I know what you mean to an extent but this thinking leads to dull mixes too.
For me a good mix is good track selection *and* good presentational skills on one. There's very few tracks that are so rinsed they don't work for me anymore (Jaguar is one for instance).
Tracklistings are really important to let people know what's about and help publicise it. If you run a small label it's a nice way to get the word out. However, watch your back if you provide them on the same site as the mix. The RIAA/BPI are watching and don't have a favourable view on this.
robin... On 2 Mar 2009, at 23:50, Frank Glazer wrote:
there's two ways of looking at this. for one thing, i guess what i meant to say was that i probably would have been able to appreciate a mix like this (with a lot of tracks i've heard, or at least a bunch of tracks that have gotten a lot of exposure that maybe i haven't heard but have heard of) without a track listing. the track listing is the key. sometimes i like them. sometimes i find that a tracklisting hinders the listening experience. i mean, when i was getting into electronic dance music, the primary way i was exposed to it was through dj mixes. and 99% of the mixes i heard didn't have tracklistings. sure, it's a double edged sword, because a lot of the music i loved "back in the day" i still don't have any idea the names of. but on the other hand, it's an interesting phenomenological mode of music to be with the sound separated from the object/other. that is, having no tracklisting is a sort of "purer" form of entertainment. the other point, and to answer your question more directly, robin, is that pretty much from day one my MO has been to try to make mixes with only fresh, relatively unheard of tracks. as a rule i never (ever) repeat a track from one recorded (studio) dj mix to another. i generally don't like listening to dj mixes full of stuff i've already heard (except, of course, if a mix grows on me and i find that the mix as a whole bears repeated listens). it's fine to pepper a classic in here and there, but i just am not impressed at all by mixes that are "ripped right from the charts". it just seems slightly irrelevant and uninspired.
