Your best mixtape/CD-R segue ever

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I have a couple I can think of off the top of my head that I'm really proud of, namely: Josh Wink, "Higher State of Consciousness (Tweekin' Acid Funk Mix)" --> Funkadelic, "Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock?!" (the "pah!" of Wink's final snare crack jumping straight into the down-beaten tom-tom of Funkadelic, plus the juxtaposition of styles is cool; they both rock at a similar tempo but are totally different sounding). Recently, OutKast, "Ms. Jackson" --> Elvis Presley, "Suspicious Minds" made me especially happy, for thematic reasons. Yours?

― Michaelangelo Matos, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Momus i was a maoist intellectual - then John Adams Founders first, then profiters from Nixon in China

― anthony, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It wasn't a mix tape, but a DJ set that I begged Paul to do: The Fall - There's A Ghost In My House to the Scooby Doo Theme. Sadly, very few people got it.

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've done too many to pick & choose from.

― Kodanshi, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Warning: I'm an oldies fan. These songs may or may not be familiar.)

On one tape I segued from Bloodrock's "D.O.A." to the Cyrkle's "Turn- Down Day." The utter incongruity (the morbid to the chirpy without a beat) delighted me.

On another tape I segued from the Four Seasons' "C'Mon Marianne" to R. Dean Taylor's "Indiana Wants Me" -- and noticed, unintentionally, that Frankie Valli's falsetto whoops at the end sound *exactly* like the sirens that begin "Indiana Wants Me."

― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The one I'm most inordinately proud of: From the Kinks' "David Watts" (main lyric = "Fa fa fa-fa fa/fa fa fa") to Otis Redding's "Fa Fa Fa."

― Frank Kogan, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just remembered another one, brought on by Kogan: wasn't a mixtape, but was at a friend's house recently alternating control of the stereo. He played me a live version of "Tighten Up" by James Brown, off the Soul Pride comp; good version, about eight minutes long, and there's a really cool Tijuana Brass thing going on with the horn section, including a one-high-note-over-and-over solo that lasts about 20 seconds. I countered with Love's "Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale," from Forever Changes, which also has the same kind of horn section, and--unremembered by me till we heard it--the same single-note riffing. A free lunch, as Frank likes to call this sort of thing.

― Michaelangelo Matos, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I did an interview with a girl I was keen on as part of a sound recording project (we were chating along quite normally when I decided to ask her out. She wasn't expecting it. She said yes. And I had it all on DAT as proof) -- and when I made her the inevitable mix tape I put the whole interview in, snipped up as segues.

― JM, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We have a winner...

― Mark, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wait..! "Strings of Nashville" by Pavement into someone running down stairs, sliding open metal door, walking out into snow, into "Maybe" by the Chantels!

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

not song segues, but good intro/outro jump-cut action - "Hi this is Brooke Shields & I'm listening to"/HAK-HAK-HAK-HAK-HAK (coughing from "Sweet Leaf", Brooke S. from the "Rodney on the ROQ" album) ; (opening 2 seconds of "Stairway to Heaven")/(gunshots); ("KISS Alive")"There must be some people here who like to drink TEQUILA!"/(squealing pigs).

― duane, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(GREAT advertisement for my record collection, eh)

― duane, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Och, that's nothing. We used to make "hell tapes" with the design of freaking each other out (The Church to Guns N Roses in one chord change, scary how well it worked) But my best victim was a penpan who used to send me tape letters. Often she would get quite intoxicated by the end of them. So I'd mix her most intoxicated moments "I found PICKLES!!! (pickles pickles pickles...)" with appropriate music for them "I don't wanna pickle, just wanna ride on my motorcycle" and send them back to her.

She loved me, really she did.

― masonic boom, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

on my only proper mixtape (ie - done with decks and stuff), the bunker sessions, i did tipsy's liquordelic into jean-jacques perrey's cat in the night (one samples other) and worked pretty well. also attempted john barry and adam x which didn't work, although adam x into pnu riff did. also learnt lesson: don't try mel&kim into jeff mills. it won't work

― gareth, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark: Am I still the winner?

― JM, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jimmy: Yes. I love that story. That's taking the mixtape-as-romantic- artifact to its logical conclusion. Very clever.

A couple of years ago I bought a mixer at Radioshack, and now could never imagine making a mix without it. You have to do those fuckers in real time, warts and all.

I used to like making ambient/noise mixes where the idea was to blend similar sounds from very different sources. One that sounded great was going from Christian Marclay's "Smoker," which ends with a mass of cricket chirps, then into a chorus of frogs on the "Sounds of North American Frogs" record, and finally into Oval's Microstoria mix "Runtime Engine." Exposed the organic roots of glitch past & present, I think.

― Mark, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Geraldine Fibbers' "In Seven or In Ten" into "Secrets" by The Primitives into "Downtown Train" by Tom Waits.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

Jerry Lewis' Crazy Words immediately into Prince's Hosuequake. THE BEST.

― Possum Slimm, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can mix "Fool's Gold" directly into "Pro-Gen" with stunning dancefloor results.

― Dan Perry, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Manic Street Preachers "Yes" -> Kirk Lake "The Bug's Gold Tooth" -> Wedding Present "A Million Miles". I've always loved that sequence.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Värttinä's "Katariina" into Bloody Fist's "Cock Sucker." The ultra-fast patter of the first ends with a quick squeak, and runs bang into "COCK SUCKER COCK SUCKER COCK SUCKER COCK SUCKER COCK SUCKER COCK SUCKER fucked my sister COCK SUCKER" etc.

You sort of have to hear it to believe it. Same beat.

― Douglas, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we are the priests dancing in the moonlight

― a-33, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Just twatting about with SoundForge I mixed SL2's "On A Ragga Tip" into Hanson's "Mmmbop" and it sounded rather good. For me.

― Nick H, Saturday, 7 June 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The very end of Miles Davis' "Nefertiti" and its drums slowly crawling to halt, to the drums of Pulp's "This is Hardcore" slowly slogging along.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 7 June 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

And Magazine's "A Song from Under the Floor Boards" to Professor Longhair's "Big Chief." (The Crawfish Fiesta version.) The piano. The piano.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 7 June 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

recently, Young Stars' "Ulola" --> Pink's "Don't Let Me Get Me" --> Oh-OK's "Person." and Drive By Truckers' "The Three Great Alabama Icons" (which ends "This next song is sung from the point of view of the devil") --> Eminem's "Without Me."

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 7 June 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! Brill! Meanwhile I am picking up Matos' idea of starting my '72 CD-R comp with Nino Rota's "Godfather" theme, following it up with Ornette Coleman's "Skies of America" and then going into Jimmy Castor Bunch's "Prologue/It's Just Begun".

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 7 June 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

fischerspooners remix of kylie minogue "come into my world" followed by thomas bangalter's outrage. it barks like a dog it does.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 7 June 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

(actually the "Godfather" bit was Matos' idea but the Coleman-Castor thing was mine. Thought I should clear that up seven hours later. Cough.)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 8 June 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

INXS - "Need You Tonight" into "True Faith" by New Order (the Substance version)

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 8 June 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

a couple years ago i was obsessed with biggie - big poppa --> underworld - jumbo, i dont know why

― trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 8 June 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

on my last tape i was rather proud of kriss kross - jump --> prince - delirious, also fatboy slim - everbody needs a 303--> guns n roses - sweet child of mine, this may be because i associate guns n roses with pop dance because of intro-introspection

― trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 8 June 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Recently: Blackalicious - "Sky is Falling" into Prefuse - "Plastic" with no space between.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 8 June 2003 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The Notwist's "Pick Up The Phone" -> Tweet's "Call Me": cheesy, perhaps, but it worked a lot better than I expected it to.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 8 June 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I just did The Paragons "When the lights are low" into the second insturmental section of the Boo Radleys' "Spanish Lizards" and they work excellently together.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 8 June 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles "A Day in the Life" -> Critters Buggin's "Critters Theme" = why God gave us the power to make mix-tapes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Saturday afternoon on my radio show (I don't have the playlist in front of me to remember the exact tracks)...

Sigur Ros (request) -> new Prefuse 73 -> Odd Nostrum -> Dr. Dooom "Leave Me Alone"

Thematic consistency, with a sonic trajectory of a divebomber.

― Dale the Merciless (cprek), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a bit obvious, but my favourite of my own CD-R segues is from the Superpitcher remix of Carsten Jost's "You Don't Need A Weatherman" into Markus Nikolai's "Passion" - the bird sounds at the end of the first and beginning of the second blend together wonderfully.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 9 June 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Dog "The Clan (Mongol Hordes)" >> Reload "Peschi"

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Tool : Useful Idiot => BOC : Gyroscope

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 13 June 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

2003:

Radiohead's "Karma Police" ~ The Faint's "Worked Up So Sexual" -- ...static outro into static intro makes it oh so e-z...

Live:

Young MC's "Bust A Move" ~ Daft Punk's "Around The World" ~ Prince's "Kiss" -- ...from the last night I actually had fun while dj'ing...

― Erick H (Erick H), Friday, 13 June 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young's "Change Your Mind" melds very nicely into Boredoms' "Super Are"

― Aaron A., Friday, 20 June 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

"Life of Pain," Black Flag --> "I Can Never Go Home Anymore," Shangri-Las

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" -> Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" for a '75 mix. Thinking of having that be the opener, actually.

― disco violence (disco violence), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

DJ Shadow's "Walkie Talkie" works really well into The Advantage doing the Super Mario 2 underworld theme.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

On the last mix I made I put Jay-Z "U Don't Know" into Emperor Penguin's "Neighborhood Watch". Tempos are almost identical, beats are kind of similar feel.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

David Bowie: Panic in Detroit>>>>Outkast: Bombs Over Baghdad

I never would have noticed the similarity if it weren't for random chance.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

"Circle Of Tyrants" by Celtic Frost into "You Got Nothing I Want" by Cold Chisel.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Sunday, 16 October 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

Howlin Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning" > Stooges' "Penetration"

Maybe it's the similar tempo but this works a lot better than one would think...

― Edward III (edward iii), Sunday, 16 October 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Pixies "Bone Machine" -> Autobianchi "All Around (Everybody's Kissing)" -> Martha And The Muffins "Echo Beach"!!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Prince "Raspberry Beret" into Richard Thompson's "Dark Hand Over My Heart." Both records have an eerily similar drum part. Full disclosure -- it wasn't my idea; I heard a DJ on "World Cafe" make the transition first.

― James, Monday, 17 October 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

High On Fire's Hung, Drawn and Quartered into Chicago's If You Leave Me Now

It would seem like a really trite idea, to sequence the heavy, heavy rocker next to the easy listening classic, but for some strange reason the two really work well together.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Dead Can Dance's Echolalia as an intro for Peggy Lee's Siamese Cat Song

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I think mine's a mix I did using Acid Pro. Prodigy "Out Of Space" into that drum'n'bass remix of "Intergalactic" by Beastie Boys. It's all about trying to get the "to another dimension" bits to loop and cross over and I pulled it off and it really works!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo" into Tool's "Stinkfist". Maybe that sounds like fried chicken on a waffle to some, but to me, that day, even now, it
just *worked*.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

nineteen years pass...

I made a playlist from Rolling Stone's 74 best albums of 1974, choosing a favourite song from each record in descending order without considering beforehand what the songs would sound like side-by-side. There were at least four transitions that amused or surprised me, whether by comparison or contrast:

Van Morrison "I Believe to My Soul" >> Aerosmith, "Seasons of Wither"
Blue Öyster Cult "Subhuman" >> Funkadelic, "I'll Stay"
Millie Jackson, "The Rap" >> Leonard Cohen, "Is This What You Wanted"
Eno, "Put a Straw Under Baby" >> Betty Davis, "He Was a Big Freak"

I also hadn't noticed that I put "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Louisiana 1927" together.

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 29 December 2024 21:37 (one year ago)

Sort of the opposite of a segue, but I did once start a power-pop mixtape with XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" (which starts with the sound of Andy walking into the studio, plugging in his guitar, and starting to play) and ended it with Splitsville's "Sunshiny Daydream" (which ends with the sound of someone walking out of the studio, whistling).

― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be trunc (SlimAndSlam), Sunday, 29 December 2024 22:41 (one year ago)

1994 mixtape: there's a pause in Sabotage by The Beastie Boys at about 1'38" (link), and I added a bit of movie dialogue from The Story of Star Wars record - the scene where Luke is looking through a scope at 2 banthas, then the music swells dramatically as the sandpeople shriek and surprise attack him (link). The sound of the sandpeople shrieking and hooting then fades back into the guitar kicking in as Sabotage continues. I can still hear it in my head. Gives me chills. Proudest mixtape moment.

― christopher.ivan, Monday, 30 December 2024 13:25 (one year ago)

Since the tape is packed away in a box somewhere, I decided that a good use of my time was to recreate Sandpeople Sabotage. (just the bit described - not the entire song)

― christopher.ivan, Monday, 30 December 2024 13:52 (one year ago)

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