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Track Premier: mus.hiba Remixes spazzkid “Kokeshi Doll”
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Music Alliance Pact December 2013
Time for the Music Alliance Pact! This is 2013’s last installment of MAP, where more than 30 blogs from all over the world share one song with everyone else. This month, Make Believe Melodies highlights Coffee And TV’s Prefab-Sprout-sample-boasting “Guess What? Summer’s Arrived.” Listen to it and a lot more below! Click the play button…
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New Elen Never Sleeps: Rum EP
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Jesse Ruins’ Nobuyuki Sakuma Makes Soundtrack To Isabelle: Isabelle X
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New Tofubeats: “Shopping Mall”
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCsGJ1IHcR0] They also have a video for “Kissing In The Kitchen” which you can see below. They jump around with stuffed animals, which seems about right. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iIxou0_1hc]
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