Unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants, let’s-see-what-happens mixing. You never know what might fall into one of these!
LaTour
Difficult Listening Hour 2021.02.13: Snow Day!
The Seattle area was getting inundated with snow, so every song in this mix was pulled from a playlist of tracks with titles that included the word “snow”, “winter”, “cold”, “froze”, or “ice”. Otherwise unrehearsed and unplanned, all done on the fly.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.10.03
Week thirty of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday afternoons. These are the results. Anything goes.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.06.13: NSFQ (Not Safe for Quarantine) Edition
Moving into our fourth month of COVID-19 induced restrictions and “shelter in place” recommendations, I think a lot of people are getting a little frisky. So here’s two hours of tunes that could be considered either entirely appropriate or entirely inappropriate for the situation, depending on your point of view.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.02: Birthday Edition
A rare pre-planned set; I selected this set of tracks just because tomorrow’s my birthday and these are some long-time favorites that I wanted to play. Back to the usual unplanned randomness next week!
- Shakespear’s Sister, Stay
- Peter Murphy, I’ll Fall With Your Knife
- Soft Cell, Seedy Films
- The Normal, Warm Leatherette
- Renegade Soundwave, Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield)
- Lo-Fidelity Allstars feat. Pigeonhed, Battle Flag (Radio Edit)
- The Cardigans, Erase/Rewind
- Thompson Twins, You Take Me Up (12)”
- The Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones, Kiss (Art of Noise)
- Figures on a Beach, Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria) (Remix)
- LaTour, Allen’s Got A New Hi-Fi
- Eurythmics, Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (Extended)
- DJ Tripp, Express This Way
- The Azoic feat. Seabound, Obsession
- Sunscreem, Love U More (A Version)
- Pet Shop Boys, It’s a Sin
- DJ Wüdi, Just Can’t Get Flexible in 1999
- Information Society, Going, Going, Gone (Razed in Black)
- Psychic TV, I.C. Water
- Diane Birch, This Corrosion
- Marilyn Monroe, Happy Birthday to JFK
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.03.05: COVID-19 Edition
Week six, and this is one of the few times I’ve put together a set list ahead of time instead of going by the seat of my pants. Consider this the COVID-19 edition of DLH–the tracklist titles should make both inspiration and selection clear. :) This does mean that this set is less about trying for a smooth mix all the way through and more about just having fun with the idea.
As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts on Thursday nights. These are the results.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.01.30
Week two of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts on Thursday nights. These are the results. Anything goes.
Sounds From the Lost Abbey 04
Back in February, I took up a challenge from one of my friends (prompted by the Gigs mix I posted) to create a mix based around songs that I’d have played at the Lost Abbey, during the mid- to late-1990s. To get a little help putting together the playlist, I put out a call for requests on Facebook, and ended up with something around 14 hours of possible songs, almost entirely pulled from requests by people who used to see me spin at the Lost Abbey.
Since 14 hours is far too long to do as a single mix, I’ve broken the requests up into multiple 80-ish-minute playlists. Here’s the fourth of quite a few to come!
Sounds From the Lost Abbey 02
Back in February, I took up a challenge from one of my friends (prompted by the Gigs mix I posted) to create a mix based around songs that I’d have played at the Lost Abbey, during the mid- to late-1990s. To get a little help putting together the playlist, I put out a call for requests on Facebook, and ended up with something around 14 hours of possible songs, almost entirely pulled from requests by people who used to see me spin at the Lost Abbey.
Since 14 hours is far too long to do as a single mix, I’ve broken the requests up into multiple 80-ish-minute playlists. Here’s the second of quite a few to come!
Difficult Listening Hour 09 (140 BPM)
Continuing with my loosely BPM-themed mixes, every song in this mix is somewhere between 135 and 145 BPM. And as always, this was mixed “live” and has no post-processing or editing work, so while it may not be perfect, it’s all me!