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Organic Intelligence IV: Global Christmas

The Low Culture Organic Intelligence newsletter is back, this time with Finders Keepers' Andy Votel sourcing those ear-boggling Christmas hits that never were

J.P. Massiera

We’re not luddites, we just feel you deserve better than some unsatisfying algorithmic advice when it comes to music. This is the fourth edition of our Low Culture subscriber’s newsletter, Organic Intelligence, which features tQ’s favourite people taking a deep dive into their record collections to offer you DJ bag gold, Discogs bargains and all-back-to-mine nuggets. This month Andy Votel unearths five fuzzy festive gems. You can listen to (an alternative mix of) this Organic Intelligence playlist on Spotify, Apple and Tidal (and remember that all your monthly playlists, as well as your exclusive essays, can be found on the Low Culture Quietus page). To get access to the Organic Intelligence newsletter, you need to sign up to our subscriber system via the Steady checkout below.

Listen to the modified global Christmas playlist on Spotify, Apple and Tidal (and remember that all your monthly playlists, as well as your exclusive essays, can be found on the Low Culture Quietus page here).

First of all, let’s get things nice and sparkling clear: technically speaking, I’ve never* intentionally bought myself a festive record in my life. I don’t know how these records ended up in my collection, but I’m not surprised they’re here. I think the infinite monkey theorem says that when your record collection gets close to the "enter depressing numb…

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