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#514: Why People Buy the WRONG Laptops for Hacking

Robblogi - SPEZI RAN ( 173BPM )

BITCH IM FUCKED UP (prof. zepelin dark)

excerpt, full thing can be found on my moniker's bandcamp page;
https://2-point-84-kg.bandcamp.com/album/lurching-jellyfish-horde

made for a Female Stint's compilation (titled "Impressions");
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check out the whole thing, thank you !

made in the end of summer 2025, released in autumn 2025.
dedicated to Kevin Drumm.

laptop and field recordings.

gorgeous artwork by none other than the legend herself, Angel B.;
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Lurching Jellyfish Horde (Excerpt) [OUT NOW on Female Stint]

FUNK DO FÚRIA NA ESTRADA DA MÃE POLONESA

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druqkin around

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Soft Nasals

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shoulder ride away, 
i'm gone
you smell the same 
i never liked the way
call me out
take all my stuff 
you found me out
never had enough

giants

since August 2022
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i wish i was a piece of cloud

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