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 link: https://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