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Mixtape 184 • Western Town

It’s been a while since something has made me sit down and listen like the North Americans’ steel-string ambient flow.

It’s been a while since something has made me sit down and listen like the North Americans’ steel-string ambient flow.
North Americans
SongArtistNotes
Western Town, with Road to Mountain
North Americans
Patience is a virtue
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Tonight’s Episode
Yo La Tengo
Traveling the time tunnel
Day One (feat. Dina Ipavic)
Orbital
A new beginning
Fantastic Voyage
Takako Minekawa
It's about the journey
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Star Strangled Banner
The Heliocentrics
Finding the center
Nothing's Free
Angel Olsen
Slow burning
Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
Aphex Twin
Fresh jitters
The Widow
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Window watching
— • BREAK • —
Hoppe
TEKE::TEKE
Prepare for the ritual
Boboyillo (feat. Rougi)
Baaba Maal
The smoke seems alive
Houzz 13
µ-Ziq
A fast resolution
Terra Illustris, Pt. 3
Motor!k
It can’t go any faster
— • BREAK • —
Hush Pup
Luigee Trademarq
Will there be doing?
Manifesto
Sprints
Not the one by Marx
The Turns
The Telescopes
Distant lights
Lieber Honig
Yann Tiersen
Sparse
— • BREAK • —
Medley
African Magic Combo
All sorts of medley
Little Mack's Shuffle
The Morrocco Muzik Makers
Shuffle it out
Tira O Pe
Buraka Som Sistema
About to explode
— • BREAK • —
Les fantômes des femmes
La Femme
For all your Franco-Hawaiian needs
Wesley's Convertible
April Magazine
Drive it slow
Holiday House
Beach House
Swells and throbs
— • BREAK • —
Bottom Of The Ocean
Fever Ray
Echolocation
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