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The Mixtape Thread!
KvP:
New year, new series, this time with a vaguely label-ish moniker - TPS|JMXI01, followed by an 02, etc.
More acid here than the usual, if you can believe that, and a lot more gorgeous texturing. That second-to-last Grouper track is a perrenial. Beyond that we've got IDM from EOD and Geiom, modern dub composition from Bastian Wegner, bleeding-edge house from Jam City, Martyn and Headhunter, techno from Zerkalo and Franklin De Costa, and a little rap throwback stuff from Wbeeza and Chico Santiago, reminiscent of that Alan Braxe / Rec collab that was so unexpectedly awesome on the "Uppercuts" comp. Also one of these tracks doesn't belong :o which one is it? The world may never know.
Anyway, a few short songs allowed some better variety than a few of last year's. Also tried to shake up the mix cover format but there's something missing and I don't know how to add it. Anyone have any pointers?
Tracklisting:
01. Swans - Live Through Me
02. Raime - If Anyone Was Here He Would Know Where We ARe
03. EOD - On a Herald Go
04. Breton - Counterbalance
05. Planes - Sole Intention
06. Echo Lake - Sunday Evening
07. Master Eveleigh - Cornish Clotted Cream
08. Franklin De Costa - Circular Beings
09. Geiom - Resi Claart
10. KXTA - Under_57.Ice
11. Martyn - Left Hander
12. Wbeeza feat. Chico Santiago - The World Is Yourz
13. Jam City - 2 Hot
14. eLan - I Can't Breathe
15. Headhunter - Chasing Dragons
16. Zerkalo - How Difficult It Is
17. Grouper - Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping
18. Bastian Wagner - Drift
Anyway
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KharBevNor:
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It's just a bit sloppy man. Typography's not laid together pleasingly, you've got hard and soft-edged elements not mixing right, nothing to tie it together etc.
Try something more like this:
http://image.bayimg.com/ladblaade.jpg
Better to do it from the raw files though than fuck around with the JPG like I did here, also I probably went overboard at a few points, but I like playing around. Think about how everything lines up with everything else and about the edges and borders and shapes, is all the general advice I can give.
KvP:
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--- Quote from: KvP on 12 Jan 2011, 00:13 --- there's something missing and I don't know how to add it. Anyone have any pointers?
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It's just a bit sloppy man. Typography's not laid together pleasingly, you've got hard and soft-edged elements not mixing right, nothing to tie it together etc.
Try something more like this:
http://image.bayimg.com/ladblaade.jpg
Better to do it from the raw files though than fuck around with the JPG like I did here, also I probably went overboard at a few points, but I like playing around. Think about how everything lines up with everything else and about the edges and borders and shapes, is all the general advice I can give.
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Yeah I need some dedicated, rigorous practice with GIMP, which is what I use. I can't use anything that isn't halfway automatic. Trying just to make a shape with smooth, straight edges is hard enough for me. Pizazz is just out of my league entirely.
scarred:
Show Me Your Movements
mix I made as part of a blog's "month of mixtapes" feature. it is mostly lo-fi electronic stuff, some groovy blips and bloops and reverb. some of my favorite tracks from last year that didn't fit on any best of compilation, so I made them their own.
--- Quote from: TRACKLIST ---01 Baths - Nordic Laurel
02 Blackbird Blackbird - Summer Heart
03 Teen Daze - Four More Years
04 Brothertiger - Feel
05 Active Child - When Your Love Is Safe
06 Geographer - Kites
07 Memoryhouse - To the Lighthouse
08 Jamie Long - Monaco
09 Keep Shelly In Athens - Fokionos Negri Street
10 Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
11 ceo - Illuminata
12 Washed Out - New Theory
13 Memory Cassette - Surfin'
14 Toro Y Moi - Blessa
15 Cults - Go Outside
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KvP:
It's February! Innit. You know, this would make a lot more sense if I released these things at the end of the month, but I've been doing this for over a year now and unless I want to pull a two CD mix out with the three extra weeks of music the transition would yield me (on average I can fill a full disc's worth of material in about two weeks, give or take. I consume a ludicrous amount of music) it's a tough sell. Anyway, January was a fertile month so the tracklisting was something I fretted over a lot. I'm going to have a lot of good music from these last few weeks spilling over into next month's mix, but that's how these things go, usually. I got the cover art from this Tumblr blog called "Supersonicelectronic", it's pretty good when you need a random, vaguely psychedelic image for a mix cover.
Here is the tracklisting for "TPS | JMXI02":
01. Illum Sphere - Aftermath
02. Andrea - Retail Juke
03. Black Math - This Love's Got to Change
04. Instra:Mental - From the Start
05. Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You
06. Gravious - Junction City
07. XXXY - Ordinary Things
08. Brokenchord - A Girl Of 13 Summers
09. Ø (Mika Vainio) - Ensimmäinen Valo
10. Solar Bears - To Be With Her
11. Lil B - Vampires
12. Cotton Keys - Sliding Tiger Slippery Snake
13. Julia Kent - Ailanthus
14. Sepalcure - Fleur
15. Luke Abbott - Trans Forest Alignment
16. Excepter - Stretch (JG Thirlwell Mix)
17. Bvdub - The Past Disappears
Here's the link:
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