Reposting With Buzz

NB: posting to blog will repost to buzz. Comments for each venue are sui generis and do not cross/repost. Accordingly, let's keep the bulk of comments in buzz so we can minimize the number of places people have to look for information.

An Excuse From The Trenches

Hi Kelly,

Your mix is coming soon. Really, it is. Like, Friday at the latest. The thing is, I've been working on it pretty regularly for almost a month now, and what happened is that sometime last week I got horribly sick of all the music I had chosen and lost the ability to determine whether or not songs were, well... "good." So I stepped away, and came back last night with a vengeance. We've got content. We've got a song order. We've got a CD case and sleeve designed and ready for build. Mostly. I might need to cop a glue stick from work.

Oh yes, Kelly, it's coming together.

But you've gotta hang on for a couple more days while the final cuts are made and last necessary tweaks to the order emerge. Getting from 2 hours to 1 is a challenge! High School was long!

Once it's received, I'll happily share more of the mix-making experience, post the mix, and if desired, some of the background for each choice, and in some cases, why songs are where they are.

Basically what I'm saying here is: hang on. Your mix is coming, and when it gets there, its delay won't have been caused by any lack of effort or thought. That isn't meant, of course, to guarantee that you'll like it. That would be foolish.

-m

Bust, rebound, look back, move on

Lauren - your wish is my command.... your breakup mix:

http://8tracks.com/spawnofslithis/you-do-what-you-want-i-ll-go-do-what-i-want

Step in the arena

A partial introduction to the taste of new blood...

http://8tracks.com/spawnofslithis/on-god-partying-and-coming-down

Max: Consider Quitting (English as a Second Language Mix-off)

http://8tracks.com/n0her0es/they-tick-err-jibs-english-as-a-second-language

Tim: Challenge Accepted

Here it is, your mix of things not in English:

http://8tracks.com/sharkticon/english-as-a-n-optional-second-language

For Janelle: Seeking My Center

Task: Max - If I am killing people, you are saving people. When you find yourself lost and buried... what do you listen to in order to find, inspire and save yourself?

Well, Janelle, buddy, I find that when I'm lost buried, the progression to my own center traces a fairly consistent path:

1) calm down
2) get funky
3) stay light
4) drown out
5) calm down
6) explode.

Come, get in my head. And thanks for making me make this, because I will almost definitely end up using it for exactly its intended purpose.

http://8tracks.com/sharkticon/seeking-my-center

Preamble to a Mix

See, folks, we really should be using the blog to present, manage, and comment on mixes. Otherwise we're gonna end up with a huge, year-long, fractured email chain...

...at which point this will more closely resemble my job than it will play.

So eff that noise, let's post mixes here and announce them over email, like I'm about to.