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Mixtape 153 • Peba

The sound of Star Feminine Band is born of Benin, brightly colored patterns, and wild abandon, young carefree voices skipping over liquid guitar and intense percussion.

The sound of Star Feminine Band is born of Benin, brightly colored patterns, and wild abandon, young carefree voices skipping over liquid guitar and intense percussion.
Star Feminine Band
SongArtistNotes
Peba
Star Feminine Band
Hot stuff out of Benin
Postcard
Niños Con Bombas
An explosive polka missive
Watching the Detectives
Elvis Costello
Top-shelf Jazzmastering
Return of Django
Asian Dub Foundation
Dub-happy wooziness
— • BREAK • —
Café Sin Leche (feat. Arthur Yoria)
Free Radicals
Morning coffee
Munt
Boom Pam
Sabre dancing
Onion
TLO
Mala Vida
Mano Negra
It’s time to go
Mosquita Muerta
La Francachela
All about the dead fly
— • BREAK • —
Dog Pound Hop
Ren + Stimpy
Giggly digging
Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Sprouted Wings (feat. Lizzy Ellison & Patti King)
Portland Cello Project
Can you believe this?
Steady As She Goes
Brendan Benson & Jack White
Track it down
Sugar Lump Lump
Drink Me
Sleepytime music
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The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1
Death Cab For Cutie
Originally by Neutral Milk Hotel
True Liar
Brian Capps and the True Liars
Burning up
Leppo & The Jooves
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Quite the characters
Whirlpool
Young Fresh Fellows
Still spinning
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Everybody Had It with You
The Last
The newest wave
Bad Day Lately
Jeff Tweedy
Getting better
Powerman
The Kinks
Always ahead
Gonggong
Peter, Bjorn + John
Hit the gonggong
— • BREAK • —
High School (Don't Like Them)
Naked Giants
Remember when
Move
The Bobby Lees
Cold start, hot tune
From His Lips
The Wrens
New stuff from the Wrens REAL SOON
Toadstool Experiment
Oh Sees
Very experimental
— • BREAK • —
Praha In Spring
Rob Crow
Originally by Ruins
Fell so Hard
Woods
A running fall
Dirtyman II
TLO
Summer Samba
Walter Wanderley
So nice
A Quiet Place
Nick Lowe
Nobody olds like Nick
— • BREAK • —
Just Like Betty Page
The Jazz Butcher
It’s been such fun
Kurious Oranj
The Fall
Self-hypnotic
Vaseline And Sand
Sukia
Sitar spin
Ambiente
Kruder + Dorfmeister
Quite environmental
— • BREAK • —
Tango Del Fuego
Parov Stelar
Hot stuff
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