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[Tyler]

Here is a mix I threw together in a couple hours tonight. It is called for now A Road Atlas and is basically loosely formed around using bands with locations in their names (e.g. of Montreal, AiH, Portugal. The Man).

Feel free to critique, offer tracks to swap in and out, etc. It is very much a work in progress. And as to give this thread a point, feel free to share your own mixes.

[Storm Rider]

Could you post a tracklist, perhaps?

[Tyler]

I could, and shall
01 - Europe - The Final Countdown
02 - Portugal The Man - How The Leopard Got Its Spots
03 - Tokyo Police Club - Nature of the Experiment
04 - Architecture in Helsinki - The Cemetery
05 - of Montreal - A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
06 - The Dresden Dolls - Bad Habit
07 - I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse
08 - Beirut - Brandenburg
09 - American Analog Set - Punk as Fuck
10 - Fairmont - Burn The Churches
11 - Okkervil River - Kathy Keller
12 - Kings of Leon - Genius
13 - Mission of Burma - This Is Not A Photograph
14 - Fountains Of Wayne - Sink To The Bottom
15 - Jets To Brazil - You're Having The Time Of My Life
16 - India Arie - Can I Walk with You
17 - Boards Of Canada - Julie And Candy
18 - Daft Punk - Around the World (Seemed like an appropriate closer)

[Storm Rider]

Dude, More than a Feeling. Come on.

[Tyler]

I thought about Boston, Buffalo Springfield, and Chicago but I could not think how to fit either in without it sounding painfully out of place. As it is now, the mix has issues flowing.

[BrittanyMarie]

America-Horse with no Name
Defiance, Ohio-Sometimes Motion (They are kind of like This Bike is a Pipe Bomb or Against Me!, if you haven't heard this. I don't know if it would fit though)

I like your idea for a mix, though looking through my collection I've realized that I don't have nearly enough to make any mix, much less a good one.

[Lines]

final countdown. oh yes.

[KharBevNor]

Needs some Laibach!

[TheFuriousWombat]

I made an attempted ambient soundscape mix. actually i make lots of them. here's a track listing and i'll work on posting a link later. maybe. yes, i repeated artists. shoot me. it just flows better this way:

Akron/Family- Interlude: Ak Ak Was The Boat They Sailed In On
Four Tet- Harmony One
Do Make Say Think- It's Gonna Rain
Hemipode- Amiina
Gust Of...- The Album Leaf
Stone in Focus- Aphex Twin
Under the Water it Glowed- Eluvium
First Thing- Four Tet
Last Saturday- M83
Tea Merchants- Rachel's
Winter Sun- The Salt
Rhubarb- Aphex Twin
We Had a Few- The Salt
Luvstory- Fake Mogwai/Sigur Ros split. I never found the real artist.
Nick Drake- Mogwai
Blues for Uncle Gibb- Broken Social Scene (off of feel good lost. their best album by far)
Elephant Shoes- Tarentel
An Ending- Brian Eno (sorry for a terribly unoriginal ending)

[Thrillho]

I did a mix - where I actually mixed a lot of them together so it was one massive megamix with things overlapping and suchlike, the transition between The Vines and Pink Floyd was fantastic because the feedback died away at the opening slide - called the 74-minute Technicolour Dream which was basically just meant to be psychedelic or spacey, prog-y tunes. However, I've lost the tracklisting. I might come back later and post it and maybe even put it up for download. There's no fancy-dan beatmatching in it though.

[Johnny C]

I made a pretty rad mix for one of my classes. The theme was just "Fire/Water" and it was divided into two sides, one of which was all songs with fire or fire-related things in the title, and the other side with... well, you know. What I was especially proud of was the fact that each side was about 40 minutes, meaning each one could theoretically fit on an actual cassette tape and sound completely awesome. The tip of the hat that I made to mix tapes was that each side ended with a Weakerthans track.

Tyler, have you thought of including a track by The U.S.A. Is A Monster?

[Lines]

Tyler, you need some Alaska! in that mix. they're pretty good.

[*Sights*]

I have been toying with the idea of making a mix in which every song title is part of sentence, so that the mix eventually becomes a story, poem or whatnot. I imagine many of you may have tried it as well. Alas, my music library is somewhat lacking in song titles which are both gramatically correct and of an open ended nature that actually makes sense with the next song title.

...Anyone wanna try this?

[E. Spaceman]

I did that for the mix exchange last summer, it was rather fun to make.

[Lines]

that sounds like a fun topic.

[Thrillho]

I have been toying with the idea of making a mix in which every song title is part of sentence, so that the mix eventually becomes a story, poem or whatnot. I imagine many of you may have tried it as well. Alas, my music library is somewhat lacking in song titles which are both gramatically correct and of an open ended nature that actually makes sense with the next song title.

...Anyone wanna try this?

I'm so doing that.

[Scytale]

I made a mix fo a whole lot of guitar solos and random riffs, once, I just chopped out all the music and spliced together a whole bunch of stuff, I was suprised how well it all fitted together. Went for about 15 minutes.

[Valrus]

I love making mixes with a narrative arc to them, and one that I'm really proud of is a "Technocalypse" mix. I have nothing against technology myself, but this mix has a "technology causes the end of the world" vibe to it that I think works well. Here's the tracklist:

• "On Your Wings", by Iron and Wine (Our Endless Numbered Days)
• "Santiago", by Loreena McKennitt (The Mask and Mirror)
• "Suddenly Everything Has Changed", by The Flaming Lips (The Soft Bulletin)
• "Ironbound/Fancy Poultry", by Suzanne Vega (Solitude Standing)
• "The Great Unknown", by Dar Williams (The Honesty Room)
• "Industrial Disease", by Dire Straits (Love Over Gold)
• "Gone", by U2 (Pop)
• "Hope", by R.E.M. (Up)
• "Brand New Colony", by The Postal Service (Give Up)
• "4", by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James Album)
• "Aluminum", by The White Stripes (White Blood Cells)
• "One Hundred Years", by The Cure (Pornography)
• "Idioteque", by Radiohead (Kid A)
• "Pluto", by Bjork (Homogenic)
• "Samskeyti", by Sigur Ros (( ))

I tried to make it get (generally) increasingly electronic-sounding as it progresses; the first track is kind of a prologue, while the last is a denouement.

[Scytale]

you should of put some Fear Factory on there, machine induced appocalypses are their speciality.