"Everybody's different, and everybody's valuable."
Life's been hard between Trump taking immigrants' kids away and every other shitty thing that's happened in the last week.
One Los Angeles producer, Akira the Don (who also made this Bourdain tribute), has a solution, and that's a vaporwave mixtape inspired by none other than Mr. Rogers. The release, Neighborwave, comes on the heels of a release of a new documentary about the revered public television icon, and samples several of the show's most poignant moments as well as other producers like Beatmasta, ELOQ, Kal Kal and more.
"I’ve been working on the for ages," Akira the Don wrote on Bandcamp, "but I kept having to stop cos it was making me weep tsunamis of tears for the glory of humanity and the goodness of men like Fred Rogers."
Remember kids, "you're the only person who is exactly like you." Stream the mixtape below.
This article appears in Jun 14-21, 2018.