songs of loss mix
originally entitled songs for natalie but then people would wonder who she was and i don’t want to have to explain anything. i was thinking about the shit she was going through when i made this mix for her. anyway, it is what is.
emptiness of sound mix
it was very late on a friday night when i started on this mix and i having a good old time with mary jane. i hadn’t seen her around in awhile but she always help with the music processing. it ended being a lot more quiet than i had intented and i made it much too quick considering it only took me about an hour to nail down the first draft. after listening to it at home on the big stereo, i felt like it was a nice mix because there were enough moments that i didn’t […]
the art of the mix
i am listening to one of my recentlly created mixes right now and it’s hitting a real nice groove. i forget the last time i’ve made a mix that had such a nice mellow but yet a hopeful vibe. i had intented to mix it exlusively for a certain someone but i am liking it too much to want to share with the other peeps. it’s pretty challenaging to create a great mix and so sometimes i don’t bother to try because it does require so much effort. obviously it was super more effort in the old […]
this wicked wax and wane
some of the more recent rocking covers i’ve heard in a while. Deftone’s cover of Cocteau Twin’s Wax and Wane. Placebo’s cover of Kate Bush’s Runing up the hill. in other musical notes, i’ve digitalize about 80% of my music collection so far. that translates to 17000 songs and 1200 artists. i am becoming a music junkie again. never enough.
one of the best years thus far
i am pretty wrapping up this musical season with a great wahoo as i saw sigur ros for the nth time at the venerable oakland paramount. after seeing m83 a few days prior and they simply blew my socks out of yellow paws. i didn’t dare think anything can be possibly better because i had just seen another amazing show two weeks prior with dead can dance. it was the one two three punch to insure that this has been of the best years in music concerts since my college days. maybe in late ninities when i […]