anyone else get the feeling that you are "reading music" when checking tracklists out?

As in 'judging a book by it's cover' situation?
Or as in humming the tune when you read it?

clearly i don't get it.

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you "judge a book by its cover" when you don't read it. i'm talking about knowing the tracks and putting them together in your head before listening to the mix itself.

the act is of course conjectural.

it's why tracklists are demanded in DJ Promotion. And why unknown tracks are so fun: we won't know in advance what's gonna come.

i don't know what the other idiom means. still can't grasp those very well.

So, what's the consequence for you? Do you reject listening to a mix if you feel you've read it before?

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Yeah, of course, if you know a lot of the artists or labels you can almost see the texture of the mix before you. Like you can see a set go from progressive breaks into trance, or see it get more anthemic or harder.

As a DJ I also find a strange pleasure in putting a tracklist together. I know it's largely inconsequential to the music itself, but if you get a list of cool and interesting names with a common semantic thread it bodes well for the upcoming music. Inversely, when I see a tracklist populated with horrible names like Mystical Emotion and Sunrise it puts me off totally.

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I admit that i do take the resulting tracklist into consideration when making a mix. Thing like not having too many tracks from the same artist or label, even the dates are important for me. I think having too many older tracks makes it look lazy for instance, although it rather depends on the sound or genre. Track names are important too, although they can never be deal breakers off course. But i suppose that applies to all these things.

I thought was the only one though, since it's quite meaningless and obsessive. But i suppose obsessive is a quality a lot of DJ's bear

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Listens:
http://www.last.fm/user/bierheld

Oh yeah, a good blend of artists and labels, new and old is important if a tracklist is to "feel" right to me.

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> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

I don't know, I think this is a stretch.

It's a music programme, no doubt, but a score is an instruction on how to perform, and tracklistings provide no information on how to perform the mixes (eg blending, timing, equalization, levels, tempo). You can give 100 DJs the same tracklist and they will come up with 100 different sets.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J As a DJ I also find a strange pleasure in putting a tracklist together. I know it's largely inconsequential to the music itself, but if you get a list of cool and interesting names with a common semantic thread it bodes well for the upcoming music. Inversely, when I see a tracklist populated with horrible names like Mystical Emotion and Sunrise it puts me off totally.

Ditto

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When I put a set together I always think about how the tracklist itself reads almost like a story, in a superficial way.

If music was supposed to be about reading we would listen with our eyes not with our ears (sheet music aside).

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