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SolidSmack Radio | Needs More PSub

September 30, 2014 1 Min Read

This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days.

This week our playlist is brought to you by MODO fanatic Tambet Viitkar, who curated a MODO-inspired playlist. We’ll start off with ‘The Night Slips Us Smiling Underneath Its Dress’ from Kyle Hyde and work our way through some Black City Lights, Woodkid, D/A/D and others before wrapping up with the theme song from ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.

Thanks Tambet!

Do you have any suggestions for next week’s playlist? How about a playlist specific to a design task? Let us know in the comments!

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In CAD

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