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04.09.05 :: liner notes front/back
| Style: sharp rock and floating soundscapes
| Notes: The pain of wanting something you can't have; the peace of discovering that you didn't really want it. Songs of saying goodbye.
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| Offbeat11.30.04 :: liner notes front/liner notes
| Style: syncopated and quirky
| Notes: What do you are what other people think?
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| All's Well in Hell (and Here's Hoping)08.29.04 :: liner notes front/back
| Style: riff-driven guitar rock
| Notes: Strength in times of change.
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| LOVE//exultation04.12.04 :: liner notes
| Style: cheerfully upbeat
| Notes: The antimatter version of LOVE//desperation.
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| Feels Like Home12.16.03 :: liner notes
| Style: quiet, meditative, and restive
| Notes: The feeling of being at absolute peace with yourself and the world. The warm interior of a cocoon.
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| Running and Confusion12.16.03 :: liner notes
| Style: energetic, rocking, and slightly dark
| Notes: The feeling of moving into the future faster than you understand it. Trying to understand it anyways.
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| HARUMAGEDDON09.20.03 :: liner notes
| Style: apocalyptic fun
| Notes: This is the music from the dance party at the end of the world.
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| Keep Hope Alive06.10.03 :: liner notes
| Style: harrowingly optimistic
| Notes: This mix is either incredibly uplifting of incredibly depressing. Perhaps it's a bit both. I find it optimistic and uplifting, but not necessarily cheerful. It's not that things are perfect just the way they are. It's that things can always be better than they are now.
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| Dengaku12.17.02 :: liner notes
| Style: electronica
| Notes: The name of this mix, "dengaku," is an imaginary Japanese word I created from "den," electricity, and "gaku," music. I decided it was as good a match as any for the equally imaginary English word "electronica." The mix consists solely of electronic acts.
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| LOVE//desperation11.19.02 :: liner notes
| Style: frightening obsession
| Notes: The theme of this mix was "love." The songs, however, are not exactly traditional love songs. These songs are about the dark underbelly of love; the way that ordinary devotion gives way to an unhealthy obsession. These songs, like love itself, are dangerous.
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| Summer08.01.02 :: liner notes
| Style: contemplative nostalgia
| Notes: The theme of this mix was "summer." Rather than going for the traditional summer of beach and sun, though, I tried a different tact. This is summer as viewed through the lens of winter; fond, reflective remembrances of times now past.
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| Lucky 7's05.18.02 :: liner notes
| Style: ridiculous, heart-bursting joy
| Notes: The theme of this mix was nothing but track 7's; that is, the seventh track from any officially pressed disc or compilation. After settling on a few tracks with a similar style, I decided to try to make a CD that was just ridiculously happy; something upbeat, cheerful, and full of unironic joy for life.
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| March Mix03.05.02 :: liner notes
| Style: eclectic hit-and-miss
| Notes: The theme of this mix was cover versions. Everybody knows that most covers can't hold a candle to the original. But are there covers out there that match - or even exceed - their progenitors? The answer is: not really.
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| East/West02.06.02 :: liner notes east/west
| Style: self-indulgent cultural sampler
| Notes: I felt compelled to follow up my first mix with the traditional bloated, two-disc sophomore effort. The two discs ("East" and "West") each feature music from either Japanese or Western artists. Both discs were generally well received, but consensus seems to be that "East" is the more cohesive.
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| Japan Mix10.08.01 :: liner notes
| Style: lost, yet optimistic
| Notes: Completed a scant two months after I set foot on Japanese soil, this mix CD is a musical attempt to make sense of everything going on at the time. Liner notes include song commentary and full translations.
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