Organized Confusion
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Organized Confusion
Originally aired on Friday, August 20th, 2010

For AIR's first program dedicated exclusively to music sent to us by listeners, record labels and guileless cyber-passersby, AIR intern and Organized Confusion producer Jonathan Duarte spent six weeks digging through our submissions boxes in order to arrive at this sterling collection of coherently mismatched songs. Featuring such distinctive musicians as Catalyst, Jonathan Kane, Noise Tank, Remy LBO, The Roots, Woman Year and an unpredictable many others, this playlist is suited to accompany you through a diversity of tasks as varied as the tunes themselves: you can listen to it while making your bed, while preparing for a first date or while slicing through a pineapple with a chainsaw.

With gratitude to the record labels behind these artists: Chief Logan Records, Focus Media, Headshop Records, Porter Records, Table of the Elements Records and Virgin Records.

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