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Setlist for PLAY 03

As always, here’s the complete setlist for my latest PLAY edition (Vol. 3), from this past Friday. I decided to not go Christmas-y (except for one exception), and ended up doing an extended rock set (mostly in part 2) — for Christmas cheer, do download the latest episode of Radio OK Fred (15). This is my last PLAY of the year, and I’d like to thank everyone who has been taking the time to listen to my selections (more through download than by attending, but still). I’ve been having a lot of fun doing these, and I’ll be back for more in January.

So below, the setlist in two parts for PLAY 03, which you can also download. Also, you can subscribe to a feed of all my PLAY sets.

PLAY 03 (Part 1) (53 MB)

1. Propellerheads – “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”
2. Digitalism – “Pogo (Digitalism’s Robotic Remix)”
3. Soulwax – “NY Lipps (Kawasaki Dub)”
4. Halcali – “Ni Fuku Hoshi”
5. Wagon Christ – “It Is Always Now, All of it Is Now”
6. Secret Mommy – “Pool”
7. Liquid Lounge vs. Jazzanova – “Lemon Tea?”
8. Takahiko Kan – “Blow”
9. Isolée – “Schrapnell”
10. Montag – “Chandail Maille”
11. Boards of Canada – “The Beach at Redpoint”
12. Sebadoh – “Kath”
13. Beck – “No Complaints”
14. James Kochalka Superstar – “Christmas in Dimension X”

PLAY 03 (Part 2) (50 MB)

15. Polvo – “Tragic Carpet Ride”
16. Kevin Drew – “Back Out on the…”
17. The Raconteurs – “Intimate Secretary”
18. Weezer – “The Good Life”
19. The Ting Tings – “That’s Not My Name”
20. Indochine – “L’aventurier”
21. Mansfield – “Take on Me”
22. Yukari Fresh – “Horsey Marie”
23. Miniflex – “Microflo Dust Bag”
24. YMCK – “Sabita Tobira no Dai 8 Tengoku”
25. O.Lamm – “Genius Boy (with Kumi Kamoto)”
26. Plus-Tech Squeeze Box – “Early RISER”
27. COPTER4016882 – “Rising Core”
28. Cubismo Grafico Five – “Percy Percy Me”
29. Foga – “New Song (*cbsmgrfc Mix 155BPM)”

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A longtime resident of Tokyo, he lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for various online/offline publications, including the following: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, 1UP, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Wired's Game|Life, PingMag, CNNGo, Phaidon, and The Japan Times.

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