Artist	Song
Pram	The Owl Service
The Owls	Air
The Handsome Family	Weightless Again
Momus	Jesus in Furs
The Sugarplastic	Liar over Winchester
Luminous Orange	Sugarplastic
Hood	They Removed All the Trace that Anything Had Happened Here
U2	Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Shena Ringo	Stem (Daimyou Asobi Hen)
Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports with Carla Bley & Robert Wyatt	I'm a Mineralist
Soul Coughing	Murder of Lawyers
David Essex	Rock On
Gary Numan	The Aircrash Bureau
MK Ultra	Goodbye, Max!
A.C. Newman	The Town Halo
Noonday Underground	London
The Shirelles	I Met Him on a Sunday
Jonathan King	Everyone's Gone to the Moon
Michael Nesmith	Wax Minute

Comment:

The idea behind the selection of tracks I included here began with trying to highlight songs that weren't from albums I was familiar with, often in fact being the only song I knew by the particular artist, or songs from compilations etc. In other words, sort of a meta-compilation of "stray" songs I'd acquired mostly over the last year or so. There are some exceptions, but that remains a pretty good description of what's here.

One of things I've discovered about making mixes on computer is the joy of being able to manipulate sequencing far more readily than with cassette-based mixes. Once I've ripped the tracks, I can sequence them in any number of trial orders, and actually hear how Song A sounds going into Song B. Consequently, one of the things I try to do is create nice transitions from one track to another, whether those work in terms of key relations, sound, rhythm, or sometimes thematically (there are a couple of purely verbal-related transitions here-although if they don't work for me sonically, I tend to avoid them). A couple tracks even crossfade ever so slightly, courtesy some relatively new software I picked up. Here's the second part.

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