Music, Sharing, and MixTape x 0225
Every month I'm putting together a 10-track, 45-minute MixTape to share with my family, and whoever else wants to listen. February's is up. Come see what sort of month it's been.
There's nothing quite like a good MixTape to put you in the right mood for... anything! For me, as long as I can remember I have been making my own compilations of music.
I've used cassettes and CDs, for a short while MiniDiscs and even a dictaphone...! In the advent of MP3 I made playlists which have (for me) elevated to Spotify Playlists since 2009.
I was mulling over the current state of my Spotify playlists a few weeks ago. My general curation of music happens annually, I'm not really sure why, but perhaps because like most things it's nice to start each new year with something fresh. I'm now in the ninth year of doing this and it occurred to me that I don't play this music with anyone. I used to play MixTapes with others often!
We're often in the car as a family but I don't put my yearly playlist on. One reason was because of the "explicit" nature of some tracks but now they're 13+ I'm less worried about most of these, they've heard the worst of the world at school now. Another reason was that these playlists would typically be over 15 hours long and I wouldn't know where to start with them!
So I've decided to run a little experiment and see what happens.
I'm going to start creating MixTapes each month that will be around 45 minutes / 10 tracks long to share with my family who are all on my Spotify family plan.
We talk about music a lot, and I often think of artists they may not have heard before, that I think they would like so here's a short form way of sharing these so we can discuss and enjoy them together.
I also thought I'd share it with whoever is reading each month, because why not? It's a fun topic, and it's nice to see who enjoys (or doesn't!) the different tracks I'm going to include each month.
On to this month's mixtape courtesy of Spotify:
10 tracks from February
It's been fun to put this list together of 10 songs I've been listening to this month. (I was close to putting something from the Interstellar soundtrack in because it's been on loop while I've been working for most of Feb!)
I've tried to put it into a little tempo flow, but I'm no expert so see how you get on with it. It had to start with "Off to the Races" from Lana Del Rey, it's just been that sort of month.
BlueSky your thoughts to me! I hope to share another one at the end of March.