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Mixtape 168 • Shame Reactions

Pom Pom Squad began as songwriter Mia Berrin's solo operation but now employs four full-time experts in musical munitions and lethal lyrical techniques

Pom Pom Squad began as songwriter Mia Berrin's solo operation but now employs four full-time experts in musical munitions and lethal lyrical techniques
Pom Pom Squad
SongArtistNotes
Shame Reactions
Pom Pom Squad
Lethal velocity
Back of My Hand
Bachelor
Your biggest fan
Where's Your Patience, Dear?
Matt Suggs
From Butterglory
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Writing a Letter
Josh Caterer
Reworking the classics
Kansas (Remembers Me Now)
Orville Peck
For the Slim Whitman fans
Newsletter - Gal Costa
TLO
Mayday
Thingy
Weaving through traffic
Baba Boom
The Jamaicans
An original vibration
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Fear
Sault
On the backbeat
Love Intervene
Lou Barlow
Almost smiling
The Bank and Trust
The Elected
Stuck in this American town
Ask For Help
Kings of Convenience
Always good advice
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Spiral
Schneider TM
Undulating threats
Now That's What I Call Freewave
Of Montreal
Time traveling can be hazardous
Pretty Boys
Paul McCartney + Khruangbin
Unexpected complements
Bucky Done Gone
M.I.A.
Quieten down, I need to make a sound
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Charlie's Lips
The Molochs
Sounds like a nice guy
Dead Or Alive
The Hoosegow
Spangled blues
Jackson
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Cinematic scope
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You Aint Havin Fun Till You're Dialling 911
Atomic 7
True words
Wedding Song
Boom Pam
It was a wild reception
Jalale
Mexican Institute of Sound
Flushin’
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The Wreck of The Triple One
The Gravel Pit
Smart pops
We Want The Airwaves
The Ramones
Give them it
Dirty Barnyard
TLO
Hearsed + Rehearsed
Choo Choo La Rouge
Practice makes perfect
Up The Junction
Squeeze
A perfect story
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Pelota (Cut a Rug Mix)
Quantic
A suitable extension
Kung den knege
Pluxus
Return to the lunar module
2020 I Pray Thee
Brain Damage Meets Big Youth
A jazzy sort of dub
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Black Lipstick
Audiobooks
Very goth
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Beso

Uwe Schmidt has had an extensive career, recording under many names as electronic musicians do, but it's his work as Señor Coconut (and now as Atom™), where he deconstructs familiar songs into something Kraftwerk would play if hired to play a quinceañera, that brings me this very particular weird glee.