Fun with music
Despite being exhausted, I haven’t been able to sleep yet tonight because my brain is pounding on the inside of its container begging me to use it to do something. So on the spur of the moment, I started and completed work on this year’s Scribblings Music Mix. You may remember this feature from last year – I assembled “best of 2006 soundtracks” and a “best of 2006 not-soundtracks” mixes that you could stream from the blog, and man, was that popular. I got as many e-mails as comments on it. This year, I decided to really screw with everyone’s head and put both the soundtrack and non-soundtrack pieces all in one mix, and did my best to make them all sound like they went together, joining stuff that ended in a particular key to other stuff than began in the same key – where possible. I tried to keep “full stops” and clumsy edits to an absolute minimum. Only stuff with a 2007 street date was allowable, though some of the absolute best stuff to street in 2007 (IMHO) was bonus material on catalogue reissues, or music from the vaults that just hadn’t been released until now. It’s all about 15 minutes long, and in listening back to it, I’m hearing thematic links that I didn’t know were there – sort of like my subconscious was in on the song selection. In some places it’s a little bizarre, so I don’t know if everyone who really dug last year’s mixes will like this one as much with the whiplash-inducing (and yet disturbingly tuneful) gear shifts. As with last year’s, the mix will only be up for a limited time, probably with the nifty Christmas Eve update, which also includes a dandy Toybox article from Flack which will finally answer the question “Who in the world were those space-type guys?”
Heck, I might put last year’s mixes up too, just for laughs. For those waiting for me to put up or shut up about what kind of radio show or music podcast I would inflict on the world, you will soon have the answer. 😆… Read more
