And the beat goes on…
While I’ve been listening to – and occasionally tweaking – the rather pleasing continuous mixes of music I’ve been creating for myself (so far, I have a day playlist and a night playlist), I’ve noticed some interesting things.
First – the concept of resting music, particularly music that I would categorise as ‘Classic’ (or, in radio parlance, ‘Gold’), is an important one.
Nothing makes a playlist seem repetitive quite like encountering a song that you haven’t heard in years and thinking “Oh my god – I LOVE this! I haven’t heard it in years!” only to hear it again a couple of times over the next day or two. I had no problem hearing other stuff more than once – but I think the Gold tracks need to appear in the playlist, surprise me, let me have my moment – and then go away for a bit. Easily fixed.
But the other thing that I thought was interesting – and I became a bit fascinated with it – was the realisation that the phenomenon of ‘Extended Mixes’ appears to be a uniquely 80s thing. In other words, they’re a big part of my teenage years, and not something we really have any more.
