Support NeoGAF

[Cosmic Bus]

For those making physical mixes, should we make audio CDs or can we make MP3 CDs? Pretty much I'm just asking if we're limited to only 74 minutes.

I believe the idea is to remain within the constraints of a CD's normal capacity, i.e. so 75 minutes of music, give or take. I'm sticking to that for my digital mix(es?) as well, in case anyone cares to burn it to a CD afterwards.

You want to download the following file: 

http://rapidshare.com/files/332930716/JazzMix.mp3 | 60264 KB

Unfortunately right now our servers are overloaded and we have no more download slots left for non-members. Of course you can also try again later.

Sometimes I forget how annoying Rapidshare is, but the site is nice enough to remind me.

 

[Subliminal]

Playlist compiled
Blank CDs ordered
Individual album arts made.
Envelopes primed

Should be sending my Cds off by the end of the week

 

[kitchenmotors]

Crap, dunno how I missed this. I'd love to be in for a digital mix exchange with anyone who is also late. :lol

I still have discs from Cosmic Bus from back in the day.

 

[Solaros]

You can put me in if you are still taking entries.

Physical or Digital, I don't care.

 

[AlteredBeast]

kitchenmotors, make a digital mix

Solaros and Archaix, PM me your addresses. I still have a few people to send addresses to.

 

[themustardman]

I would be interested in a digital mix if its not too late. This would be my first time making a mix for someone I think :d

 

[perryfarrell]

Sometimes I forget how annoying Rapidshare is, but the site is nice enough to remind me.

What's a good alternative...?

 

[elseanio]

Got my track list down, almost got the order right. Gonna work on the album art whilst giving it a few more listens. Hope to get it sent by the weekend All UK gaffers, so hope the blizzards don't delay the post!

 

[Cosmic Bus]

What's a good alternative...?

Zshare, Mediafire, and Megaupload.

Here are mine: two 45-minute mixes that are essentially part of a whole, but length aside, it just didn't feel right as one. Kind of nitpick-y about this sort of thing, I guess. Won't pretend like they're the most approachable things in the world, but it's what I'm diggin' these days.

Part I // Part II

(click the pictures for bigger versions if you want to see what's on the mixes before downloading)

 

[_Isaac]

Should we name our mixes? I see one person has. Oh and Cosmic, I don't know why, but I really like that first track. Now listening to the rest.

 

[Iron_Scimitar]

Here's my submission.

http://rapidshare.com/files/333465619/Only_Play_This_At_Night.rar.html
(electronica/deep house/chill)

 

[TehOh]

Have all of the PMs gone out?

 

[Bowflex]

Pretty Poisons

http://www.sendspace.com/file/av91iy

01) Intro to Europa
02) Mount Eerie - Between Two Mysteries
03) The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anemone
04) Spiritualized - If I Were With Her Now
05) The KLF - Build a Fire
06) Kevin Ayers - Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
07) The Teardrop Explodes - Ouch Monkeys
08) Shiny Two Shiny - Susquehanna
09) Television - Elevation
10) Felt - The Palace
11) Martin Phillipps - Haunt Me
12) Gareth Williams & Marie Currie - Restless Mind
13) Pulp - My Lighthouse
14) Mr. Wright - Anna Karina
15) Peter Perrett - Woke Up Sticky
16) Michel Polnareff - Radio
17) Cleaners From Venus - Felicity
18) Lou Reed - New Sensations

 

[AlteredBeast]

almost, all will be out in the next couple hours. Sorry for the delay. Been ridiculously busy.

 

[TehOh]

Here are mine: two 45-minute mixes that are essentially part of a whole, but length aside, it just didn't feel right as one. Kind of nitpick-y about this sort of thing, I guess. Won't pretend like they're the most approachable things in the world, but it's what I'm diggin' these days.

Definitely not my usual type of music, but I'm really digging it.

I've been doing some writing tonight, and your first mix has been great for pushing some creativity out of me. So, plus one for you.

 

[dallow_bg]

Pretty Poisons

http://www.sendspace.com/file/av91iy

01) Intro to Europa
02) Mount Eerie - Between Two Mysteries
03) The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anemone
04) Spiritualized - If I Were With Her Now
05) The KLF - Build a Fire
06) Kevin Ayers - Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
07) The Teardrop Explodes - Ouch Monkeys
08) Shiny Two Shiny - Susquehanna
09) Television - Elevation
10) Felt - The Palace
11) Martin Phillipps - Haunt Me
12) Gareth Williams & Marie Currie - Restless Mind
13) Pulp - My Lighthouse
14) Mr. Wright - Anna Karina
15) Peter Perrett - Woke Up Sticky
16) Michel Polnareff - Radio
17) Cleaners From Venus - Felicity
18) Lou Reed - New Sensations

Spiritualized? Teardrop Explodes? Television? Felt? Peter Perrett?
Oh and I love My Lighthouse.

We need to be friends.

+1 respect in music taste
Will download your mix. Wish I had seen this thread earlier.

 

[Bowflex]

Almost to the end of Hotarubi's first part. As expected I'm diggin' it so far.

Dallow - Its a shame that most people overlook the first few Pulp releases. It is just such a beautiful album. And of course Felt (and sometimes Denim and Go-Kart Mozart) is my favorite band ever... Sounds like we do need to be friends.

 

[Nyx]

I too would be interested in making a digital mix for someone, if still possible.

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

Just been trying to finalise my mix today, it's an autobiographical account of my musical life through the medium of mix-tapery. It's like a discursive essay, explaining why it is I like to rock. I'm going to work on the artwork today and aim to get it sent out mid-week. Digi-version to follow shortly afterwards.

It's been great fun making this though, I hope my recipients enjoy it! btw, charmicarmicat, you live just down the road from me, I'm from Aldershot. Tiny world!

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Spent a portion of my late, late night with Bowflex's mix and definitely enjoyed it. Hearing the familiar tones of Max von Sydow's voice immediately made me grin -- such a fantastic way to start things off, btw -- and it leads nicely into the skeletal Mount Eerie track. I really liked how the KLF song bridges the gap from swirling guitars into the rest of the mix, which has a distinctive sense of time and place. I wasn't too crazy about the Kevin Ayers and Peter Perrett songs, but those aside, this introduced me to several artists I'd heard of but never listened to before, and some completely new to me. Good stuff.

I've got perryfarrell's jazz mix to listen to this evening.

Almost to the end of Hotarubi's first part. As expected I'm diggin' it so far.

Heh, it's funny (and potentially confusing) how I still get referred to by my old username by some of the longtime members.

 

[kitchenmotors]

No Reason To Stay: Strings / Good Reason To Go: Beats
http://www.motorde.com/gaf/mixtape.zip

Side A / No Reason To Stay: Strings
01. Metric Long "Notes"
02. Owen Pallett "This Lamb Sells Condos"
03. Patrick Wolf "The Bachelor"
04. Beirut "The Penalty"
05. Bat for Lashes "Prescilla"
06. Ms. John Soda "Sometimes Stop Sometimes Go"
07. The Antlers "The Universe Is Gonna Catch You + The Carrying Arms"

Side B / Good Reason To Go: Beats
01. Future Islands "Follow You (Pangea Version)"
02. Squarepusher "The Coathanger"
03. Saul Williams "NiggyTardust"
04. Max Tundra "Orphaned"
05. YACHT "The Magic Beat"
06. Yeasayer "ONE"
07. Dan Deacon "Wham City"

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Hey, I recognize the titles of those mixes, Alex.

 

[kitchenmotors]

Hey, I recognize the titles of those mixes, Alex.

Haha, yeah Patrick, that was intentional.

 

[TehOh]

Side A / No Reason To Stay: Strings
01. Metric Long "Notes"
02. Owen Pallett "This Lamb Sells Condos"
03. Patrick Wolf "Thickets"
04. Beirut "The Penalty"
05. Bat for Lashes "Prescilla"
06. Ms. John Soda "Sometimes Stop Sometimes Go"
07. The Antlers "The Universe Is Gonna Catch You + The Carrying Arms"

Side B / Good Reason To Go: Beats
01. Future Islands "Follow You (Pangea Version)"
02. Squarepusher "The Coathanger"
03. Saul Williams "NiggyTardust"
04. Max Tundra "Orphaned"
05. YACHT "The Magic Beat"
06. Yeasayer "ONE"
07. Dan Deacon "Wham City"

.. Incredible.

I think that I love every song on here (and I only had heard two of them before).

 

[kitchenmotors]

.. Incredible.

I think that I love every song on here (and I only had heard two of them before).

I'm glad you're enjoying the mix. I tried to make sure that each side was consistent in vibe and had an even flow.

 

[_Isaac]

What the hell am I doing here?!

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

Here is the cover for my mix, I've made a CD envelope out of paper and I'm going for an old-skool photocopied zine style for it. I'm going to burn the CDs tonight, should be sent out by the end of the week. Digital copy:

http://www.zshare.net/download/711310169aaeee9f/

EDIT: lost a bit of detail in the scanning and scaling.

 

[taylor910]

So, about that address list...

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

So, about that address list...

:lol Well, there's always the digital mixes for your consumption... Speaking of which, I'm going to tuck into them when I get home, I love how different all of them are so far. Go diversity!

 

[danielijohnson]

Aghhh! I can't wait to get mine out. I'm still perfecting it. Seeing everyone elses is really making me anxious to share.

 

[dallow_bg]

Almost to the end of Hotarubi's first part. As expected I'm diggin' it so far.

Dallow - Its a shame that most people overlook the first few Pulp releases. It is just such a beautiful album. And of course Felt (and sometimes Denim and Go-Kart Mozart) is my favorite band ever... Sounds like we do need to be friends.

Oh yes, I absolutely love Felt. Even have the original bedroom 45 "Index".

Most of the Denim and Go-Kart Mozart (my XBL tag) releases as well.
(including deleted single Summer Smash in all 3 formats when the keyboard player was selling them online)

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

Can those of you hosting via Rapidshare re-host? It seems their servers are only open to us plebs for about 10 minutes a day...

Also, for those of you making a big mix, how are you packing the files, one big one or individual MP3s?

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

I'll be posting out my mix (artwork above) tomorrow. For those of you that aren't my recipients, here's a digital copy - Why I love to Rock mix.zip - 58.54MB

 

[Alucrid]

I should have mine up tomorrow. I got my "cover" pic for it today and I just need to get rid of a locked file. Hopefully people like it. :lol

edit: Preference for a site to upload it on?

 

[Bowflex]

Heh, it's funny (and potentially confusing) how I still get referred to by my old username by some of the longtime members.

Haha, sorry about the confusion, but I'll always know you as Hota!

Anywho, I'm aware that my mix sort of loses direction and the flow definitely gets jaggy and jumpy towards the latter half. After working on it for a little over an hour, I kind of just gave up and threw a few pop songs, a ballad, and a few of my favorite heart-jerkers in the latter half to off-set the eeriness-into-heroin slow jams of the first several tracks - in hoping that it would be a fresh change of pace - but looking back it didn't work as well as I had planned. I've made good mixes before that hop around like that, but I don't think this one is one of my best.

Your mix however - now having given it multiple listens - is phenomenal! Excellent transitions throughout and the haunting piano on that Linda Perhacs song - my gosh...I don't think I've ever heard a piano sound like that. Might be one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, really. (or at least since you put the Black Gold version of "Who Knows Where Times Goes" by Nina Simone a mix a while back) I have Parallelograms and I love it, but this one song is somethin' special...

As for everyone else, I'm heading down to Austin tomorrow to stay with some friends for the week, so I'll burn everyones mixes to discs and hopefully have some reviews when I get back.

 

[Undeux]

Ah damn, saw this thread too late. :-/

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

Ah damn, saw this thread too late. :-/

It's never to late to make a digital mix! Get it up here man!

Also, Bowflex, I listened to your mix this morning, that was some awesome sleepy bus music man. I'd never heard any of those songs or bands before, it was great stuff, thanks!

 

[El Papa]

Ok, sign me up.

edit: Ok, just read the end of the OP, I guess don't sign me up since it's too late?

 

[Phobophile]

Alright, even though I signed up for a physical mix, I've uploaded a digital mix anyway for those interested.

http://www.mediafire.com/?vuiuiz0z3g1

I made this mix to attempt to show the breadth, range, and variety of the metal genre as a whole. The playlist is more or less chronological, starting off with Sabbath off of Master of Reality in 1971 and ending with Baroness' track off of Red Album released in 2007. This playlist explores the genres of heavy, doom, power, thrash, death, black, sludge, and progressive metal with plenty of intertwining from other metal genres and some tracks with other non-metal genres such as hardcore punk, folk/neo-folk, and industrial. It's really hard trying to compile three decades of a constantly changing musical genre into under 80 minutes and not feel that you've left major shifts/evolutions in metal out of the playlist. Also, I tried to make this list as relatively accessible as possible, without compromising demonstrating the range of the genre. And I've added a mix of mainstream/more well known bands and lesser known.

 

[Wes]

Working on mine at the moment. Decided to actually mix the tracks together but some of the mixes are so awful... hope you all forgive me for that! I'll probably post it tomorrow.

I haven't listened to anyone elses yet as I get influenced so easily so wanted to get mine finished first. Looking forward to hearing them though.

 

[Weapxn]

The Mix I'm mailing out to my three victims includes Lady GaGa and Janet Jackson.

You have been warned.

 

[_Isaac]

Wow, Phobophile you really went all out with your theme. I pretty much just resorted to putting in things I just happened to remember. Tomorrow, I'm going to buy the discs. Is there a specific type of disc I'm supposed to get? Just audio cds?

 

[Alucrid]

GAHHFW. I forgot some of the songs are iTunes protected. I have to swap some stuff out now. Tomorrow, I swear.

 

[swoon]

i think i forgot that comic bus was hota, though i thought i remembered hota sending me a mix with a marching band track on it, which seems odd.

i finished my mix tonight. it features a lot of artists "past their prime."

 

[danielijohnson]

I finished my cover. Just need to print em off. Mine will go in the mail before the week is over. Haven't received one yet, though!

Tracklisting:

 

[Skittleguy]

It's never to late to make a digital mix! Get it up here man!

Also, Bowflex, I listened to your mix this morning, that was some awesome sleepy bus music man. I'd never heard any of those songs or bands before, it was great stuff, thanks!

Oh, we're still free to make digital mixes? So I can still weird everyone out with my stupid taste in music?

 

[swoon]

wow. the white octave, i hadn't thought about them in forever. are you from nc?

 

[Cosmic Bus]

i think i forgot that comic bus was hota, though i thought i remembered hota sending me a mix with a marching band track on it, which seems odd.

Heh, I don't know if that was me; can't say that I've listened to any marching bands before! I do recall you commenting on my use of a Text song on one before... not sure if it was surprise, confusion or being flat-out appalled.

 

[kitchenmotors]

Oh, we're still free to make digital mixes? So I can still weird everyone out with my stupid taste in music?

Whhhat, stupid taste? I love your taste in music!

 

[Phobophile]

Wow, Phobophile you really went all out with your theme. I pretty much just resorted to putting in things I just happened to remember. Tomorrow, I'm going to buy the discs. Is there a specific type of disc I'm supposed to get? Just audio cds?

Just 700 MB/80 min CD-Rs will work just fine. I have to buy more because I only made one copy and AlteredBeast sends me 3 GAFers' addresses in a PM. :lol