NOTEPAD EXCURSIONS
A few days ago, I posted this in the Your Day thread.
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Originally Posted by aux-in
For awhile now, I've had a notepad file sitting on my desktop with almost 100 songs on it that I had yet to sort. These tracks were compiled from manually writing down track titles, as well as random suggestions from YouTube comment sections. Also, a number of these tracks were from a few years ago; tracks that I had only briefed but wrote the titles down for one reason or another. It took me all day to sort and vet them after playing them all on YouTube. This was a lot of work, including reformatting titles so that they were correct. I found at least two heavy hitters that I had forgotten about, and the rest were middle-of -the-road good. And, sadly, some tracks did get the axe.
Eventually, I got that all done today, and now I'm hitting up my usual YouTube subscription updates.
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I also had three other, small notepad files that were strewn about various folders and backup drives. For cohesive purposes, I copied the contents of each into a single notepad file, and from there I began sifting through everything I had.
Picture: a notepad file in its raw form.
Sometimes a song will resonate right away, but other songs may need a little more time. Or, it's that I didn't have time, at the time, to explore the material in depth, so I'd ctrl+v the track's title into a notepad file, to be properly explored at my convenience. I find this to be a cleaner system than bookmarking everything in a browser, which can get out of hand if you have too many of those. I can also type, edit and add notes if I want. If you were to look at the playlist in my computer or portable music player, this is the behind-the-scenes work that goes into it.
When taking in a new song for the first time, I listen for elements within the song that I like, even if I find that the original and/or remix that I stumbled upon isn't quite right. At that point, if I hear enough to want to explore a different mix, I will write down such things as, "find the best remix." There are a few tracks where I was able to find a better version than the original by doing this, and some where I could not, so those got the axe.
After sifting through these notepad files, here are the two standouts:
Rusko - "Everyday" [Netsky Remix]
If you're into drum & bass, you might know Netsky. There is some confusion over the genre for this track: is it drum & bass, dubstep, drumstep? Beatport has it as dubstep, but it's uploaded to the UKF Drum & Bass channel, so that's what I'm going to call it.
And this one:
Knife Party - "Bonfire"
Knife Party was formed by Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen, two members from Pendulum. If you want to read more about the link between Knife Party and Pendulum, with some straight answers, you can check out this article
here.