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6/24/2021

1. Mari Rhont Ouve La Pot - Gratien Midonet
   Kicking this one off with a shamanic invocation of the mystical playlist muses courtesy of the great Martiniquais griot.

2. Glidin’ - Pa Salieu, slowthai
   Pa brings an Olympic swimming pool’s worth of juice to everything he does, and he and slowthai bring out the worst in each other, in the best way.

3. Skywriting - Spectacular Diagnostics
   In the future, as skywriting technology becomes more refined and less prohibitively expensive, all mass communication will be scrawled across the big blue via automated precision skywriting drones. At that point, we will delete this website and ritually smash our computers with blunt objects, as all subsequent Tent House Radio blog posts will be released exclusively in condensed skywritten vapors.

4. Viberian Waves, Pt. 1 & 2 - Jneiro Jarel, Capitol Peoples
   I just couldn’t decide which Viberian Wave to share, so I had to hit the double. It’s like getting rolled by one salty haymaker—your back scraping against the sandy ocean floor, saltwater up in your brain and all that—only to come back up gasping for air to find that another big frothy kahuna is coming in for the knockout.

5. SOUTHPAW - Ivy Sole
   The Philly rap pugilist Ivy Sole talks shit with the matter-of-fact hubris of someone who knows that you know that they could knock your lights out if it came to it.
   
   “Two wrongs don’t make a right, but you gon’ catch this left.”

6. Bitumba - Montparnasse Musique, Mbongwana Star
   Google translate tells me that “Bitumba” means “Bitches” in Swahili, although I haven’t put much stock in Google translate since it burned me multiple times six years ago when I came to it as a groveling, desperate, and lazy college-level Spanish student.
   
   At any rate, the song sizzles with the alchemy of the Montparnasse Musique’s members’ complementary Algerian-French and South African sensibilities.

7. Home_Lost - Daniel Aged
   When you’re home, but still feel lost, where else is there to go?

8. Me Veo Volar - Coco Maria
   Esteemed Mexican DJ and curator Coco Maria puts a medley of South- and Central-American genres in a food processor, mashes the Pulse button, and whips up an irresistible dance concoction that somehow retains the distinct flavors of its constituent ingredients.

9. Dub Protection - ThE DiAboLIcaL LibERTieS, Emma Jean Thackray
   Dub attac, but, importantly, Dub also protec.

10. wave function of the universe - Kenny Segal
    The quantum mechanical concept of wave function breakdown is one that I became amateurishly fascinated with around this time last year. By coincidence, I’d been concurrently watching and reading some stuff that dealt with the idea as its core sci-fi premise—it’s a construct that storytellers really like because, as with a lot of things in quantum mechanics, it’s really just a useful metaphor for what we think might be going on at the quantum level. It’d be impossible for me to explain, because I am a drooling fool, but the reason artists gravitate toward the idea is because it’s tangentially related to the multiverse theory, specifically the notion that every decision or observance you make, every time you glance over at a squirrel or pick up your phone or scratch your armpit, you are splitting your reality into a veritably infinite network of divergent parallel realities wherein perhaps you had not glanced at the squirrel or you had not scratched your pit with quite so much enthusiasm.

    This is a heady idea that could elicit some degree of nihilism. “If there are infinite realities where every imaginable thing is happening to me all the time,” you might ask, “then why should I even concern myself with what I do here in this puny, insignificant slice of the multiverse?” But Ted Chiang’s short story Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom offers what I think is a super compelling and thoughtful riposte to this outlook. The story suggests that, if every dart of your eye or tap of your keyboard does indeed beget countless tributary universes, then you have a grave responsibility to be as righteous and moral in your decision making as reasonably possible, because not only will the people in your universe be affected by your actions, but so will the people in all of the branch universes that your decisions spawn.
    
    So, if you are going to be a quantum creator of universes, be a kind one. Be easy. We all thank you for it.

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