Posting before I lose my nerve zomg

[petronia]

Black Mix
Total Time 1:16:01

01. Andreas Dorau & Justus Köhncke - Durch Die Nacht (Geiger Mix)
02. Love Is The Blood Of Destruction - I Kissed A Ghost
03. Air Liquide feat. Kahn - So Much Love (Tiefschwarz Remix)
04. Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Main Mix)
05. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (Morgan Geist Reversion)
06. Oliver Koletzki - Der Muckenschwarm
07. Ladytron - Seventeen '05
08. Superpitcher - Baby's On Fire (Westbam Remix)
09. Tiefschwarz - Ghosttrack (Black Strobe Remix)
10. Nena - Willst Du Mit Mir Gehn? (Sven Väth & Anthony Rother Remix)
11. Depeche Mode - Photographic (Rex The Dog Dubb Mix)
12. Vitalic - Trahison


White Mix
Total Time 1:17:49

01. Filo and Peri feat. Kathleen Fisher - Closer Now (Chillout Mix)
02. Powerplant feat. Trout - Turn It Into Gold (Madoka's Faded Memories Mix)
03. Rex The Dog - I Look Into Mid Air
04. Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (Thin White Duke Mix)
05. Superpitcher - Happiness (M. Mayer Mix)
06. Röyksopp - Circuit Breaker
07. Nubreed & Luke Chable - One Day (Luke Chable's Extension Mix)
08. Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl
09. Heiko Voss - Call Me Now
10. Red Carpet - Alright (Brad Carter Mix)
11. Sia - Breathe Me (Mylo Remix)


Version 1.0 subject to change for certain, but posted because knowing me I'd fiddle the tracklistings into airless tastefulness if allowed, which would negate the point entirely... The thing about these is that they're not "DJ mixes". There is no universe however alternate in my conception where Schuldich is a DJ. It's a conundrum because Schu is and always has been the most insistent/persistent of my characters when it comes to "claiming" music, but when I started making this mix I discussed the concept with helvetius and we more or less agreed that Schuldich is a passivist with no defined taste who listens with half an ear to whatever's playing and trigger-surfs radio stations to annoy. XD Schuldich would never engage in making playlists. He's probably never been in a nightclub and known the name of the DJ, unless he learnt it in the course of "making friends" with said DJ in order to get into the DJ's pill stash.

It's kind of hard to work a mix with that sort of musical profile. Eventually I ended up with a string of radio pop songs warped into a facsimile of what a nightclub with Schuldich in it might sound like, anonymous DJ and all. It's sonically consistent though I don't know if it's "likeable". There's a whole lotta German crap, which I'm sure is an astonishing development.

In comparison the Youji mix more or less made itself out of the blue, or rather out of the schtuff I was listening to that didn't fit on the other one. (The naming isn't really a lazy appeal to convention. While I throw about genre classifications, in the privacy of my own brain I remember and categorize dance/electronica tracks using metaphors of colour and shape: so and so is purple squares while such and such is grey drybrush strokes. The Schuldich mix "sounds" black/violet/gunmetal grey/electric blue/silver. The Youji mix is more like lilac/aqua/pale gold/dawn pink/cream.) Youji... has no taste either. XD He might know the name of the DJ but on a list of reasons why he's going out for the night and where it would rank near the bottom. Which is just as well, because if these were supposed to represent anything concrete Schuldich would be at an electro house night and Youji would be at a progressive breaks night [1] and never the twain shall meet, thus negating the approximately 6,012,944 fanfics in which they run into each other in the alley behind the club and end up having sex out of well- or poorly-defined angst and general sluttishness (85% of which I have read). If you have ever written anything resembling the previous, congratulations, these mixes are dedicated to YOU.

[1] By which I mean there are all of two tracks on the mix that are prog breaks, but they're awesome. To be honest I'd appreciate opinions because I have no idea how White Mix sounds to someone who hasn't overplayed all but three of the songs; I'm aware that it shatters genre rules in a horrible awful no-good way. XD;;


Standard disclaimers apply re gacking and misuse from cis, surlykitty, the ILM YSI thread et al.

Comments

[luckykitty.livejournal.com]

as a the kind of no-taste doesn't-know-the-name-of-anyone kind of listener, i have to say i totally dig these mixes. thanks for posting! and the description, gave me a giggle. *lurve*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked! Yeah, I make up elaborate backstories for these things. XD

[redheadtensai.livejournal.com]

I'm so enthralled with that Franz Ferdinand song right now it's scary. Imagine my pleasure when we bought "Guitar Hero" and it's one of the songs. ^_^

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Would you like more remixes of it then? I have half a dozen. XD

[one-if-by-land.livejournal.com]

Oooo, may I have the remixes, too? Take Me Out + Remix = Happiness, yay!

Downloading both mixes in slow segments -- been two days and still not finished with the Black Mix, but I will persevere, etc. I'm so, so, so excited until I can get both on playlists and listen to them back to back. *_*

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Took them all! Listening to the Black Mix now and yes, am definitely feeling the electric blue. Will comment more when have listened more, although am not music-literate in the least.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Hope you like'em. ^^

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

Yes, I understand it's fabulous music to put oneself in a programming mood, but where did you recent interest of this music come from you think?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

"Recent" interest? ^^; (And "this" music... to me the above represents about five different kinds of music that I got into at different times in different ways...) I'll poke you on MSN if you want sordid details.

[ex-ng140.livejournal.com]

Double thumbs up for that Mylo mix of 'Breathe Me', which renders the original a lot more interesting. Both mixes very sonically consistent (in a good way, in that I listened to them on the 'pod on the train without wanting to skip anything); I especially like the silvery-floaty White Mix. ^_^

[petronia.livejournal.com]

If you scroll down a bit I have the Ulrich Schnauss mix up as well. :D

Glad you enjoyed!

[surlykitty.livejournal.com]

If there's an occasion where Schuldich and Youji would bump into each other in a club, it would have to be mashup night. Or when Phil Kieran or Stanton Warriors are spinning. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it would have to be an eclecticist. XD Though mashup night has definite potential... argh the ficbunnies... I swore I wouldn't write any more stories about Schuldich in nightclubs...

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

While I throw about genre classifications, in the privacy of my own brain I remember and categorize dance/electronica tracks using metaphors of colour and shape: so and so is purple squares while such and such is grey drybrush strokes.

OMG I DO THE SAME THING. Not just with dance music though. Pretty much all music. Though some songs, rather than being an abstract picture or color or shape, are scenes, like from a movie. Only, usually the movie is only in my head.

[iatros.livejournal.com]

I'll give this a listen and get back to you on what I think :)

[quixotic-sense.livejournal.com]

Belatedly: love the White Mix. Will have to try listening to the Black Mix while firing off a letter for the organisation, and see if that makes a difference. XD