Anxiety said:

Do we wait until someone volunteers to put the whole url idea together to start a new thread or do we use the new thread as a want ad for that person?

I make compilation CD'S for people all the time, mostly family and co-workers.

I like to keep the groove growing on my comps, depending on who I'm making it for. I like to build from midtempo to fast through out the CD. Here's a track list to a comp I just did for a co-worker:

1.I Really Don't Need No Light - Jeffery Osborne
2.D.M.S.R. - Prince
3.Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
4.Keep On - D-Train
5.Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club
6.Square Biz - Teena Marie
7.Night(Feel Like Getting Down) - Billy Ocean
8.You Got The Power - War
9.Get Tough - Kleeer
10.I Can Make It Better - The Whispers
11.Light Up The Night - Brothers Johnson
12.Strut Your Stuff - Stone City Band

I'm just learning the art of mixing, I only do slow jam mixes for the fam and co-workers, always quiet storm style, when one song is fading I bring that next one in.

sextonseven said:

i think we use a new thread to announce the general idea of what we want to do and also to ask for volunteers to oversee it.

Sander said:

Maybe everyone could just upload a .rar of the songs and bundle the artwork and liner notes with that. We could have a thread ONLY for these compilations and everyone could post the URL to their comp but then write up a bit about what the concept of the mix is and use that as enticement for people to download and listen to it.

guitarslinger44 said:

I think that's against org rules.

sextonseven said:

Didn't think about that.

No theme! I'll have to pick new songs

sextonseven said:

plus i think we want to keep it simple and lo-fi friendly. if someone only knows how to throw a CD together and toss it in the mail, then groovy. we can work with that.

Anxiety said:

I'm kind of surprised how low key this thread is considering the project at hand. Is this thread underground? Or are we the only music nerds that get off on shit like this?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

We need to start a new thread. One that says official org CD comp exchange club or something like that in the thread title.

sextonseven said:

You want it to blow up? I'm kinda enjoying the current status.

Cinnie said:

Agreed! If some 60 people join, the person overseeing is getting a lot more work and you won't be able to listen to all the compilations within the timespan of say, a weekend...

Supa said:

Okay, we can have that as a theme!

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Cinnie said:

yeah, let this be underground!

I didn't know this stuff was so serious to some. All those years I just thought it was something you did for your broke friends or to get good stuff to your people that live in the boonies.

But lemme leave this circle jerkthread alone. J/K

I'll let this stay underground.

:backs out, shuts the door quietly:

Dance said:

Believe me, so seriously that it really does border on masturbation territory
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Dance said:

:opens door and waves at Dance already getting back into his Maxima:

Hey! Do you want to do a mix for this??

Now I have to figure out how to compile it. I can't be lazy and go alphabetical

Also, what is going to be the cutoff as far as how many people are in the project? So excited!!!!

Sander said:

The fear of too many people wanting in was in the back of my head actually. I'm fine with keeping the project confined to this thread. Maybe we should orgnote a few others that we think may want in.

The theme should be unpopular songs you love and want other people to hear. (I mean, as much as someone may love "Rehab", I don't really see the point in sending it to the other 19 people involved.) Any other theme beyond that is optional.

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Dance said:

now that this idea officially has backlash, i HAVE to get involved.

Anxiety said:

Now you're acting like a westcoaster

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

20 people sounded good to me so that would be 200 songs. We should start making an official count of who is in.

I am already agonizing over this project My choices have changed daily I think I'm pretty set with at least 7 songs

Me Please. I've already got half in place. I may need to send mine to someone because I have dialup ~ the rural Lake Huron area I live in has no high speed.

can someone explain in really small words what we've decided on with this mix tape project?

pretend you're explaining this to one of the puppets in the land of make believe from mr. rodgers.

Gangstafam just played a song for me and I was telling him about this and how anx and cinnie and sexton and some other people were going to do this cool cd, tape, mp3, flash drive exchange thing that had to be secret because we can't post urls and I can't anyway because of having dialup and we were going to have a secret password and only we would know it and only 10 songs with one per artist and I was sure glad there wasn't a THEME theme except it should be songs we think people won't know. And maybe only the people who were on the thread could be in it and maybe I could mail it to someone and I already knew a bunch of my songs and he was like, oh yeah, that's a good one.
He was like, cool, maybe I'll join in.
[Edited 5/21/08 21:13pm]

thank you

Anxiety said:

You are welcome. And as a side note, do you know that I gave my boss (the Director of three programs who brings in 3/4 a million dollars a year in grant money and also happens to be my sister) a Forever stamp today and she TOTALLY could not get the concept. I'm gonna send her a link to your thread which I'm sure will completely clear it up for her.

MoonSongs said:

forever stamps are kind of like when someone points a camera at a monitor and you get that image echoing into infinity. it kinda makes sense on the surface, but if you think about it too much, it just boggles the mind.

People showing interest:
Anxiety
Cinnie
Sextonseven
Supadupa
Moonsongs
Guitarslinger44
Sander

People on thread:
Superspacecowboy
snap
r3v
rocknrolldave
Jboogiee
vainandy
Iainttheone
Pook
Abdul
Dance
Funkenstein

The only thing we need is someone willing to organize some nice url where we can put it. Possibly behind a psswrd. After download people can burn it on cd/dvd, mp3 or Ipod as they please (That's the future anx, multiple options!).

I'm just not enough in the know to organize that website. Or perhaps through FTP?