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Ampersand Mixtape 10: I’m Gonna Lasso Santa Claus

Let’s unwrap this Christmas mixtape! Charles Leonard brings you a jingly, jangly cool Yule edition, with a selection of festive season songs that don’t suck. They’re weird,…

Ampersand Mixtape 9: Celluloid Heroes

Dim the lights, open the popcorn and let Charles Leonard play you his favourite songs about movies and actors on this mixtape, with tracks dedicated to celluloid heroes,…

Ampersand Mixtape 8: Pageturners

For this mixtape Charles Leonard has a stack of books as high as his stack of records – come and curl up with this unputdownable mix of songs about books and writers

Ampersand Mixtape 7: Food and feasting

This mixtape, packed with tasty tunes from around the world, will titillate your palate and ears with music about veggies, fish and stews, as well as fruit, dessert and cake.…

Ampersand Mixtape 6: Reasons to be Cheerful

This mixtape gives you 38 musical reasons to be cheerful. It’s brim-full of happy songs from across genres, borders and generations, guaranteed to put a perma-grin on your face

Ampersand Mixtape: The Sixto Special

Rodriguez was bigger than The Beatles in 1970s apartheid South Africa.

Ampersand Mixtape 5: The Flash Jika Sandwich

On his eclectic, monthly mixtape Charles Leonard is celebrating with some classics, the quirkiest samples, favourite female rappers, head-nodding 90s party jams, deep underground…

Ampersand Mixtape 4: It wasn’t roaring

For this mixtape Charles Leonard has picked his favourite subversive songs from around the globe and tells their fascinating and often curious stories. It includes an infamous…

Ampersand Mixtape 3: United Sounds of Africa

Charles Leonard has picked 28 of his favourite songs from our continent. Be ready to be entertained, surprised and hopefully thrilled by his celebratory selection of old and new…