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Lately I’ve been pondering a line from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal: “I often wonder why people torment themselves as soon as they can.” It’s an excellent question without an easy answer.

1. TM404 - 202/303/303/303/606/606 (43% slower)
   TM 404 | Kontra-Musik, 2013 | Bandcamp
2. Topdown Dialectic - A4 (44% slower)
   S/T | Peak Oil, 2018 | Bandcamp
3. Echospace - Aequinoxium/Sunset/Abraxas (48% slower)
   The Coldest Season | Modern Love, 2008 | Boomkat
4. Von Schommer - Wuerfel/Wuerfel Version (45% slower)
   Deepchord, 2000 | Bandcamp
5. IMAX - Concorde (47% slower)
   Deepchord, 2000 | Bandcamp

Also includes snippets from Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Leonard Cohen, Yazoo, Skeeter Davis, Rebekah Del Rio, and 10cc. (The moment at the eight-minute mark when a Joy Division fragment lands on a half-speed synth is my favorite thing yet in these fifteen mixes.)

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