Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:21:20 -0500
From: "nacho"
Subject: fred's mix: info, yo
blargh! i wrote this yesterday but accidentally deleted it. so here it is
again.
so hopefully you've gotten the mix by now. first off, tracks 4 and 5 are
mislabelled and should be switched.
for this mix i wanted to put together some songs i like but think of as "one
hit wonders" b/c even though i like the song (or in some cases more like
parts of a song), it doesn't make me want to go out and track down other
songs by the same people. it might be interesting to see if any of these
people become favorites of mine later on. i was also interested in seeing how
what is on the fringe of my taste overlaps (or not) with other people's.
while making the mix i also thought about how i associate certain songs w/
certain people. a lot of the tracks are from mixes people have made me (the
first track is from a mix mike made me), compilations, or promos i've gotten
through the tech (school paper) that i've forced myself to listen to. i've
almost always been able to find at least one or two things i like about any
given cd, even ones i really dislike ... i think there's a moral in there
somewhere. i also thought about how really radio-friendly songs and a lot of
dance music generally get too old too quickly for me to put on a mix. b/c of
all of these things i didn't necessarily anticipate wanting to listen to this
mix all that much, but all in all i like how it turned out.
the mix is divided into 3 sections (i like sections in mixes in case you
haven't noticed), separated by the three "commercials". the last section is
the most cohesive, and it consists of dance-y, mostly funk-tinged tracks. the
first section was supposed to be sort of radio-friendly poppy. the middle
section is sort of a hodgepodge, but it starts off being guitar-driven, has a
couple of slow songs in the middle, and then ends w/ some electronic tracks
which sort of leads into the last section.
hope that was enlightening -- haha ...
lata ..
f