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Ben UFO

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7 years

playing an 8 hour opening set at panorama bar on saturday :) my friend just hit me up to let me know that under EU legislation im entitled to a paid lunch break

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6 years

TV show idea: Boiler Room x Running Man, at the end of each set the audience watching at home decides whether the DJ lives or dies

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8 years

accepting the aux cable in a cab is scarier than DJing in front of several thousand people

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3 years

been in NZ and Aus for two months now and can confirm that playing music and dancing in a room full of people with a good sound system is still the best thing in the world. i missed it so much. so much to look fwd to :)

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1 year

tried an american kitkat for the first time yesterday - wtf. absolutely disgusting. deeply surreal that something so familiar and reliable could be so different

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3 years

8 years later, I've recorded another Essential Mix :) I'm really happy to have been invited back. Listen live on Saturday 25th from 12-2am @BBCR1

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Ben UFO

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6 years

With the following tweets I'm going to try and speak to the events of this week, and will be as open and transparent as I can be.

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7 years

id just like to make it very clear that, as your future garage grandad, ive always enjoyed a nice pair of corduroy trousers and will be continuing to enjoy them long after this flavour of the month nonsense subsides

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3 years

thoroughly enjoyed this sequence

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7 years

we've been working on this for 11 months!! im stoked with how it's come together - every party is going to be entirely its own thing and its going to be really fun figuring out how i fit into each one :) huge thx to everyone who said yes to playing! tix:

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7 years

2017 and there are still folk who react like you're playing free jazz if you avoid 4x4 kick drums for a while :/

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@BenUFO

4 years

i tried to make a start writing something about it very briefly

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@BenUFO

6 months

i really dont think people should be putting their tracks on bandcamp for 1dolla anymore surely most people who are actually going to buy your music will pay 2 or 3dolla or even 4

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

5 years

the first hessle show on Rinse was in february 2010 our 10 year anniversary on the station rolled around without us realising :) :) feels apt! proud that we've kept it going for such a long time, it's been a huge part of my life for the last decade

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@BenUFO

4 years

i dont see people trying to talk about how to approach learning to DJ very often, and when i do it feels like this extreme binary between youtube vids talking about rekordbox, hot cues, loops etc vs 'house is a feeling and if you don't use vinyl you're a fraud because i say so'

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Ben UFO

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5 years

thanks to everyone that watched BR yesterday! it was so intense! felt great to be surrounded by friends there, and had so many supportive messages in the lead up, during, and after - really buzzing and feeling very supported and loved rn :)

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7 years

fuck

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7 years

other people: you've been djing for a long time now, you must have some wild and exciting stories! me: ... i saw a raccoon eating a piece of pie out of a bin once

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6 years

thinking of doing one of these very dramatic social media mass-unfollows that are all the rage right now, and trying to curate a new feed consisting solely of videos of solomun dancing

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4 months

some friendly strangers shouted 'play dubstep later' at me in bushwick earlier so i think i will :) see you under the bridge

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5 years

looking forward to playing some uk funky before amelie lens at dc10 tonight!! so fun

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4 years

@buddha_ryan @frankiefatgold 🤮fuck off ryan

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4 years

im not sure if we deserve legowelt, but i certainly do not legend

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Ben UFO

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4 years

something that's been good for me recently is to try and surf through people's music collections on bandcamp in those moments where i'd otherwise automatically start flicking through twitter feels much better for brain, and scratches a similar kind of social media itch also

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Ben UFO

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6 years

#DJsForPalestine some more words over here:

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5 years

im so happy that jeff mills likes steely dan

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7 years

gifts from gerd janson (yes he sent me some birkenstocks)

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7 years

holiday!

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Ben UFO

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5 years

3 hours of me and Joy O recorded over the summer :) was so nice to play for such an open minded crowd in london! me and pete have been DJing together now for nearly 10 years and it's never been anything other than a huge pleasure :') what a legend

Ben UFO b2b Joy O - Recorded at XOYO in August 2019 (Calibre Reside...

3 hours recorded at Calibre's XOYO residency this summer Starting at 140 and moving fwd from there :) Photo is from one of our first sets together at Plastic People nearly 9 years ago! @joy-orbison @

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@BenUFO

5 years

while im on this gushing tip, joy o's new EP will reduce you to tears 😭

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@BenUFO

9 years

if you're tweeting about how grime's 'coming back' from SXSW of all fucking places do us a favour and set yourself on fire

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6 years

music journalism 2019 👌

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

6 years

☺️

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6 years

Find me something more serene than @BenUFO staring out to sea xx

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

7 years

tories out because they're racist, sexist, classist scum making life worse for everyone not because they're 'weak and wobbly' obviously

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7 years

blown away by the lovely words from people, had been nervous about this for such a long time and now it's over it feels like i dreamt it

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@BenUFO

7 years

id do anything for harry❤️ including appear on film in my swimming trunks apparently - he's one of my best friends and they really captured him i think!

Between The Beats: Midland ⟋ RA Films

In the return of our film series about life on the road, we hear how one of the UK's best-loved DJs figured out who he is, as a person and as an artist.

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4 years

listening to workshop19 again for the first time in a little bit, and it's taken around 45 seconds to remember that kassem mosse is one of the all time greatest

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@BenUFO

4 years

spending new years cooking food and listening to mf doom all night is pretty great actually

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

7 years

Acetate is such a killer party Had the best time dancing to Shanti and David, and someone asked to scan my brain! Should I go for it?

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

8 years

finally home :) killer time down under, thanks! just popped to the post depot and found out they've been calling me "vinyl man" :/

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@BenUFO

8 years

the exploitation of drug deaths to serve the interests of the very rich by those who are supposed to represent us feels too grim to be real

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@BenUFO

4 years

from plastic people to recording albums with pharoah sanders and the LSO 🤯

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@BenUFO

8 years

fave banner from london demo earlier: 'donald and theresa sitting in a tree, f-a-s-c-i-s-t'

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6 years

top tip - make sure you trawl the new releases in a really shitty mood, only the stuff you really like will get through and it'll save you admin time later

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@BenUFO

6 years

ten hour flight delay from bristol airport to ibiza.. there's fuck all here except wetherspoons. 3/4 of the flight will have KO'd themselves before we even get on board

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

4 years

here's the set i recorded for Club Quarantäne :)

Club Quarantäne

This was the set I recorded for the 2nd edition of Club Quarantäne in April 2020, an initiative raising funds for the following organisations - Berlin Collective Action, Reach LA, Casa 1, BYP100 (Blac

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7 years

🇮🇹🛫

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@BenUFO

5 years

the only constant in my life for the last two decades has been that all the best ones are B2s

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@BenUFO

7 years

terrence dixon's dog is an extremely good boy

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@BenUFO

5 years

after a few weeks off playing out, the usual subjects of my anxiety dreams (DJing, or my teeth falling out) have been replaced by dreams of my houseplants dying. nice.

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@BenUFO

4 years

something i've noticed over the past 15 years or so is that there's been so little time/energy/money put into covering grass roots dance music scenes that, more often than not, it falls to artists to take responsibility for putting their work into a historical and social context

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@BenUFO

5 years

started sorting out tunes for this b2b with Blawan at @dkmntl this Friday - too excited for this one 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Shackleton - Massacre

Title: MassacreArtist: ShackletonLabel: Skull DiscoCat. No.: Skull CD 1Released: 2007

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3 months

poor effort. errors and many gaps @mixesdb would not have accepted this quality of work

1001Tracklists

@1001tracklists

3 months

Ben UFO - Rinse FM

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Ben UFO

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6 years

finally made it

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2 years

enduring memory of Shaun is him welcoming my parents at the entrance to Fabric with a bottle of champagne, one of the 1st times the label took over room 3, the 1st time they came to see me play in a club. he took such effortlessly good care of them and completely made their night

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Ben UFO

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6 years

it's not every day the egyptian lover asks you for a track id 😊

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6 years

@SEOjeans this is a weird tweet. bye

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8 years

would rather hang out with kids who understand safe space policy and what it's for than a grumpy old cunt who writes for the spectator

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3 years

the word 'creator' has been irrevocably poisoned

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@BenUFO

4 years

they've literally been closed for 4 months wtf happened in 1996??

Guardian Film

@guardianfilm

4 years

UK cinemas set for worst year since 1996 due to coronavirus

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@BenUFO

7 years

if ur hovering over the purchase button on a fancy £££ record on discogs consider buying the last ten records you DL-ed off slsk instead

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@BenUFO

9 months

my closing set from @dkmntl 2023 is online now :) enjoy the holidays, see you next year!

Ben UFO at Dekmantel Festival 2023

Recording of Ben UFO's set at Dekmantel Festival 2023.

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6 years

The exception in the press was @Mixmag , who, in a move worthy of the gutter press, cross-linked their own Jackmaster content to their piece in order to capitalise on the situation, generating further clicks and ad revenue out of someone's trauma. I think they should apologise.

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Ben UFO

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8 years

vinyl man strikes again, they gave me a sack this time

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9 months

Hessle Audio show tonight at 8pm - on my own this time, 2 hours of mostly new music + a few oldies to test Bigos Recorded this one at home in London. At least 60% bangers - there's even one (1) snare roll - and a squiggly section in the middle - 8pm

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6 years

With regard to the Circoloco event next Monday, my advice to Jack is that he speak to the women on the lineup and ask if they are comfortable with his presence at the party - and that if they are not, then he should step down.

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@BenUFO

8 years

after tonight @fourtet will have sold out brixton academy 5 times(!) with zero compromise, zero fuss and 4 anglepoise lamps >>

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

4 years

hi everyone, and happy bandcamp day :) if you're looking for purchasing ideas, feel free to browse my collection love to everyone, hope you're all safe

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

6 years

tonight on the hessle audio show - dj stingray! nearly 2 hours recorded at my xoyo residency a few months ago. classic night! really happy to be able to broadcast this set :) / 106.8FM / 9pm

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6 years

HES34 - Joy O & Ben Vince: 12" arriving May 2018 pre-order: so excited about this one :)

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7 years

the winner of this year's @magneticfields fest is @FourTet 's mother who was up raving in the desert til 9am this morning 🎉🎉🎉 we're playing delhi on wednesday then mumbai/bangalore with @BAKEGLA later this week

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@BenUFO

2 years

bought a couple of nice records today, a fontaine & areski LP and a donald byrd blue note - left them outside Mr. Lemon in bushwick by mistake if you want them I think they're outside in a paper bag, next to the bell peppers. enjoy!

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Ben UFO

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6 years

so after about 2 years of work we're finally able to announce @words0fbruce beautiful debut album - HESLP004 it's an incredible record and i'm so happy we're working on it! listen to 'Aeon' here - and get it now when you pre-order:

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@BenUFO

5 years

new andy stott record is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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5 years

my great aunt - incredible person. what an amazing life

The Guardian

@guardian

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Philosopher Mary Warnock dies aged 94

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4 years

hope you enjoy!

Dekmantel Selectors 2019 (Closing set)

This is the set I played at Dekmantel Selectors festival in 2019. I closed out the evening, following sets by Mad Miran, Khidja and OKO DJ. I'm really missing the dancefloor right now, so it was fun

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1 year

@Skrillex ❤️ cheques in the post sonny!

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5 years

re: houghton - such a shame for everyone but feeling for craig and the whole crew behind it so much. can't imagine spending that much energy putting something brilliant together for a whole year only to have to pull the plug at the last minute

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4 years

today the birds started singing at 3.53am keeping a journal now

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6 years

if like me you woke up, looked at the news and immediately felt paralysed and overwhelmed i recommend going outside for a bit if you can i still feel quite shit but death feels slightly less imminent

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3 years

just checked into my hotel and there's an NFT on the coffee table. wtf inescapable

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3 months

Holy shit

Resident Advisor

@residentadvisor

3 months

Beloved dance music database @mixesdb will close for good on June 29th. Read the news

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Ben UFO

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7 years

dnb from 1999 definitely hasnt had a comeback yet has it but there are reasons it should

Ed Rush & Optical - Gas Mask

Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/release/1420-Ed-Rush-Optical-Gas-Mask-BacteriaVRS0051999Virus RecordingsAll of these early Virus releases are in a league o...

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8 years

IN MY DAY WE HAD REAL DRUGS AND REAL MUSIC WITH REAL KICKDRUMS AND PONTINS DIDN'T EVEN HAVE BEDS

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6 years

buzzed seeing this in the new yorker 😲

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1 month

thanks RamonPang! 💸📬

RamonPang

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1 month

absolute monster of transitions @BenUFO

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4 years

absolute legend happy to help!

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

2 years

just hit 1000 LPs, EPs and singles over on bandcamp, still public here - 127000 profile plays + thousands of semi-annoying 'booyakasha' emails since march 2020. one of the best changes in the way i look for music is making more use of this part of the site

bufo 's collection | Bandcamp

Electronic • 1499 collection items • 3096 followers

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5 years

first hessle show of 2020 tonight :) 2 hours recorded at Contact in Tokyo on New Years Eve / 106.8FM London 9pm - 11pm

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@BenUFO

5 years

following the conversation around red light radio this week, it'd be great to see them step up and meet this criticism by playing a more active and visible role in advocating for the rights of sex workers, and fighting stigma

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4 years

Hessle Audio show on @RinseFM tonight as usual No guests this evening, just me - recorded in my flat in SE19 :) New music from Pulse Emitter, Tapes, DJ Python, Upsammy, Minor Science, Ido Plumes etc - and a bunch of records pulled from the shelves too 9pm - 11pm / 106.8FM

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7 years

you ever get the thing where food is so good it makes you sad?

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4 years

HES036 and HES037 are out today really happy to see both of these out in the world, big up kev and david!

Alien Mode EP, by Pearson Sound

3 track album

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6 years

philadelphia is great but srsly do you guys eat anything other than sandwiches

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@BenUFO

4 years

this is so good. the ebook is still free. the writing is so clear and the reasoning so thorough.

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Ben UFO

@BenUFO

6 years

We need to make a concerted effort to make our corner of the music industry a better and more equitable place to exist within, both as workers and for the audience. That means treating people with decency and respect, no matter their position or relationship to us.

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8 years

ooh there's a dj on the train

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