Mix: Heart Like an 808
It feels enough like I've been working on this forever that I want to go ARGH FINALLY FUCKING DONE WITH IT, but honestly, if I look back at my average completion times in my mix-making days of yore, it...hasn't really been all that long, heh. (To wit: started building my track pool in late November, by the file dates.) The fact that I was making it for specific semi-public use, though, and not just for my own idle pleasure, did rather make every week of further delay an increasing source of frustration.
Sooo, the story goes: I started going to the gym with my mum & gaggle of aunts late fall, and the first few times were soundtracked by a random mix of recent chart fare that ranged from perfectly enjoyable to godawful (the godawful, naturally, being what ended up getting stuck in my head afterwards, ahaha). As the gym's sound system is freely available to any patron's use, I subsequently went "FUCK THIS, I'm bringing some actually good shit for us to work out to", and started slapping a quick mix together as soon as I got back home.
And then my not-strictly-speaking-professional pride kicked in, and thus: endless delays while I fiddled and fiddled and fiddled (and took a half-month break amid it all to focus on my festivid) to get it ~perfect. XD;
(I actually technically finished the thing a couple of week ago, but stress-testing it in its intended environment revealed that the sequencing still wasn't 100% functional -- and the trouble I was having getting a mixed version for upload working rather backed that conclusion up. It's amazing what a difference switching the two ill-fitting tracks out made to the flow of the mixing, honestly!)
ANYway, enough preamble, already: here, have a mix full of high-energy, propulsive pop, r&b and dance from the current decade, specially designed to exercise to. (Or dance to! The two tick a lot of the same boxes for requirements, after all. :D)
Stream it here on Mixcloud.
Tracklist:
1. Tanja - Amazing
2. Dawn Richard - Faith
3. Danity Kane - Rhythm of Love
4. Emily Osment - Lovesick
5. Ke$ha - Die Young
6. Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris - All Around the World
7. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Can't Fight This Feeling
8. Nicole Scherzinger - Say Yes
9. Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day
10. Martin Solveig feat. Kele - Ready 2 Go (Radio Edit)
11. Selena Gomez - Forget Forever
12. Wynter Gordon - All My Life
13. Rebecca & Fiona - Jane Doe
14. Ne-Yo - Burning Up
15. Anna Abreu - Dynamite
Total time: 51:08 min
And on the subject of Mixcloud: yeah, I have a channel there now. My old mix host threw in the towel at some nebulous point in the past year+; I just didn't have the impetus to get off my ass about finding a replacement host until I was looking to upload this one. Not many of my old mixes are up there yet, buuut I'm working on it!
(Also, man, checking back and seeing that I haven't been making mixes regularly since 2009 kind of hurt me in my SOUL. :( I mean, v. explainable, partly software-lackage-related reasons why it's been that long, and all, but stiiiiiill.)
Crossposted at http://credoimprobus.dreamwidth.org/752820.html
Sooo, the story goes: I started going to the gym with my mum & gaggle of aunts late fall, and the first few times were soundtracked by a random mix of recent chart fare that ranged from perfectly enjoyable to godawful (the godawful, naturally, being what ended up getting stuck in my head afterwards, ahaha). As the gym's sound system is freely available to any patron's use, I subsequently went "FUCK THIS, I'm bringing some actually good shit for us to work out to", and started slapping a quick mix together as soon as I got back home.
And then my not-strictly-speaking-professional pride kicked in, and thus: endless delays while I fiddled and fiddled and fiddled (and took a half-month break amid it all to focus on my festivid) to get it ~perfect. XD;
(I actually technically finished the thing a couple of week ago, but stress-testing it in its intended environment revealed that the sequencing still wasn't 100% functional -- and the trouble I was having getting a mixed version for upload working rather backed that conclusion up. It's amazing what a difference switching the two ill-fitting tracks out made to the flow of the mixing, honestly!)
ANYway, enough preamble, already: here, have a mix full of high-energy, propulsive pop, r&b and dance from the current decade, specially designed to exercise to. (Or dance to! The two tick a lot of the same boxes for requirements, after all. :D)
Stream it here on Mixcloud.
Tracklist:
1. Tanja - Amazing
2. Dawn Richard - Faith
3. Danity Kane - Rhythm of Love
4. Emily Osment - Lovesick
5. Ke$ha - Die Young
6. Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris - All Around the World
7. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Can't Fight This Feeling
8. Nicole Scherzinger - Say Yes
9. Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day
10. Martin Solveig feat. Kele - Ready 2 Go (Radio Edit)
11. Selena Gomez - Forget Forever
12. Wynter Gordon - All My Life
13. Rebecca & Fiona - Jane Doe
14. Ne-Yo - Burning Up
15. Anna Abreu - Dynamite
Total time: 51:08 min
And on the subject of Mixcloud: yeah, I have a channel there now. My old mix host threw in the towel at some nebulous point in the past year+; I just didn't have the impetus to get off my ass about finding a replacement host until I was looking to upload this one. Not many of my old mixes are up there yet, buuut I'm working on it!
(Also, man, checking back and seeing that I haven't been making mixes regularly since 2009 kind of hurt me in my SOUL. :( I mean, v. explainable, partly software-lackage-related reasons why it's been that long, and all, but stiiiiiill.)
Crossposted at http://credoimprobus.dreamwidth.org/752820.html