Mix-of-the-Month: TheSPRINGTeam
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Compliation Title: TheSPRINGTeam
- Senor Coconut - Smooth Operator - The Trip (Tom Middleton)
- Beck - Think I'm in Love - The Information
- Fatboy Slim - First Down - Better Living Through Chemistry
- Sufjan Stevens - Chicago - Illinoise
- DB & Stakka - 2B - Breakbeat Science Exercise 004 (DJ DB)
- Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire - The Legend of Johnny Cash
- The dZihan & Kamien Orchestra - Drophere (live) - Live in Vienna
- Jack Johnson - Upside Down - Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies For The Film Curious George
- Wei-Chi - Never Let Me Down - Compost One Hundred (Disc 2)
- The Postal Service - Brand New Colony - Give Up
- Bushy - Soz - The Big Chill Loves You (Disc 2)
- U2 - The First Time - The Best Of 1990-2000
Hey Guys, above is my mix of the month and album art for March. It is a compliation that I made for mix group that I joined that was started by my music loving friend Mike Flora who now resides in San Franicso.
There are two main reasons that I will post the tracklistings each month for the Mix-of-the-Month on moreburritos.com. First, I just want to give the artists on the albums maximum exposure of their art to the widest audience possible and second because I hope encourage you to start listing what music you are currently listening to your website as well so that I might get even more exposure to other music that I wouldn't normally come into contact with.
This mix just kind of came together for me. I just felt that every song builds well for the next song and that the mix had a great cohesiveness as a whole as well. The first song is a fun bossanova rendition by Senor Coconut of that classic song Smooth Operator which I thought flows nicely into the next track which is Beck's Think I'm in Love. From there the songs pick up the vibe and take the song list through many uplifting themes such as love, friendship, adventure and belonging. These themes form the outline of this current chapter in the story of my life right now and therefore I was hoping to represent that in my mix. In addition there several songs that pay homage to my Road Trip Across America (such as the 1st track and 4th track). Then after many enlightening and deep songs the compilation concludes with U2's The First Time which is about finding ourselves in feeling love. After the album was completed I decided that the album art would be a picture of puzzle pieces because I think the missing piece to all of our lives is Love and that only Love can fill that spot.
I can't wait to make the next Mix-of-the-Month as it provides me an artistic outlet that I wouldn't have otherwise. I will post the tracklisting here hopefully around the 20th of April.
Stay tuned,
-Mike
I can't wait to make the next Mix-of-the-Month as it provides me an artistic outlet that I wouldn't have otherwise. I will post the tracklisting here hopefully around the 20th of April.
Stay tuned,
-Mike
2 Comments:
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CSUF Rock Star, Wed Apr 02, 05:35:00 PM
CSUF Rock Star, Wed Apr 02, 05:35:00 PM
Mike, your mix is totally awesome, and I love how into it you are. You are a superstar DJ. Can't wait to hear the next one.
C
C
I haven't heard much of this but you gotta love Johnny Cash, and of course U2. Have you heard the interpretation of "The First Time" that argues the song is about the Trinity? Pretty cool....
I am so inspired to blog about my listening. And I think that if I have to blog about it I will be inspired to listen to more interesting things. Thanks for the inspiration!
AJ
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