Archive for the ‘PDP’ Category
Neurotic Mix CD Making
Having made a lot of mix CDs over the past decade — especially for the various PDP exchanges – I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about ways to improve how I make them. My main goal with mixes has always been to make the listening experience better and as effortless as possible. I’ve refined [...]
Album of the Fall?!
I was at a Goodbye Summer party the other week and I ended up making conversation about music. We chit chatted about a few bands and what not but it dawned on me — and not for the first time recently — that I’m not listening to as many new artists as I used too. [...]
Homework should always be set to music.
Saw James Chutter lead a session at Northern Voice 2009. Pretty interesting discussion on remix culture, what he called “Mash Media” — not so much legal issues but the artistic movement. I’m currently listening to his Dream Girl Boy mix, really digging his use of ‘Walking on a Dream’ by Empire of the Sun. Steve [...]
A hodgepodge post.
So I went to the Shins on Monday. It was a great show, they kicked some major ass live. I haven’t listened to their new CD yet and my overall impression of it was that I was going to be a little disappointed but what I heard at the show was good. And all their [...]
PDP5 Annotated Tracklisting
Music Director: Paul aka Richie Tenenbaum 1. Coastguard – The Young Knives I originally wanted to put this song from the Young Knives on PDP4 but it didn’t make sense anywhere in the mix; although, I did have it in my ‘Vicious Headbutt to the Chest’ playlist I was making as a bonus CD. Anyways, [...]
PDP3 Annotated Tracklist
Dan, Carmen and I were hanging out one day and we went through our PDP3 CDs and kinda talked about the different songs and reasons we put them on. It was fun so I thought I’d waste a lot of time and write up an annotated track listing for my CD. monochromatic 1. Relm and [...]