I love to share music with people, and I have since I got seriously into music as a fifteen year old. Not to toot my own horn or anything, because the bands deserve credit, not me, but I have been quite successful in sharing the music I love with my friends. It can be tricky deciding which song or albums to recommend because so much depends on the other person's personality and musical taste. Sometimes it's a shot in the dark, but I think one of the biggest factors in successfully sharing music is to just genuinely love the music. Enthusiasm might not be logically understood, but it's often inexplicably contagious. Maybe that's why I've been able to share my favorite music with my friends.
Anyway, I've decided to create a new series of mixes called the "10 for Friends." The basic idea is that I will choose ten songs from a band that I think an uninitiated listener will enjoy. I plan on starting by making "10 for Friends" mixes for my all-time favorite bands, but any band with at least three albums will be eligible for a mix. I'll even take requests. I don't know how frequently I'll create these mixes. I've already created two, and, along with my two Spring Mixes, I'm feeling the mix-making magic these days.
I will post each "10 for Friends" mix on this blog as well as Sonic Soup, a music blog I am co-authoring. Like my two Spring Mixes, I will make each "10 for Friend" mix available as either a .zip file with the ten individual mp3's or a single mp3 with all ten songs back-to-back. I'm having a lot of fun determining the best track sequence and crossfading the songs into one another.
I will post the first "10 for Friends" mix soon. I'm gonna publish this post before Blogger decides it doesn't want to let me post it. Stay tuned.
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