All Mixed Up
Friday, January 18, 2008
The original CFP I received asked me to compile and annotate a CD-R of music from 2007, in whatever form I saw fit, and to keep the annotations to 500 words. Sweet. So, in the manner I’m known to do, I set about making a single-file/transition-laden 80 minute jam, like these, thinking it would be part of something like this. The annotations were sort of secondary to me, inasmuch as I was more hoping people would understand why I put the songs in the orders I did from like listening to the miraculous flow. You might understand the way my left eyebrow went up when I read the stuff others submitted, much of it lengthier than lengthy literary excursions.
What I perhaps should have read into the thing is that “annotated CD-R” was intended as “use ‘annotated CD-R’ as a device to frame your thoughts on music in 2007.” It’s not like I didn’t already do that here, but whatever. That’s the reason my verbiage looks thin; I’d intended it as accompaniment for like, listening.
Anyhoo, here’s the jam (sendspace link).
Your “verbiage being thin?”
Hell, that’s definitely a first.
But your thesaurus probably needed a rest anyway.
SWISH!
thanks!
it looks like Idolator provided download links for some of the mixes, if the authors uploaded them on their own (see http://pop.idolator.com/319055/2007-in-the-mix-rich-juzwiak) they might be able to add this link for yours.
You did right, they did wrong.
HERE ARE TEN THOUSAND WORDS ABOUT AN IMAGINARY MIX I MADE IN MY HEAD OF TUNES FROM MY PROMO CDS BUT YOU CAN’T LISTEN HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I AM MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU AND THE MUSIC. Awesome feature.
This is one of the reasons I’m happy Hype Machine took up the Bloggregate/Zeitgeist thing, this year. You can listen to the music people liked! Way!
“j”: did “they” fuck up by not including downloads of the albums and tracks and reissues the critics voted on, too? give me a break.
M, I certainly would have been impressed had there been links to artists’ home pages or myspace pages or whatever to encourage people to sample and (gasp) buy the music in question. Anything to make the whole exercise less academic.
But the entire process of having a select few compile specific tracks that are unavailable anywhere else in that sequence on to a CD-R, then spill a metric ton of verbage about said mix without letting anyone else actually hear the mix… That’s at best, a creative exercise that appeals to a very few, at worst insular wankery that wastes the time of everyone involved and discourages anyone from discovering the music mentioned.
I might as well spend eight hundred pages describing my nonexistant vacation slides from my summertime trip to planet Nimboo.
sorry about this, fellas. my self-explanatoriness seems to have triggered some back-and-forth besmirching, which was not my intent. nor was it to infer that i’m unhappy with idolator’s M.O., that i wish anyone any specific harm, etc. just so that’s out there. okay, carry on.
500 words /= 800 pages, writing about music without (gasp) including the music itself is a concept that goes back to the beginning of time, and J is a crybaby. Glad we straightened that out.
nice column over at p4k eric. favorite part?
bottom of the screen.
“Steely Dan Ringtones! at Dr.Ringtones.com”
Great column today, dude. Already looking forward to the next one.