State of the Onion (Mixage Edition)

[swashbuckler332]

The problem with having made so many mixes by now is that eventually you come to a point where you exhaust all the obvious ideas. Every once in a great while either some form of inspiration strikes from an unexpected quarter ( Excelsior! was a project that took me by surprise) but most of what I'm planning on in one form or another right now are

Comments

[ehowton]

Civilians who use NATO phonetic impress the hell out me, as I shudder to hear their versions of it and it drives me to distraction. The reason the NATO works is because the words chosen don't sound like any other word.

[swashbuckler332]

See... part of the fun of doing what we do is coming up with puns and non-sequiters.

[ehowton]

Alpha Velveeta Knuckle Underwear, you are cleared for take-off. When you hit that nuclear weapons plant... drop a bomb for me!

[swashbuckler332]

Okay, I just snorted water out of my nose. I could see that being something of a potential issue at Mission Control.

...but, yeah. Exactly.

"Without exaggeration, I have put my whole soul into this work."

[ehowton]

According to iTunes I've listened to Excelsior! 14 times. That's a very conservative number, as I keep a copy of it in my car on CD, and sometimes break-out the original disc to listen to at home (my music is not networked throughout the house). I now know every blend of every track, and can only now appreciate the nuances of why each song was chosen. And while I've listened to your The Philosopher Cycle, Flight, The Farthest Reaches, Songs of the Heavens and the Space Trilogy approximately half a dozen times each, I cannot yet pick out which songs are on which albums. That will come in time.

When I was a child, I put together a crude cassette which started with the Ranz des Vaches of the William Tell Overture which eventually exploded into the third movement "march" of Pathétique (I don't even have a good copy of that any longer, having lost my DG recording on cassette to a crap Laserlight CD.) But what you do with your mixes both transcends my early-attempts to pick and choose my favorite tracks, and simultaneously transports

[swashbuckler332]

Your comments fill me with pride, because that is the effect I'm going for with these. Despite the disparate elements, they should each make a specific, unified listening experience unto themselves.

The Alien Quartet will be a pretty easy one to do, as all I plan to change are the tracks from Alien itself (because of the isolated score track, I had most of the music that was on the Intrada release already, but the Intrada disc sounds better than that hissy rip), and as that compilation is chronological instead of all over the place, it will happen one day very soon.

Actually, the conversation that you commented on in the Man of Steel entry is making me think that I should put together the Christopher Reeve compilation now (when all the files are in the computer) rather than waiting (which would mean I'd have to redo a lot of the edits). glenniebun is correct that the Ottman stuff does call some attention to itself, and there are a few moments from the sequels I'd like to be able to include.