Thanks for all your dedication folks. We've reached the half year mark. I'm really surprised that we've gone this long. I'd like to extend a hand to our new members, ElasticNorseman and Kopiteinkc. I know Kopite, and am confident that he brings excellent taste to the mix, while Elasticnorseman has demonstrated his on this board a lot, as well. I think all the members know the deal now. If you're a lurker or just seeing this thread for the first time, please feel free to PM me for more details or to sign up. We're always on the hunt for fresh voices (to be honest it's getting harder and harder to make the pairings while avoiding previous matches). So check your PM's, fire up those burners and let's get cracking! (I mentioned in the round 5 thread that we should discuss skipping December. Chime in and let me know what you think) A bunch of appropriate links are found here
Listen, this may be a dopey idea, but I thought about it a while ago. Why don't we do this for December... If I am not mistaken, OBartleby did get one mix in, right? Whoever got that... I think we should produce copies of his mix, and everyone in the project should get a copy... or whoever wants one. We can offset the cost to the person who did get it by using part of a $5.00 donation to that fund that was set up. I think it would be nice to contribute to it. I think it would be a nice December/holiday gesture, and we can all experience the mix he made... we can all have the single partner for December... OBartleby... and we can help out the family. What do you think?
Saltenya94 is the person who got the only mix Dave made for the group. He's no longer participating in the project, and I haven't seem him around. But it's not a bad idea, Iceblink. I like that idea, as well as murph's idea of just shipping all previous mixes from this year to a partner (although I do still listen to three or four mixes regularly from folks). I don't really care what we do, I just won't have the time to organize anything. (oh and Iceblink, I haven't found a new partner for you so far, so if you want to trade with me, I don't mind taking on another partner)
Saltenya94 is from the DC area and still pops up on the DC boards. It shouldn't be too hard to contact him, which I'm happy to do. I don't think he's equipped to do the CD burning thing too well, but I could handle it.
Good idea. I'm up for it. We could even create a tree like we used to do on the Pavement mailing list to disseminate bootlegs. Nancyb could send it to three people and those people would send it to three people and so on. Pretty quickly you can get a lot of copies out there. I'd be willing to volunteer to be a branch from nancyb.
Thanks for including me on this months list, I have a pile of CDs waiting for me to create an excellent mix. I have some tough choices to make but looking forward to it.
If we do anything for December, I might be sending along a supplementary disc. I could make a kickass Christmas mix right about now, assuming some of the rules were set aside. Like the one about the number of songs by any particular group.
damn, murph is on the ball. I already recieved his two disc'r. I'm half done iwth his, so I'll just have to consol my self in that. I'd listen to it, but my headphones are buried in my luggage I never unloaded from my car, and my wife's asleep so I can't use the speakers. I'll listen tommorow. They look VERY promissing.
Uh, that's a good question, Alex I think my list is at home though and not in my breifcase, so I'll have to get back to you. I can see that I never sent a PM, 'cause there's no sent one in my box. Oh yeah, and e-mail mw what we were talking about on the way to your hotel in LA...I was really drunk and forgot what I told you I'd send you.
I got your mix, Mad_Bishop. (I'd like to know what program you use for the sleeve.) I'd have listened to it right away, but my computer shat the bed the other night, and basically, that's my CD player, so... Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I recognized 3 band names, of 19. My roommates recognized 5 and 9, respectively.
Just Photoshop. Well, then I used the utility at www.aczoom.com for upload the jpegs I created in photoshop and convert them into a .pdf that has a template for the layout. Front image made in Photoshop Back image made in Photoshop Finished .pdf template
I guess this is what's intended by this thread? Hope you guys like it... Disc one-fiesta 1.Jovanotti-L'ombelico del mundo 2.Perry Como-Papa loves mambo 3.Moloko 1930's remix-sing it back (as found on Saint-Germain des Prés café 3) 4.Southern culture on the skids-camel walk 5.Los Lobos feat. Antonio Banderas-El cancion del Mariachi 6.The Gipsy kings-Hotel California 7.Goran Bregovic-Bella ciao 8.Ween-Voodoo lady 9.Jonathan Richman-Egyptean Reggae 10.Grittos de Guerra-Arinconamela (as found on Vengo) 11.Willie Bobo-Michelle 12.Senor Coconut-Beat it 13.Santa Esmeralda-Don't let me be misunderstood 14.Amparanoia-somos viento 15.Manu Chao-Pinokkio 16.Les triplettes de belleville-Belleville rendez-vous 17."Wild" Bill Davis-Hit the road Jack 18.Fanfare ciocarlia-Hora cu strigaturii 19.Adriano cellentano-Vuo fa l'Americano 20.Babylon circus-A l'humeur de mèche disc two-the afterparty 1.Nina Simone-Feeling good 2.Chet Baker-Everything happens to me 3.Candide-and the beat goes on 4.Van Morrison-Moondance 5.Kate & Anne McGarrigle-complainte pour St-Catherine 6.The beatles-fool on the hill 7.Jarabe de pallo-La flacha 8.Neil Young-from Hank to Hendrix 9.Gabriel Rios-Broad daylight 10.Pink Floyd-wish you were here 11.Louis Armstrong-La vie en rose 12.Peter Frampton-show me the way 13.David Bowie-Starman 14.Golden Earring-Another 45 miles (live version) 15.Django Reinhardt-Minor Swing 16.Serge Gainsbourg-comic strip 17.Fleetwood mac-Gold dust woman 18.Nancy Sinatra-Bang bang 19.Paco de Lucia-Entre dos aguas 20.Presidents of the USA-Body
I ended up making myself a Word document that's formatted for cd covers. That way I can control the final look, where aczone didn't allow that. I've found it works quite well. I've only done it for slim sleeves, but it'd be easy to do for regular ones, too.
yeah I really hated the way Aczoom formats text. Even if you know PostScript language, it's still a complete pain in the arse to use. I began to rewrite the utility from the source code to encorporate the PostScript tags I wanted to use, then gave up quickly. Now I just use Photoshop and layout text however I like. Certainly not the fastest nor the easiest way, but it's fine tuning my graphic design chops (I work closely with three graphic artists and have been getting a lot of great tips and tricks). Incidently, what aczoom was writen for (creating listing of data/files for archival purposes) is really useful. I wrote a batch file that allows me to right click on any directory in Windows Explorer and create a .txt file of the contents. Then I can just plug in the .txt file in aczoom and it creates perfect archival listings. Now that I have a DVD burner, I've been backing up all my files, and now my DVD backups are clearly marked and it's really easy for me to find what I'm looking for. Props to Nico for this find.
Now that I'm a bit more settled into my new location, I'm ready to be back in for Round 7 after a round or two off.
And after postage issues, Iceblink's FOUR (!!!) CD's arrived at the Prof Pad this morning. Actually, they arrived a week ago, but the stupid mail service didn't give me notification until I'd left for home. I'm looking forward to listening to these sensational discs.
Got mine yesterday too. And, yeah. I was gonna say something witty about the packaging...but i just dont think i can top that.
Heh, can you believe it went right over my head? Liner notes to come tonight or tomorrow. There's some interesting stuff on those.
I have the CD-mix and its artwork. I am in the process of making a website of DC United anthems to sing at RFK made by fans. What I could do is put up his songs up as mp3's on a different page of the website. I have no idea what the name of the songs are, because we were supposed to 'guess' and then see how far we were... but he passed away before this happened... if anything we could make it a mission to "guess" what the songs were called. Which were a lot of math-rock, instrumentals. If that's your specialty you could be of some help here.
Mad_Bishop and Iceblink, I'll review your CD's this weekend (Iceblink, probably just Taste, as it's the only one I've heard fully so far). Finals week starts Wednesday, so I've been swamped with papers. YanksFC, yours will be out shortly. Check your PMs.
Earlier this week, I got back from a miserable holiday visit to my in-laws to find a fine package of CDs awaiting me from Mad Bishop. After a long brutal drive home with my daughter screaming for the last 2 1/2 hours of the drive, it was a great welcoming thing to find in our package of mail. I'm still digesting the pair of discs (one is a straight mix and the other one has a vision theme) but they sound very promising...and they look great. I'll post a review probably early next week. MB, you have a good eye for cover art and layout. I was always happy with the covers I made for mixes but now I feel like one of those guys who claimed they couldn't touch their guitar after seeing Hendrix play. I'm never going to put together anything close to the quality of these covers. Nice job. Here are the track listings for the two discs: Building Beauty Dntel - The Dream of Evan and Chan Dismemberment Plan - You are Invited Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake Death Cab for Cutie - We Looked Like Giants John Vanderslice - Coming and Going on Easy Terms Interpol - Length of Love Live Elliot Smith - Coming Up Roses Filthy Thieving Bastards - Red Roses Metric - Dead Disco DGeneration - She Stands There The Articles - Mr Pink The Rulers - Copasetic Alton Ellis - Can I Change My Mind Rita Marley - A De Pon Dem Higgs Wilson - There is Reward Version City Rockers - Wayfarer Sprayer Velvettes - Needle in a Haystack Joe Tex - Under Your Powerful Love Melba Moore - The Magic Touch Betty Swan - Kiss My Love Goodbye Marlena Shaw - Let's Wade in the Water Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight is All Over I was excited to see a Marlena Shaw tune on the mix. The only thing I've heard from her is a 15-second clip of her cover of "California Soul" on the second track of the DJ Shadow/Cut Chemist Brainfreeze disc. It's an amazing little clip that I've often rewound over to hear again and again. I tried to find a disc with the full song on it but couldn't ever find one. Any ideas on where I might find the full song? In the meantime, "Let's Wade in the Water" is equally syrupy sweet. Nice track. See the Light Pretty Girls Make Graves - Blue Lights Cursive - Eight Light Minutes Elliot Smith - Twilight The Clash - Lighting Strikes (Not Once but Twice) Ken Boothe - Don't Wanna See You Cry Monty Morris - Oil in My Lamp The Shins - Eating Styes from Elephant Eyes Angry Somoans - Lights out Tsunami Bomb - Headlights on a Hand Grenande Koufax - Bright Side The Arcade Fire - Headlights Look Like Diamonds Velocity Girl - Audrey's Eyes Joya Landis - Moonlight Lover Blacksheep - Strobelight Honey Rilo Kiley - Hail to Whatever You Found in the Sunlight that Surrounds You Grandpaboy - Eyes Like Sparks Jaw Breaker - Shield Your Eyes The Pogues - The Sunnyside of the Street Horace Andy - Ain't No Sunshine Stranger Cole - Seeing is Knowing Nina Nastasia - Oh My Stars Beck - Sunday Sun Paul Westerberg - Sunrise Always Listens
Couple of errors on the list, my fault for a crappy font lacking ampersands or apostrophes. Higgs &Wilson Version CIty Rockers - Wayfarer's Prayer I'll send you the liner notes, as I forgot to enclude them in the package.