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  "name": "Serge Gainsbourg",
  "description": "Serge Gainsbourg appears 4 times in our Bob Sinclar — Back to What It Was Cut From, Jean-Michel Jarre — Chosen From a Radio Library, and Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records lists. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
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      "title": "Marabout",
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      "whyItMatters": "A hypnotic experiment built almost entirely on one acoustic drum loop with a talk-over vocal on top of it. Proto-slam, years early, and modern in a way that nothing around it was.",
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      "title": "Histoire de Melody Nelson",
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      "whyItMatters": "One of the two records I buy compulsively. Every time a flea market has a clean copy I take it, and there must be five of them at home by now, purely in case the first one ever wears through.",
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      "title": "En Melody",
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      "whyItMatters": "I like throwing a curveball into a set, and this is what stays in the crate for it: two minutes of psychedelic guitar that takes a floor out of its comfort zone and starts telling it a different story.",
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