Summer Mix Competition

[tommydski]

I can forgive a couple of ska songs probably. I have a skip button like everyone else.

If it's a good mix, it's a good mix.

[DynamiteKid]

Your skip button won't work on my mixes because everything's crossfading...so I hope your fast forward works!

[wesleyv]

here's my entry, no idea what you like but I tried to put all sorts of different music on it. It defintely has some weird african/latin tracks on it but I thought they sounded nice with it

re-up

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?0dltvyxc0vm

[DynamiteKid]

Fuck, it's July and I've not uploaded mine yet. Might be worth doing that...

[Daft pun]

Yeah, probably time to post this sucker. I've been meaning to tinker with it for a couple of months now, but I can't really find any faultdecide what to change. So here it is. Enjoy.

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?dvxlj4e2hzm

[DynamiteKid]

Mine's finally here!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EADWTZ1O

Tracklist (sans artists for some minor mystery):
1. Fuck John Cage (intro)
2. Binehouse Scream (overture)
3. Summertime
4. Loaded Monkey/Pleasant Valley Sunday
5. Made-up Lovesong #43
6. Lincolnterlude
7. Biggie Smalls Coughs Up A Lung (interlude)
8. Hanasakajijji Four: A Great Wind, More Ash
9. Even More Ash/Me Plus One
10. Scooby Snax
11. Beanathallo (interlude)
12. Taxlo$$

Dear God I'm fucking obscure with these titles. But I still think they're amusing. Enjoy!

[allison]

Can there be a promise made by the person who wins the american apparel prize that they will not purchase anything made of gold (or any colour, in fact) lamé, or those creepy, creepy body suits?

[wesleyv]

I think the promise should be that if someone wins they have to get the creepy gold body suit and post pics of themselves wearing it.

[Linds]

Tommy, we await your feedback!

[tommydski]

I'm not listening to them until the contest is over, on August 1st.

[DynamiteKid]

One of you other motherfuckers listen to mine in the meantime. I did some appalling cross-mixing and I want to know what people think of it haha.

[Linds]

For some reason, I thought it ended this month. Oops!

And I will listen to your mix. I am currently downloading it.

[Dimmukane]

Ok, I finally got around to picking songs and stuff.  I was at what was essentially an epic barbecue/friend's 21st birthday earlier this summer, and I tried to pick songs that kind of fit the occasion.  The first one is during the cookout/copious drinking, the second is after most of the people left and we were sitting on a chair swing with a joint, and the third is the next day, when everyone was recovering.

Just a heads-up, the last track in the second one did not have a song title.  Ever.  The band just named it the number it was on the LP.

The Cookout:

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?zmvdhijypem

The Winding Down:

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?oybjmyat9yx

The Morning After:

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?eamxnu1zcqy

[imagist42]

"Summer", to me, hints at playing, loving and losing, and just plain lazing about.

This is the kind of sentiment I had in mind once I had a large selection of potential tracks and was looking to find some common factor by which to narrow it down. What I wound up with was my attempt at creating a conceptual album! It is based loosely on my experience of switching cities in the middle of one summer, and composed entirely of tracks that aren't mine! Isn't that crazy?


imagist42's The Hot Months: A Summer Mix

The Hot Months is (roughly) the tale of a wistful young man who has spent his life trying to find a life. He has reached a point in his life where, after trying everything he can from college to BASE jumping to discover some purpose beyond hanging out and having fun, he has settled into his quaint, old, and most importantly hot hometown for one last summer. After an initial bout of boredom, he discovers a nightlife hidden in the summer heat that he never knew--and along with it, an old flame. He and she do the whole courtship "thing" for a bit, but he ultimately finds that she wants a life vastly different from this comfortable, familiar one he has developed. She leaves, and the resulting fallout nearly destroys him and everything he has built up around him, until she returns for one last visit to help him come to terms with the fact that their fling wasn't exactly a stable relationship to begin with. In the process he realizes that he cannot stick around in the same old place forever, and as their last act together they head out of town in opposite directions, leaving nothing but shadows behind.

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?j4zncm9ixzz

Holy crap is it a pretty awful concept and so many times during almost every song the lyrics don't fit at all but it sure was fun to put together.

[imagist42]

Sorry for the double post, but for anyone who's already downloaded my mix, I had to put up an updated version because the track numbering was a little wonky in iTunes (some tracks having "disc n of n" info in the tags put some tracks in a separate order before the real first track), and the album artwork didn't seem to import properly because WMP and iTunes don't like to play nice on that front. Should all be fixed, but just to be clear, "Army" should be the first track, and you should be looking at the above picture of a tree in a dead field (although that's not exactly a vital point to the mix).

Here's the new link (updated in the above post too):

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?j4zncm9ixzz

[IronOxide]

So I've finally got mine done in time (EST at least). I mean, I like it enough.

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?2citphspyyk

[lollipop lasers]

Here is mine I think:

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?dwyvmrycxbm

[squawk]

aw, shit

[MrBlu]

I guess m4a is also applicable then.

Obviously, I can play either but I didn't want to penalise other people who might want to listen to these mixes but don't have iTunes.

WinAmp plays .m4as...

I wonder if I can sneak in mine in... 1 hour...
EDIT::

Code:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BTHH7WZ5

I apologize fore Megaupload, but it was like... .99mb over 100mb.
Tracklisting is...

1. Go Go Gadget Flow- Lupe Fiasco
2. Drivin' Down the Block (Freestyle)- Tyga
3. 40 Strong- Wayne Marshall Ft. Tornado
4. Calambria- Vybz Kartel
5. Night and Day- Tech N9ne
6. G*A*M*E (CA Version)- Shing02, Jern Eye, Caveman
7. Resurrection Of The House Party- Substantial
8. In The House- Jurassic 5
9. Red Hot- Jurassic 5
10. Drill Team- Tech N9ne
11. Coming From The Top- Thievery Corporation
12. Be You Feat Czelena- Tanya Morgan
13. Warning Shots- Thievery Corporation
14. Chase Me- Hexstatic
15. Crabbuckit- K-Os
16. Let's Go- Pharaohe Monch
17. Jayou- Jurassic 5
18. Up In Here- Kovas
19. Callin' Out- Lyrics Born
20. The Building- Looptroop Rockers

[Linds]

You sure like Jurassic 5.

[MrBlu]

You can NEVER have enough J5.

[imagist42]

I'm assuming Tommy is taking an appropriate amount of time to give every mix a proper listen before laying down His Infinitely Wise Judgment, yes?

[tommydski]

Yeah man, it's going to take a while. I had like twenty entries in the end.

[michaelicious]

How is the listening going?

[tommydski]

Pretty good.

I'm actually going write a written response to most if not all. Alas I have work and I'm still refurbishing my house so it's gonna take a while!

[tender]

Take your time, tommy.

When you mentioned that you weren't going to listen to them until August, I knew it was going to take a while. I've listened to every single mix. Lots of good selections, everyone! Certainly made my summer more enjoyable.

[imagist42]

Yeah, don't worry too much about it, we all understand. I was planning on listening to everyone's mixes myself, but... well, I've listened to mine so far!

[pwhodges]

I've also listened to them all (though I think Tommy's got more than us as some were sent privately).  I have a couple of clear favourites, but enjoyed something in nearly all of them, and found something to interest me (not the same) in every one.

[DynamiteKid]

People need to start listing specifics here. I did some really shitty mixing and interludes (and even shittier titles for those interludes) and I want to know what people thought of 'em!

[pwhodges]

I'm deliberately not going to say anything specific until Tommy's done.

[Linds]

I have listened to three others I think. Maybe four. I picked them at random and oddly enough they share a few artists and generally sound similar, but they were all fun.

[wesleyv]

too bad the weather is pretty crappy. we need to start making winter mixes already

[exomni]

Summer is meh for music. It's all about fall mixes. AKA "what order should I put all these Nick Drake songs in". But seriously, everything sounds better in autumn.

[Linds]

I made an autumn mix, and though I like it a lot, summer is lots of fun for music. You can put all the happy, fun, and even silly songs onto a mix and call it summery.

[Dimmukane]

WHO WON

[KharBevNor]

WANT FEEDBACK.

[Ptommydski]

Number of mixes listened to as of today: None.

I need to quit my job or something.

[pwhodges]

Burn CD-RW; listen in car on way to and from work; repeat; sorted (eventually).

[imagist42]

Yeah I thought you drove like 10000 miles a day?

[wesleyv]

re-upped mine just in case 

[Ptommydski]

I have them all on my HDD. I started listening to some of them.

So far: Impressed.

[öde]

How many are there?

[Linds]

Jeeze Tommy. September is almost over and still no results or feedback. For shame.

(Mostly, I am looking forward to feedback.)

[imagist42]

Yeah, I don't even care about the prize so much (mostly because I won't win it), I just want to know how my concept went over.

[pwhodges]

Give the guy a break...  He said only a couple of days ago that he'd started listening to them; work out how long it takes to listen to 22 mixes (plus any he was sent privately) even just once each while living a life (dogs are good - I've listened to them all while walking the dogs ).

[imagist42]

Hey, I wasn't chastising the dude. I can rarely be bothered to listen to bands I haven't heard simply because I don't have that much music time and the time I do have I like to spend with things I already know are good.

[Dimmukane]

NEVER FORGET

[De_El]

Too late! But now that I remember I am curious who won and also about that fabled feedback.

[wesleyv]

chastising time