What if two artists from different generations, whose music feels intrinsically connected, had actually stepped into the studio together?

Launching Friday October 23rd at London’s Biggest Rooftop Venue – Freight Brixton, Lost Tapes, in collaboration with Broken Soul Movement and mixed by Ché Wax is a new event series imagining the collaborations history never gave us.

Each edition brings together two artists separated by time, geography or genre, but connected through their music. Through DJs, live performance and visuals, Lost Tapes traces the line between their work before imagining the album they might have made together. The visuals for Lost tapes are integral to the event. Developed by lofi_future they’ll be synced and mixed alongside the music – unique in their retro lo-fi vibe but also a mix of overlaid graphics, original performance and interview pieces with the artist, making Lost tapes truly an event like no other.

The albums we never got.

The series launches on Friday 23 October with Gil Scott-Heron x Kendrick Lamar – the Godfather of Rap meets his poet laureate.

Before Kendrick Lamar, there was Gil Scott-Heron.

A poet, musician and social commentator, Gil Scott-Heron helped lay the foundations for conscious rap by turning spoken word into protest and poetry into a political weapon. Inspired by the jazz poets and writers who came before him, his work – including the seminal “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” – helped establish a blueprint that can still be heard throughout hip-hop today.
Decades later and on the opposite coast of America, Kendrick Lamar picked up that blueprint and carried it into a new generation.

From Compton stories to complex poems and some of contemporary hip-hop’s most incisive social commentary, Kendrick has consistently treated the written word with the same seriousness. The connection became explicit on one of the biggest stages in the world when Kendrick invoked “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” during his 2025 Super Bowl halftime performance.

East Coast jazz poetry meets West Coast hip-hop. Two artists separated by generations but united by a belief in the power of words.

Lost Tapes asks one question: what would their album have sounded like?

On 23 October, Freight Brixton will imagine that album through DJs, live performance and visuals, bringing together the sounds, ideas and musical lineage of Gil Scott-Heron and Kendrick Lamar in one night, mixed by Ché Wax.

The series continues on Friday 20 November with another collaboration that history never gave us: Prince x Jamiroquai.

The Purple One meets the Space Cowboy. Prince’s futuristic funk, R&B, rock and synth-pop laid groundwork that can be heard in the genre-blurring acid jazz, disco and soul Jamiroquai would take to dancefloors around the world a generation later.

From Minneapolis in the 1980s to London in the 1990s, Lost Tapes will follow the thread between them before imagining what might have happened had Prince and Jay Kay ever shared a studio.

Further Lost Tapes sessions will be announced.