Secret Mixtape Review: Mix #16 (10-31) is up!

[Alex]

can't wait

[Lament]

We're all very excited for your mix, Alex.

[Alex]

i'm gonna take the safe route this time and populate it entirely with live PJ tracks and neil young songs

[Malloy]

pumped. count me in.

[Lament]

Alright guys, since the first mix came in a few days early I figured I'd post it and get the ball rolling. So, here's RM Secret Mix #1...

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing

Let me know if you guys have trouble accessing it. I'll keep all of the links up in the OP (at least for as long as I have space for them).

Happy listening and reviewing!

[Lament]

Has anyone tried downloading the mix yet? I'm just curious as to whether or not it's working via Google Drive. If it's not I'll put it up on dropbox.

[Norah]

No problem adding it to my own Google Drive and it synced right up.

[bodysnatcher]

yep, i could add it to my google drive, or download each individual track to my comp. haven't gotten a chance to listen yet, but have it ready to go

[Heathen]

no option to download this as one file? I got these now but maybe the next ones should be sent as a zip or rar

[Lament]

no option to download this as one file? I got these now but maybe the next ones should be sent as a zip or rar

Yeah, I was thinking that after I had uploaded it. I will make sure to upload them as a zip file next mix.

If it's too big of a hassle for people this go-round, and can reupload it as a zip file in the next day or so.

[Lament]

Fuck it. I'm uploading it to Drive as a single zip file as we speak. It should be up there soon.

[Lament]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6VItz ... sp=sharing

There's the link to the mix as a single zip file. Whoever downloads it first, just let me know that it works. I'll fix the URL in the OP.

[Heathen]

it's working

[Lament]

Excellent!

[Heathen]

yeah so this isn't Alex's mix

[Norah]

yeah so this isn't Alex's mix

scathing review

[Heathen]

it could have been worse, I could have said "yeah so it's alex's mix"

[Norah]

good point

[Heathen]

MIX #1 05/12/14: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6VItz ... sp=sharing

So... This mix seems to focus on old bands as well as newer bands sounding like old bands. Think classick folk/rock, soft rock kind of stuff, mostly typically American kind of music. I recognized a few classic bands like

Spoiler: show

Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Beatles, some Beck

and probably missed a few others of the same caliber.

While I have nothing against that kind of sound per se as a good part of my music listening is probably rooted in blues and rock, there just wasn't much for me to really get excited about here. It was overall a bit too mellow/sirupy/summery for my taste to begin with, but I also think a lot of these tracks were a little bland and lacked personality. On a brighter note I did enjoy the tracks that opened and closed the mix.

That sounds like something dct or Doc would listen to.

[Alex]

it looks like we are going to soon complete our comprehensive documentation of a handful of subgenres of rock