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Monday, April 28, 2008
CROSSOVER MIX
mixed by Brian, April 2008
Today on Moistworks, eleven songs for the price of one! (That price, as always, is a cool zero dollars.) I made this mix for a friend who listens mostly to indie rock but, after a late-night, drunken, five-person dance party where I handled tunes, asked me for a mix of dance music. Making a dance mix for a diehard indie rocker who maybe wants to cross over feels like a mighty responsibility; you might have the urge to load them up with Trentemoller but you're wiser to go with the absolute hottest crossover jams and pepper it with a little dancey but more song-oriented stuff. That's why I squeezed Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor" on here even though it's a little too slow at 125 bpm: between indie rock and dance music, Hot Chip is the perfect gateway drug. I really enjoy making these amateur mixes, I would totally DJ if I had the equipment, but that stuff is expensive and I don't have it. Still, I can make decent mixes at home with freeware, which is still fun. When I stumble over that perfect crossfade, it's thrilling (and when I don't, it's no big deal because I'm just mixing tracks at home). Some of these tracks are so fucking good you feel heroic just for choosing them ("Darko" remains unstoppable). If, like me, you'd like to make some mixes but don't have the cash for fancy gear, I highly recommend TrakAxPC for PC users: easy to use freeware with great functionality for its cost of zero, which you can download here. Watch the five minute tutorial and you'll be up and running in no time.
To download this mix, which will come up as "LUCIA MIX" on your machine, just right click, save as, and extract the mp3 from the zip file. And let me apologize in advance for the transition from Le Tigre to Luomo, it's kind of a mess but for some reason I liked the messiness and decided to keep it. Tracklist is as follows:
01 Bonde do Role: "Marina Gasolina (Peaches Remix)"
02 Booka Shade: "Darko"
03 Junior Boys: "FM (Tensnake Remix)"
04 Vitalic: "No Fun"
05 Hot Chip: "Ready for the Floor"
06 Gui Boratto: "Beautiful Life"
07 Le Tigre: "Deceptacon (DFA Remix)"
08 Luomo: "Really Don't Mind"
09 Out Hud: "One Life to Leave"
10 The Knife: "Pass This On"
11 Thomas Brinkmann: "Words"
posted by Brian
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