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A quick and knotty mixtape I made for tomorrow morning’s run, built from my favorite songs for lumbering along the river this summer—and lumber is the operative word. Laced with static and fried chatter, these tracks move like I do: sighing and lurching like a tired beast. But wait until the bass hits at the 41-second mark. It makes living in 2025 feel worthwhile. Sixsixsevenfortyseven’s Wounded Dogs is one of my favorite albums this year, a low-frequency exercise in patience, just like running or any repetitive act that hunts for freedom through repetition. An Egyptian low-rider comes next, followed by some metropolitan Detroit sleaze. This sequence lopes along until we get to Drissi El-Abbassi belting from the 1980s in Algeria. Look at this album cover. He was born to make us sweat. But his voice gets shredded by Autechre’s “Clipper” as we drop into more frigid and fractured terrain before winding down with a touch of Digital Underground. Here’s the hyperlink to tonight’s broadcast, or listen below.I often think about this line from Richard Powers’s Orfeo: “Make the music that you need, for need will be over, soon enough.” Read the full post.Sixsixsevenfortyseven - I Stood ThereWounded Dogs | Youth, 2025 | BandcampJana & El Nashmy - 3al BayezPlace: Egypt | Air Texture, 2025 | BandcampErika - Tomorrow’s Fires (Whodat Remix)Anevite Void Remixed | Interdimensional Transmissions, 2025 | BandcampDVA Damas - Wet Vision IIWet Vision | Downwards, 2015 | BoomkatDrissi El-Abbassi - Zedti Laadab AliyaNashazphone | BandcampAutechre - ClipperTri Repetae | Warp, 1995 | BandcampBroken English Club - Prayer SpaceSuburban Hunting | Cititrax, 2015 | BandcampPlastikman - ContainConsumed | Minus, 1998 | BandcampThe request lines are open.Enjoy life and get the full Midnight Radio experience delivered directly to your inbox ’round midnight on the 1st and 15th of each month.