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Playlist: March 6, 2015

What your friendly Motherboard staff is listening to this week.
​Everyone is having a great time listening to music. Image: Jason Koebler

We like technology here at Motherboard, but we also like music. Here's what we're listening to this week, in convenient,  ​Spotify-playlist form. The whole thing is embedded below, if you're into that.

​Nirvana / D7 (originally by The Wipers)

A rare instance where the cover might be better than the original. Having said that I mean no disrespect to Greg Sage and Co. and you should probably go ahead and listen to The Wipers discography this weekend cause it rules. - Chris O'Coin

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​Surkin / "Fan Out"

House music is great to work to, and I re-discovered this gem from French electronic musican Surkin's 2010 EP "Silver Island" earlier this week. The whole thing is full of silky smooth synths that sound like they were ripped from the 1980s—title track "Silver Island" is probably my favourite—but this track in particular builds on a great sample, and an absolutely killer drop. Those are important things to have when you're looking for music to make the #content happen. - Matt Braga

​Jeff Rosenstock / "You in Weird Cities"

Somehow this dude keeps making music I want to listen to. I'm going to go see him​ between two and five times Sunday because I'm a psycho. - Jason Koebler

​Eddy Current Suppression Ring / "Memory Lane"

Having a bad attitude sucks, especially when you can't remember that you do. - Brian Anderson

​The Stephane Wrembel Trio / "Big Brother"

I like to listen to different playlists while I cook. This was from a mix of songs from Woody Allen film soundtracks (I know, I know, but the music is good). Without being able to clarify why, this is perfect cooking music in my opinion. - Kaleigh Rogers

​Paul Horn / "Meditation - Psalm 3"

Music is vibrational, and the pleasures of aural illusions like echoes and reverberations are thought by some to be at the root of early religions (and the future of virtual reality). Erstwhile jazz musician and certified new age weirdo Paul Horn recorded this 1985 album of beautiful solo flute performances inside the Great Pyramid of Giza to experience the sensation for himself.

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The concept drips of hokey '80s pseudoscience and " pyramid power," but if you can get past that—or enjoy it for what it is—then Inside the Great Pyramid will transport you into the astral plane. If Horn were alive today, I wonder if he'd take it to the next level and do an Inside the International Space Station instalment—I hear the acoustics are killer up there. - Jordan Pearson

​Black Moon/Buck Em Down (Remix)

Hearing the scratching on this track made me miss the turntables I have in storage somewhere. Shout out to Eddie Def! The tech angle here is that the turntable is an analog device that has recently resurged in popularity even if 1200s are being made anymore. - Derek Mead

​Ryan Adams / "To Be Young"  

Because he follows us on Twitter and it reminded me how much I love this song and now I am listening to it agaiiiiiin. - Adrianne Jeffries

​William Onyeabor / "Everyday" 

I was told, when people have "real people money" they buy box sets. I was told this while I imported an entire box set into my computer (a throwback move), because I don't have real person money. It was a William Onyeabor box set and it contains this song. This song is so good. William Onyeabor is so good. I doubt that any real people buy box sets though. - Benjamin Richmond

​Travis $cott / Mamacita

Because its hard and I also went to a ghetto strip club last month and i played this song for "someone" on the ride home and he fucking loved it. - Jaimie Sanchez

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​Crazy Town / "Butterfly" (Come My Lady)

I was at a butterfly conservatory last week in Arizona, marveling at the wonders of the natural world, and was reminded of this song I oft listened to as a young girl. It's about butterflies. Sugar. Baby. - Sarah Emerson

​Fetty Wap / "Trap Queen" 

This is going to be on constant rotation for the rest of the day. - Jaimie Sanchez

​Pile / "The World is Your Motel"

Makes me want to build an igloo in the dark surrounded by tiki torches, then body slam it and bring it tumbling down. - Xavier Aaronson