Imagine you're in league with the Devil.
No one remembers the pact you signed. The world has changed completely since then—nations have risen and fallen, technologies have been invented and forgotten. Any witnesses to the signing are dead. Their children are dead. Their children's children are dust.
You've had time to adjust.
The hard part isn't watching friends and loved ones die. Over and over again.
It's not keeping a low profile—hiding from the painter, the woodblock cutter, surveillance cameras.
It's not even centuries of backstabbing from other immortals.
The hard part is that the Devil is a terrible boss.
He texts at 3am about TikTok trends.
Sends you for dry cleaning—not from the 7th Circle of Hell (they're good at it; burning sands provide heat), but from the second-oldest drycleaner in the world. In Cincinnati.
Expects enthusiasm for yet another Vacheron in his boring-ass one-brand watch collection.
Zero boundaries, infinite small talk, eternal micromanagement.
What are you going to do?
It became too much—of course it did—and you tried to end it. Multiple times.
Cliffs. Volcanoes. Cannon fodder.
Then France: arrested for crimes against Liberty. Guillotined in front of a screaming crowd. Later, caught running with Jacobins, bayonetted in the street.
The boss acted like nothing happened.
Carrier pigeons kept arriving. Ravens on occasion. Then the postman. Then email, and then texts and the six years he wouldn't shut up about how great BBM was.
And now Facetime.
The Devil loves Facetime. (Of course he's an Apple user.)
You can't quit. The contract's ironclad. Decapitation doesn't work. Neither does revolution.
The White Lady has tried everything.
But even Satan understands: the help needs downtime. And downtime needs a playlist.
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Track List
- 2Gether - Kyodai
- Zero G - Minus 8
- The Whistle Song - Frankie Knuckles
- What They Do - The Roots
- Useless (The Kruder + Dorfmeister Session) - Depeche Mode
- Unspoken Thoughts - Rad&Co
- Thunder Thumbs and Lightnin' Licks - The Brothers Johnson
- Sunset - Evil Needle
- Soft Sleeper (Bonus Track) - Dynatron
- Slow Down (James Cole Remix) - Maverick Sabre & Jorja Smith
- Side Effect - depth drop
- Selfish - NtrlTaste
- School Dayz - Mark Farina & Homero Espinosa
- Scenery - Ryo Fukui
- Safe From Harm (2012 Mix/Master) - Massive Attack
- Present - Yukihiro Takahashi
- Pleasing (feat. Stu Pender) - Kareem Ali
- Pacific - Peshay
- New York Nights - Krue Kidd
- New Day (Club Vocal Mix) - Round Two & Andy Caine
- Mind Your Mind - Moon B
- The Machine in the Ghost - Apollo 440
- Love That Never - TOKiMONSTA
- Like a Stone (trentemøller Remix) - Miami Horror
- Lanternlight - Nightwish
- Lala - Shkoon
- Keep Lovin You (Basshead Jam) - Groove Armada
- It Hurts To Say Goodbye - Blackbird Blackbird
- I, Voyager - Transglobal Underground
- Hungaboo (DJ-Kicks) - Peggy Gou
- Hard Wired (feat. Isabella Goloversic) - Perturbator
- The Dance (Full Gallery Mix) (feat. Norma Jean Bell) - The Gallery Collective & Norma Jean Bell
- Can You Feel It - Mr. Fingers
- Buzzard Walk - Titeknots
- Breaks (JackLNDN Remix) - Goldroom
- Betcha (Bonus Track) - Nightmares On Wax
- Aquarium - Nosaj Thing
