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Mixtape 200 :: Undergrowth

All hail the mighty kraken — it’s about time some brave band took up the Squid name for themselves.

All hail the mighty kraken — it’s about time some brave band took up the Squid name for themselves.
Squid
SongArtistNotes
Undergrowth
Squid
O mighty kraken
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HEAD
Jeff Rosenstock
Trying to keep up
Waile
W.I.T.C.H.
Mighty mighty Zamrock
Trouble Is My Beeswax
Cigarbox Planetarium
And beeswax is good
Subaru Crosstrek XV
Hobo Johnson
Not quite there yet
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Black Earth, WI
Ratboys
Undulating
Renaissance of Reconnaissance
Kid Koala
Interlude
This Purple Child
Howe Gelb + Grandaddy
Waiting in the dust
It's You
Cassandra Jenkins
Harps a plenty
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Hot Dub Party
Spacewalk
Turn on the jets
Lazy Bones
Wooden Shjips
Eating up the miles
Bleeding Heart Tetra
North Americans
Yonder horizon
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Melody Experiment
Blonde Redhead
I believe it’s working
Burner
Trees Speak
Compressor dronage
Machina Machina
Snapped Ankles
Infinite patience
Ojo Abameta
The Shaolin Afronauts
Quite invincible
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Saudade
Chinese Man
A bass in the shadows
Waking Up
Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band
It’s dark outside
Underwater
Pale Blue Eyes
Coming up for air
Miles Away
Yo La Tengo
Drifting across the lanes
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Golden Dub
Hollie Cook
Feel the shimmer
Knowledge of One's Ori
African Music Drums Collection
Entranced
Whirlpool Dub (Adrian Sherwood 'Reset in Dub' Version)
Sonic Boom, Panda Bear and Adrian Sherwood
Round and round
— • BREAK • —
Virgo 3
Meshell Ndegeocello
Return to orbit
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