement Love - Her
2. windows - IIIIIIII
3. Kratzwerk - show me your beautiful face
4. 魚魚 - lucky starfish
5. b o d y l i n e - song of the sea
6. bentoboy - Miami
7. 潜在的溺愛者 - 別次元の旅立ち
8. Copywrong - Shame
9. Skyglow - I got your number
10. VHSテープリワインダー - Mixed Messages
11. 𝙢𝙞𝙙𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 - Tropical Modernism
12. Eyeliner - Timelapse
13. Daydream Deluxe - OASIS沈没
14. Florida Rains - Florida Aquarium
15. Fan Fiordo - Paysage Bleu
16. midnight première - diamond nights
17. 死夢VANITY - true love
18. Tupperwave - Ramen Danbo
19. Nmesh - Kym & Patticakes
20. vcr-classique - night color
21. ホテル shampoo - sax fifth ave
22. Cinematic Sequences - Stay Tuned For More
23. Notorious Secret - Entwined Fates
24. Mom and Dad's Computer - menudrift
25. Atlas Cries - HOME AGAiN

Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/2ph0zgh2q5x8bvu/latenightlofivii.zip

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