The following track-list loosely follows the aesthetic qualities I associate with the sunrise, midday, sunset, dusk, nightfall, etc. all the way through til sunrise the next day. My synesthesia isn't what neurologists call "lower synesthesia" which is more sensory than cognitive...it's more of an association for me, although a very concrete one. I don't literally "see" colors. Basically I have a more acute sense of what most people have (for instance, a lot of people describe notes as "light" or "dark". I just take the same concept further).

So without further BS, here's the tracklist. I guess it's mostly indie stuff, although I don't usually think about genres much. I just know what I like. Let me know what you think, or if you want a copy I'll see what I can do.

1. See the Sun- The Kooks

2. Turnpike Ghosts- Steel Train

3. Acid Jazz Singer- The Fratellis

4. Waters of March- Anya Marina

5. In the Lost and Found- Elliott Smith

6. My Family's Role in the World Revolution-Beirut

7. Sea Legs- The Shins

8. Vittorio E- Spoon

9. Some Constellation- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

10. He Doesn't Know Why- Fleet Foxes

11. My Night With the Prostitute from Marseille- Beirut

12. Wandering- Radical Face

13. House of Cards- Radiohead

14. Go it Alone- Beck

15. Hustle- Tunng

16. Ghosts- Fanfarlo

17. Two Points for Honesty- Guster

18. Valkyrie in the Roller Disco- The New Pornographers

19. Here Comes the Sun- The Beatles

Grooveshark Playlist Courtesy of ryouba!

I for one would never have been able to stay on top of it, but I feel like they were on top of this from day one. Jmair, littlemissemperor, I salute you! Here's to more matches and mixes in the future!

You have until November 13th to sign up for this round.

Once signed up, wait until then to retrieve your match. If you have read the main page of the site and are still unfamiliar with the process make a post here and someone will answer your question.

Here is a link to the site for the lazy.

I got the mixcd jmair sent me just now! I haven't listened to it yet, but it looks awesome. I took some pics and I wanted to share(hope ya don't mind jmair!):

• Envelope and wrapping

• Just the wrapping

• The mysterious cover art

• A fucking awesome CDR and more art

• An idea of the great effort that went into the liner notes

I'm excited to go listen to it. Hopefully everyone who hasn't sent theirs out yet will be inspired by jmair's mixcd. I know I am, and hopefully I can finish mine up today with an awesome soundtrack.

EDIT: PLAYLIST! Coming in at 54 minutes and six seconds!

1. The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight

2. Greg Laswell - Your Ghost

3. Alive In Wild Paint - Ceilings

4. Frightened Rabbit - My Backwards Walk

5. The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

6. Jets Overhead - Heading For Nowhere

7. Dear and the Headlights - I'm Bored, You're Amorous

8. The Spill Canvas - Gold Dust Woman

9. Our Lady Peace - Clumsy

10. Florence + the Machine - Howl

11. Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me

12. Inward Eye - Wasteland

13. Die Mannequin - Do It Or Die

14. Chevelle - Letter From a Thief

Now that the first CD trade has come and gone. To make things a little easier (and a little more fun) we now have a website to handle this process.

This site gives us all kinds of possibilities. The first one being an anonymous trading system (just like Secret Santa).

Here is how this works.

• You must first register your account by going to http://mixdit.org/signup.php. Make sure you use your reddit user name and a valid email account.

• Then you must Activate your account by clicking the link in the email that was sent to you.

• Now you can log in and enter your information (Address, Country, Likes, Dislikes and Other).

• Finally you must put your name in the hat for the next drawing by clicking on the button that says "Participate in next trade". You will need to do this for each and every trade. This gives you the option to not participate in every single trade if you don't wish to.

Just post here if you get an error message, have suggestions, or just want to tell us how cool we are.

** A big bug was found that was truncating a few fields. Zip code is one of them. Please make sure you address was / is being saved properly.**

**New user sign ups are ready. Same instructions as above. **

Here is the disc itself and the inside cover. And here is the envelope and front cover. Set list is:

*Dudelywah by Keller Williams

*Stay Human (All the Freaky People) by Michael Franti (an old school favorite of mine)

*Nemo by Umphrey's McGhee

*Glide by Phish

*Above the Thunder by Keller Williams

*Road Home by String Cheese Incident

*Smile by Robert Randolph and the Family Band

*Scarlet Begonias by the Grateful Dead

*I'm Amazed by My Morning Jacket

*These Stones Will Shout by the Raconteurs

*Badfish by Sublime

*Battle of Who Could Care Less by Ben Folds Five

*I'm Good Now by Bob Schneider

*Shine by Trey Anastasio

It is so well put together it makes me embarrassed of the minimalist package I sent him. Lesson learned.

Thanks man! and thanks to the people who got it working.

edit: What I sent him didn't have art to speak of, but here is the setlist.

Edit Forgot to mention there is an optional theme this round of: My Life / My World. This is not mandatory but is encouraged.

Everyone who signed up for round three is matched. Go to the website to retrieve who you will be sending a mix to.

You must retrieve your match by Sunday April 25th. If you have not retrieved your match we will assume you are opting out of participating and we will find someone else to send your match a mix.

The final day to ship out your mix is Friday May 7th.

If you have any issues on the website, or any concerns make a post here or PM one (or all) of the moderators.

EDIT: If you have only a comma for your address, do not worry. But you must leave a post here letting us know so we can contact who is shipping to you to make sure they update their address.

Feel free to stop by and say hi to jmair, and ask her any and all appropriate questions you may have!

Teaser

I got a little bit of work left to do, but something will be completed by the time the next trade is opened up.

Ok folks, just a state of the r/-

We have 185 participants right now. That's exciting! We're leaving it open until 12pm EST on Friday. We've started pairing folks up, and will finish it shortly after we close up. Then the messages go out- I expect it to take a day or two.

ALL MIXES SHOULD BE POSTMARKED BEFORE JAN 29. That gives you two weeks to pull it all together. If for some reason you can't get it together, please let your mix recipient know. It's just good manners. :)

Once you get your mix, feel free to post about it! We like to see these things.

Any other questions, you can contact either of us.

xo liz

Okay, so it actually arrived ten days ago, but I didn't get it until the 21st because I was on tour with my uni's Men's Chorus. Anyway, timnog chose to do a themed mix around cities, called "Hello City, USA". I was completely blown away by the production values of the booklet (click through the link at the bottom for a glimpse). He (I'm assuming) even apologized that it didn't fit in the jewel case, but with a booklet this awesome, I'm not complaining! Here's the tracklist:

1. The Ataris - So Long, Astoria

2. Petracovich - San Rafael

3. The Decemberists - Los Angeles, I'm Yours

4. Calexico - Bisbee Blue

5. Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, or, Round of Applause for your Stepmother

6. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You [Brooklyn]

7. The Get Up Kids - Mass Pike

8. The Anniversary - D in Detroit

9. The Replacements - Skyway [Minneapolis]

10. Elliott Smith - Rose Parade [Portland]

There are some pretty awesome songs on here, and while it isn't the newest collection of songs, it certainly doesn't lack for quality. Thanks, timnog!

I have some pictures of the booklet up on imgur, so you can see what I mean.

Finally got around to putting up the track list and pics from my mixtape (we both agreed to make tapes instead). I have the pics in an imgur gallery here (check out the hand woven cover :)

Definitely enjoyed the whole mix. Starts off mixed (and with little pocketknife who I now really love) and moves into a really heavy metal-esque ending. Side 2 has even more awesome...My stand out tracks would be...

-Nation Of Ulysses song -Lil Pocketknife -Confines -HolyMolar -Health

I'm pumped too that there's a good mix of styles on here. I love me some heavy stuff but I don't know too many bands. This is an excellent starting point for me. The only thing that bums me out is that I should have put the Pre and Agape songs on her mix!

Side 1

1. American Cheeseburger - party scraps

2. juiceboxxx- do u want 2 hear it?

3. Lil Pocketknife - red hott

4. Totally Radd - Shark Attack Day Camp

5. Mae Shi - run to your grave

6. Caddywhompus - fun times at whiskey bay

7. Q and not U - black plastic bag

8. Confines - downward harmonization

9. Holy Molar - Pissing off in the rolex of your dreams

10. Combat Wounded Veteran - mercury streams, the prolifera

11. Discordance Axis - reincarnation

12. DS-13 - rikki fake

13. Daughters - a full room of hard ons and no

14. Nazi Dust - mislead

15. Graf Orlak - improvement society

16. Ampere - woodlawn 17 . City of Caterpillar - heart filled reaction

17. Health - Triceratops

18. arab on radar - father,son and the goalie post

19. Horsehands - all glass, no teeth

20. El Guapo - space tourist

21. gogogo airheart - when introductions begin

SiDe 2

1. Nation of Ulysses - a kid who tells on another kid is a dead kid

2. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Crimson and CLovers

3. Pixies - allison

4. the Gun Club - like calling up thunder

5. you slut! - on the spot tina turner fine

6. Maps and Atlases - the ongoing horrible

7. Joan of Arc - white out

8. Pinback - concrete seconds

9. Jawbreaker - chemistry

10. Mock Orange - pay roll

11. DARYL - motion in progress

12. IBOPA - hives 13 high places - freaked flight (alternate version)

13. Good Luck - stars were exploding

14. wildebeest - wisdom tooth

15. Erin Tobey - psychology song

16. Capt Kangaroo - happy hands

May I also add that Combat Wounded Veteran is one of my favorite band names ever.

the mix exchange submit is now CLOSED.

I've saved it to my laptop, will finish the pairings, and message them out shortly.

Thanks for playing!

As I expressed in the past, the disappointment in the past two rounds (understanding a lot of you that didn't receive a mix was my fault) have really frustrated me. So I have brainstormed and have a few idea's on how to prevent the lack of 'no shows'.

The first thing I have been working on is a Site Redesign. When I first put the site together I kind of just threw it together until it worked. I think it needs to be re-written, to include things like a blog and the ability to see your past matches and such. However, one thing I am not very good at is the front end piece. So I am looking to 'hire' a web designer that would create and maintain the CSS and Images for the site. If you would like to be apart of this please shoot me a PM with examples of what you think the site layout should be. This should also be showing off your skills. If you are hired you will also be made a mod and be part of monitoring the subreddit and handling community requests and such.

The second change is, instead of random rounds of matches we will be doing 4 matches a year. 1 every three months. The first official of these will begin on January. Since this still 2 and a half months away round six sign ups will begin at the end of Next week.

I have quite a few other idea's in my head, and hope to be able to put them in place in the future.

I also have a few mixes that I have personally put together that I need to ship out to people that were not matched from last round. I will be on vacation the next week so look for them in the next few weeks.

I also got a nice little note saying he picked songs that had some importance in his life and/or he could relate to, and that there are a couple upbeat songs with sad lyrics (which I totally love). Definitely felt like an awesome present. So here's the tracklist, and what I thought of it:

1. Ween - Mister, Will You Please Help My Pony <3<3<3 this song. Totally wtf, and it made me both happy and sad :).

2. M. Ward - To Go Home This wasn't one of my favorites, but it's a pretty good song. I like the long intro.

3. The Lemonheads - Bit Part I liked this a lot, it has a fairly calm melody with a sorta fast beat, very interesting. The shouting at the beginning is pretty funny :).

4. Super Furry Animals - Atomic Lust Great stuff. The song itself is fairly mellow, but they totally rock out at the bridge, I really liked that :).

5. Misty's Big Adventure - I Can't Bring The Time Back Awesome upbeat song, I love the verse especially. Also great use of the trumpet!

6. mc chris -Wiid This was my least favorite of the album, it's a bit repetitive. But it's definitely not bad if you just look at the "rap songs about weed" genre.

7. Madeleine Peyroux - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go This was my favorite of the cd, it's very jazzy. She has an amazing voice, and the song is very bittersweet.

8. Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb Trumpets again :). Pretty cool song, very upbeat.

9. The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Wanna Get Over You This guys voice is pretty cool, pretty low, sounds awesome! The song itself really has a great way of just flowing along.

10. Frightened Rabbit - The Twist Great intro. I liked the music and the song itself more than the guys voice.

11. Eels - Old Shit/New Shit Loved it :). I think I've heard some of their stuff before though, so that wasn't a big surprise.

12. Sage Francis - Best of times This is a great song to end the cd with.

I actually looked up both Ween and Madeleine Peyroux in my local library, they have a couple cd's for each so I'll definitely be checking those out. I'm gonna see if I can find Sage Francis somewhere too, those three were my favorites :).

So, pistachionut, thanks a lot! Don't worry about my studying, I always study with music playing, and your mix is actually pretty good to study to :).

So awesome it makes me feel I need to apologize to my match, because my mix pales in comparison to the package I received today. First off, before I even started listening, I opened my envelope to reveal a hand-embroidered CD case:

Front

Back

Unfolded all the way

Actual CD

And on top of that, the mix itself was a really nice electronica/indie mix that contained a few artists I already enjoy and introduced to a whole lot of new ones.

Track 1: "In Ruins" - Fol Chen This was a new band for me. They had some weird (in a good way!) instrumentation and set a good opening pace for the mix.

Track 2: "Loud Pipes" - Ratatat Loud Pipes was actually the first Ratatat song I ever heard, and it provided some nice contrast to the opening track. Really groovy. I like.

Track 3: "Grizelda" - Yeasayer Can't really go wrong with Yeasayer.

Track 4: "When I'm Small" - Phantogram Another new band for me. Nice, soothing piece with a good bassline. Laid-back but uplifting. I'll definitely be checking out more of Phantogram's stuff in the future.

Track 5: "Lemonade" - CocoRosie The last track dropped the pace of the mix a bit, which made way for this strangely gorgeous little piece. pippx described it as "hauntingly beautiful" and I am inclined to agree.

Track 6: "Alberto Balsalm" - Aphex Twin This was different from a lot of the Aphex Twin I've heard, and made a nice little interlude here. Super groovy and chill.

Track 7: "Ticket Out of Town" - Styrofoam And we emerge from the interlude for this indie ballad with a nice bit of noise influence and an electronic beat. Nice.

Track 8: "Sometimes" - Wax Taylor It sounds strange, but this track sounded like something an indie rock Madvillain would have produced. The transitions between song sections, spoken-word sections, and unusual sampling form a sound collage of pure awesome. Every time you think you have the song figured out, he throws a little something different into the mix. Definitely gonna find more of this guy's stuff.

Track 9: "We Have a Map of the Piano" - múm Minimalistic and ethereal. pippx describes as "almost Bon Iver meets...Explosions in the Sky" and I have a hard time finding a better description.

Track 10: "Nothing to Worry About" - Peter Bjorn and John Before this, my entire exposure to PB&J was hearing Young Folks on the radio and I never really looked into them. After hearing this, I realize that was a mistake on my part.

Track 11: "Pick Up the Phone" - The Notwist This song is like the best parts of The Books consumed by straight-up indie rock. Very, very cool.

Track 12: "She Moves She" - Four Tet Another quirky electronic piece. Matches up well with the previous song (similar jumpiness, broken beats, etc.) and also adds a little extra weirdness to the mix with it's jumpy guitar samples. Odd, but enjoyable.

Track 13: "Akiko" - Guitar This instrumental with Asian flair puts a nice little bow on the whole mix.

Overall, just a great mix of well-organized and thoughtfully selected tracks, presented in a personalized package that made the whole experience just that much better. I'm inspired to try to do something as awesome as this for my next mix.

tl;dr pippx sent me an awesome mix. Thanks, pippx!

Perhaps it's some idea to pull together a FAQ or something for us newbies on how / where to start with mixing? I'm trying to pull together my first mix cd, and while I signed up for the mixd'it website, there's very little to learn there about the actual mixing, and I feel there are a lot of knowledgeable people on the subject.

Any tips for starters? What software do you use for recording? Any common pitfalls and or general advice?

When I got this mix, the first thing I noticed was how beautiful the artwork was. I can try to describe it, but I don't think I will do the pictures justice. so here are some photos

But what really makes the mix is the music. So here what you really came here for. Ladies and gentleman, I present the playlist:

1.By The Light of the Moon - Marc Bolan and T.rex

2. Coin-Operated Boy - The Dreden Dolls

3. That Old Black Magic - Ella Fitzgerald

4. Ode to Alderaan - Glenn Case (A Star Wars song! that's good!)

5. The Magic Medicine - Incubus

6. Teddy Bear - The Roseberg trio & Herman van Veen (This song is in Dutch by the way. And Afrael, being the awesome person (s)he is, translated it for me.)

7. Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head - Gorillaz

8. The Road to Manadalay - Robbie Williams

9. Diabolic Scheme -The Hives

10.All around the world (the myth of fingerprints) - Paul Simon

11. Carousel Waltz - Jack Conte

12. The song of the Purple Summer - the Case of the Musical "Spring Awakening"

Afrael set out to make a Fantastical Album. And truly succeeded.

Once you mail it go to the website and update the status by clicking confirm on the left hand side.