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Single Artist
2/19/2006
Solo tracks, collaborations, productions. Once I'm ensconced in Brian Eno's strange sound world (a phrase lovingly ripped off from an Evelyn Glennie album) I find it rather hard to get out again....(No …
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Mixed Genre
1/29/2006
"ONCE YOU FIIIND OUT... THE CIR-CUM-STAN-CES... ... ... THENNN YOOUUU, CAN GO OOOUUUTT!!!" (Beefheart, rather phonetically transcribed. Indeed, I agree with the sentiment.) For Luke79, who specifically …
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Theme - Narrative
1/21/2006
THE 12 STAGES OF THE HERO'S JOURNEY (all quotes from The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler)1. ORDINARY WORLD: "In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell describes the beginning of the typ …
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Singer/Songwriter
1/14/2006
A bunch of hopefully heartening love songs (plus one drinking song, #4) from my two favorite Celtic solo artists. I was thinking of a particular narrative while sequencing this, kind of like the one on …
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Theme
1/9/2006
Everybody sing: "GIVEN THE CHANCE I'LL DIE LIKE A BABY / ON SOME FARAWAY BEACH WHEN THE SEASON'S OVER / UNLIKELY I'LL BE REMEMBERED / AS THE TIDE BRUSHES SAND IN MY EYES I'LL DRIP AWAY / CAST UP ON A P …
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Single Artist
12/27/2005
Easily the most obscure artist I've as yet constructed a single-artist mix of, Robert Wyatt is also, rather unarguably I think, the most versatile. Listen to "As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still", the e …
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Theme
12/25/2005
Another mood-oriented mix, and the sequel to Heartbreak In The Cornfields. The opener, from Lucas's rarities collection "Improve the Shining Hour", is one of the hidden treasures of music, as is the ne …
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Theme
12/25/2005
An old mix of mine (early 2004), in fact I'd say my first completely successful multi-artist mix. Unified by repeated artists, perhaps. A set of usually simple "songs of heartbreak and haunting beauty" …
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Mixed Genre
12/3/2005
Deceptive... Though i suppose i'd very much enjoy creating a mix i could confidently state was my Best of 2005 mix, this is definitely not that one (might have to wait 30 more years and do a "Spirit of …
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