
Mixtape 60: It began in Africa
To celebrate his beloved continent, Charles Leonard has picked 25 of his favourite African songs – stone-cold classics, fresh discoveries and hidden gems.
To celebrate his beloved continent, Charles Leonard has picked 25 of his favourite African songs – stone-cold classics, fresh discoveries and hidden gems.
Inspired by what labour troubadour Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar, Charles Leonard’s anti-fascist mixtape celebrates May Day with songs about working people.
In a time of brutal conflict in places such as Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine and Somalia, all the tracks on Charles Leonard’s latest mixtape are unashamedly for peace and against war.
His punning title for a mixtape of songs about shoes may well make you cringe, but Charles Leonard’s super selection of songs will certainly put a spring in your step.
While 2021 was overshadowed by pandemic-shaped clouds, it still had a silver lining. For Charles Leonard it came in the form of new music releases – he plays his favourites on this mixtape.
This last mixtape of 2021 is a countdown to the new year. Looking on the bright side of life, Charles Leonard has selected cautiously optimistic songs to make you feel good.
Festive playlists don’t have to mean Boney M and Mariah Carey tying you up in tinsel. On this Christmas mixtape, Charles Leonard leaves 25 all-cool, no-kitsch tunes under your tree.
Over the years, socially conscious musicians have produced songs about the environment. In the face of the climate crisis, Charles Leonard has picked the best ones for this mixtape.
It’s summer in the southern hemisphere, and in the mind of Charles Leonard it means one thing: mosquitoes. This has prompted him to make a mixtape buzzing with songs about insects.
For this second part of the mixtape’s golden anniversary, Charles Leonard has dug into one of popular music’s vintage years exactly five decades ago. He’s unearthed some gems for you.
Our mixtape has reached a musical milestone celebrating its 50th edition. True to form, Charles Leonard has again gone totally catholic, wildly global and genre-fluid with his playlist. Oh, and all the songs are from 1971.
Charles Leonard made this mixtape under his lemon tree, celebrating Lee “Scratch” Perry, Charlie Watts, Mahotella Queen Nobesuthu Mbadu and several other musicians who have recently died.
With this mixtape, the second of two featuring songs about walking, Charles Leonard is taking you on musical walkabouts to Memphis, Dube, the wild side and many other exotic places.
Press “play” and let Charles Leonard take you on a relaxing musical walk with songs about walking, wandering, meandering, sauntering, rambling and ambling.
Need a musical lift? Let Charles Leonard be your chauffeur on this second of a two-part mixtape with songs about cars.
Take a sharp left. In this first of a two-part series featuring great songs about cars, Charles Leonard transports you around the world and across genres.
Charles Leonard is shaking it like a Polaroid picture on this mixtape, with a selection of songs about photographs, photographers and cameras.
Charles Leonard has compiled a mixtape of chicken songs to stop traffic. Listen, and it will all make sense.
For this mixtape Charles Leonard has picked a bunch of fresh tunes from a rich harvest of new music that was recently released.
Charles Leonard goes back to his roots in this tree-themed mixtape recorded under the 100-year-old lemon tree in his garden. He’s collected an orchard of related songs.
All rise in court for part two of Charles Leonard’s selection of songs about crime, crooks, theft and pilferage.