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    Here is a 3,252-track playlist from DJ Haruki Murakami’s vinyl collection.

    Jessie Gaynor
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    February 12, 2020, 1:20pm

    Haruki Murakami is a man of many interests—writing, ultramarathons, solitude, talking cats, and of course, music. Not only is Murakami a noted one-night DJ, he also founded a jazz club when he was 15, and has a collection of more than 10,000 records (which he has pledged to the new Haruki Murakami Library at Waseda University).

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    If you want to listen as he listens (or you need some music for your next 65-mile run), Far Out Magazine has put together a (3,252-track) playlist of songs from Murakami’s impressive vinyl collection.

    Or you could just hear the wind sing!

    [via Far Out Magazine]

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