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Mixtape 25
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Mixtape 25

This is a great summer playlist. When I wrote “Basic Bliss,” I was listening to this, trying to figure out how to make a song that would fit on this playlist in particular. Queen’s “Cool Cat” was really influential to me on that song. I just wanted to make something that felt like summer. Some standout tracks from this are the excellent DJ Premier produced…

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Mixtape 23
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Mixtape 23

Listening back to this playlist now, I get transported back to my car, driving through a neighborhood where I no longer live, past I high school I never attended, on a late spring afternoon, with “Crawling Home When The Morning Comes” playing on my speakers, trying to figure out if I need to hire a mix engineer to finish off “Dead End Friends,” or it I could get my mix to sound as good as anything on this playlist. I ended up…

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