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Download this: inaugural Cairo mixtape "Desperately Seeking Summer"
Posted by Andrew Matson

The first in a series, "Desperately Seeking Summer" is a freely downloadable mixtape from Cairo, the tiny compound on Capitol Hill that sells clothes in the front, host concerts in the back, and has a silkscreen studio in the back-back. Click the arrow on the Soundcloud player to download the music.
Store employee Jason Baxter selected and arranged the mix, which he calls a "45-minute excursion into luminescent, aquamarine waters."
There's bound to be something in Baxter's melted-together mix of chillwave, electronic, hip-hop and R&B-flavored pop you have not heard before. Right now, I'm listening to Los Amparito for the first time, described in YouTube comments as "EL ANIMAL COLLECTIVE MEXICANO."
Tracklist:
01. Want You Still (ft. Kilo Kish) (excerpt) - Jet Age of Tomorrow
02. Gloomy Guts (ft. Craft Spells) - Mickey Mickey Rourke
03. Smoke and Mirrors - Adventure
04. (Caribbean) Dreams - Okay Colour!
05. I'm Loaded (ft. E-40) - Droop-E
06. Wild Horses - Prefab Sprout
07. Kaputt - Destroyer
08. Por Medio De La Lectura - Los Amparito
09. Future Step - Pictureplane
10. Final Program (ssllooww edit) - Baby Sloth Spirit
11. Space Vacation - Beat Connection
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May 21 - 1:30 PM 'Composing' with the Vidrhythm app: pretty fun


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