Personalized Compilations

I used to work as a mobile DJ for parties, wedding receptions, things of the like, and I got into the habit of making tapes for my enjoyment compiled of several different songs that I liked. Sometimes I had a theme when putting these together, sometimes I didn't. A list and an explanation follows.

Drivin' Music

This was the first set I put together. I wanted some really good tunes that would be prime for auto travel. At the time, I was working as a pizza delivery driver, a mobile DJ, and I had a job at Six Flags St. Louis (about a 45 minute drive for me), so I was in the car A LOT. This helped to pass the time and they gave me something to groove to.

  • Drivin' Music Volume I
  • Drivin' Music Volume II
  • Drivin' Music Volume III
  • Drivin' Music Volume IV

    80's Music

    This was the next set of tapes I made, and most of the songs were from the DJ music that I had access to while with Rent-a-Jock. Very nostalgic for me, as I went through grade school on most of this music.

  • 80's Music, #1
  • 80's Music, #2

    The Good Tunes Set

    This set was something I put together because I was bored with the sets that I had so far. I had many songs to put onto 8 120-minute tapes, but I wasn't sure how to sequence the songs (as you can imagine, you can fit a lot of songs on 8 tapes). In a bit of anal-retentive frustration, I just listed all the songs I had in alphabetical order and recorded them that way. There area a few places where some songs are out of place, and I did that to avoid redundancy (two or three songs in a row by the same artist) or to fill the space left at the end of one side.

  • Good Tunes
  • More Good Tunes
  • Many More Good Tunes
  • Lots-N-Lotsa Good Tunes
  • Look At All The Tunes
  • Dang, That's a Lot of Tunes
  • A Buttload of Good Tunes
  • Good Tunes Out the Wazoo

    The "It's So Stinkin' Huge, I Have No Idea What To Call This Set" Set

    Upon finding out that the cassette player in my old car was eating the Good Tunes tapes (thereby warping and stretching the material and altering the sound quality), I decided to make another set of high-energy or upbeat tapes. This took me several months to finish, as I had to figure out what songs were to be used and how to sequence them. The final song count reached well over 650, and by the time I finished recording all the songs, I had 25 cassettes.
    A note about the titles: On most of the tapes, I used part of the first song and part of the last song to create the name of the tape. In some cases, that didn't work -- I either had two words that just didn't fit together, or I had a phrase that made absolutely no sense and didn't sound cool. In those instances, I used one song on the tape as the title, usually an all-encompassing title, like "Believe" or "Insanity". As far as sequencing, I did that in a totally random manner. Don't ask how, it would take way too long to explain.

  • All Over the World
  • Carnival War
  • Disco Bus
  • Dress Me Golden
  • The End of the Polka
  • Epic Zoo
  • Higher
  • Call Me Kind
  • Insanity
  • J.A.R. It
  • La Spam
  • Me Feel That Way
  • Paradigm Girl
  • Speckled Plain
  • Supertones Turn Around
  • Me Guilty
  • You Can See the Rush
  • Tear the Amish
  • Believe
  • D.J. Ember
  • Music and Film
  • Secret Blues
  • Clear Insects
  • Middlename
  • Liquid Iris

    Thick Music

    This was something that I had wanted to do for a while. The premise was simple: put a bunch of songs together that sonically were very involved, included several layers of instrumentation, or generally were very loud. I used the modifier "thick" to describe this music because there's so much there, you feel almost as though you could swim through it. Plus, I like loud music.

  • Thick Music, Vol. I
  • Thick Music, Vol. II
  • Thick Music, Vol. III
  • Thick Music, Vol. IV

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