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Preferred Chain Format

One big chain
- 4 (28.6%)
A few small chains of 3-5 people
- 1 (7.1%)
Everybody sends theirs to me, and I distribute them
- 3 (21.4%)
Everybody copies theirs and sends it to everybody else
- 1 (7.1%)
Everybody copies theirs and sends it to 3-5 other people
- 5 (35.7%)
Something else
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 13

Voting closed: November 23, 2003, 11:25:45 pm


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« on: November 18, 2003, 11:25:45 pm »
I like the ideas on different formats, so I thought I'd let y'all choose.
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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2003, 12:13:23 am »
Can I ask for clarification before I submit my vote?  I think I'm leaning towards "Everybody copies theirs and sends it to 3-5 other people" or "A few small chains of 3-5 people" for fear of the large chain not remaining intact.  But I think I'd be curious to hear all of the mixes that get made.  So, if we do the small chains option, will they run separate form one another, or in series (that is, the last person in chain 1 passes the CD on to the first person in chain 2, etc)?  Am I making any sense at all?
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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2003, 12:48:08 am »
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that is, the last person in chain 1 passes the CD on to the first person in chain 2, etc


I'm not totally sure how that would differ from having one big chain, is all.
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« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2003, 12:49:44 am »
I like SJLimmer's idea. Small chains that eventually feed together - that would mazimize the number of CDs you would get to hear.

Also, how many cuts makes a mix CD? Does a mix CD need to have a unifying theme? Are there any rules to this game?

This is not something I do...so I'll beg forgiveness in advance...
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« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2003, 12:52:53 am »
I'm kind of a mixswapping nerd.  A mix cd usually has 15 or so tracks, depending of course on length.  Themes are chosen in advance by the group, left to the whim of the compiler, or ignored, depending on the mood of the group.  Personally, I find keeping a theme, or at least an ambience helps me think, but I generally take this way too seriously.
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« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2003, 01:18:34 am »
If we're doing theme discs then I choose "songs to bone by".
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« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2003, 01:25:44 am »
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If we're doing theme discs then I choose "songs to bone by".


If that's the case, count me in.  

If not, well, never mind.
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« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2003, 01:42:17 am »
You didn't include the option I wanted to vote for, namely:

"I don't give a fuck how we do it just tell me who I'm supposed to mail the stupid CD's to and I'll do it."
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« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2003, 02:00:01 am »
Persnackly. I'm just itching to be participatory.

Most of my mixes that I share don't have unifying theme, but the ones I make for myself do (eg moods, driving music, the obligatory romancing-the-ladies mix). I find its more important to transition well.
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« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2003, 02:17:28 am »
I tend to use the theme of "music I want to share with people in an essentially random order"
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« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2003, 02:19:30 am »
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I find its more important to transition well.


It's nice to know I'm not the only one who obsesses over transitions.

As for themes, I already proposed "Only bands with a prime number of letters in their names", but I don't plan on sticking to it.
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« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2003, 02:22:28 am »
My theme will most likely be "stuff I like in a random, hopefully non-ear-bleedy order."

Anyway, I voted for Send-to-Mite-and-Mite-distros, but honestly, I'm willing to do anything on the list.
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« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2003, 02:34:27 am »
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Persnackly. I'm just itching to be participatory.

Most of my mixes that I share don't have unifying theme, but the ones I make for myself do (eg moods, driving music, the obligatory romancing-the-ladies mix). I find its more important to transition well.


I'm all for good transitions (and I like closure, too)...can someone tell me what a 'good transition' would be? Is it merely being conscious of how songs segue into each other? Or are talking about fades and stuff?
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« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2003, 02:48:13 am »
"To me, making a tape is like writing a letter -- there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention, and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs... oh, there are loads of rules."

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« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2003, 02:51:46 am »
And as for the matters at hand, I'm a little disinclined towards mixing the small chains, mostly because that'd be a lot of work for me. If somebody can figure out a way to do it easily that is fundamentally different from the 1 big chain option, I'm all for it. But the way I had it pictured was that the intersection of any two of the small chains would be the null set.

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