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so i really have no idea what i’m doing, but i have been listening to a lot of music lately due to my internship at the weekly and my worryingly acute insomnia. while my mental state may be kinda like a tom hanks/meg ryan movie, i’m happy to collect some songs that i’ve recently acquired (almost 24 hours of [discriminately downloaded] new music in the last three days, yikes). it runs the gambit from ethiojazz to gems offa underground hip-hop blog mixtapes to sassy indie-electro pop hipsterish shit to dope people to betty davis. and some other shit too.

i made it a very intentional playlist but of course, i haven’t figured out the technology that would enable me to let you download it in that order. hell, i just uploaded my first zip file yesterday. these are sixteen songs that you want, though. enjoy please.

wongweezy’s for the sleepless mixtape #1 ::

100 Yard Dash — Raphael Saadiq

Addis Black Widow — Mulato Astatke

Look In The Mirror — Native Guns

The HereNow — iLL-Literacy

Lost & Found feat Jimetta Rose & Bial — Shafiq

Shut Off The Light — Betty Davis

Little Love Affair — Patrinell Staten

Young Black Male — Pac Div

Nightmares — Clipse feat. Bilal

Love Season/ J-Boog — Sabzi Selectah

Solar Midnight — Lupe Fiasco

Strange Fruit — Kameleon

Lilikoi/ Paula Fufa — Sabzi Selectah

Definitely Special [Dert Productions] — Sojourn

Help I’m Alive — Metric

Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (The Lionheart Mix) — Florence And The Machine

thanks to the seattle weekly, blindiforthekids.com, the vera project, and the individual artists who actually offered their music for free.

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