Weekend mix-a-thon - The Horrors, Oneohtrix Point Never, Flying Lotus

If you're looking for some mixtape action to enliven your weekend, then look no further! For whatever reason, a surfeit of mix-based goodness has landed on our desk this morning, and it's all available for free. How could we not share it with you?

As you may well already know, UK mag Fact has a consistently excellent mix series, wherein they get artists to create an hour-long mix which is then made available for free for three weeks via the mag's website. They're up to #271 of these mixes, but the one that's really caught our eye of late is #270, which was put together by The Horrors. The tracklist contains a suitably diverse range of guitars and beats, featuring artists from The Beach Boys and The Velvet Underground to Stereolab and our very own Tame Impala. And, um, David Essex. Get hold of it here.

Closer to home, Modular have adopted the artist-curated mixtape idea for their own with the ongoing weekly Modcast series. The series has featured some interesting artists over the 18 months or so that it's been running — the How to Dress Well instalment from a few weeks back was particularly good — but even so, we were delighted to see that this week they've got a mix from Daniel Lopatin, better known as Oneohtrix Point Never. Lopatin made one of our favourite records of last year in Returnal, and this mix covers pretty wildly eclectic territory — everything from weird pseudo-religious a cappella to hip hop to a Kraftwerk track that we've just realised sounds strangely like Fleetwood Mac's 'Lies'. It's up for free download on the Modular website.

And if you're looking for something a little more upbeat, Flying Lotus has put together a 30-minute mix for Brainfeeder, featuring the work of bass virtuoso and kindred spirit Thundercat, whose new LP he's produced. FlyLo describes Thundercat as "one of the most talented bass players I’ve ever witnessed" and "like a brother to me", and the mix is a pretty wigged-out mixture of scattershot beats, tempo changes and general weirdness. It's certainly interesting listening — get hold of it here.