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:: Friday, June 27, 2003 ::

For years, I've entertained ideas of "conceptual" music compilations. At any given time, I usually have four or five "in the works." New music is usually added to my active listening repertoire at such a rate that I can conceive of several different mood-altering or situation-appropriate CD's, usually for my own enjoyment, but sometimes for others, as well. To boot, I usually link visuals to these ideas in the form of album covers, if I have time. (The next step is, of course, to create music videos. I have already thrown together some slide shows with inter-frame effects, but these programs are limiting in creative segues, twists, stops, etc.) Anyway, I was ruminating upon my latest CD themes (e.g. etheral Brit pop, sort of.... like Radiohead, Phaser, Travis, Turin Brakes), and the usual visuals began playing in my head. And suddenly I felt saturated by predictable turns, the CD's where you always know what's coming next. It awakened in me a hunger for the good old radio, where you can't tell what's in the DJ's head, and you (usually) never know what's coming next. Well, a partial solution to this is to convert all of your CD players into mp3 players as well, record 200 songs per CD (instead of the usual 15 to 20), and hit the "random play" button. Viola... instant 8-hour radio station, but with only the songs YOU want to hear, sort of DMX-style. Yeah, okay, I'm probably not gonna go out and convert everything any time soon, but I do plan to make my next car stereo mp3-compatible. By then, typical CD's will probably be capable of storing gigabytes (like DVD's) instead of megabytes, and one CD/DVD filled with mp3's can last a person for days. Yeah - road trip.

:: Anne 9:05 PM [smartass remarks] ::
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