The Inaugural Muso’s Guide Mix CD Event!
Blank canvases, a.k.a. CDs for mixology.
As Rob Flemming’s character says in High Fidelity (or Rob Gordon if you’ve never read the book):
“To me, making a mix tape is like writing a letter — there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do.”
So without further ado, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the inaugural Muso’s Guide Mix CD event!
Here’s how it’s gonna go down:
Send an email to me, Peter Harris (I’m on podge9<at>gmail<dot>com), including the following information:
1. Your name
2. Your home address (or where you would like the CD sent)
3. Whether you are going to the Summer social* (’cause CDs can be exchanged there)
4. Up to three of your favourite all time bands
5. Up to three of your most liked albums
6. Up to three of your least liked bands/music genres
7. A link to your Last.fm page (if you have one) – ours is here, in case you didn’t know
I will try and match people up accordingly.
*[Ed: The summer meet-up is a special day in celebration of Muso's Guide's sixth anniversary, and you're all invited. We're having an all-day picnic - more details are available on the page in the link]
I do realise that one of the reasons for a mix CD is to try new stuff but at the same time, you don’t want it to be full of stuff you know will make you sick up your ears.
If we have an even amount of takers, I’ll pair people up so A makes CD for B and B makes for A, uneven numbers and we’ll make a jaggy snake, A makes for B, B makes for C, C makes for A etc.
Rules:
1. It must be a CD – no Spotify lists or MP3 CDs.
2. Pretty obvious but make sure you write down the artist/track name and the album it’s taken from.
3. If you want to set a theme or decorate the CD, go for it.
E-mails in by the end of this week please (June 21) and I’ll send out details of who you’re mixing for next week.
