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If there’s one factor I’m loath to do, it is get up early. So it is with nice reticence that I settle for the turning again of the clocks this Sunday for daylight saving time.
Fortunately, there’s a substantial amount of music that does a wonderful job of stretching time like putty — turning our minutes into hours. Are you aware what I imply? One second, we’re getting all the way down to Donna Summer season‘s “I Really feel Love,” and the following, the server at Waffle Home is asking to your order and also you’re questioning why the clock on the wall says it is 3:30 a.m.
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These songs are nice in the event you’re trying to knit a whole scarf in a single session; otherwise you’re on that one a part of the highway journey the place everybody’s uninterested in listening to you; otherwise you simply must dissociate for a few hours.
There’s the music you’d anticipate to listen to as you are falling right into a wormhole: Portishead, Tame Impala and Pink Floyd, for example. A contact of Primal Scream. A touch of The Flaming Lips. There is a 26-minute model of “Tubular Bells,” if that is one thing you are into. I added a contact of Yaeji and Oklou, to maintain issues contemporary.
Most of those tune choices had been made by World Cafe contributing host Stephen Kallao and programming coordinator Chelsea Johnson. Get pleasure from!