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New Jamie XX. Don't let this one slip by.

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spring awakening was fun. lookout for photos and interviews from me in the next few days.

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Lone’s new album is streaming on SoundCloud:

Lone, a UK producer who hangs with the 1-800-Dinosaur crew, makes instrumental dance music; his sound is fast paced and shimmering. His tracks tent to feel light and connected to a larger sonic universe where glittering reptiles push up riverbeds through neon stands of plant life, glowing and glassy-eyed fish swim deep underwater through chasms that pulse and reflect their inhabitants’ bio-luminescence.

His new album takes some more modern and club-centric twists - therse a greater influence on classic house dropped into this batch of songs, and it works. The sounds of 80s dreamscape synths and future garage rhythms are always ever-present in his work, too.

Give it a listen.

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i love this show

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He is risen.

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Funny and smart short film from Chicago-based filmmaker. Peep this if you have a little bit of downtime!

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Bonfa shreds so beautifully, all plant life within a 50 mile radius immediately begins to grow.

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march & meffre.

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This is nothing. I saw vodka in a bottle shaped like an AK-47 in PEORIA.

As Garcia’s, a restaurant and store in Matamoros, Mexico, you can buy a pistol-shaped bottle of tequila. (Steve Inskeep / NPR)

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oh baby

i got a teiso and it aint this pretty.

i bought mine from a dude off craigslist. we met at night in the fall, on an unlit, suburban street. he wouldn't let me go inside the house we met at to try it out, so i talked him down from $150 to $90, since he couldn't prove the electronics worked. it was covered in decades of cigarette smoke and stickers - no, he corrected me, they were temporary tattoos. the strings hadn't been changed in 7 years ("its from japan, you ain't need to change the strings!"). i didn't have the change necessary to hit $90, so he asked that i play him a song in exchange for the last $5. i rested my back on the bumper of his car and propped the hollow-body against my hip - i played and he clapped and now the guitar is mine.

Vintage 1960’s Teisco Et 460 Electric Guitar Sharkfin Made in Japan | eBay

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Rustie remix of Machinedrum’s “Back Seat Ho” from the Fenris District E.

Theres a lot to love.

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Hiroo Isono

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