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A 70s Funk soundtrack Mixcloud / The History of Acid House , a YouTube channel / the best field recordings on Bandcamp / a podcast about 80s music / Stock, Aitken and Waterman and the sampler that made their sound / concerts, concerts, concerts / the entire discography of proto-Foals band The Edmund Fitzgerald / remembering Drive Like Jehu’s Rick Froberg / Yuri Suzuki’s Ambient Machine / a Timeline of the Fender Jaguar / the Green Shade Diary , a traditional blog / Lego, Lego, Lego: a massive set of instruc
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