Gonna try something a bit different, especially since I’m feeling burned out at the moment.
If you are of a certain age, you may fondly remember mix tapes or mix CDs.
You know? Actual physical items that you had to spend a lot of time and effort to pass off to someone in hopes they’d like your musical taste? And once you did so, it was nothing you could reclaim? It wasn’t just a fucking Spotify click?
I made my wife a lot of mix CDs.
A LOT. Can’t even enumerate them via all of my digits.
I’ll note? We both were pretty hardcore about our goth/industrial music scene and we both booked acts and DJed and all of that, so … not unwanted. I wasn’t that dude. (I’ll briefly note? It’s sad that these spaces are few and far between now. I have no idea how other misfits find each other in this day and age. Apparently they …just don’t?)
It was just something I did because it was fun! Can’t we all have some fun without expectations?
(This is actually why I created this blog.)
I’d also design covers for said mixes before pressing it into her hands. The image above? Me.
I’ve been rediscovering a lot of the albums and cover art as of late and, not to toot my own horn but I’m really enjoying this trip down memory lane!
So if I have to have my fun, you do too!
A brief aside: I do not have all of the covers for each and every mix. (Cut me some slack! It’s been over a decade!)
Also, this will be an intermittent feature, simply because prepping all of the artwork, hunting down the necessary tracks, writing remembrances, etc. will be exhausting. I hope ya enjoy it, though!
Lastly: I’ll note that, despite the label for this being ‘Electroclature’? Not all of the tracks are electro! Please do not be upset or pedantic about that. My blog, my rules!