{"id":1719,"date":"2009-03-11T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:01:59","slug":"mix-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"Mix, A Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With their latest greatest up-to-the-timeness<\/a> (actually, an overview of 08), the Heatwave remind me that I should really bring more of the many mixes I enjoy to yr attn. <\/p>\n

These days, and for the last several years really — ever since the rise of the mp3\/blog mix (h\/t L-R<\/a>?) — I listen to music mainly in mixed form. I download mixes at the rate of about one per day (though it feels like more than that). They range anywhere from 15 minutes to 2.5 hrs and from genre-hopping\/mashing exercises to downright “purist” explorations of a particular style, subgenre, or artist. <\/p>\n

Mixes are like little worlds to themselves, opening up for me to enter and inhabit. I enjoy the way they can transport me like that — especially when walking, driving, and cooking.<\/p>\n

Although I do a great deal of tagging<\/a> and annotating<\/a> and sharing<\/a> my web wanderings, I don’t take the time\/effort to shed some shine on every mix I dig. But I wish I did. So here’s an attempt to call attn to a few faves from the last month\/year that have caught my ear and remain on rotation —<\/p>\n