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Herb Sundays 180: @Michaelcina 101 On the eve of his @walkerartcenter talk this week, here's 101 waterproof songs by Cina. A real heavy-duty business: Talk Talk, Pharaoh, Hassell, Budd, Isaac, and of course, the Coltranes. link to @HerbSundays playlist in bio.

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Tonight at the Walker, MPLS.

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No one has captured what being in your 40s and truly besotted with techno is like quite like @0PN here (on John Beltran): "I got into a period of critical thinking about techno that I'm still totally immersed in. Over the past few years, no single genre has been more important to me. It's what I listen to every chance I get, particularly a lot of mid-'90s, early 2000s stuff.... I don't know what it means—and I don't even know if I care what it means—but the song definitely feels like being in your 40s. You're in the weird, middle valley of your life. It's all anticipation and no revelation. You finally figured out you're not going to figure it out, and you are just finally, in a way, present. You're right there watching every moment happen. You've given up on certain kinds of dreams, and finding out that's not necessarily a bad thing. Or at least I have. All I know is I feel very close to the source when I listen to this. And if that's not a forty-something thing to prioritize, I don't know what is."

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More 40s pathos and playlists on Beltran herbsundays.substack.com/p/herb-sundays…

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Annahstasia's Perfect 10 is a deep cut for the end times

It felt like talking about music with an old friend, especially since there were so many tracks I used to listen to as well... love, Leon Ware, George Duke, Steely Dan and I guess I just wasn't made for these times.

This week I pick a 'fools errand' of 101 songs for this weeks @HerbSundays. Enjoy.

also included are some Cina Thoughts by @rafiqbhatia, @dogpasta, @erichurtgen, and more... link in bio

"Music is the highest art, going beyond where words and images can reach. It physically finds emotions you didn’t have language for and gives it a home. It locates truths. Music is present at every significant human moment, grief, joy, anger, love… sometimes capturing the future and often reflecting the past." - @michaelcina

Herb Sundays 180: @Michaelcina 101 On the eve of his @walkerartcenter talk this week, here's 101 waterproof songs by Cina. A real heavy-duty business: Talk Talk, Pharaoh, Hassell, Budd, Isaac, and of course, the Coltranes. link to @HerbSundays playlist in bio.

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@VALENTI I’m sweatin’

Enya's 97 best of pretty peerless

@misterminsoo JB Nation

@VALENTI did you see that OPN also mentioned Beltran in the new pitchfork interview?

Not quite ready to move on from Beltran's tasteworld (TWO Deep Forest songs!) "Beltran is indeed a big feeler, which the interview confirms, an artist who trades in emotionality, which comes in and out of vogue in music. An animal lover unafraid of sampling whale sounds, Beltran’s work carries a New Age peacibleness and a Midwestern groundedness that make his second-wave Detroit Techno a pure instinct, allowing him to experiment wherever he seeks comfort."