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Testing The Waters (ambient/downbeat)
I didn't think I'd get back into doing this, but in recent years it seems the art of the 'mixtape' is growing popular again (the Back To Mine series has probably significantly helped). After listening to Booka Shade's DJ Kicks offering, I was convinced: building sets in the traditional club method has grown passe, and you can flirt across genres and tempos so long as you maintain a semblance of flow throughout. This method is highly appealing to those who prefer sharing music with others but feel restricted by the set-in-stone structures of typical DJ mixes. Er, one of which is I, heh.
I decided to test the waters of such sets here. This is something I whipped up in an afternoon, with very little forethought going into which songs I'd use beyond a vague idea of how I wanted to start it. Aside from that, most of these tracks were considered on the fly before I placed them into the mix, and runs an agreeable 60 minutes from start to finish. As for what I used to arrange this with, it's a completely ghetto program I've had collecting dust in the backwoods of my laptop, allowing only track placement and edits of either end of a track. That's it. No pitch control, no crossfade, no looping. It's about as close to actually using a tape deck to make a mix tape as it gets with a computer program!
Despite this, comments and critiques are most welcome. If folks figure there might be some potential in me making more of these (and I'll by no means limit myself to just this style of music either; I've got oodles of genres I can play with) let me know, as I'd love to share what I got with others. (and, er, if anyone could recommend a better, easy, and, um, free program I could arrange these in, much obliged)
Anyhow, enough preamble. Here's the mix:
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Track List:
1. Sun Electric - Love 2 Love
2. Mimoid - Tree Of The Sun, Tree Of The Moon (edit)
3. Enya - Boadicea
4. Alter Ego - Undersea Girl
5. Banco de Gaia - Shanti (Black Mountain Mix)
6. The Future Sound Of London - Vit Drowning
7. The Higher Intelligence Agency - Solid Motion (Black Hole Mix)
8. Cypher 7 - Nothing Lasts
9. Sandoz - White Darkness
10. Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nodsam Remix)
11. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Safeway Cart
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Last edited by Sykonee on Feb-05-2008 at 14:32
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