Warming up the winter with the sleek glow of dancefloor colours and extreme bouts of catchiness. A bunch of shiny, catchy, warm electro/indiedance/house tunes to put a smile on your face and a rhythm in your step. Enjoy!
Being a collection of songs representing the most favourite of songs enjoyed in 2006 (not necessarily, but principally, being songs originating in 2006). It starts off gentle, ramps up in intensity, gets rather forceful, eases off with a bit of dance-club frivolity, and then enters into a sweeping streak of cinematic epicosity where you get self-actualized and have suns exploding in your heart.
In retrospect, this is not my most favourite of mixes, but all the songs are damn good!
Around Christmas 2006 I made a trio of mix CDs because it’d been a while since I made any. I had a pretty good stash of songs lying around, so things were looking up. This one started from culling through the sets of songs I was most pleased with from the previous summer and sprinkling in new ones as required. It of course changd a lot in the process, but the result is one I am almost perfectly happy with. This one is probably my most easily likable mix and has a good mix of fast and slow.
A companion of sorts to Devils with Drum Machines. Ethereal would be the word here.
A rather enjoyable collection of tunes from the first (short) half of the second season of the radio show. I basically started with the first episode cause it was ridiculously good, having been built from a half year’s backlog of songs, then added from there. Goodness! Me!
A collection of some songs with a sort of delicate drive to ‘em. Dare I say sensual? Well, sure. That would apply to most music wouldn’t it?
There was a bit of bum track in it originally, so two years later or so I took it upon myself to redo it slightly (tracks 8 and 9 are the additions)
A right bit hard-hitting, this. Inspired by a feature on an episode back in the first season, this attempts to present some dark, pounding, hella danceable techno etc. It’s a bit rougher than most of my output, but it gets the job done. It’s also a companion to its follow-up, Angles With Synthesizers
This is actually the best mix CD ever (ed: at the time of this writing). I’m not just saying that because I made it myself. It just is. I’m actually completely unbiased on this and often quite self-effacing in general.
Holy fuck I’m awesome.
This mix was inspired by and supposed, in turn, to be inspiration for a short story I wanted to write. I had an idea for a tale about snow and Christmas and trains and loneliness and trying to find warmth, but it never managed to get finished. I think this set of songs captures the intended feel very well, and it is definitely the most quietly evocative mix I have ever made. It might be perfect for what it tries to do, and that’s make you sad, or at least contemplative and it might convince you it’s snowing outside and you need to pull that blanket a little closer around you.
A few little songs that are, well, worth putting on a mix cd, as it turns out. A large selection of new stuff, and a general good turn-out, I think. No real theme, but a decent flow, I hope.