The Best Family Mix I Could Do - 100 Disk Changer
by Craig Hamilton on Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 4:12pm
The Best Family Mix I Could Do - 100 Disk Changer
Taking on the task of making a really good mix for a family 100 disk changer is a monumental task. Firstly, virtually every track must seemingly mix with the rest of the others. That is roughly 1,000 tracks that have to mix. I achieved this by what would normally be considered music that doesn’t mix, but yet it does in my changer. I have successfully mixed bands like America and Metallica through the idea of giving the listener a break. Thus, both band America and Metallica in the mix stand out. What I found that I couldn’t do was make a mix of music with bands like Metallica and sustain it for hours on end without ticking on my wife. Nor do I have the patience to listen to tons of folk bands like America. This meant making some sacrifices, but in the end the overall mix is better. Some speed metal, like The Very Best of Testament just didn’t go in the mix. Likewise, my wife doesn’t like listening to even 1 song of theirs. I have to admit that perhaps I would have liked to be able to mix in some Slayer and some God Forbid, but the fact of the matter was that they just simply didn’t go. What I have done is to create bands that have intermediates to their sounds in this player. Each band is unique, but each is different. For example, the connection of Metallica to America might be made by a band such as Apocalyptica, which is 4 cellos playing Metallica acoustically. The way the music is intended to sound is that some songs are punchy; some are breaks to the madness, while intermediate bands fill in the gaps. The constant eclectic nature of this style of mixing is quite formulaic, and the more I listen to it, the more it grows on me.
Secondly, not only do the tracks have to mix, but there also has to be 1,000 good ones. Every compact disk has to be chock full of good songs without any real let downs
The following are the 100 disks in the changer:
- Steve Morse – Prime Cuts
- Wes Montgomery – On the Go and Movin’ Wes
- Wes Montgomery – Fusion
- Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Soup
- Simon Philips – Another Lifetime
- Steve Morse – The Introduction
- Django Reinhardt – Jazz Masters 30
- Operation Ivy
- George Benson – Beyond the Blue Horizon
- Dixie Dregs – Divided We Stand
- Gipsy Kings – Greatest Hits
- Return to Forever – This is Jazz 12
- Garsed, Helmerich, Willis, Chambers – Uncle Moe’s Space Ranch
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic
- CAB – (Tony MacAlpine, Brunnel, Dennis Chambers)
- Rolling Stones – 40 Hot Licks disk 1
- Mull Muzzler – Keep It to Yourself
- Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes – Question and Answer
- Smashing Pumpkins – Twilight to Starlight
- Primus - Frizzle Fry
- Django Reinhardt – Retrospective 1940 – 1947
- Chick Corea – The Best of
- Return to Forever – Romantic Warrior
- Van Halen – 1984
- Derek Sherinian – Blood of the Snake’
- Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
- Bela Fleck – Greatest Hits of the 20th Century
- Dennis Chambers – Outbreak
- Simon and Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
- Judas Priest – British Steel
- Wes Montgomery – Ultimate
- Evanescence – Fallen
- (Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteem, The Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, George Benson)
- Skid Row – Slave to the Grind
- Medeski, Martin, Wood – Last Chance to Dance Trance
- Queensyrche – Empire
- Victor Wooten – A Show of Hands
- Eric Johnson – 7 Worlds & Souvenir
- Eric Johnson – Bloom
- Savatage – Edge of Thorns
- Jimi Hendrix – South Saturn Delta
- Megadeth – Rust in Peace
- Planet X – Quantum
- Jimi Hendrix – Blues
- Derek Sherinian’s Planet X
- Planet X – Moonbabies
- Nirvanna – bootleg
- Shadow Gallery – Prime Cuts
- Fates Warning – No Exit
- Greg Howe – self titled
- James LaBrie – Elements of Persuasion
- Queensyrche – Greatest Hits
- Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love
- Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind
- Metallica – black album
- Queen – Greatest Hits 1
- Pearl Jam – Ten
- Led Zepplin – symbols
- Van Halen – Best of Vol. 1
- Poison – Greatest Hits (1986 - 1996)
- Earth Crisis – (1991 - 2001) Forever True
- Dream Theater – Official Bootleg: When Dream & Day Unite 15th Anniversary Live
- Dream Theater – Score disk 1
- Dream Theater – Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
- Dream Theater – Images and Words
- Tool – Aenima
- Tony MacAlpine – Evolution
- Jazz standards mix
- King Crimson – In The Court of the Crimson King and In the Wake of Poseidon
- Apocalyptica – Plays Metallica
- Richie Kotzen/Greg Howe – Project
- Santana – the best of
- Tony MacAlpine – Chromaticity
- Mull Muzzler – 2
- Morse, Portnoy, George – Cover to Cover
- Dream Theater – Live: Scenes from New York disk 2
- Al Di Meola – Hotel Slendido
- Metallica – Kill ‘em All
- Metallica – Ride the Lightning
- Dream Theater – Once in a Livetime disk 2
- Iced Earth – Days of Purgatory disk 1
- Greg Howe – Introspection
- Van Halen – self titled
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – the best of
- Fates Warning – Disconnected
- Iced Earth – The Blessed
- Dio – the very beast of
- Jordan Rudess – Feeding the Wheel
- Greg Howe - Ascend
- Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos
- Platypus – Ice Cycles
- Drained – No One In Control
- An Evening with Jordan Rudess & John Petrucci
- Scorpions – 20th Century Masters
- Liquid Tension Experiment – self titled
- Elton John – Greatest Hits
- Greg Howe – Five
- Jordan Rudess – Rhythm of Time
- Iced Earth – The Damned
- America - History
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