Audio: Congrats, you're the radio DJ! What six songs are in your first on-air set?
Submitted by LeendaDLL.
Every month, I make a mix tape [1] of the stuff I've been listening to & loving that month; every couple of months, I roll up my favorite stuff from those mixes into a "Good Stuff" playlist, where I actually try to sequence stuff nicely.
All of which is to say that I've been doing the monthly mixes for about 5 years, but have been doing the sort-of-quarterly roll-ups only starting last July, or so.
And so these were the first six tracks of that playlist, which I thoroughly enjoy:
- Orange Juice, "Rip it Up"
- Hey Willpower, "Chewing Gum"
- A Tribe Called Quest, "Steve Biko (Stir it Up)"
- Jamie Lidell, "When I Come Back Around"
- Ghostface Killah, "Underwater'
- Robyn, "Konichiwa Bitches"
To the right, "Rip it Up" (video): a bouncy funk/disco pulse, a wonderfully sleazy saxophone solo, and a very short but clever bit of guitar ("and my favorite song's entitled... 'Boredom'").
[1] Well, technically, it's an iTunes playlist. Why does technology have to make things so easy? It takes away all the joy, and the pain, and the work involved!
[this is good] I have a similar process, though it's a little more automated. I make smart playlists of the ten tracks that were a) added in the last three months and b) played the most each month c) aren't jazz or classical and then drop them in folders in my iTunes' source window.
The reason for (a) is that I don't always get around to listening to new stuff right away--info glut--and to make sure that my top ten tracks each month aren't all from The Mountain Goats or The Clash or Madonna.
It's a great way to easily make snapshots of where you were at a moment in your life, and is especially nice if you want to, say, go back a few months down the road and burn pictures and videos to a DVD with a nice little soundtrack of stuff you were listening to at the time they were taken.
Posted by: mat! | April 20, 2007 at 01:54 PM