Artist	Song
Aerosmith	Walk This Way
William Burroughs	Ah Pook the Destoyer/Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story
John Cage	A Year From Monday (excerpt)
Miles Davis	New York Girl
Eek-A-Mouse	D'yer Maker
Gabriel Fliflet/Ole Hamre	Eg Er Glad I Bergen By
Gentle Giant	Knots
Happy Flowers	Not Fade Away
Industrial Jazz Band	Now That's What I Call Music
Grace Jones	Slave to the Rhythm
Kavkasia	Tsintsqaro
Peggy Lee	Bali Ha'i
Thelonius Monk	Evidence
Conlon Nancarrow	Study 14 for Player Piano
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	Genetic Engineering (BBC live)
Pink Floyd	Apples and Oranges
Q-Burns Abstract Message	Jennifer
Lou Reed	Metal Machine Music (extract)
Igor Stravinsky, arr. Larry Coryell	Rite of Spring (extract)
The Troggs	Wild Thing
Ultimate Spinach	Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess
Edgard Varese	Deserts (extract)
Edgar Winter Group	Frankenstein
XTC	The History of Rock and Roll
Yardbirds	Over Under Sideways Down
Frank Zappa	Lumpy Gravy, pt 2 (extract)

Comment:

Inspired by the various AOTM alphabet mixes, I decided to try my own, in the spirit of aleatoric masters John Cage and William Burroughs (both of whom are represented here). This started out as a "random segmenting" mix, in which each song would be split into several tracks of random lengths. The idea was that in shuffle mode, you'd get random extracts from randomly selected songs (this idea was done for the John Cage tribute CD "A Chance Operation," by the way). I abandoned the idea because I wanted it to work in continuous mode as well, and I wasn't convinced that a segment ending at 0:34, for instance, would be seamlessly joined onto another segment beginning at 0:34 or 0:35 if one were using the continuous mode (even if I eliminated the silences between tracks). Plus it would have taken forever to make!

It's still fun without the songs split up, and it works for me in either mode. Plus, I like some of the unintentional segues by name (Edgard Varese followed by Edgar Winter) and general topic (Stravinsky's Dance of the Adolescents going into Wild Thing!). Oh, one more thing: I know the XTC track was originally a solo Andy Partridge track... I guess I cheated there.

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