Spare a thought for the mixtape: once a musical love-letter of sorts, carefully assembled across a series of longing nights spent in front of a cassette player, now reduced to… well, this.

At June’s G8 summit in Northern Ireland, Britain’s doughy leader David Cameron presented various world leaders – including Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, a man famed for having pretty good taste in music – with a 10-track mixtape, compiled for Cameron by the British Phonographic Industry and housed on a USB stick. The personal touch never fails, right?

Granted, it wasn’t actually selected by Cameron (let’s face it, Rudimental are likely to give him flashbacks to the days when acid house went round murdering Britain’s children), but it’s still about as beige and narrow-minded an impression of British music as you could ever hope to give somebody. Drop us out.

Here’s the playlist, via The Guardian:

Alt-J – Tessellate
Jake Bugg – Lightning Bolt
Laura Mvula – Green Garden
Lianne La Havas – Is Your Love Big Enough?
Ben Howard – Only Love
Gabrielle Aplin – Home
Tom Odell – Another Love
Rudimental ft John Newman – Feel the Love
Birdy – Skinny Love
Conor Maynard – Can’t Say No

At FACT, we thought we could do a lot better, so here’s the mixtape we’d foist onto the G8 leaders in the monumentally unlikely event of any of us becoming prime minister.