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Mixtape 113 • Trou Noir

Double Date With Death are loud and Canadian, and they don’t care if you don’t understand their French howling. They have a double date to get to.

Double Date With Death are loud and Canadian, and they don’t care if you don’t understand their French howling. They have a double date to get to.
Double Date With Death
SongArtistNotes
Trou noir
Double Date with Death
Le garage
Impossible Germany
Jen Cloher
Originally by WIlco
Have You Seen Jackie?
The Dukes Of Stratosphear
Retrodelic popnobbery
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Devo
Moves like Jagger
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Hi-Line
Heartless Bastards
The sound of dust and home
Spanish Armada
Ratatat
Bearing treasure and more
I'm Gonna Run
The Fiery Furnaces
Early FF
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Undone
Clifffs
Bass menace
Ditch
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Diggin it
Again And So On
Kinky
Que fonki
Party Started
The Cat Empire
All the way to Australia
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Ngayishela Yavuma
Dilika
South African for sure
Ladaney (Woman's Name)
Dur-Dur Band
Onward to East Africa
Brazzaville
Stewart Copeland
Chanting to start
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Wonder Girl
Sparks
A sparkling sound
How It Should Be (Sha Sha)
Ben Kweller
That’s right
20th Century Schizofriendic Revengoid-man
Of Montreal
Not King Crimson
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Song For The Pied Piper
Sleepyhead
Cinematic styling
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Pixies
Ten million pounds of sludge from NY and NJ
Ha Di Ka
Galactic
In honor of Fat Tuesday
Who Invented the Sun
Guided By Voices
Brief and spooky
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Jimmy's Off
Nevada Bachelors
Names have been changed
Sunday Driver
The Rebel Set
Every day of the week
Da Funk
Daft Punk
Enjoy the video
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I Am The Cosmos
This Mortal Coil
Originally by Big Star
Hallelujah Strike Gold
White Denim
In five
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Socalled
Slowing down
Spectral Dawn
John Vanderslice
It’s an eerie quest
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A Processional For Keith Emerson / Look Now
Home
No kidding
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Mixtape 170 • I Must Go

Mixtape 170 • I Must Go

Hailing from the southwest of France, The Llamps build on a sound that's equal parts New York City grit, San Francisco psychedelia, and spaghetti Western twang, which makes for a pan-global main dish.

Mixtape 151 • Lovesick

Mixtape 151 • Lovesick

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The archivist’s breath misted in the freezing vault as gloved hands lifted the metal canister off the shelf. Getting to Greenland had not been trivial, driving the snowcats to Nuuk undetected had been a challenge, and breaking into the Katuaq Cultural Centre’s secret collection room, dug out of the permafrost, could be described as difficult. Now, locating the footage was close to impossible, given the hundreds of linear meters of shelving that were visible. The producer unspooled the first few feet off the reel, peering up through the film to the overhead light. The muffled sound of Persian hip-hop could be heard from the theater above. Maybe it was not so impossible.