Human iPoddery
Feb. 22nd, 2005 01:58 pmFollowing
atommickbrane's recent success in converting herself into an auto-iPod, I'm tempted to follow suit.
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept it goes something like this: using as-yet-undetermined manual shuffling methods I will endeavour to construct a series of random c90 mixtapes from my record collection. When each one is done, I'll offer it up on LJ to you lot without revealing its contents.
By random, I mean random. Whatever my methods pick, it goes on the tape. While I don't own a Care Bears record (unlike certain other people) there is an awful lot of potentially dubious music lurking in the stacks. So, beware, you might end up being exposed to all manner of bad indie, crappy pop, third-rate dance and barely listenable Wire fodder. On the other hand, you might well get a collection of great tracks you'd have never otherwise heard. It's all decided on the (metaphorical) roll of the dice. The only guarantee of quality is that I have at some point bought or been given this stuff and haven't disliked it enough to take it to MVE. Yet.
The first couple of tapes will be restricted to things I have on CD, my record player being broken at the moment. As soon as it's fixed they'll include vinyl tracks as well. If this proves at all popular I might narrow down this (rather large) pool by imposing arbitrary restrictions for the later tapes. Nothing to do with the musical content, mind. For example: only records with white spines, or artists beginning with S. Stuff like that.
All I need to know now is if any of you would be interested in receiving such a tape. No point in doing it if no one wants one, is there? So, a poll:
[Poll #442116]
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept it goes something like this: using as-yet-undetermined manual shuffling methods I will endeavour to construct a series of random c90 mixtapes from my record collection. When each one is done, I'll offer it up on LJ to you lot without revealing its contents.
By random, I mean random. Whatever my methods pick, it goes on the tape. While I don't own a Care Bears record (unlike certain other people) there is an awful lot of potentially dubious music lurking in the stacks. So, beware, you might end up being exposed to all manner of bad indie, crappy pop, third-rate dance and barely listenable Wire fodder. On the other hand, you might well get a collection of great tracks you'd have never otherwise heard. It's all decided on the (metaphorical) roll of the dice. The only guarantee of quality is that I have at some point bought or been given this stuff and haven't disliked it enough to take it to MVE. Yet.
The first couple of tapes will be restricted to things I have on CD, my record player being broken at the moment. As soon as it's fixed they'll include vinyl tracks as well. If this proves at all popular I might narrow down this (rather large) pool by imposing arbitrary restrictions for the later tapes. Nothing to do with the musical content, mind. For example: only records with white spines, or artists beginning with S. Stuff like that.
All I need to know now is if any of you would be interested in receiving such a tape. No point in doing it if no one wants one, is there? So, a poll:
[Poll #442116]