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  "slug": "bauhaus",
  "name": "Bauhaus",
  "description": "Bauhaus appears 2 times in our Post-Punk and The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms lists, placing as high as No. 9. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
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      "title": "Bela Lugosi's Dead",
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      "label": "Small Wonder",
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      "whyItMatters": "Nine minutes of dub delay, brushed drums and vamping, recorded live in one take. Absurd and completely committed, and gothic rock begins the moment it finishes.",
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      "whyItMatters": "Nine minutes of dub delay recorded live in one take. The guitar records that survive on a dancefloor tend to be the ones that were secretly dance records all along, and this is the clearest case.",
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