No Tracklist Specified
RAJ
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This has become an epidemic in the mixes section.
Heads are posting gorgeous mixes but are not specifying track lists. In an age where about 99% of what you hear is available on a blog or whatever, why do folks pull this :shh:
Is it:
(A) Paranoia
(B) Laziness
(C) Ego (gets off on people begging for track list names)
or (D) All of the Above
The pet peeve threads have got me going today
Heads are posting gorgeous mixes but are not specifying track lists. In an age where about 99% of what you hear is available on a blog or whatever, why do folks pull this :shh:
Is it:
(A) Paranoia
(B) Laziness
(C) Ego (gets off on people begging for track list names)
or (D) All of the Above
The pet peeve threads have got me going today
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I think that answers your question.
Oh -- so every tom, dick, and harry will dl it and start spinning it?? It's easy enough just to splice up the DJ mix and have the song as well.
While I regularly hear mystery tracks that I'd love to find and own myself, I'm aware that some of my most valuable, oft-returned-to mixes are the mystery ones, so I fully understand the ethos of trying, in a world of blogs and downloads for everything, to stand-out a little by leaving some detective work for the listener.
but my next mix will be fully trcklisted
(D) for days...
Definitely if it's just a regular 'selector' mix, because I'll go out an cop all of the tunes that I like the most, whereas a mix that is more about DJ skills and less about strength of obscure selections will always get play on the strength of the beatmatching, the blends, scratching, FX or whatever.
Of course the best mixes blend a tracklist of obscure and classic stuff, tasefully mixed in a way that compliments the original tracks better than hearing them on their own...
In todays world of music, with so much choice, so much stuff available for free, there aren't actually that many mixes that I can be bothered to listen to all the way through more than a couple of times now because my listening standards/expectations have been raised.
I also don't bother to store anything less than 360 bit rate.
Too much to hear, too little time.
In further defence of tracklisted mixes, if Cosmo Baker is reading, I still bump his Still Good mix (the one with some Archie Whitewater and Les Fleur) because it's a brilliant mixture of classics & obscurities, smooth transitions, and he understands and doesn't disturb the groove. I pass this on to as many people as I can of ages from 18 to 65, and have never had poor feedback. So you don't need to be J.Rocc or the Psychonauts to get love, and you don't have to be hiding the tracks for a mix to hold enduring value... honest :cheese:
Believe me, I have my reasons for not making it easy to DL mixes.
A way to do it is:
View Source in your browser
Find > .mp3
That will bring you to the code where the mp3 is streaming from.
Bingo. It's much more fun to try to figure out tracklistings on your own. I love finding shit that was used on tracklist-less mixes. Much more rewarding and educational, IMO.
B/w
People feel free to pm me if you have any track Id questions for any of my mixes!
this and the fact that i make a lot of mixes, often when i am :slowburner:
Raj have you thought of doing a soundcloud or official fm page to host the soul strut mixes to ease your bandwidth worries then embed them on the mix page?
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I don't mind tracklistless mixes especially if there's that one song that grabs you but no one seems to know what it is. believe it or not but it is a good feeling and a good thing. chances are you'll expand your horizons while trying to find out what that song is
Hi Raj,
I'm glad you posted this as I feel the same. I was just listening to Royale With Beats the other day, which has some crazy shit on it. I haven't listened to it since 2003? Would you mind posting a tracklisting? (I'm not trying to be cute, I'm genuinely curious about what you used in that mix).
Kindly,
parallax
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I had a track list that I would give to heads who asked. Obviously there was never one on the CD for licensing purposes. Nevertheless, I don't have it any more as it is long gone from my migration from PC to Mac in 2006.
Even if I wanted to do one, a lot of it is Polish Prog and French Library shit I sold years a go that I couldn't remember the name of for the life of me anyways. Forever a mystery.
That's what I figured since you made the mix ages ago, but I had to ask.
Cheers,
parallax
Half the time people are posting up track selections and labeling them as a mix. IMO that is not a mix, that's a compilation at best. I'd say this discussion is somewhat style dependent too, house music is strongly focused on the mix whereas other styles are mostly just about the selection or manipulative skills, etc...
cosignage. damn instant gratification society
i love mystery mixes and the thrill of figuring the shit out. that also involves asking a lot of people, so its important to have a good community of folks at your back, which soulstrut is. plus theres shazzam and all kinds of other methods of figuring shit out, so why all the fuss? jusasksomebody or start a tracklist demystification thread (which is a nice tip of the hat to the person who put effort into making the mix in the first place)
Mixes aren't licensed compilations, and the best ones rise above the sheer what's-what of their parts and pieces. If track lists were a requirement you would still be treated to some ol' "Percy Hutton & Them - Outerspace Restingplace pt. 2" business, that's if I had anything to say about it...