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Hercules & Love Affair

Blind
Hercules and Love Affair 2008 via DFA
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Gil Scott-Heron

New York Is Killing Me
I'm New Here 2010 via XL Recording
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Jimmy Smith

Groove Drops
The Complete Verve Singles 2016 via Verve
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The Delfonics

Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide From Love)
The Sound Of Sexy Soul 1969
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Chiiild

Back to Life (feat. Shungudzo)
Synthetic Soul 2020 via Avant Garden
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5:40 pm

Yo La Tengo

Green Arrow
I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 1997 via Matador
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Doug Tuttle

Falling To Believe
It Calls On me 2016 via Trouble In Mind
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5:30 pm

Tracy Bryant

Drag
single 2019 via Taxi Gauche
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Thao & the Get Down Stay Down

Temple
Single 2020 via Domino
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5:20 pm

Martha Reeves and The Vandellas

No One There
Black Magic 1972 via Motown
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Otis Redding

Good To Me
The Soul Album 1966 via Atlantic
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The Soul Album is the fourth studio album by American soul singer-songwriter Otis Redding, released in 1966. shows him moving from strength to strength in a string of high-energy, sweaty soul performances, interspersing his own songs with work by Sam Cooke ("Chain Gang"), Roy Head ("Treat Her Right"), Eddie Floyd ("Everybody Makes a Mistake"), and Smokey Robinson ("It's Growing") and recasting them in his own style, so that they're not "covers" so much as reinterpretations.

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Gabor Szabo

Love Is Blue
Bacchanal 1968 via Skye Records
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One of the most original guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, mixing his Hungarian heritage and a distinctive sound with advanced jazz settings.

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Damien Jurado

Metallic Cloud
Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son 2014 via Secretly Canadian
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bonus track feat Sisters of the Eternal Son. A few years after the release of Maraqopa, the duo of Swift and Jurado return with the sublime and even further out Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, a twisting set of songs that hides intricate production techniques in Jurado's increasingly layered and complex compositions.

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5:00 pm

Minnie Riperton

Les Fleurs
Come To My Garden 1970 via GRT
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John Grant

Outer Space
Queen of Denmark 2010 via Partisan
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Anna Calvi

Don't Beat The Girl Out of My Boy - Hunted Version (feat. Courtney Barnett)
Hunted 2020 via Domino
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Jeff Buckley

Lilac Wine
Grace 1994 via Sony
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PJ Harvey

You Said Something
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea 2000 via Universal
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4:40 pm

Shura

the stage
forevher 2019 via Secretly Canadian
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Shura is a British singer, songwriter and record producer. Shura's music has been described as "infectious but melancholy electropop"as well as "slow-burning synth-pop" but has said that pop music "didn't represent" her. The singer has said that "missed opportunity, regret, nostalgia" are some of the main themes in her work.

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Domenique Dumont

Sans cesse, mon chéri
Miniatures de auto rhythm 2018 via Antinote
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There's been a lot of mystery surrounding this project but is has recently been revealed that Dominique Dumont is a Latvian duo, Arturs Liepins and Anete Stuce, who have also been collaborating with “an enigmatic French artist whose existence cannot be confirmed nor denied” (sorry, but it sounds like there’s still some mystery in the air), the duo have been touring live and, most importantly, they kept on broadening their musical palette experimenting in a pop field. Eight of these experiments are now tied together on the album Miniatures de Auto Rhythm.

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4:30 pm

Franco

Kinsiona
Francophonic 2008 via Sterns
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When this album was released in 2008, it won the Roots World Music Critics Award both for Best Compilation and for Best Package. NPR's All Things Considered, went further, naming it the best album of the year in any musical genre, never mind that the contents had been recorded in Kinshasa, Congo, three, four and five decades earlier. The accolades kept coming. Both Mojo and Blender awarded the album 5 stars, Inside Music graded it A+ and Pitchfork gave it an 8.8. The New York Times reported that 'Thorough liner notes help Western listeners understand the implications of Franco's lyrics, while the grooves communicate immediately.' The Washington Post clarified that point: 'Two and half hours of irrepressible grooves.'

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Volta Jazz

Bi Kameleou
Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta 2016 via Amoeba Music
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4:20 pm

THEESatisfaction

Queens
awE naturalE 2012 via Sub Pop
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The Seattle duo were together from 2008-2016 when they called it quits to work on independent endeavors. Together, they released two albums for Sub Pop: 2012’s awE naturalE and 2015’s EarthEE. Members Irons and Harris-White were also featured prominently on Shabazz Palaces’ 2011 album Black Up.

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Georgia Anne Muldrow

Canadian Hillbilly
Overload 2018 via Brainfeeder
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Overload is Georgia Anne Muldrow's 16th album, and first for the Brainfeeder label, after a two-year break that, given Muldrow's abundant previous output, seemed like an eternity. "Canadian Hillbilly" is a romantic respite on the album, where cosmic synths bathe in an intimate aura, as Muldrow pledges lifetime trust and devotion.

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Ariel Pink, Dam Funk

Baby
7" Light In The Attic 10 Year Anniversary: Donnie & Joe Emerson "Baby" 2012 via Light In The Attic
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Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Light In The Attic Records, label friends and family cover tunes reissued over the past decade with a series of 7 inch releases. For this particular release: the A side features Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti & Dâm-Funk’s exalted cover of Donnie & Joe Emerson’s ode to youthful romance, “Baby”, with the original from 1979 found on the flip-side.

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Billie Eilish

When The Party's Over
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 2019 via Darkroom/Interscope
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Billie Eilish struck a melancholy note on the second single off her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Released in October 2018, “When the Party’s Over” peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has become a staple of the young singer’s live set.

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HNNY

Kindness
single 2020 via HNNY
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HNNY ("honey") is the stage name of Swedish ambient and house music producer and DJ, Johan Cederberg. He has released several singles and EPs through the Swedish record label Local Talk, and now releases material on his own label, Puss... His production style often incorporates the vocal sampling of American R&B songs, among other forms of esoteric sampling.

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4:00 pm

Ogre You Asshole

また明日 (alternate version)
Confidential 2013 via VAP INC
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Shintaro Sakamoto

Let's Dance Raw
Let's Dance Raw 2014 via Other Music Recordings
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Mild High Club

Tesselation
Skiptracing 2016 via Stones Throw
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Emily King

Distance
The Switch 2016 via Making Music Records
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3:40 pm

Washed Out

Million Miles Away
Mister Mellow 2017 via Stone's Throw
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U.S. Girls

Damn That Valley
Half Free 2015 via 4AD
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Ratatat

Supreme
Magnifique 2015 via XL
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Dur-Dur Band

Garsore Was Ilaah
Volume 5 2013 via Awesome Tapes From Africa
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from the legendary Somali pop-funk group's tape, made in Mogadishu in 1989.

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3:20 pm

The Arrows

We Have Love
Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label 2013 via Numero Group
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https://youtu.be/sIN_Bis9lp4

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Fiona Apple

Rack of His
Fetch the Bolt Cutters 2020 via Epic Records
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tomemitsu

In Dreams
m_o_d_e_s 2013 via Chill Mega Chill
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John Maus

Do Your Best
Love Is Real 2007 via Ribbon Music LLC
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Jessica In The Rainbow

Surprised (By You) Feat. Fiona Dickinson
Friend Ship (To The Sky, In Your Mind!) 2020 via Cathartic Frog Records

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