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Even if the recipient has heard them all before, it's unlikely they'll have put those particular tracks together and in the order you've chosen...
Damn straight. The tunes on a mix are only half the story--the order, the context--the signature of the compiler--aere hugely important. That's where we hear your hand in the grooves.
I've got half-a-dozen mix CDs, made from MP3s, that have deteriorated badly through long exposure to direct sunlight: this week, while I've had a little free time, I'm going to re-rip the discs. I iginally made these in the first weeks after I signed on to Napster, with no thought to sequencing or themes--I would literally burn a disc as soon as I had enough tunes to fill a CD-R. Now, though, going through the material and grouping it by sound or vibe, I'm finding the songs coming alive again in new and different ways.
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