Bandcamp Weekly October 13, 2020

Looking for those perfect beats, Raul Monsalve mines Afro-Venezuelan sounds and Planet Battagon reaches outer space.

Hosted by Andrew Jervis. Illustration of Raul Monsalves by Hsiao-Ron Cheng.

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