This mix features music from Tim Buckley, Sqürl, Isobel Campbell, Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders, Hikaru Hayashi, Dillard and Clark, Steamhammer, Karim Maas, Radiohead, Virginia Astley plus Orson Welles on the value of ignorance, Iris Murdoch on literature and philosophy, Andrew Innes and Bobby Gillespie on being Scottish, a quite brilliant Mickey Rourke acceptance speech, doctors with a fondness for cigarettes in 1950’s America, elongated Mexican laughter and more. Click here to listen or hit play below –

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