So, as you might have noticed, I failed to carry through on that one last mix exchange I threatened to have before the end of the year. When I shopped the idea around a couple of months ago, by e-mail, there was some interest from past exchange participants, but overall I think people have grown a little tired of the whole thing. (I’ve been doing this now for, what? Five or six years?) Certainly the number of CDs involved has become a little overwhelming for some people, even when I opted to split the exchange into smaller groups and send everybody fewer discs. It just seemed like a good time to take a little break.
At the same time, however, I’m finding that I have more and more new music I’d like to share with people. It’s been a real challenge to create mix CDs that don’t span two or more discs, that don’t spill over with what I think are great songs…so I really didn’t want to just stop creating mixes altogether.
What I’ve decided to do for 2007 is something a little different. I’m going to create a new mix CD every month and, if you want, you can send me a different mix to trade. At the end of every month I’m going to put together twelve songs that sort of encapsulate the month for me, either because I’ve been listening to them an awful lot, or have just discovered them, or whatever. That’s twelve songs, for twelve months, 144 songs altogether. I’ll post track listings as well, so you can decide if you’d like to trade for a specific mix…or you can decide you’d like to make a trade every month. It’s up to you.