Muzag

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Member Since: 2/17/2002
Total Mixes: 55
Total Feedback: 1578

Other Mixes By Muzag

a wider view
CD | Theme - Alternating DJ
a narrow path
CD | Theme - Alternating DJ
Experiments In Mood #25: Move It On And Let Fate Decide
CD | Mixed Genre
Experiments In Mood #26: Come, Holy Spirit
CD | Mixed Genre
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Experiments In Mood #24: Oh, What Lies As This Fire Silently Rises
CD | Mixed Genre
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Experiments In Mood #2: Weathering The Storm

Artist Song
Serge Prokofiev  Scythian Suite, Op.20: I - Invocation to Velas & Ala [extract] 
Edu Lobo  Libera Nos 
Air  Les Professionels [extract] 
Zero 7  Give It Away 
Air  Les Professionels [reprise] 
Ennio Morricone  A Fistful Of Dynamite 
Frank Sinatra  Young At Heart 
  The Storm: A Sound Collage (featuring mystery tracks) 
Steve Roach  Heart of the Tempest [extract] 
The Doors  Riders On The Storm 
Kroke  The Secrets Of The Life Tree 
Massive Attack  Dissolved Girl 
The Beach Boys  Cabinessence [extract] 
High Llamas  Tides 
The Beach Boys  Cool Cool Water 
The Mamas And The Papas  Once Was A Time I Thought [edit] 
Claude Debussy  Deux Arabesques - No 1. Andantino con moto 
Robert Wyatt  Free Will And Testament [remix] 
Ludwig van Beethoven  Spring Sonata, Op. 24: I - Allegro 
Eddi Reader  What You Do With What You've Got 
Rahsaan Roland Kirk  Days of Wine and Roses 
Lonnie Liston Smith  Visions Of A New World (Phase I) 
Dusty Springfield  Sunny 
  Radio Reprise (featuring Bing Crosby & The Beach Boys) 

Comment:

Hmmmm, what to say about this one...well, it was nearly too contrived & clever for it's own good. Yes, there's a big concept behind this one but don't let that distract you from the music...after all, there's a happy ending. It's intended to be biographical rather than autobiographical, everyone is welcome to their own interpretations. To lighten the proceedings there's "ein musikalischer Spass" or two in there (sticking Zero 7 between Air and High Llamas between The Beach Boys). But there is a storm at its heart. [COMPETITION TIME: A free copy to the first person to guess the main source (track or artist) of the thunder used to make the storm].
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 8/12/2002
This looks really wonderful, especially the Massive Attack through Beethoven section. I think I may need a copy of this. Let me know if you're up for a trade. Oh, a guess...is the mystery track "The Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks?
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Muzag
Date: 8/12/2002
Hey Curtis, yep I'd love to trade again soon, I need more mixtures of noise!Garth Brooks, eh? So you obviously don't want a free copy :)
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McDonald12
Date: 8/12/2002
Great stuff, Gary. I must have a copy of this. Love the doors, beach boys and dusty.
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 8/12/2002
Hey, you said to guess right? Right? And that Garth Brooks song has a perfect rain intro, it's only redeeming quality in fact ;-)
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TheOtherGirl
Date: 8/12/2002
Dissolved Girl, is like the best song. My signature song.
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DJ Hoover
Date: 8/13/2002
Great mix,Gary!
We should trade for it...
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valis
Date: 8/13/2002
Nice one Muzag.., trax 12-15 is inspired and a "sweet spot" at the heart....., how about the storm provided by James..?
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Muzag
Date: 8/13/2002
Valis: Nope not James I'm afraid.Think less in the quality of James and more towards the standard of Mr Brooks...but more obscure...and less inclined to wear big hats...and more inclined to produce instrumental albums (but not exclusively)...
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valis
Date: 8/13/2002
Philip Glass...?
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Rob Conroy
Date: 8/13/2002
Great stuff.
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Moe
Date: 8/13/2002
I'm guessing you used the intro to Riders on the Storm by the Doors for your rainstorm, but the instrumental albums clue means I'm probably wrong. How about Vangelis?
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Muzag
Date: 8/13/2002
*** We have a winner! ***Ion Moe, it's the start of Soil Festivities by Vangelis.Let me know your address & I'll pop you a copy in the post (and if there's anything else you'd like...)
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Moe
Date: 8/13/2002
Oh yes, excellent mix by the way!
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Moe
Date: 8/13/2002
Cool! That was just a wild guess. I'll e-mail you when I get home.
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p the swede
Date: 8/18/2002
and by the way, i want this, trade some day ?
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valis
Date: 8/18/2002
Congrat's on a well-deserved "Mix of the Week"!!!
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 8/18/2002
Congratulations on Mix of the Week Gary. Should of pulled the trigger on that trade and be the mad rush, eh.
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Emily Stein
Date: 8/18/2002
How fabulous of you. :)
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 8/18/2002
Umm, make that "beat the mad rush." Grrrr.
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Moe
Date: 8/19/2002
Congratulations Muzag! Once again the Beach Boys are well represented on a Mix of the Week.
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Moore1
Date: 8/19/2002
Wonderful!
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Adam Noble1
Date: 8/19/2002
pretty. congratulations.
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Thomas_Mohr
Date: 8/20/2002
My God, you're pretty prolific, man . . . and just churned out another one I need to have. Please feel free to choose from mine.
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Jana
Date: 12/7/2002
This is fantastic! One of the most beautiful mixes I have ever listened to.