Quiet Mix For Jeremy, Reconstruction
Nov. 15th, 1998 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
garoteThis is a two-part mix I assembled for my friend Jeremy. I might be misremembering, but I think he heard "numbah crunch, second edition" and liked the way the first two tracks went, with the rain and the slowly building beat, and he asked for something that would start that way and keep going.
We both loved the "Throne Of Drones" anthology, so I picked my favorites from that, then spliced in quieter pieces from Pink Floyd, Coil, Download, and my other musical obsessions in 1998. I wasn't entirely happy with the result but Jeremy must have enjoyed it, because almost 30 years later he unearthed an mp3 version of the mix from his library and sent me a copy. (I'd only saved a chunk of the first part, and lost the second part entirely. Bad filing clerk! No donut! Or stapler, or whatever.)
The mix posted here is what I think I would have built, if my library was just a bit bigger in 1998. The first part is about the same, but the second part has a new back half. I was aware of all these artists, but believe it or not, music piracy in 1998 just wasn't quite good enough for me to find what I wanted, and I was already blowing a hundred dollars a month in music stores up in Berkeley. If the adults in my life (age 22 is definitely not adulthood!) had known I spent my money this way, they would have rightly called me an idiot. Which of course is exactly why I never told them!
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_1-ALAC.m4a
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_2-ALAC.m4a
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_1-AAC.m4a
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_2-AAC.m4a
The cover art is a photo taken by my father in the 1970's. One summer he drove a truck up through Canada into Alaska, and one day he walked into a tiny church that was converted into a museum, housing artifacts brought there by Russian settlers before Alaska was purchased by the United States. The situation of these weird, mostly forgotten silver-and-glass portraits hanging in a wooden church deep in the wilderness feels appropriately unexpected.
We both loved the "Throne Of Drones" anthology, so I picked my favorites from that, then spliced in quieter pieces from Pink Floyd, Coil, Download, and my other musical obsessions in 1998. I wasn't entirely happy with the result but Jeremy must have enjoyed it, because almost 30 years later he unearthed an mp3 version of the mix from his library and sent me a copy. (I'd only saved a chunk of the first part, and lost the second part entirely. Bad filing clerk! No donut! Or stapler, or whatever.)
The mix posted here is what I think I would have built, if my library was just a bit bigger in 1998. The first part is about the same, but the second part has a new back half. I was aware of all these artists, but believe it or not, music piracy in 1998 just wasn't quite good enough for me to find what I wanted, and I was already blowing a hundred dollars a month in music stores up in Berkeley. If the adults in my life (age 22 is definitely not adulthood!) had known I spent my money this way, they would have rightly called me an idiot. Which of course is exactly why I never told them!
Lossless-encoded version:
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_1-ALAC.m4a
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_2-ALAC.m4a
AAC-encoded version:
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_1-AAC.m4a
DJ_Fixed-Jeremys_Quiet_Mix_Rebuild-Part_2-AAC.m4a
The cover art is a photo taken by my father in the 1970's. One summer he drove a truck up through Canada into Alaska, and one day he walked into a tiny church that was converted into a museum, housing artifacts brought there by Russian settlers before Alaska was purchased by the United States. The situation of these weird, mostly forgotten silver-and-glass portraits hanging in a wooden church deep in the wilderness feels appropriately unexpected.
